To what extent is boredom and dissatisfaction behind picking fights? If the author and journalist Gaby Hinsliff is correct or if what she suggests is right sometimes, we ought be able to make very useful shifts in our responses to much of others' "difficult" behaviours: annoyance, antagonism, hostility, nastiness, unkindness, spite, meanness, malice, malevolence, plain old bad-temper and other forms of poking sticks at people. I believe she is right and that the insight, coupled with … [Read more...]
