He hoped to feel better after each visit, but rarely did, even after a session with a Jungian analyst who fell fast asleep during his patient's "free association" on the couch.
One of the other lessons I got as a manager, when I first started managing, I used a technique that I call management by whining which is I would notice things I didn't like and bitch about them.
Small when I have a dream-make a movie star, this is a very roundabout way, in fact, do what is very hard, there's an old Chinese saying the ever-changing world.
As James Pennebaker of the University of Texas notes in his book, The Secret Life of Pronouns, when people are feeling confident, they are focused on the task at hand, not on themselves.
I'd posit that developing sympathy for someone with six arms and green skin who communicates through smell would be easier than doing the same for, say, Dick Cheney.
This is a good moment to posit the idea that, in a man-free world, makeup and beauty-product sales would decline, because we would have no one to preen for.