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Carl Jung’s Wise Insight About People Who Irritate Us

And how we can use it to grow.

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David Gerken
Feb 27, 2025
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Carl Jung

Carl Jung is my favorite psychologist. The whole thing about the collective unconscious is brilliant and massively important to the understanding of our human species.

Then there’s my favorite quote of his that could have been uttered by any of the great Indian sages:

“What we resist, persists.”

Yep. Resist anything and it not only stays with us, it worsens.

Today’s Jungian insight is well worth exploring because it is so valuable to our growth yet so little understood.

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