The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- When people become weary or cynical, the solution is not to break their sensitivity further but to preserve it.
- In plain terms
- Don't break tired senses to fix them.
- What can you take from it?
- Preserve sensitivity instead of destroying it.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we restore jaded people?
- Is protection always good?
Another view
Sometimes disruption is needed for growth.
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