Road Less Traveled

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are very important in delaying gratification.

Responsibility is very important in solving life’s problems. Peck says that we must accept responsibility for a problem before the problem can be solved. This is a fairly self-evident statement; however, many people feel if they put the blame for all their problems off on other people that the problems with miraculously go away. Perhaps they are scared of the pain that the problem will cause, or maybe they just can’t handle the stress of the problem. Peck goes on to make it clear that these unresolved problems with

eventually catch up to you. Peck then discusses how neurosis and character disorders deal with misplaced responsibility. This misplaced responsibility is either one extreme or the other. "The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character

disorder not enough."(p. 35)

I feel that responsibility can be directly tied into delaying gratification. The three main ...

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living in all spheres of activity."(p. 64)

Balancing is difficult for many people because it involves making sacrifices. The act of giving something up, especially something helpful or pleasurable, is very difficult for many.


LOVE

Peck defines love as, "The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth."(p. 82) Peck breaks the definition of love down into five different things: love is a teleological definition, love is a strangely circular process, the unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other, the act of extending one’s limits implies effort, and love has a distinction between ...

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