It's a common misconception that only extroverts make for natural leaders, but in fact, introverts have certain innate strengths that also lend themselves to excellent leadership.
And even as we grew to feel more remote from the world as individuals, it also seemed that individual nations had begun to curl in on themselves, motivated by misguided notions of their own power and self-sufficiency.
" Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view" , the Stoic philosopher Seneca once wrote, " It's not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad. "
You have done much for them, and you will be able to do more in direct proportion to your ability to understand that their judgment of you is based upon their own present false conceptions.
The very concept of orthorexia (whose sufferers obsessively exclude foods from their diet that they consider harmful) has at its root a corrupted idea of " correct" eating.
Some domestic violence experts consider mutual abuse a myth, arguing that while both partners in a toxic relationship can behave terribly, one usually exercises power over the other.
If you're suffering through the boring parts of intro psych, wondering why you're spending so much time talking about this old dead bearded wrong, dude.