What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?
One that comes to mind for me: "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is not always true. Maybe even only half the time! Are there any phrases you tend to hear and shake your head at?
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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results."
This is literally not the definition of insanity.
As far as I could tell, it was never intended to be a serious quote, especially because the person saying this was the literal villain that was being portrayed as not sane
I’d slightly change the sentence from ‘and expecting’ to ‘until you get’ (different results) because then you’d have a definition of coercion which is but one technique in how opportunistic manipulators prey on others with the statistics approach. Manipulation is one of the identifiers of NPD and APD.
On the ground level I wouldn’t call predatory salespeople and PUA the opposite of ‘insane’ although that word ‘insane’ has been retired in order to address mental health.
So in essence that definition you called up really is indeed way off when it comes to addressing mental health.