He defines elite-admissions dissociative potential as desperation plus insecurity plus willingness to break rules in order to succeed.
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Desperation
He defines elite-admissions dissociative potential as desperation plus insecurity plus willingness to break rules in order to succeed.
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"...a life or death issue for me. They can see the desperation. They want that, okay? Second thing is, I was insecure, okay? If..."
"I would need to go make $2 million. If I made $10 million, I would see people around me who had $100 million. I..."
"...League. I don't need you guys, okay? So they saw the desperation, they saw the insecurity, they saw the hunger and the immorality, and..."
"...turning off, right? So we're, we're, we're seeing a lot of desperation, anxiety among the intellectual elite."
"That's a really good question. Okay. So it's really desperation, right? Because what religion teaches you is that wealth is bad. And when you..."
"...unipolar world. And so by detonating a nuke, it shows the desperation, anxiety, and quite honestly, incompetence of the American military. So for that..."
"...takes from oppressed innocents its support and affronts the beneficent the desperation of death. Inscribe, rather, therefore, these words. Death is the commencement of..."
"...have children they don't get the promised land right so in desperation sarah gave abraham her maid named hagar and abraham impregnated hagar and..."
"...in a lot of trouble. And so, in an act of desperation, the last thing he does is he runs to Athens, where Athena..."
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