Featured in CNBC’s: “We should all seek external validation, Stanford psychologist says: ‘That is true intimacy.’”

Article Excerpt:

You can’t control how other people see you, so needing — or demanding — that someone else understand your perspective has always seemed like a flaw to me. And depending on the approval of others feels risky because there is no guarantee you’ll actually get it.

That’s why I was surprised when Caroline Fleck, an adjunct clinical instructor at Stanford University, told me that the “biggest misconception” about validation is that we should not seek it.

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