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I Mean You No Harm: I Seek Your Greatest Good: Reflections on Trust
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Jim Meehan
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Publisher
Iuniverse Inc
Publication date
April 28, 2015
Pages
216
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781491761496
ISBN-10
1491761490
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$18.00
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Jim Meehan, British psychologist, poet and amateur philosopher, was asked by one of his mentors, eminent American psychologist Dr. William E. Hall, to consider what attitudes are essential to the establishment of trust, which Hall regarded as being at the heart of all good human relationships. Meehan came up with ten words in the form of two promises that provide the title for this book, âI mean you no harm; I seek your greatest good.â The book starts as Meehan attempts to answer the question he is often asked, âWhere do these words come from?â Born in Liverpool in the same hospital and same year as Paul McCartney, Meehan uses McCartney's account of the composition of his bestselling song, âYesterday,â to describe a similar experience that gave birth to his ten-word mantra, which captures the heart of trust. Meehan offers some possible biographical contributing factors. Beginning with a section aptly titled, âMy Yesterdays,â he explores some early childhood relationships and experiences in Liverpool toward the end and shortly after the Second World War and investigates his adolescence, which was spent mainly in Birmingham, England's second largest city. He then turns his attention to the influence of five mentors who definitely meant him no harm and sought his greatest good to examine how instrumental they could have been in the formulation of the words. Having exhausted his search for the origin of the expression, he then discusses the meaning of trust and how the two promises, when exchanged with other people, start a journey toward total mutual trust. Meehan defines different forms of trust, draws on the views of certain philosophers, psychologists and exemplars of trust and addresses the current global crisis of trust or, rather, lack of trust. He also includes a few anecdotes that describe the meaningfulness of the ten words to others. At the beginning of his account, Meehan explains how these two promises have developed legs of their o
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About: Jim Meehan, British psychologist, poet and amateur philosopher, was asked by one of his mentors, eminent American psychologist Dr.
About: Jim Meehan, British psychologist, poet and amateur philosopher, was asked by one of his mentors, eminent American psychologist Dr.
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