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I’ve realised I am too contrarian. How can I change this? | Leading questions

There’s a gap between what you want to do and what you do, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. Thinking about how it affects others might helpI recognise myself to be very contrarian, to the point of reacting in this fashion in every situation, regardless of what it is. How can I change this?Eleanor says: It sounds as though there’s a gap between what you want to do and what you do. You can see you’re being contrarian, you want to change that, but that’s not enough to mean things actually change. Continue reading...

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