"**Self-help gurus love to dispense personality-based counsel when it comes to others**: there’s advice for dealing with ‘toxic people’, ‘energy vampires’, the neurotic, the negative, the self-absorbed. Personality disorders do exist, to be sure, but **the FAE suggests we should err on the side of cutting people some slack – that almost everyone believes that what they do, at any given moment, is a natural response to their circumstances**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fundamental-attribution-error]], [[relationships]], [[context]], [[empathy]], **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]