<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # People who have been too hard do not need to... > People who have been too hard do not need to become powerless. They need enough empathy and perspective-taking to distinguish a real threat from an old threat pattern asking for another performance. **Source:** [[livestreams/Radical Self-Acceptance and Expanding the Opposite - Workbook|Radical Self-Acceptance and Expanding the Opposite]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “People who have been too hard do not need to become powerless. They need enough empathy and perspective-taking to distinguish a real threat from an old threat pattern asking for another performance.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-people-who-hard-asking-another-performance ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->