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People pleasing develops as an insecure attachment strategy learned from being valued only for submissiveness.

Drawn from what Adam Grant said

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Attachment theory That early bonds shape how a person seeks and avoids closeness for the rest of their life, and the couples work built on that claim.

behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What Adam Grant actually said

  1. Adam Grant Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School
    People pleasing is based on insecure attachment. We become people pleasers when we discover that others only value us when we're cooperative to the point of being submissive and deferential.

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