Best-Selling Author John Townsend Tackles Entitlement Problem and How to Cure It
Author and psychologist John Townsend met with the parents of a 25-year-old son who was still living at home without a job. He quickly deduced that the young man, who did not contribute to household chores and resented his parents' expectations and ambitions for him, was suffering the cultural disease of entitlement.
The Entitlement Cure, released Oct. 6, helps people who care about relationships understand the entitlement in themselves, family, friends, and coworkers and equips them with principles to combat it.
Townsend, founder of the Townsend Institute of Leadership and Counseling and the Townsend Leadership Program, defines entitlement as "the belief that I am exempt from responsibility and I am owed special treatment."
He writes that entitlement is not bound by age, gender, race, class, or religion and is different from the "pocket entitlement" that everyone feels from time to time about specific things.
The type of entitlement that he calls a disease is more serious and affects the worldview and relationships of those who are in its thrall. "Entitlement is: The man who thinks he is above all the rules. The woman who feels mistreated and needs others to make it up to her," Townsend warns.
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