Beware of ‘the Crab Mentality’: How Your Environment Shapes the Way You Think and Behave

Are you the victim or the instigator?

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There once was a man who sat on a fishing dock and observed how a bunch of live crabs, in a bucket, behaved. While all of them squirmed at the bottom, every now and then, one crab would crawl up the side in an effort to reach the top and escape. But each…