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The Sacred Art of Orneriness: Why Stubbornness Might Save Your Soul

Authenticity, it turns out, looks a lot like orneriness when it brushes up against expectation.

That is productive orneriness.

Let’s look at the dictionary: Ornery (adj.): Bad-tempered and combative; stubborn.

We hear the "bad-tempered" part and we run for the hills. Nobody wants to be the grump at the party. But I want to focus on the second half: Stubborn. The Sacred Art of Orneriness: Why Stubbornness Might

Do you have a healthy dose of orneriness, or are you a chronic people-pleaser? Drop your most stubborn opinion in the comments.

In a world that begs for our compliance—buy this, click that, agree with this, smile for that—stubbornness is the pause button. Orneriness is the voice that says, We hear the "bad-tempered" part and we run for the hills

They annoy us. But they also anchor us.