https://summaryshelf.app/authors/erich-fromm/Recent content in Erich Fromm on SummaryShelfHugoen-usThu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/art-of-loving/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/art-of-loving/<p>Most people treat love as a problem of being loved, not of loving. You assume that if you can make yourself attractive, successful, or interesting enough, the right person will appear and love will simply happen to you. Erich Fromm says this has it exactly backward. Love is an art, a discipline you develop the way you&rsquo;d develop any real skill, and almost no one bothers to learn it because we&rsquo;re all too busy trying to be lovable.</p>