And if that fails, you need to keep on keeping on keeping on keeping on?

He knows that this is BS, deep down. It is like saying: "try, just try to try to really try being positive and everything will be OK"

When he says that you are SELFISH, you can say: "Do you think I enjoy your "keep on keeping on" and your telling me that I am lazy? Obviously, I do not. I would never choose to hear those things, as being hurt by those words is not in my self-interest. I thought SELFISH was an extreme degree of protecting one's self-interest, no?.."