Unfortunately, non-constructive self-stories become like negative dreams. They enter into our emotional lives, form our actions, and twist our relationships. Gradually, they become a chief source of psychological suffering.
On a personal basis, I know that endurance feels good at first because it looks like progress.
In the service of living a life of virtue, Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius exemplified a willingness to shun worldly comforts.
The ways we can control our distractions involve strategically filtering out low-value content so that our limited attention can be focused where it truly matters. Research has outlined three types of critical ignoring that help people manage today’s overwhelming information environment.
How many times have you heard that ‘exceptions have to become rules’? In this post we look at in a very detailed way that brings in the topic of truth to help clarify this statement.
I believe that you’d agree that at times we deceive others in order to make ourselves look better than we are, wouldn’t you? I doubt that you’d agree that we deceive ourselves in order to make ourselves look smarter, believe …
As you know, the emotions we feel, the incidents we experience, and our ability to relate with other humans are all coordinated or controlled by language.
Those behaviors, the researchers explained, are also associated with the above-mentioned “dark” personality traits, which are drawn from the ‘Dark Triad’ model.
In September of 2009, E. O. Wilson (Harvard biologist) said “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of …
What’s the one thing you really want to improve on now? Will it stretch you in your abilities? I hope so! I state that because if it doesn’t stretch you or cause you to go beyond your regular actions, I …