Why to study Psychology ? Even if you don't plan to study psychology or work in a psychology-related field, there are several good reasons to learn about psychology. Psychology can be found everywhere around you and influences every part of your life! Psychology can help you in understanding who you are now, how the world around you influences your life without getting noticed, and how you interact with family, friends, and new people.
Psychology covers more than mental illnesses, counselling, and treatment sessions. Psychology plays an important role from the moment you get up in the morning until you go to sleep at night. Psychology is present in practically every part of our daily lives, from just buying your favorite food and cloths to making life's most important and tough decisions.
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Humans have a default mechanism to recognize patterns. The same mechanisms that helped early humans avoid lions and other predators are still a part of our decision process. One of our in-built systems or tendency to see patterns where none exist. We try to create order from chaos. This isn’t surprising really — the brain is a wonderful pattern-recognition machine and it serves us phenomenally well in this way. Our brain has been designed to identify patterns to make better decisions.
212 degrees the extra degree is an inspiring book with a singular focus on the essential fundamental of effort-- the primary fundamental that feeds all others. Its purpose is to inspire the extra level of effort that produces exponential results. Book is written by Mac Anderson and Sam Parker.
This is from the book 'The Art of Thinking Clearly' By Rolf Dobelli. Survivorship bias is a common logical error that distorts our understanding of the world. It happens when we assume that success tells the whole story and when we simply ignore the failures. For example if there are X winners and Y losers. We only hear the testimonies of the winners. Therefore, our conclusion is based on X winners, and we ignore the losers.
This is from the book 'The Art of Thinking Clearly' By Rolf Dobelli. This is a cognitive bias called as swimmer's body illusion. The illusion is the confusion of selection factors with results. The idea is to make sure that we recognize that the result is often more a matter of selection than the effort. The “swimmer's body illusion” occurs when we confuse selection factors with results.
Money is not everything and I know you will agree with me, but still question remains the same what is real success? Erik Barker in his book barking up the wrong tree tries to explain the answer.
Have you ever decided to not put your work in front of others just because you felt like it still needs to be perfect? You keep working on the project and at the end you not putting it draft or bin just because you feel it’s not good enough?
Despite during these difficult circumstances of Pandemic, there are things we can do that will make us happy in our everyday life. I am not a therapist but over time I have observed few things which have helped me be happy and wanted to share some of them with you.
How often do you find yourself racing at the last minute to meet a deadline to complete the assigned work? Do you often find that you end up finishing projects after you had promised they would be complete? Have you let people down because you didn’t have enough time to fulfill your commitments? If these questions sound familiar, then you may have fallen victim to the planning fallacy bias without even knowing it!
"Memento Mori" or translated in English, "Remember you must die." The point of this reminder isn't to promote fear, but to inspire and motivate.
We all have certain goals we would like to achieve. Some want to start their own business, some want a get master degree, some want to stay fit.But have you wondered why it’s so hard to achieve our goal or get in a habits? Setting your goal is the first step to achieve it but not the last. If you’ve ever started working towards your goal, you will know that the intention and motive to achieve is simply not enough when it comes to turning your plan into real action. It takes time, patience and a strategy to stay on track. The good news is there’s a way to make it much easier to follow through on the action in order to achieve your goals. What you need to do is to start setting implementation intentions.
Most of us have used this “too busy” rationalization, because it feels very true. It feels absolutely true that we’re too busy. Is it true? Or can we develop a habit of not being busy, even with the same workload? Let’s get at the heart of this always-busy habit, and then reverse it. Resource: https://zenhabits.net/not-busy/
"Don't Break The Chain" The Seinfeld Strategy is a simple but powerful technique for sticking to habits and following through on goals. So often, we assume that success requires a lot effort and that our goals demand huge willpower and motivation. But really, all we need is dedication to small, manageable tasks.
If you spend all of your time stressing out about an unfortunate situation, do you really think you’re going to be able to motivate yourself to find a way out of it? The key is to step back, and look back on what you’ve done. We will always feel guilty about what we haven’t done, but it is important that we remind ourselves that it is only a temporary setback.
Do you think you make smart, rational decisions most of the time? Chances are good that even if you take pride in yourself on being rational most of the time, you still occasionally fall for the sunk cost fallacy. The Misconception: You make rational decisions based on the future value of objects, investments and experiences. The Truth: Your decisions are tainted by the emotional investments you accumulate, and the more you invest in something the harder it becomes to abandon it.
I am sure the idea of not comparing yourself with others is not entirely new to you. Likely you have heard it dozens or even hundreds of times. The funny thing is, this is what most of us do at one time or another — and some of us do pretty often. Your life will significantly improve if you care less about what you are not, and care more about becoming the best version of yourself. For more awesome blog go to https://www.kaizenmindset.org/
Even if tortoise teaches you persistence, keep in mind that it used a flawed approach. Instead of taking a cue from what the tortoise did right, take a lesson from what the hare did wrong. Doing the same things over and over and expecting different results is insanity- Albert Einstein. Credit - https://productiveclub.com/. You can also visit https://www.kaizenmindset.org/ for more interesting articles
