Psychology of Excuses

whats your excuse
Many people across ages struggle with looking for a job they desire, accepting a job offer/promotion,  or making a change in their career direction.

“I am too busy to do anything about changing job.“
“I don’t have the ability to do the work.”
“I won’t be able to have work-life balance.”
“Many people think/see/act this way.”
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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.

James Thurber, Author & Cartoonist

 

 

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The truth about negative emotions

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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck, American  psychiatrist

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Self-Awareness Matters

What is self-awareness (自我察覺)?

It is a process of self-exploration that brings unconscious to conscious. It is like a person having an internal dialogue (not the same as self-talk)  with his/her inner self. “That’s the way I am” and “I already knew that I have been repeating this behavior/emotional experience” are example statements of self-understanding.  Yet, an intellectual level of understanding does not ncessarily bring change.

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情緒, 你的名字是…?

人類的腦袋內, 思想與行為都受五種主要的情緒影響:歡樂 (joy)、憤怒 (anger)、憂傷 (sadness)、厭惡 (disgust)、害怕 (fear)。
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