by Rick Baker
On Sep 1, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Confusion: that's a light sampling of conflicted thought.
Torn between 2...that's a heavier sampling.
Confounded: that can be bloody annoying.
Conflicted thoughts are the roots of frustration.
Frustration gets you nowhere & getting nowhere is frustrating: a vicious circle or downward spiral.
At least when we are angry we are more certain about our thoughts. This is why anger is better than frustration.
by Rick Baker
On Aug 28, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
This is not a horrible dysfunction, it's just an all-too-common bad habit.
Why would a person not want to take chances, make changes, and grow?
Perhaps we should first explore the extent of their Fear of Criticism and their Fear of Poverty...see Napoleon Hill's 1937 classic, 'Think and Grow Rich'.
Linked to Fear of Poverty - according to psychologists, we fear losing existing things more than we desire gaining new things. Fear of loss outstrips desire for gain by a factor of about 4-to-1.
Do you feel that way?
Do you favour the status quo over change?
by Rick Baker
On Aug 25, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Without trust relationships are shallow and weak.
Don't let people's actions sour your trust.
Start With Self. On top of all the self-things I have written over the years, I'm adding self-trust.
We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions. We blame situations for our failures: we blame other people for their failures. We give credit to ourselves when we succeed: we give credit to their situations when other people succeed. (Attribution Bias)
Those are our tendencies.
Let's not allow those tendencies to draw too much of our attention to the bad apples.