A fixed mindset about ability leads to pessimistic explanations of adversity, and that, in turn, leads to both giving up on challenges and avoiding them in the first place. In contrast, a growth mindset leads to optimistic ways of explaining adversity, and that, in turn, leads to perseverance and seeking out new challenges that will […]
Category Archives: Positive Psychology
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Hence a profound irony – the boosting of self esteem, which is intended to promote a sense of wellbeing and to discourage aggression may instead be a cause of depression and violence.
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Presuppositions program us to accept things that may or may not be true, and they can be used on us by others, or even, subconsciously by ourselves. For example, if you ask yourself a question like “Why do I always sabotage myself?”
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A financial crisis can affect not only your professional or personal life but most importantly, your health. It can make you feel as if turning things around will be impossible. Two of the most common effects are anxiety and depression. And these two walk hand-in-hand. When one is anxious most of the time, they increase […]
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The key to disputing your own pessimistic thoughts is to first recognise them and then to treat them as if they were uttered by an external person, a rival whose mission in life was to make you miserable.
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Today I was wondering as to what creates the desire for learning in students in and beyond classroom. While we all know that effective teaching is 20% content and 80% education process and we also believe that any process that begins also ends. In the context of teaching, instead of bringing closure to a lesson […]
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We all know and more importantly believe that human being are born with a DNA. Now DNA comes to us as a thing that could not be changed no matter what efforts we made. Adding to it, is a comfortable acceptance of what is given to us by nature
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Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari We are naturally drawn outside as all the doors of our sense preceptors are opened to the external! So much of our life energy is spent fixing the external things of life. We struggle to change the outside for our senses drive us to the world outside, but when we draw our consciousness […]
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Distaste for the fatuous breeziness of self help has also possibly encouraged a rejection of all psychology as light weight and worthless. But the message of serious psychology is the opposite of that of self help – fulfilment is not easy, but exhaustingly difficult.
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Shuddhaanandaa Brahamchari The more we practice cultivating our mind as our best friend, the more we find that no one can make us unhappy unless we resolve to be unhappy. No outside circumstance can make us unhappy unless we agree to become unhappy, unless we sign the contract to be unhappy. There is a contract […]