Category Archives: Positive Psychology

The critics have their reasons to doubt optimism

This implies that the pessimist tends to go around with his eyes wide open and to assess situations more lucidly than the optimist. ” Reality may to always be a barrel of laughs, but you have to see things the way they are,” he might say, where as the optimist is a genial but incurably naive dreamer.

How Can I Talk About Myself?

There is one particular way which always seems to work – to talk about our vulnerabilities and errors. To confess to someone about how sad we are, why our project at work got rejected and how that made us feel, why our partner won’t appreciate us anymore contains the least amount of our praises and yet the most amount of our authentic self. This approach never fails in winning over the hearts of the right people.

Which Of These Defence Mechanisms Do You Often Use?

Sigmund Freud

Nandita Kochar Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and the first person to ever devise a formal theory about the human personality, believed that one’s mental events could be divided into three categories: Conscious mind: It consists of mental events in current awareness (I am typing out this sentence, at the moment) Preconscious mind: It contains […]