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Psychological

Six Men and a Glass

January 17, 2009

Is the glass half empty or half full?
A very popular question intended to distinguish between Pessimism (who sees the glass half empty) and Optimism (who sees the glass half full).
However, there are actually four more gentlemen gathered around the glass, who are usually not mentioned, even though their points of view are very common and [...]

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Coping with Guilt

December 24, 2008

Guilt is a natural response a person with a healthy conscience experiences when he believes he has wronged someone, or did not live up to the standards he has set for himself. It acts like a pain sensor that is intended to bring your attention to a matter you need to resolve: you need to [...]

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Knowledge is NOT Power

December 23, 2008

I spent a great chunk of my adult life believing that knowledge is power, only to discover that this is not true. And as with many false beliefs, it contains an element of truth, but it’s not the whole truth.
To understand why “knowledge is power” is not true, we have to first understand the role [...]

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Reasons and Excuses

December 19, 2008

Whenever we’re faced with a failure, we can have one of two default reactions:
1) Make excuses
2) Identify reasons
And there’s a world of difference between the two!
Making Excuses
Excuses are attempts we use not simply to explain why we managed to fail, but to justify the failure, as though it could not have been avoided.
The motive behind [...]

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Be A Success Story

December 11, 2008

Life involves both ups and downs. During the low points in our lives, we can lose hope of ever rising to achieve the goals we’ve set out to achieve. A single failure can launch a wave of ideas that lead us further down the same path, making it more and more difficult for us to [...]

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