Psychology Archives

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer—Review

Is Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map worth reading? What is Meyer’s framework for measuring behavioral differences across cultures? In The Culture Map, Erin Meyer presents eight axes you can use as a framework to analyze cultural differences: communication, feedback, thinking, leadership, decision-making, trust, disagreement, and time perception. Meyer positions countries on each axis, each of which represents a range of possible behavior between two extremes. The following The Culture Map review covers the book’s context, background, and critical reception.

Financial Setpoint: Why the Poor Stay Poor

Why Socioeconomic Status and Depression Are Linked

What is the financial setpoint? Why do the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich? One of the main reasons poor people stay poor is because they lack money management skills. Even when a huge sum of money lands in their lap (e.g. through lottery or inheritance), people often end up broke within a few years. According to T. Harv Eker, the author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, the reason for this is their “financial setpoint.” Keep reading to learn how one’s financial setpoint—the amount of money they feel they can comfortably manage—keep poor people poor and rich

Crossing the Chasm: Technology Adoption Life Cycle

What is the Technology Adoption Life Cycle? What is the “chasm” in the context of the Technology Adoption Life Cycle model? The Technology Adoption Lifecycle is a theoretical model that aims to describe customer behavior in relation to the adoption or acceptance of a new product or technological innovation. According to Geoffrey Moore, the author of Crossing the Chasm, the Technology Adoption Life Cycle model doesn’t account for gaps that create the “chasm” between the early market and the mainstream market. In this article, we’ll discuss the flaw in the TALC model (according to Moore) and his revised explanation of the

The 10 Signs That You Have a “Poor Mindset”

Are you tired of being a victim of your financial circumstances? What are the different ways you tend to sabotage your finances? According to T. Harv Eker, the author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, there are 10 negative tendencies that reinforce your belief that you’re powerless when it comes to money. Challenging these negative tendencies is the first step to eliminating them. In this article, we’ll help you to identify the specific thoughts and beliefs that discourage you from taking positive actions to improve your finances.

Insecure Leadership: The 3 Behaviors to Avoid

What is insecure leadership? What are the signs of insecure leadership? Insecure leadership manifests when a leader resorts to harmful habits to stamp his authority and attract admiration because he is uncomfortable with being vulnerable. Habits of an insecure leader include using fear for control, controlling instead of leading, and self-aggrandizement. Read on to discover more about the traits of insecure leadership.

How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs About Money

What’s your idea of money? Do you believe you aren’t capable of earning past a certain benchmark? Do you think of yourself as a person who doesn’t have what it takes to achieve financial success? Your limiting beliefs about money are the result of negative conditioning you adopted throughout your childhood—the more you engage in this type of thinking, the more you associate money with the feeling of powerlessness. As a result, you’re incapable of achieving the financial success that you want. In this article, we’ll talk about how we form and then hold on to limiting beliefs about money,

How to Deal With Shame of Failure

How do you deal with shame? Why is shame inevitable in innovative organizations? You learn how to deal with shame when you accept that it is universal, and you connect with others to work through it and learn from it. Innovative organizations can’t completely resist shame because failure is a natural by-product of constant invention, and shame is largely caused by failure. Read more to fully understand how to deal with shame.

Why Are You Poor? Because of Negative Conditioning

Do you feel powerless when it comes to money? How did you inherit your limiting beliefs about money? What attitudes and ideas about money did your parents model? If you’re not happy with the state of your finances, it’s because you’ve been negatively conditioned to have a poor mindset. This negative conditioning is the main reason you are poor: it impels you to act in ways that move you away from financial success. In this article, we’ll explore how negative conditioning works, and how negative conditioning may have led you to develop a “poor mindset.”

Nudge: Book Review, Context, and Reception

Are you considering reading Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein? Do you want to read a Nudge book review before you make the purchase? In Nudge, the authors explain that people are not the eminently rational beings that appear in most economic theories—so-called homo economicus—but instead, are fallible and often irrational economic actors prone to all sorts of biases. This book was revolutionary and even influenced policymakers when it came out in 2008. Keep reading for a full Nudge review with commentary on its approach and context.

Shame Psychology: What Does Shame Feel Like?

What Does Shame Feel Like? How Do You Deal With It?

What does shame feel like? How do you deal with the effects of shame? Shame feels like a deep negative emotion that reaches your core. It is a painful and really frightening emotion. It tells you that you deserve failure, and that your bad actions are who you inherently are. Recognizing what shame feels like will help you accept it and work through it with a positive mindset. Read on to fully discover what shame feels like, and how it differs from other negative emotions.