Psychology Archives

5 Common Self-Sabotaging Behaviors to Avoid

Do you constantly self-sabotage by engaging in behaviors that take you further away from your goals? How can you stop doing what you know is hindering your progress? Self-sabotage is engaging in behaviors that prevent you from achieving your goals. While the way you sabotage is unique to your personality and life circumstances, the patterns of self-sabotaging behaviors are not that different from person to person. Keep reading to learn about some of the most common self-sabotaging behaviors and how to stop doing them.

Where Do Emotions Come From?

Do you sometimes feel emotions you cannot explain? Where do emotions come from? Emotions sometimes get the better of us, but we can learn to tame them and respond to emotional situations more rationally and effectively. To do that, we have to first understand what gives rise to our emotions. Keep reading to learn where our emotional responses come from and how to deal with unexpected emotions.

The 8 Best Books on Narcissism You Need to Check Out

Do you have to deal with narcissists in your life? What are the best books on narcissism to fight entitlement? Self-love is an admirable trait to have, but sometimes people take it too far. Excessive self-love can lead to narcissism, which means someone admires themselves too much and usually lacks empathy for others. To learn how to deal with selfish people, here are the eight best books on narcissism.

The Things You Regret Most in Life & Why You Have Them

What are the things you regret most in life? Does everyone have the same regrets? While everyone has regrets unique to their life, they tend fall into the same categories. According to Daniel Pink, the author of The Power of Regret, people tend to regret things done and things not done. Here’s a look at the most common regrets people have in life.

How to Control Negative Emotions: 3 Ways to Take Charge

Do you ever stop to analyze what you’re feeling? What’s a simple way to win small victories throughout the day? Author Damon Zahariades says that learning how to control negative emotions grants you mental strength and allows you to make better decisions in life. In The Mental Toughness Handbook, he offers three ways to regulate your feelings and control negative emotions. Read on to learn how to control (or prevent) negative emotions by practicing Zahariades’s three strategies.

How to Use Mental Programming to Change Your Thoughts

Is your mental programming set in stone? How can you overwrite unhelpful and self-sabotaging mental programs you’ve internalized throughout the course of your life? You don’t have to accept your default mental processes as your unchanging reality. According to Ryan A. Bush, the author of Designing the Mind, the mind works like a computer, which means that you can overwrite the mental programs that don’t serve you. Here’s how you can reshape your mind by treating your thought processes like computer algorithms that can be edited.

How to Overcome Fear of Uncertainty and Step Into the Unknown

Why are we afraid of the unknown? How does your fear of uncertainty prevent you from growing and seizing opportunities that life presents? Changing your life sometimes requires a leap of faith. Maybe parts of your life are no longer fulfilling, or your current circumstances are no longer meeting your needs. To start down a different path, you have to overcome the fear of uncertainty and trust that everything will work out. Here’s why we’re so terrified of uncertainty and how you can empower yourself to step confidently into the unknown despite your fears.

Logic Tree Example & Steps: A Simple Problem-Solving Tool

What is a logic tree? How can it help you solve problems? How do you create one? Critical Thinking, Logic & Problem Solving by Bigrocks Thinking shows you how to apply critical thinking to solve problems and make decisions more effectively. The authors recommend using a logic tree to find solutions to your problems and answers to your questions. Continue reading to see a logic tree example and learn the steps to create one for yourself.

Daniel Pink: The Psychology of Regret

What is the psychology of regret? How is regret a process? In The Power of Regret, Daniel Pink explains that the process of regret involves three steps. These steps include telling a story about the past, inventing a new story about an alternative past, then comparing the two. Let’s learn more about the psychology of regret by analyzing its process.

Why Do Most Marriages Fail? They Lack a Shared Culture

Why do most marriages fail? How can you minimize the chances of your marriage ending in divorce? In their book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Gottman and Silver explain that every marriage has its own culture—a shared understanding of what matters and what you’re working toward. The greater this sense of shared understanding, the more robust your marriage will be. Here’s how the lack of a shared culture destroys marriages and how couples can work toward cultivating it.