I just want to capture this moment and put it in a little bottle :)
22: graduate
23: get a job
24: pastry school :)
25: pretty car
25-30: work and travel
live and enjoy life. :)
Dear tumblr, when we last spoke I was down. Down on life. Down on faith. But today, actually these last couple of months in general I can honestly say that I’ve never been so happy. I got hired by a distribution center for the season in back in November. The day before I found out the center had decided to keep me permanently I got offered a job that I’ve applied for back in August. I went to training and my first official day at my current workplace was 23rd birthday. I want to believe it was life’s gift to me. I recently just bought my first car too a couple weeks ago, a 2013 Honda civic ex. I call it my baby. I got myself an iPhone 4S today too. My sweetie and I are doing great too. We’ve just celebrated our 8th year anniversary by the beach a couple of weeks ago. Overall I am just feeling like I am on top of the world. I love my sweetie, my car, my job, and I just really really love my life. :)
1. Cognitive Dissonance - the idea that when we hold two conflicting thoughts or beliefs, we unconsciously adjust to make one fit with the other. My social psychology professor gave an example of a student who values studying all the time, but slacks off when it comes to their favorite television show. So the student tells herself that watching the television helps her study later when it really doesn’t. However, telling herself that helped her eased the anxiety.
2. Hallucinations are common - one third of people report experiencing hallucination at some point in time. Similarly, normal people often have paranoid thoughts. So when was the last time you hallucinated?
3. The Placebo effect - this is when you think that something like a drug has an effect on you when really it doesn’t. It’s your thoughts that actually resulted in you getting better.
4. Obedience to Authority -authorities or people in power can really control our behaviors. In Stanley Milgram’s famous study, 63% of participants kept giving electric shock to another human being just because someone in authority was telling them to.
5. Choice Blindness - we are not very good at making choices and understanding why we made those choice. When we make a decision, even if the decision is not good, we tend to rationalize why decision is the best.
1. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best. In reality, few of our worries actually become a reality. However, if you prepare in advance for things going wrong, you’ll have strategies available to cope and survive.
2. Write a list of everything you think you need to do, and then tick them…
There are several different approaches to Psychology. Throughout history, these approaches have been compared, contrasted and criticized - but each has had someone very influential behind them. The most common seven are:
The Behavioral Approach: Behaviorists believe that human behavior comes strictly from what we learn. Legendary philosophers such as John Locke and Aristotle paved the way to this approach, and many were quick to follow and add to their writings. A researcher named B.F Skinner put together an experiment involving pigeons and rewards. He found that the pigeons would alter their behavior in any way in pursuit of reward; this prompted Skinner to claim that free-will was only an illusion. According to behaviorists, the only things that can truly be called psychological facts are those that we take from behavior - because anything else is so intimate (thoughts, ideas, dreams, etc) that it can’t factually be taken down.
The Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Approach: The Psychodynamic Approach is the counter to the Behavioral Approach. It’s main contenders included the likes of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Psychoanalysts focus on unconscious internal conflicts to explain mental disorders. Freud himself believed that the unconscious mind was the biggest pool of information to draw from; and that events in childhood were a big factor in determining later behavior and personality.
Mind Reading - When you make assumptions about what somebody is thinking or feeling without them telling you. In reality, you are delusional or paranoid.
Catastrophize - when you over think a problem and the effects that they will actually have on you. For example, when you…
