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Performance Dissonance
By Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Performance Dissonance
Bruce Wilson, PhD
“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”- Rienhold Nieburh
Are you performing in your right mind? The ...
Getting Past Self Imposed Limitations and Limiting Beliefs
By Stephen Nalley · 3 years ago
One of the biggest obstacles that limit people from accomplishing their goals is their inability to push through adversity. For many people, this begins with Self-imposed limitations or Limiting Beliefs. The effects of both of ...
How Entrepreneurs Can Tell When It's Time to See a Psychiatrist
By Dr. Dawn Brown · 3 years ago
Far too often, the strong, independent entrepreneur puts aside their struggles, prioritizing the business and all their goals for it above their own selves. Mental health is health. When you’re sick, you go to a ...
The Self-Saboteur
By Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
“I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.”-Craig D. Lounsbrough
Why do we stand in our own way? What possible payoffs could entice someone to repeatedly self-sabotage? Are there any identifiable precursors that could ...
Procrastinate Later
By Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Procrastinate Later
Bruce Wilson, PhD
“I’m a conundrum or an enigma, I forget which.”- James A. Owen
What motivates us to be unmotivated? Why does one put the pro in procrastination? These questions have plagued ...
Does Wisdom Increase with Age?
By Nurhashimah Binti Bahrain · 3 years ago
In biology, the correlation between knowledge and aging has a basis: as people grow older, the mind grows more, a direct by-product of only having to live longer and experience more things. Older people are ...
The quiet room
By Don Robbins · 3 years ago
Doc was an adventurous kid. He was mischievous and he liked the girls. The staff at the children’s home where he was a resident did not care for his midnight creeps over to the building ...
Positive Frustration
By Dr Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Positive Frustration
Bruce Wilson, PhD
“Frustration although quite painful at times is a very positive part of success.” -Bo Bennett
The human experience comes with oodles of expectations. Expectations of people, things, and outcomes that ...
The Paradox of Self-Anger
By Dr. Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
The Paradox of Self-Anger
Bruce Wilson, PhD
We usually associate anger with an intolerance of others. But what if the intolerance is toward one’s self. The familiar pathway for anger tends to be an attempt ...
Attraction Meets Distraction
By Dr. Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Attraction Meets Distraction
Bruce Wilson, PhD
An interesting phenomenon is happening in the area of addiction. Distraction is becoming an addiction. We are becoming attracted to being distracted like never before in our history. There ...
Unmindfulness
By Dr. Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Unmindfulness
Bruce Wilson, PhD
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
Have you ever felt hopelessly stuck in your head? How are you affected when you are immersed ...
Smartphone Acquiescence Versus Annoyance
By Dr. Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Smartphone Acquiescence Versus Annoyance
Bruce Wilson, PhD
Since the advent of the smartphone in 1994, social interaction has been gradually transforming. Social interaction, at one time, was about face-to-face contact between dyads or groups. Over ...
Seeking Psychodiversity
By Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Seeking Psychodiversity
Bruce Wilson, PhD
Has self-contemplation, or navel-gazing to some, reached a point of diminishing returns? Psychologists have impressed upon the individual for years that we need to become more self-aware. Mindfulness, the penultimate ...
Genius or Psychosis
By Dr. Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Genius or Psychosis
Bruce Wilson, PhD
Our minds are a potential gateway to a plethora of creativity, innovation, and invention. Creative thought has always been purveyed as the ability to see something in a way ...
Some Thoughts About Thinking
By Dr. Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
Some Thoughts About Thinking
Bruce Wilson, PhD
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” - Thomas Paine
The way we think is in transition. This ...
The Puzzle of Personality: Respecting Each Other
By Lidiya Binti Mohd Yusof · 3 years ago
Latin word persona defined as the combination of or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. Many psychologists believe that there are five dimensions of personality which are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. All ...
The Psychodiversity of Cults
By Bruce Wilson · 3 years ago
The Psychodiversity of Cults
Bruce Wilson, PhD
On the most basic level, communication is comprised of sending a message and receiving a message, which are not necessarily congruent. After watching Cults Explained on Netflix, I ...
Men at age 59: Going forward or looking back
By Anselm Anyoha · 4 years ago
Among the many challenges that face men at age 59, the most overwhelming might be the inner debate of whether to march forward and conquer the world or stay motionless and dwell on the events ...
The power of Dopamine on your psyche
By Giorgi Mikhelidze · 4 years ago
If you ever searched for reasons that cause different types of addictive behaviors, probably you would find some information about Dopamine. Dopamine is widely known as a chemical for pleasure that is often associated with ...
TRUST YOUR GUT
By Christopher B. Fields · 4 years ago
“Trusting your gut feeling” is a sense that we’re all aware of. Our first instinct about a person or event is rarely backed by any logic. It’s just this overwhelming assumption that you can’t quite ...