"Men cannot be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns with the same light with which it heats. The sun has spots. The ungrateful speak only of the …
Personal Growth
Personal growth is a process of psychological maturation that involves learning from the mistakes we made and developing new strategies to get to know one another better and adapt better to the world. Personal development requires a high degree of awareness, the ability to look within oneself.
Positive psychology is responsible for studying the best personal growth techniques in order to achieve a state of wellbeing that will give us happiness. This branch of psychology watches over our mental health and is based not only on positive thinking but also on scientific studies that help us to have more self-esteem, to be more confident and to maximize our potential.
Scapegoat, the weight of other people’s guilt
In the recrimination game, blame turns into poison darts that, sooner rather than later, will target us. If we accept the blame of others and set out …
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Becoming an automaton of duty is the recipe for stupidity, according to Nietzsche
The process of education and socialization to which we are subjected since childhood passes through the inoculation of "duties". Those duties are …
Declinism: When you give too much importance to your past, you make it your present
The more we look at the past, the more we will miss the present. The past only exists in our mind. Our mind, however, is in charge of constantly …
To be free is not to be freed from the others but from oneself, according to Epictetus
We seek freedom like a blind man fumbles for his keys. As a result, it is not surprising that we end up imbued with an unsuccessful search, condemned …
Extrinsic Emotional Regulation: When others take control of your emotions
"No one is an island, complete in itself", wrote John Donne. We need the others and the others need us. The emotions of the others affect us as much …
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The power of our “dark side” to overcome adversity, according to Jung
"I find epidemics, natural catastrophes, sunken ships, destroyed cities, terrible wild animals, famine, lack of love in men and fear, whole mountains …
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