Vigilance (psychology) How to Recognize Anxiety-Induced Procrastination. Source: Unsplash Anxiety and procrastination go hand in hand. When we feel anxious about something, we'll put it off. Sometimes this is obvious to the person experiencing it. For instance, if you put off your driving test because you're scared of failure or of getting hurt while driving, or you're too nervous to ask out the person you have a crush on. However, the anxiety-procrastination link isn't always so clear to sufferers or observers. article continues after advertisement Here are fives types of anxiety-related procrastination that are often overlooked or misunderstood. 1.
Anxiety can manifest in typical ways, or it can look like anger or hopelessness. There might be an extent to which others are contributing to your problem or getting in the way, but focusing on this can obscure self-responsibility and give you an excuse not to do the proactive behaviors that are available to you, but that feel stressful and anxiety-inducing. 2. 3. 4. 5. Why Acknowledging Your Anxiety Can Help.
Why You Can’t Trust Yourself - Mark Manson - Pocket. Bertrand Russell famously said, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.” Over the years, I’ve hammered on the importance of becoming comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity, in questioning all of your most cherished beliefs and dreams, on practicing skepticism, and doubting everything, most importantly yourself. Throughout these posts, I’ve hinted at the fact that our brains are fundamentally unreliable, that we really have no clue what we’re talking about, even when we think we do, and so on.
But I’ve never given concrete examples or explanations. Well, here they are. Eight reasons you can’t trust yourself, as demonstrated by psychology. Stop Being an Emotional Idiot Discover tips to become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally intelligent. 49-page guide. 1. There’s a thing in psychology called the Actor-Observer Bias and it basically says that we’re all assholes. We all do this. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. NPR Choice page. How to Escape the Overthinking Trap: Stop Judging Yourself - The Guardian - Pocket. Before Christmas I took a young relative to a jazz concert. The thought of it ruined his whole day. He scuffed around the house like an alt-right voter at a refugee camp. In the event, even he acknowledged that we had a fine time. But neither of us would ever get back the dreadful hours that preceded it. He’d fallen prey to a cardinal paradox – poisoning the present by agonising over a future hardship that never materialised.
We’ve all done that. The homo sapiens is so damn clever, and yet sometimes so stupid with it. Thinking is what gave humans ascendancy. We are in thrall to the rigid, judgmental thoughts we think about ourselves, prisoners of the sinewy web of cogitation that tells us we are strong, clever, important, unassertive, patriotic, hopeless, old, fat, hard done by, forgotten – when actually we may be many of these things rolled into one. Our obsessive thinking about ourselves even informs the air of political revolt that made 2016 such a big turning point. Upgrade Your Thinking and Make Better Decisions With Mental Models - Farnam Street - Pocket.
When I first came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 Speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, I realized that I could learn more from him than my MBA. So I spent the next few years reading and researching about cognitive biases and how we mislead ourselves. Munger showed me that the world had more to offer than just computer science and business, the two disciplines I’d spent the most time in.
He opened up a world of mental models, which is just a fancy schmancy word that means thinking tools that you can use to solve problems. A mental model is simply a representation of how something works. We cannot keep all of the details of the world in our brains, so we use models to simplify the complex into understandable and organizable chunks. Whether we realize it or not, we then use these models every day to think, decide, and understand our world.
While there are millions of mental models, I want to focus on nine that will help you think better. 1. The map of reality is not reality. 2. 3. 4.