Chronic job stress, which the World Health Organization has called a “worldwide epidemic,” is not the occasional aggravation of a dysfunctional copier or an annoying coworker. It’s the energy-draining, psyche-straining, day-to-day mental grind that results in accidents, insomnia, irritability, fatigue, and overall lower quality of life. But work doesn’t have to stress you out. There [...]
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. There are two implications of the statement. The first is that we must not hold ourselves directly accountable for [...]
Try to accept the fact that you will hold nearly every attitude at some time, even toward the people closest to you. Try to identify physical and verbal signs of how you feel. Understand that if you have a feeling you don’t have to act on it. Don’t set your sights on becoming a person [...]
Is it man’s nature to be able to love only what he cannot fully posses? Some people have said yes, that pure love, unquestioning and unfailing, depends for its sustenance on our finding our loved one imperfectly accessible to us, and is therefore impossible in marriage, where the mate is already possessed. Like many philosophical [...]
A habit is practice which we feel an inner urge to carry out but which urges, If we resisted it repeatedly, would diminish after a time and disappear. To say that playing golf is a habit, or that gesticulating when one talks is a habit, is to say that by resisting the inclination toward the [...]
One route by which our actions eventually influence our own thoughts are indirect. What we do influences people’s opinions of us; and from their reactions to our behavior we draw some part of our opinion of ourselves. A braggart antagonizes people, causing them to think that he is inadequate and that people are almost impossible [...]
We have always known that events play a role in the shaping of character. But what gives an event the power to influence us? This question has been asked insistently in recent year. Taking the word from biology where it means injury or wound, he applied It to what he called injuries to the psyche, [...]