Self-confidence is crucial in almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives. It comes in handy in helping ensure comfort in our interpersonal interactions. Low self-confidence can greatly impair your ability to prosper in virtually every other undertaking you may...
Many of us have goals in both our personal and professional endeavors. However, it isn’t always easy to stay on task and remain motivated in our efforts. Our busy lives can catch up with us, and sometimes it can seem difficult to get everything done that we would like...
Recently, the World Health Organization announced that burnout is now considered an official medical diagnosis. Burnout can happen to anyone, at any time, and at any place. It is typically characterized by feelings of exhaustion or depletion, negativism, cynicism, and...
Read Part I here. Health Effects of Perfectionism Indeed, as a personal quality of high achievers, perfectionism can often be used as a tool to transcend one’s limitations, but its effects can also be debilitating in the extreme. Take the example of the pianist...
Throughout the world, perfectionism is a personal quality that has been both idealized and denigrated in equal measure. Films such as “Amadeus” (1984) and “Shine” (1996) were both hugely successful meditations on the relationship between...
One of the breakthroughs in behavioral science, known as Conditional Learning Theory, came about in the early 1900s through the work of a Russian scientist named Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Most people have heard references to Pavlov’s dogs, or Pavlovian theory, but...
