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Accepting your limitations is out of fashion. We all need hope that we can be excellent.
Indeed, many of the popular pop psych gurus—excellent at selling—insist that you can be much better if only you follow their simple plan, for example, raise your expectations! Reframe! Have grit! A growth mindset! Power pose! Be fabulous!
Unfortunately, logically and empirically, such nostrums are longer on appeal than on real-world-significant results. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I defend that assertion and describe approaches that are both more research-sound and reflect my experience with 5,500 clients.
In ticklish situations., we often get nervous if not downright tongue-tied.
Of course, the right thing to say varies with the situation and protagonists but perhaps the examples I offer in my PsychologyToday.com article today can be instructive.
A students in the course on career counseling
I’m teaching suggested I compile my “Nemkoisms” in a book. I don’t have
enough to fill a book but perhaps there’s enough for an article. It's my PsychologyToday.com contribution today.
I’m teaching a graduate course in career counseling.
When I was a student, having remembered little from the mountains I was
expected to read, I’m ruthlessly curating what I’m having my students
read. For example, I'll be handing out a collection of contrarian ideas that have most helped my clients. It's my PsychologyToday.com article today.
Type-A people do everything fast, often intensely. It's routinely criticized.
The good news is that while it's extremely difficult for Type A's to
become Type B's, making a few smart choices can result in Type A's
having a great life. I describe them in my PsychologyToday.com article today.
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