REVIEW: "life hacking persistent people. 50 ways to be strong, "John Fox

Why do some become discouraged when trivial problems, while others with dignity, keep hard blows of fate? Genetics, upbringing, character? Durability and strength of mind can be trained as muscles, I'm sure the author of this book, John Fox.

John Fox

A specialist in the field of career development strategies. Bestselling author of How To Get A Job You Love and other books on career and personal growth. He writes articles for the Times, Guardian, Psychologies, Marie Claire and Red, participated in the programs of the BBC and ITV channels. Trains specialists in HSBC and Reuters staff.

Like the other books in the series ( "Life hacking influential people», «Life hacking happy people"), That consists of 50 chapters. Each of them - a step towards psychological stability.

What is the psychological stability

People react differently to external stimuli: someone breaks, someone is struggling. Experts call this psychological resistance.

Psychological stability - the ability of the individual or community to adapt the system to maintain an acceptable level of functioning, structure, identity.

Psychological stability must be distinguished from persistence. The latter implies determination, willpower, charisma. Imagine a man who for many years with the tenacity of a mule goes up the ladder: Strongly encourages innovative initiatives that fascinates partners, opposed the intrigues of competitors. But then, instead of get promoted, he gets laid off and... breaks, degrades. This means that the level of psychological stability with all his usual persistence is extremely low. The other can live without ambition: "The janitor? Oh well "- but it does not roll on the social bottom, even if it loses a loved one, or seriously ill.

John Fox is considering the study of psychological stability in retrospect, and tries to answer the question: Are people born mentally stable or acquire this quality?

Conclusion something like this. Psychological stability depends on the internal and external factors: in part it is given to us from birth, and partly on it affects our environment. But the good news is that, despite this, it is possible to work out.

Psychological resistance is not quality, and the approach way to set your mind to a different way. This is not a feature, but a process.

On the first pages of the book you will be able to take the test and find out their level of psychological stability. It is necessary to change their habits, develop new behaviors, learn how to block negative.

Lock negative scenarios

The negative scenario - is duplicate Setup arising in the head in difficult situations. It is a way to convince yourself that nothing can be changed: "It's not what you know, it's who you know", "Everything everywhere is bought," and so on. Based on such reference points, one dilutes the foundation of their psychological stability. As a result - irritability, frustration, anger.

Anger - is an acid, which is more harmful to the vessel in which it is stored than to those to whom it is poured.

Mark Twain

To break the cycle, you must understand that we are - the authors of their lives. event outcome largely depends on the individual and his behavior than on external factors. The more often you resist negative scenarios, the more resistant you become. The more resistant you are, the easier it will be optimistic.

Is it possible to learn optimism?

Negative triggers the "fight or flight", while the joy of interest, anticipation and other positive emotions enhance the image of the human mind and lead it to success. How?

Imagine that a person really loves others (it happens). It expresses a genuine interest in their concerns, and many happy talks. Such behavior inevitably leads to the accumulation of relations and communication skills, and networking and gab, in turn, catalyze career.

Proof positive emotions compensation effect allows people to improve their psychological condition and, perhaps their physical health - by cultivation experience positive emotions at the time the negative.

Barbara Fredrickson

In the final chapters of the book, John Fox talks about some methods of positive psychology. For example, he advises to write three good things that happened to you during the day. In fact, this technique ThanksAbout which we have repeatedly written to Layfhakere.

My personal assessment of the book of John Fox "life hacking resistant people" - 7 out of 10.

The downside is the language of the story - it is not the easiest and most enjoyable. I think it's "merit" translation, which is not always fully understand the idea of ​​the author. Nevertheless, in the book there is a grain of truth.

Reflecting on the nature of psychological stability, I could not help remembering the heroes category "No excuses." They did not break, constantly going forward. But there are also examples of the opposite, when a person with a disability and only does that whining and spare himself, scrolls negative scenarios and believes in mind that life is unfair to him. I would like them to, and such as they are, read this book and at least try to change.

"Life hacking persistent people. 50 ways to be strong, "John Fox

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