Human Thinking
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief or expectation that helps bring about the very outcome it predicts, because it subtly changes behavior in ways that make the outcome more likely.
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Aspirational qualities
People who are self-transcendent tend to have aspirational qualities because they are motivated by values, goals, and ideals that transcend their own self-interest.
What are Esteem Needs?
What are Role Models?
Role models are people you look up to, and whose example you might use as a guide for how you want to live, behave, or grow.
What are Boundaries?
How to Apply a Growth-Mindset to a Relationship Conflict
A growth-mindset treats relationship conflict as something to “learn from” and “work on together”. This tends to keep things “real”.
What is Self-Criticism?
What is Self-Criticism?
Self‑criticism is the process; the inner-critic is the character people give that process so it can be seen, questioned, and resolved.
What is Self and Social Comparison?
What is Self and Social Comparison?
Comparison is a built‑in tool for understanding yourself, but it becomes toxic when you treat “being above others” as the only way to matter. Uniqueness comes more from living your own values than from winning someone else’s scoreboard.
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What is Honour?
Honour is deep respect for worth – your own, and other people’s. It is about how you choose to behave, even when no one is watching. It links to ideas like integrity, fairness, honesty, courage, and respect.
Does Making Make Meaning?
What is it to be Human?
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between
What is Self-Worth?
What is Self-Worth?
Self-worth Self-worth is the quiet belief that, simply by being human, you have value. It is not about what you earn, achieve, look like, or how perfect you are. It is the deep sense that “I matter,” even on bad days, even when you make mistakes. What self-worth is Self-worth Read more