The Negative Psychologist - Page 2 of 58 - Alternative Thinking on Psychology & Mental Health

The sense that we have ‘self-efficacy' is an illusion, pure and simple. We might perceive ourselves to possess this thing that we call ‘self-efficacy' but that's just a little trick...

Philosophy

Pretending Without Knowing That We Are Pretending

Dec 24. 2020

When we are ‘psychologically unconscious' then we are invariably ‘insincere in everything we do’. Sincerity is an impossibility for us (which is a bit of a killer if there ever...

Information Theory

Entropy Compels Us In Everything We Do

Dec 18. 2020

We are constantly creating worlds for ourselves – that's our thing, that's what we do. We might of course think that it is ‘things in the world' that we are...

Miscellaneous

Disguised Determinism

Dec 14. 2020

Consciousness means sussing onto the fact that my existence – such as it is – is a deterministic old business. I think I’m free but I’m not. I'm compelled to...

Mental Health

Two Ways Of Living Life (1)

Dec 08. 2020

There are two completely different ways of looking at life (or we could also say that there are two completely different ways of living life). One way is when we...

Miscellaneous

Turning Our Back On Wonders

Nov 25. 2020

The most tremendous possibility of all is closed to us – this just happens to be the direction we never ever look in. We make a point of never looking...

The System of Thought

Keeping A Lid On It

Nov 18. 2020

When we come across that pure essence of reality, says Chogyam Trungpa, then we are irritated by it. We are irritated by it because we aren't able to interact with...

The System of Thought

The Prisoner’s Dilemma

Nov 04. 2020

We like our thoughts. Which is to say, we can't bear to let go of them. We simply can't bring ourselves to let go of them – even if we...

Mental Health

‘Ego-Strength’ versus ‘Resilience’ – [Part 1]

Oct 25. 2020

The self never could bear any existential difficulty and it never will be able to – that is simply not its department. There are lots of things the self can't...

Information Theory

Secretly Seeking Disequilibrium

Oct 16. 2020

No matter what, we can never successfully seek the state of disequilibrium; our very seeking precludes it. Disequilibrium is there, for sure, but – from the purposeful point of view...

Cosmology

Emptiness’s Great Trick

Oct 10. 2020

Empty space (or emptiness) has a very neat trick that it can play and that is to appear solid, or substantial. It does this even though there is nothing solid...