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Setting High Standards & the Actual and Ideal Self
Accepting Responsibility “The starting point of maturity is the realization that no one is coming to the rescue. Everything you are or ever will be is entirely up to you.” ~ Brian Tracy ~ If I want to make a … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, action, actual self, addiction, anxiety, behavior change, brian tracy, capacity for challenge, challenge, changing behavior, cognitive dissonance, completion, declaration, declaring, edward spruit, emotional processing, explaining, exploration, fear, future, goals, homeostasis, ideal self, identity, identity is dynamic, internally based, meaning, mental hygiene, mental tension, occuring, performance, predictability, psychology, purpose, relating, relationship, responsibility, self-change, self-concept, self-schema, social psychology, social science, standards, stress, stress levels, taking action, tension, three laws of performance, tony robbins, trapped hurt, viktor frankl, vision, werner erhard
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Selective Attention & the Self-schema
Selective attention (or attention bias) In reality, there are a lot of different things we could be paying attention to at any given time. Because we can never focus on everything that’s out there, a selection has to be made … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, attention, avoiding conflict, completion, compulsion, concepts, conflict, conflict avoidance, denial, direct experience, distraction, dynamic identity, edward spruit, emotional processing, emotions, experience, feeling good, identity, identity is dynamic, mood altering, performance, plugged in, presence, processing hurt, psychology, relationships, relaxed, relaxing, restless, selective attention, self deception, self-change, self-schema, value
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Mental Fatigue, Pupil Responses and Performance
Abstract/Summary Research into acute mental fatigue deals with three big questions, namely it’s consequences, antecedents and neurological foundations. Literature research revealed that mental fatigue can have detrimental effects on performance and safety. Mental fatigue is influenced by prolonged effort on … Continue reading
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Tagged arousal, brain neurology, engagement, exploitation, exploration, eye tracker, fatigue, locus coruleus, master thesis, mental fatigue, neuropsychology, neurotransmitter, norepinephrine, performance, pupil responses, research, task difficulty, task utility, yerkes-dodson law
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