Identity Building Approaches
Building Your Identity Using Possible Selves
Ok, the purpose of this site is to help people build their identities. On the one hand it sounds simple. Identity building involves figuring out who you are, where you want to go or who you want to become and how you are going to get there. But, you may well want to ask, how…
Narrating Yourself Through the Hole in the Black Everything Bagel
There is a lot of psychology in movies, but I have not blogged about it much because a lot of the time talking about the psychological minutia in a film often comes across as a nerdy or picky over-focus that takes the drama, fun, or sometimes the horror out of the film. It is not…
Mindfulness and Stress: Using Stress to Develop an Informational Identity Building Approach
Every year as terms end, papers come due, and final exams approach, student stress levels, already high, spike upwards. What sort of a discipline would psychology be if it could not provide its students with some good, grounded advice about how to deal with the stress? Unfortunately, much of the time the advice offered to…
Your Post Pandemic Life Direction Choices: Happiness, Meaningfulness, or Experiential Richness (or some of each)?
There is a powerful sense (if you pause quietly and look for it) that we are all very close to getting a “normal life” restart opportunity. While we will have to wait a bit for the Delta variant to rage, we will be able to get back to things again soon. We could simply breathe…
Cats, Humans and Curiosity
A key Identity Building ToolI cannot say I understand exactly why curiosity killed the cat; cats have always struck me as cautious but inquisitive explorers (though apparently a cat named Blackie had a run-in with a chimney back in 1916 that was the death of him). Is curiosity, or when is curiosity, a good thing?…