Where’s Your Psychological Safety At?
Are you able to be yourself at work, make mistakes, take risks, ask questions, raise problems or disagree? If your answer is yes, then psychological safety may be high within your team or workplace. Unfortunately for a lot of people, their work environment is ruled by fear; they are constantly in impression management mode so […]
It’s All About The Data
I have just spent two days looking at statistics and research methods at uni. And yes I was pretty surprised to learn that stats are an important topic of an Applied Positive Psychology degree. In psychology, there is an enormous amount of data that needs to be understood. And stats allow psychologists to measure the […]
Are you addicted to your work?
Do you feel like you never truly switch off from work? Does it feel like there is always someone to call or an email to read or reply to? Does your work feel like an addiction that you constantly need to feed? If the answer is yes to these questions, you could be suffering from […]
A Fish in Water
Did you know that a sense of belonging was part of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? I must have forgotten this but there ‘love and belonging’ is quite clearly staring back at me as one of our five basic needs as humans, right after ‘safety’ has been obtained. For some reason I had never thought much […]
Insides and Outsides
I have a confession to make. I have returned to the world of social media or what I have been known to call the ‘anxiety-breeders’. After a few years hiatus, I have redownloaded Instagram and Facebook but for professional and educational reasons only of course… I stopped using these apps when I realised I was […]
Is Grit It?
Have you worked out the formula to success yet? According to the psychologist Angela Duckworth the secret to success has been put down to a combination of perseverance and passion towards long-term goals which she has termed as grit. Duckworth’s TED Talk has over 16 million views and explains the concept of grit in more […]
Who Am I?
At last, there’s a name to describe the emotions I have been experiencing over the past few weeks since leaving my corporate job but just couldn’t quite explain. Google strikes again! Since returning to full-time study, I have often found myself (whilst at home alone at my desk) questioning my decisions and sense of self, […]
Feature Review: The Call to Courage
I have been slightly obsessed with Brené Brown for some time. Don’t be concerned if you haven’t heard of her before, she isn’t quite a household name yet but this may be about to change thanks to Netflix. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston and has spent the past two decades […]
The Elephant and the Blind Men
How often do you come across someone who makes a statement based on their limited or isolated understanding of a topic and believes it to be the only truth? I see this a lot in the media and in my own circles, and I am happy to put up my hand and say I am […]
Your Health, Your Choice?
One of Positive Psychology’s hopes is for people to understand that they have the ability to take some control of their own wellbeing and health. This is what I am hoping this blog will encourage you to do too. One of my previous posts looked at Sonja Lyubomirsky’s Happiness Pie. Lyubomirsky states 40% of our […]