The British Psychological Society has been publishing the Research Digest blog since 2003, bringing you short summaries of psychological research for 6 years. To mark the occasion of its 150th email edition, the editors have invited some of the “world’s leading psychologists to look inwards and share, in 150 words, one nagging thing they still don’t understand about themselves. Their responses are by turns candid, witty and thought-provoking.”
You can check out Marty Seligman’s battle with self-control and weight loss, Paul Ekman’s disagreements with the Dalai Lama and Sue Gardner’s note about being aware of excessive introspection without a guide.
These are interesting snippets from some interesting psychologists. My only wish was that they were allowed to write more than 150 words, because in many cases I found myself saying, “Please say more about this topic!”
Read all of the psychologists’ entries here: One nagging thing you still don’t understand about yourself. If you’re not subscribed to the Research Digest blog, I highly recommend it.
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3 Comments to
“One Thing I Still Don’t Understand…”
thanks for this dr. john! i will definitely be subscribing!
Is there any difference between psychological problem and psychological disorder? So many thing we don’t understand about our self until we accept our self, but it is too late. Thanks Dr. Grohol for this blog.
I always thought that great–healthy-confident minds are not afraid to show their own humanly “nagging” problems. Reading everything on that link I had the opportunity to tell to myself that I am not loosing my minds if it happened to answer with what was on my mind and not “on subject” or I hardly express myself! I am using English as a second language and mostly in the last 8 years.
Therefore I am still puzzled of NAGGING about …“remain optimistic about being optimistic” (wonder how you can deal with such a LOGIC!) and “positive-thinking” when nagging “about being well on track” with weight problems! (“Some theorists, like my friend Roy Baumeister, believe that self-control is a general trait. (…)I am well on track to my goal. So self-control is for me highly domain specific. For you?) Maybe he is nagging about me!
We all write sometimes without thinking and I understand that it’s better not to get over anxious about; I really appreciate when someone at least is talking, writing something,telling “his mind” I have to force myself! Meanwhile I will not consider myself crazy getting lost in thinking funny things (richard-wiseman-wit) like matching that “optimistic” with “positive thinking”! Thanks to John M Grohol for another valuable insight and encouragement!
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