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Psychology answers the thirty-year-old. _reading2 (choice/challenge)

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Almost ran into a crisis in just one day-
Watching the café owner's mood, I'm hurriedly leaving a few lines.
Tsk- when I was a CEO, was I like that too?  Doesn't seem like it...
Whenever I come alone, they treat me so badly.. so annoying-
If I'm that frustrated, I should hurry up and reopen [my own]! Tsk-


Anyway, lol
 

The psychologist Barry Schwartz, in "The Psychology of Choice," said: We tend to leave the psychological door open on the decisions we have made, and we increasingly amplify what we did not do.
Giving up is also a choice. Don't fear choice. Stop saying "anything is fine."
Stop pushing the right of choice onto others, and choose anything boldly.
- from Kim Hye-nam, [Psychology Answers the Thirty-Year-Old], chapter 4




The fact that we attend a shabby job, the fact that we get tired of single life, that we maintain destructive relationships, that we worry over our children, that we cannot enjoy life — isn't it because, for whatever reason, consciously or unconsciously, we ourselves have chosen such a life?
- from Susan Jeffers, [Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway / Dare to Connect] 




 

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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