Friday, October 19, 2007

I wished I had my Psychology textbooks

- Fate is decided by God but destiny is the path you choose to get there -

Right here right now, time and again, I really wished I had my Psychology textbooks. The reason is because reading them and then understanding them would allow me to have a clearer pespective as to how people generally like to maintain an impression and how people generally like to project themselves to others positively. More often than usual, people would project WHAT THEY WANT OTHERS TO SEE than what others will see them.

Using this analogy, it's better to keep your profile low as the lesser the other party knows about you, the easier it is to paint an impression you want them to believe. In other words, people who know you inside out are more likely to catch you lying than those who do not. This way, if you start your life in a new place with everyone as strangers, you can fit yourself in as positively or as negatively as you would like. That is of course if you do not err and let the realy truth out.

It's an extremely complex and dangerous weapon to wield and more often than not, you will end up hurting yourself and will be forced to relocate to another place. Reading through the pages of my Psychology notes, understanding the philosophy behind and the various theories, a lot of voids are easily cleared up leaving only the final refining of thoughts who clearly explains everything, literally.

Having absorbed a chuck of knowledge from Psychology lessons, I tried applying the theories to my life and surprising, it works not to mention on certain occasions, I did obtain a desirable outcome. It's really not hard trying to create and then maintain the facade one would like to project, just remember that if you din't stray far from the real you, you can't go wrong. Of course filtering out the undesirable image or information that serves as the basis of the entire impression projection theory, is a good way to start, along the way the careful and tedious task to selecting the "right" info to screen is even more crucial.

After the initial set up is done, one should harness all forms of concentration to focus on only 1 single point, Impression Management.

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