5 Psychological Traps holding you back

You got a better understanding of what is psychology and why you learn psychology in my previous blog. If you missed reading my blog “9 Psychology Lessons You are NOT Taught in School”, click here to read before jumping to this topic. I am going to teach you five psychological traps that hold you back in this blog. Beware of the following psychology traps and think about how your brain could be tricking once you start to see these in your real life. You will feel a difference realizing these traps and your life will not be the same again.

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Number -01: illusory correlation

If you are good at math, you know about correlation, but that is not what I am not going to discuss in this topic. Illusory correlation is a trick how we take when two events happened within a time frame. For example, you cleaned your table and your Laptop stopped working. If these events happened few times again and again. You will be started to believe that because you cleaned the table only, the laptop stopped working. You will be scared to clean the table to avoid laptop breakdown. It may convince you that you are bad luck or negative energy is in the environment. In this situation, take a step back and think these two events can be related. If the answer is “No”, you are not limiting your belief. If you don’t know the answer then you have a psychological trap. This is not real but your brain believes that this is real. Get out from that to get succeeded.

Number -02: Actor-observer effect

When you are contributing or casing to a situation, you are the actor whereas when you are watching other actor’s performances then you are the observer. If you are a performer, there are two ways to look at your performance that was not well-received, number one you can take this you are a bad performer (Actor), and number two, the audience did not understand your performance (Observer). There are differences between actor and observer. If you are an actor, in the previous example, you can make you feel down and if you are an actor, you do not have responsibility. So rather than choosing one or another, try to explain both events and see things more truly evaluate your performance. Some of us take the situation as observers and avoid our self-development. Some of us take this as an actor and spoil their life.

Number -03: pressure to say yes

This might be familiar in the workplace or at your house, you may feel the pressure to say yes to other people. Your boss wants to give additional work and your friends ask to hang out. In this situation, even if you have important work, you say yes to all of them because you don’t want to disappoint them. Instead of saying automatic yes, take your time to think about your schedule and ask yourself if it is truly your obligation. Some people have personality traits to convince you to say yes.

Number – 04: expectations based on your gender your race or even other labels

You may come across situations like Baby girls play with dolls and baby boys play with trucks and men don’t cry. We started to expose to these stereotypes in our early ages because it is set before we born. We started to believe these stereotypes but men love dolls and men have their own emotions to cry. These stereotypes may limit your potential. Break these stereotypes and achieve your potentials.

Number -05: status quo bias

It is difficult to unlearn things we thought to be true in the past. In some instances, if we learned something wrong the first time, it is difficult to learn the correct one. If we learn the spelling of the word incorrectly in childhood, it is difficult to change. I will take a second think if it is TWO or TOW, if someone asks me the spelling of two.  This psychological trick is the tendency to resist changing and preferring the current state. This is because our brain tends to use the first exposure of anything as the reference point. Start to unwind these psychological traps ask yourself if this makes me uncomfortable because it challenges my status quo.

So here is a short summary, Number one is the illusory correlation is causing false beliefs, Number two is the actor-observer effect who blame because of your belief, Number three is the pressure to say yes which basically feel guilty because of your behaviors, Number four is expectation based on labels which can cause your behaviors and the last one is status quo bias that affects our new learning. After you take a look at these five psychological traps that hold you back you will notice that all are changeable. Best wishes to come out from these psychological traps and get successes in the future.

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