HeyJaredPsychologically Speaking
Gentle psychology for writers and reflective creatives, essays, deep dives, and field notes from the host of Psychologically Speaking, Leila Ainge.
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I should like to have some interesting angles (opens the original)
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The Reflection Room is an exercise in curation, and I’m noticing what happens when we put art, poetry and psychology next to each other.Here I’m pairing poetry and sculpture to think about what we psychologically hold and protect.just another pebble by Eunice Buchanan don’t get me wrongi have nothingagainst roundnessas a concept;it’s justthati should like to havesome interesting angles.<a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/jus
This Girl Can. But are we allowed to say when she can’t (yet)? (opens the original)
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I don’t think we can know whether somebody is good at something until we reflect on who we’re comparing them with. A runner can be super fast compared with my shuffle around the parkrun course, or slow compared with an Olympian. When there isn’t an obvious answer to how am I doing or where do I stand?, we look around us, we use the psychology of Social Comparison (See Festinger). Looking upwards in admiration can inspire us but only in some situations, one study with athletes s
Return to Sender (opens the original)
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Some of the things we think we know about ourselves is stuff we have inherited. We inherit from all sorts of people and places, families and traditions, workplaces and their cultures. Increasingly, we’re inheriting language and ideas from algorithms and artificial intelligence too.Repetition is part of how this happens. A phrase can start to sound like a fact when we hear, see or read it a lot. A family story can become a fact. In workplaces, we repeat particular ways of doing things until they
Homesick for a time we never knew (opens the original)
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The psychology of rewriting yourself (opens the original)
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Over the next four weeks I'll be sharing four short blogs, each paired with a piece of contemporary art and a reflective question. They're designed to be listened to on a walk, over a cup of tea or whenever you happen to find fifteen quiet minutes. My hope is that they give you something interesting to think about, and change the way you see yourself.So here’s your invitation to spend one hour this August in active reflection, and to help, I’ve recorded four weekly prompts to support just 15 min
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