{"id":3186,"date":"2018-11-30T23:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2018-11-30T23:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:53:31","slug":"managing-personal-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/managing-personal-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing personal psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book &#8220;Driven to distraction at work&#8221; the author mentions personal psychology. What he means is that how can we live happy, meaningful life.<\/p>\n<p>These are some points he mentions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Work with emotional grain. It can be working alone or in a team. It can be at a coffee shop or a cubical. You have to find out.<\/p>\n<p>2. Try to identify your hot buttons. What annoys you? It can be people, situation. Be aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>3. Play armchair psychologist. Try to understand your bias, prejudice and past incident. Are they affecting in your decision-making process or dealing with a situation.<\/p>\n<p>4. What keeps you going. Is it a glass of coffee or Mozart&#8217;s music. What you love doing. Once you will find it, every single day of your life will become more meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>5. Seek and accept help. Understand your limits and reality. You are living in a community with more people around. Some of them have domain expertise, seek their advice and help when needed.<\/p>\n<p>I find this impossible, our mind is a fickle mind. How can we be equanimous in every situation?<\/p>\n<p>What would be your advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book &#8220;Driven to distraction at work&#8221; the author mentions personal psychology. What he means is that how can we live happy, meaningful life. These are some points he mentions: 1. Work with emotional grain. It can be working alone or in a team. It can be at a coffee shop or a cubical. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/managing-personal-psychology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Managing personal psychology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,100,3],"tags":[489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}