Comments for Jamal's Blog http://www.jamalgranick.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on The fishbowl of life by james e pricer http://www.jamalgranick.com/the-fishbowl-of-life/comment-page-1#comment-130 james e pricer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:31:50 +0000 http://www.jamalgranick.com/?p=244#comment-130 I love this story. This is one of the reasons I have always enjoyed traveling in other countries, especially countries where I do not know the language or customs. It is impossible to remain in your fishbowl when you have to get outside it just to figure out how to go from point A to point B, how to find shelter, and how to get food. Anyone for a trip to a Monster Truck rally? ;-) I love this story. This is one of the reasons I have always enjoyed traveling in other countries, especially countries where I do not know the language or customs. It is impossible to remain in your fishbowl when you have to get outside it just to figure out how to go from point A to point B, how to find shelter, and how to get food.

Anyone for a trip to a Monster Truck rally? ;-)

]]> Comment on Gary Greenberg on “Manufacturing Depression” by James E Pricer http://www.jamalgranick.com/gary-greenberg-on-manufacturing-depression/comment-page-1#comment-129 James E Pricer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:09 +0000 http://www.jamalgranick.com/?p=235#comment-129 I once had a manager who called us all to a meeting because she was very upset. She told us that we were not failing enough - she wanted to see more failures. Not enough failures told her that we were not being experimental and creative. This was the 'fixed' mindset she was trying to break. She said we grow and achieve via failures because it is only when we take ourselves outside our comfort zones and push past our limits that we grow, and this experimentation results in many failure and many successes. As an aside, this happened in a huge corporation. LOL I once had a manager who called us all to a meeting because she was very upset. She told us that we were not failing enough – she wanted to see more failures. Not enough failures told her that we were not being experimental and creative. This was the ‘fixed’ mindset she was trying to break. She said we grow and achieve via failures because it is only when we take ourselves outside our comfort zones and push past our limits that we grow, and this experimentation results in many failure and many successes.

As an aside, this happened in a huge corporation. LOL

]]> Comment on Gary Greenberg on “Manufacturing Depression” by admin http://www.jamalgranick.com/gary-greenberg-on-manufacturing-depression/comment-page-1#comment-125 admin Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:58:21 +0000 http://www.jamalgranick.com/?p=235#comment-125 Yes, and I would add to this that depression is also fostered by having a "fixed" rather than a "growth" mindset, as described by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck/dp/0345472322/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263056385&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Carol Dweck</a> . I wrote about this in my posting <a href="http://www.jamalgranick.com/the-cant-do-barrier" rel="nofollow">"The Can't Do Barrier"</a>. Yes, and I would add to this that depression is also fostered by having a “fixed” rather than a “growth” mindset, as described by Carol Dweck . I wrote about this in my posting “The Can’t Do Barrier”.

]]> Comment on Gary Greenberg on “Manufacturing Depression” by James E Pricer http://www.jamalgranick.com/gary-greenberg-on-manufacturing-depression/comment-page-1#comment-71 James E Pricer Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:06:57 +0000 http://www.jamalgranick.com/?p=235#comment-71 I think we bring on depression by focusing on those thoughts, feelings, people, and events that we cannot control. If we only focus on what we can control we spend our time doing things we can accomplish rather than in the endless cycle of failure, low self-esteem, and depression brought on by failing in areas over which we could never succeed. The new DSM-V, coming soon, defines depression so far down that it is an exact copy of a definition of situational sadness. This is a bonus for the drug companies, but just another distraction for focusing on something for which we have no control, leading to more depression and more medications. I think we bring on depression by focusing on those thoughts, feelings, people, and events that we cannot control. If we only focus on what we can control we spend our time doing things we can accomplish rather than in the endless cycle of failure, low self-esteem, and depression brought on by failing in areas over which we could never succeed. The new DSM-V, coming soon, defines depression so far down that it is an exact copy of a definition of situational sadness. This is a bonus for the drug companies, but just another distraction for focusing on something for which we have no control, leading to more depression and more medications.

]]> Comment on “any good therapist” by Karen Nierlich http://www.jamalgranick.com/any-good-therapist/comment-page-1#comment-13 Karen Nierlich Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:52:47 +0000 http://www.jamalgranick.com/?p=206#comment-13 Jamal, Is this why love relationships can be healing? Is it in being heard and seen fully that healing occurs? Therapist are trained to hear and listen but not judge and acknowledge what they have heard so that the speaker feels they have been heard. Karen Jamal,

Is this why love relationships can be healing? Is it in being heard and seen fully that healing occurs?

Therapist are trained to hear and listen but not judge and acknowledge what they have heard so that the speaker feels they have been heard.

Karen

]]> Comment on Jamal’s Blog by Brandon WilliamsCraig http://www.jamalgranick.com/hello-world/comment-page-1#comment-5 Brandon WilliamsCraig Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:16:07 +0000 http://aecsites3.com/jamal_blog/?p=1#comment-5 This is a lovely beginning. Congratulations! Please, by all means, keep posting to this blog. I'll look forward to reading. This is a lovely beginning. Congratulations! Please, by all means, keep posting to this blog. I’ll look forward to reading.

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