Every Person comes to earth as a unique individual. Similar threads may run in families, but each of us has a tapestry all our own”. We have each been blessed with our own unique skills and talents which the lord expects us to develop. Developing our skills and talents takes time, dedication, and often hard work, but doing so will bring us joy and fulfillment as we grow in knowledge, ability, and understanding. Most people are not born with inner strength, but it can be developed like any other skill. Inner power, self discipline, self control, the ability to concentrate and peace of mind.
Willpower is the inner strength to make decisions, take action, and handle and execute any aim or task, regardless of inner and outer resistance, discomfort or difficulties. It manifests as the ability to overcome laziness and negative habits, and to carry out actions, even if they require effort, are unpleasant and tedious or are contrary to one’s habits. Self discipline is the ability to reject pleasure in favor of something better of a higher goal. It manifests as the inner strength to stick to actions or plans in spite of obstacles, difficulties or unpleasantness. It is one of the pillars of success, and bestows the inner strength to direct your energy and attention to your goal, and persevere until it is accomplished.
Both of these skills are important and essential tools for success in all areas of life. They are required for doing a good job, for success in business, for studying, losing weight, exercising, maintaining good relationships, changing habits, self improvement, meditation, spiritual growth, keeping promises and for almost everything else.
Another key to effectiveness is good personal management. Self-esteem, motivation/goal setting, and employability/career development skills are critical because they impact individual morale which in turn plays a significant role in an institutions ability to achieve bottom line results. Employers have felt the pressure to make provisions to address perceived deficiencies in these skill areas because they realize that a work force without such skills is less productive. Conversely, solid personal management skills are often manifested by efficient integration of new technology or processes, creative thinking, high productivity, and a pursuit of skill enhancement. Unfortunately, problems related to these skill areas have increased primarily because entry-level applicants are arriving with deficiencies in personal management skills. On the job, the lack of personal management skills affects hiring and training costs, productivity, quality control, creativity, and ability to develop skills to meet changing needs.
Here are a few exercises to strengthen your inner powers that use ordinary day-to-day activities:
- Don't read the newspaper for a few days.
- Now and then drink your coffee or tea without sugar.
- Climb up the stairs instead of taking the lift.
- Park you car a little farther away from you destination, so that you have to walk.
- Now and then choose not to watch one of your favorite TV programs.
- Read a book that is useful and informative, but which you find boring.
- Delay your desire to retort angrily.
- Try to get out of bed quickly on a cold day.
There are simple and effective methods for developing these powers and attaining inner strength:
1. Refusing to satisfy unimportant or unhealthy desires.
2. Doing things that are useful, but which you resist doing.
By refusing and rejecting useless, harmful or unnecessary desires and actions, and sometimes intentionally acting contrary to your habits, you sharpen and strengthen your inner strength. You get stronger through constant practice, just like exercising your muscles at a game makes your muscles stronger. In both cases, when you need inner power or physical strength, they are available and are at your disposal.
Social cognition
Social cognition is the encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing, in the brain, of information relating to conspecifics, or members of the same species. At one time social cognition referred specifically to an approach to social psychology in which these processes were studied according to the methods of cognitive psychology and information processing theory. However the term has come to be more widely used across psychology and cognitive neuroscience. For example, it is used to refer to various social abilities disrupted in autism and other disorders. In cognitive neuroscience the biological basis of social cognition is investigated. Developmental psychologists study the development of social cognition abilities
Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations.
There has been much recent interest in the links between social cognition and brain function,
particularly as neuropsychological studies have shown that brain injury (particularly to the frontal lobes) can adversely affect social judgments and interaction.
People diagnosed with certain mental illnesses are also known to show differences in how they process social information.
There is now an expanding research field examining how such conditions may bias cognitive processes involved in social interaction, or conversely, how such biases may lead to the symptoms associated with the condition. It is also becoming clear that some aspects of psychological processes that promote social behavior (such as face recognition) may be innate.
Studies have shown that newborn babies, younger than one hour old can selectively recognize and
respond to faces.
Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations.
There has been much recent interest in the links between social cognition and brain function,
particularly as neuropsychological studies have shown that brain injury (particularly to the frontal lobes) can adversely affect social judgments and interaction.
People diagnosed with certain mental illnesses are also known to show differences in how they process social information.
There is now an expanding research field examining how such conditions may bias cognitive processes involved in social interaction, or conversely, how such biases may lead to the symptoms associated with the condition. It is also becoming clear that some aspects of psychological processes that promote social behavior (such as face recognition) may be innate.
Studies have shown that newborn babies, younger than one hour old can selectively recognize and
respond to faces.
