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Stumbling blocks
ritesofpasage Date: Sunday, 28/Feb/10, 11:49 AM | Message # 1

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35 most common myths of living

1. Criticism will naturally upset the person who receives the criticism.
2. It is best to give up my own interests in order to please other people.
3. I need other people’s approval in order to be happy.
4. If someone important to me expects me to do something then I should do it.
5. My value as a person depends greatly on what others think of me.

I. Approval.
6. I cannot find happiness without being loved by another person.
7. If others dislike you, you are bound to be less happy.
8. If people whom I care about reject me, there’s something wrong with me.
9. It a person I love does not love me, it means I am unlovable.
10. Being isolated from others is bound to lead to unhappiness.

II. Love.
11. If I am to be a worthwhile person, I must be truly outstanding in at least one major respect.
12. I must be a useful, productive, creative person or life has no purpose.
13. People who have good ideas are more worthy than those who do not.
14. If I don’t do as well as other people, it means I am inferior.
15. If I fail at my work, then I am a failure as a person.

III. Achievement.
16. If you can’t do something well, there is little point in doing it at all.
17. It is shameful for a person to display his weaknesses.
18. A person should try to be the best at everything he undertakes.
19. 1 should be upset if I make a mistake.
20. 1f I don’t set the highest standards for myself, I am likely to end up a second-rate person.

IV. Perfectionism.
21. If I strongly believe I deserve something, I expect that I should get it.
22. It is necessary to become frustrated if you find obstacles to getting what you want.
23. If I put others people’s needs before my own, they should help me when I need something from them.
24. If I am a good husband (or wife), then my spouse is bound to love me.
25. If 1 do nice things for someone, I can anticipate that they will respect me and treat me just as well as I treat them.

V. Entitlement.
26. I should assume responsibility for how people feel and behave if they are close to me.
27. If I criticize the way someone does something and they become angry or depressed, this means I have upset them.
28. To be a good, worthwhile, moral person, I must try to help everyone who needs it.
29. If a child is having emotional or behavioural difficulties, this shows that the child’s parents have failed in some important aspect.
30. I should be able to please everybody

VI. Omnipotence.
31. I cannot expect to control how I feel when something bad happens.
32. There is no point in trying to change upsetting emotions because they are a valid and inevitable part of daily living.
33. My moods are primarily created by factors that are largely beyond my control, such as the past, or body chemistry, or hormone cycles, or chance.
34. My happiness is largely dependent on what happens to me.
35. People who have the marks of success (good looks, social status, wealth, or fame) are bound to be happier than those who do not.


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Message edited by ritesofpasage - Sunday, 28/Feb/10, 11:51 AM
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