As with all training things, I think it depends on the adaptation you want for your training goals. I'm working on resilience and trying hard, so playing around with blaming the world! 😂
I think internalizing failure can be beneficial, but only if you make it about specific things you can change. Like "I messed up because I did X, in the future I will do Y instead" rather than "I messed up because I'm a bad person". I would agree, though, that sometimes you do everything right and still fail, and in those cases it's healthier to see it as a result of external factors (which it usually is) rather than something wrong with yourself.
I think you're absolutely right! I'm coming at this with a whole bunch of baggage, of course, but I don't ever look at a situation and think, "wow, I did everything right!" I always find something to fix, tweak, etc. And I worry that that gets in the way of me trying again/trying hard. Because it's so demotivating to always be wrong. So I'm playing with trying again, because maybe the world is just different today, even if I am not yet better 🤷
I think it also depends on the individuals motivations and inspirations. I know some internally motivated people may find self-improvement to be easier. Interesting take.
Yeah, makes sense that it'd be a personality thing! I'm super internally motivated. Guess I'm just trying out different approaches to see what effect it has!
Interesting take on the Internal vs. External Locus of Control discussion 🤔 Thanks for sharing!
As with all training things, I think it depends on the adaptation you want for your training goals. I'm working on resilience and trying hard, so playing around with blaming the world! 😂
I think internalizing failure can be beneficial, but only if you make it about specific things you can change. Like "I messed up because I did X, in the future I will do Y instead" rather than "I messed up because I'm a bad person".
I would agree, though, that sometimes you do everything right and still fail, and in those cases it's healthier to see it as a result of external factors (which it usually is) rather than something wrong with yourself.
I think you're absolutely right! I'm coming at this with a whole bunch of baggage, of course, but I don't ever look at a situation and think, "wow, I did everything right!" I always find something to fix, tweak, etc.
And I worry that that gets in the way of me trying again/trying hard. Because it's so demotivating to always be wrong.
So I'm playing with trying again, because maybe the world is just different today, even if I am not yet better 🤷
I think it also depends on the individuals motivations and inspirations. I know some internally motivated people may find self-improvement to be easier. Interesting take.
Yeah, makes sense that it'd be a personality thing! I'm super internally motivated. Guess I'm just trying out different approaches to see what effect it has!