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A large number of articles and educational materials on the site are devoted to psychology, but many either do not fully understand what it is, or mistakenly believe that psychology is just skills and abilities that can be developed. Therefore, the project psychologist Sofia Okhrimenko decided to write in more detail about what "Personal Psychology" includes, what it consists of and why a poker player is still needed in the complex.
1. Definition of personal psychology
Personal psychology is another name for the psychology of personality. Personality psychology is a branch of psychological science that studies personality and various individual processes, dynamic aspects of mental life, individual differences. Simply put, he studies all spheres of human development, from childhood, the history of child-parent relationships, childhood traumas, general patterns of human development, to the abilities of the brain, which can be changed and improved for a certain tactics of movement through life. So, your personal psychology is entirely you and your story, but also your capabilities, hidden resources that you can develop for your own good.
2. The main tasks of psychology
Why is it needed? After all, it seems that you can simply develop the skills of your personal effectiveness and be successful. In general, “traumatized” people can sometimes develop and reach unprecedented heights, based on their crippled psyche, but alas, they will not be able to keep this result on a permanent basis, since their psyche does not withstand constancy, and they either live in a constant race, or compensate for it in every possible way and do not know how to enjoy what has been achieved.
However, personal psychology carries important tasks:
- Uncover new facets of yourself;
- Work out your child-parent scenarios and limitations that may interfere with life;
- Understand the features of your psyche, see its strengths and weaknesses;
- Increase self-esteem, work with self-esteem and self-acceptance of oneself and one's own characteristics;
- Build harmonious relationships with others;
- Find mechanisms for responding to emotions (for example, so as not to go into Tilt and other destructive emotional states in poker);
- Increase intellectual abilities (general and emotional intelligence) and much more.
3. Two factors of personality formation
Personal psychology goes through the development of your personality. And personality is a multifaceted construct.
It is now generally accepted that personality is the result of an individual's socialization in the process of ontogenesis (i.e., individual development). At the same time, there is a theory of two factors of personality formation: heredity and environment.
- Heredity is something biological that is inherent in each of us from our ancestors.
- Environment is a social world that has a wide impact on a person.
Everyone who comes for consultations with our psychologist Sofia always wants one thing: development and personal study. However, in fact, the main goal of all activities for the development of oneself and one's psychology is the formation of a mentally mature adult personality. Psychology is not the same as your personal effectiveness! These are different things, but developing both in one and the other, a person is able to achieve tremendous results. Then it turns out that psychology is necessary for everyone?
Yes, in a perfect world it would be. But in our modern world, it is important to understand that only a few people go into the knowledge and study of their psychology. And it is these units that will always be ahead of all other people who are not yet ready or do not want to engage in their psychology. Knowing your personal psychology, you will always stand on a step above others. Begin now to study yourself, to engage in reflection – a skill that allows an individual to concentrate attention and his own thoughts within himself: assessing actions, making decisions, as well as understanding his feelings, values, emotions, sensations, etc.
The study of your personal psychology always begins with the search for weaker places or areas of life in which not everything is arranged exactly as you would like. Since a psychologically developed person always has life moving in the direction in which he would like and was ready to move. The project psychologist Sofia Okhrimenko tells about all these secrets in more detail at her consultations and if you feel the need, you can always sign up for an individual lesson with her.
