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What is the single biggest determinant of your happiness?

       The answer to this question, as you probably already know, is not “wealth,” “fame,” “beauty” or “power”. Rather, it is how others, particularly those closest to you—friends, family, and colleagues—treat you. When people close to you are nice to you, you can’t help but feel happy; when they mistreat you or avoid you, you are bound to be unhappy.
The reason our happiness depends so much on the quality of our relationships is because humans are supremely social creatures. Evidence of our social nature is all around us. We care so much about what others think of us that, as some of my findings show, we would rather experience an unpleasant event (e.g., watch a bad movie) with those who share our negative opinions about the event than experience a pleasant event (e.g., watch our favorite team win) in the company of those who disagree with us. Our social nature is also the reason why being in love is one of the most cherished experiences and why isolation—the extreme form of which is solitary confinement—is rated, by those who were unfortunate to endure it, one of life’s most grueling experiences.
     
     What all of this means is that it can be excruciatingly difficult to deal with negative people—people who bring your mood down with their pessimism, anxiety, and general sense of distrust. Imagine being constantly discouraged from pursuing your dreams because “very few people make it big.” Or imagine being constantly warned against learning a new skill—like Scuba diving or horseback riding—because “it’s too dangerous.” Likewise, imagine being routinely exposed to negative judgments about other people (e.g., “I can’t believe you told our neighbors that you failed your driving test—now they’ll never respect you!”) Constant exposure to such negativity can make deep inroads into your bank of positivity, leading you to either become negative—diffident, anxious, and distrustful—yourself, or to become indifferent, uncaring, or even mean towards the negative person. This raises the question regarding how does one deal with negative people? One obvious solution is to walk away from them. But this is easier said than done; while we could always walk away from the bartender with a bad attitude or the airline agent with an anger-management problem, we can’t walk away from a parent, sibling, spouse, colleague, or friend with a negative attitude.

    However, A more practical approach to dealing with them is to start by understanding the reasons for their negativity. In brief, almost all negativity has its roots in one of three deep-seated fears: the fear of being disrespected by others, the fear of not being loved by others, and the fear that “bad things” are going to happen. These fears feed off each other to fuel the belief that “the world is a dangerous place and people are generally mean.” It is easy to see how, from the perspective of someone operating from such fears, it makes sense to question the wisdom of pursuing dreams (failure seems all but guaranteed), and to be averse to taking risks even if it is obvious that doing so is necessary to learn and grow. It is also easy to see why people with these fears would find it difficult to trust other people.

         

   In conclusion, As you may have realized by now, dealing with negative people also takes humility. The fact that you find it difficult to deal with others’ negativity suggests that there is a seed of negativity in you. If you didn’t feel constricted or deflated by others’ negativity—if you were fully secure in how you view yourself—you wouldn’t find the company of negative people to be aversive. Realizing that you have to work on fixing your own negativity even as you are helping another person deal with their negativity will help you gain the compassion, positivity, and maturity that is needed for this tricky, but ultimately satisfying, endeavor.

                                                             

                                              [information gathered and cited from]

        "4 Tips for Dealing with Critical or Negative People | World of Psychology." Psych Central.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.

 

Allegory of the Cave from Plato

For starters, I find it hilarious that I wasn't the only one who was at first confused with this story in the beginning. I was puzzled by the choice of words and vocabulary. After getting through it, I couldn't help but to have this image of modern day society dawn upon me while reading it. For instance, the passage "...here they have been from childhood, & have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move..." is where we are today! Especially when correlating this with the workforce. All we're doing these days are waking up when we're told, going to a place we'd most likely rather not be at, and enduring enslavement. Slavery never ended, it just took a different turn!

Midterm blogger

I've never really exactly struggled with writing material throughout my school career. I can be creative, comical, intriguing, persuading, etc. However, I do believe that I'm not exactly a scholar yet! One thing I hope to learn by the end of this course term, pertains to paragraphs. Never have I really been aware of my transitioning skills (or lack of, for that matter) but one thing I hope to improve and better by taking this course is how to properly execute a transition phase within my paper(s); I'm a firm believer that practice makes perfect, so my faith is on high!

Ad on pre-workout supplement

My ad analysis will be on a pre-workout supplement from the manufacturers "NutreX", Hemo-Rage, Black Ultra Concetrate.
Now with a bold name along with a claim such as: "Do NOT under ANY circumstances exceed 1 scoop; even if you're tempted..." has caught/continues to catch several fitness competitor's attention.
Which I must say, is all in vain! Only "pitch" this product would EVER get from me-is to the ground...or garbage; which ever one.

but...but...but...

You see that red "F"? Of course you do, who can miss it? Have I plagiarized sounds like a trick question; therefore, I'll be willing to share a little story about a "friend" (wink wink) who kind of, maybe, sort of did a little.
Well, the last time my "friend" was enrolled in an English course, all was going well. Never missed a class meeting, all assignments turned in and on time, and even hit every bonus there was. Then, the instructor gave us...I mean, gave them an average 3 page essay to type up. The instructor stated his guidelines very abruptly & wasn't accepting anything short of it. So as procrastination seeped in while time creeped up, there was literally one day left to turn in the assignment. So, what happened? "copy & paste" for the next 10 minutes or so; surely "he" was caught, and actually given a 'D' as a final grade! Yeah, it sucked.

This is a lifestyle!

Strength.

Durability.

 and of course an amazing physique!

 

The human anatomy amazes (not at a doctoral level) but the building process of our muscle groups. I literally get excited whenever someone shows an interest at either enhancing, improving, or just conditioning their body! I'm a FIRM believer in that we ALL should be in optimum shape. Now, I don't have a throne to sit & judge folks about their physique (or lack of for that matter); I completely understand and also agree that they're aren't any status-quo bodies out here that we must strive to resemble. Different strokes-for different folks! Aside the fact that genes play a big role in how/what your body will become, not everyone wants to be big & muscular; just like not everyone wants to be toned & defined (believe it or not) but that shouldn't prohibit nor defame the significance of being healthy period. Don't believe the lies; there are NOOOOO magic working pills that have you dropping fat within X amount of time-nor is there anything (safe at least with no long lasting problems) that have you gaining an unrealistic amount of muscle within like a month! Don't overcomplicate what it REALLY takes to live a healthy lifestyle.

 

 THREE SIMPLE BASICS::

1. Hit the weights
2. Hit the kitchen (yeah I said it)
3. Hit the bed