Please check out my latest audio recording from The Coffee Celebration Podcast With Wendy Steinberg. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the AUDIO PODCASTS & RADIO INTERVIEWS button at the top of this page, then click on the PODCAST INTERVIEWS tab and scroll down and click on The Coffee Celebration Podcast tab.
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Please check out my latest audio recording from the Reaching Your Goals Podcast With Hanna Herbst. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the AUDIO PODCASTS & RADIO INTERVIEWS button at the top of this page, then click on the PODCAST INTERVIEWS tab and scroll down and click on the Reaching Your Goals Podcast tab.
Please check out my latest audio recording from the Covert Operations Podcast With Tyler Meunier. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the AUDIO PODCASTS & RADIO INTERVIEWS button at the top of this page, then click on the PODCAST INTERVIEWS tab and scroll down and click on the Covert Operations Podcast tab.
Please check out my latest audio recording from The Liv Greater Podcast With Shelley Perry. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the AUDIO PODCASTS & RADIO INTERVIEWS button at the top of this page, then click on the PODCAST INTERVIEWS tab and scroll down and click on The Live Greater Podcast tab.
How do you compensate for your faults, shortcomings, and weaknesses? According to an article in Popular Social Science magazine (Noir 10/29/2020), if a person feels inferior in a certain area, he or she will likely try to compensate for that weakness by doing something else really well. This is referred to as the Psychology of Compensation. If you notice extreme behavior in a person, inferiority could be an underlying cause. This could be a reason why some people are obsessed or driven to reach their goals. Unfortunately, compensation doesn't solve the root cause of the issue. Compensation can be differentiated by either positive or negative. Negative compensation manifests itself in either overcompensation or undercompensation. Overcompensation occurs when a person feels inferior and goes out of their way to feel superior. This leads to a person seeking dominance, power, or increased self-esteem. Undercompensation happens when a person acts helpless, displays a lack of courage, or a fear of their surroundings. This person makes himself dependent on other people and is unable to handle problems on their own. Positive compensation takes place if the person is able to address the source of their inferiority. When they understand they are compensating, they can begin to work on the underlying cause of the compensation. Compensation is a coping strategy that can cover up real or imagined deficiencies. If compensation can be dealt with in a healthy way, it can be a positive and valuable force for growth. Check out the video below and learn about the Cradles of Eminence study done on the home lives of 300 successful people by Victor and Mildred Goetzel. Also, please leave me a comment about your thoughts regarding the Psychology of Compensation and if you know someone who is compensating for their real or imagined inferiorities. Not that this is much of a choice, but if you were given an option, would you rather be stupid or evil? The late physicist, Stephen Hawking said, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian and someone who was opposed to Hitler and the Nazi cause during World War II. He theorized that the problem in Nazi Germany was not the wickedness of the people, but their stupidity. He postulated that stupidity is an enemy of good which is much more dangerous than evil, because stupidity is not open to reason or discussion. Bonhoeffer goes on to explain that stupidity is not an intellectual defect, but a moral one. It allows fools to set aside evidence, logic, and reason and be satisfied and self-satisfied with a situation, regardless of how evil that condition is. Check out the video below to learn more about the Theory of Stupidity laid out by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and how to handle a fool who is simply stupid, as opposed to being evil . Please check out my latest YouTube recording from This Is My Moment Podcast with Patrick Mitchell. You can watch the podcast by clicking on the PODCAST & SPEAKING VIDEOS button at the top of this page and scroll down and click on the This Is My Moment Podcast tab.
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