Compliments of D-Downer via Flickr
Bullies create a back channel to the abyss – an aperture to a dormant resting state of terror, obsession, paranoia, and fear – a sidelines quicksand waiting to devour our sanity. In What Dreams May Come, Matheson states that each of us has access to dark thought. Some of us consciously choose misery (and in so doing) inflict targets with a self-blaming form of affliction. Turn the page…
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In Presence, Cuddy speaks to performance anxiety and the resulting self-focus as narrowing, constricting, enshrouding our best selves with a disempowering emphasis on others’ opinions. She describes the “imposter syndrome” (in which we experience negative thought during high stress situations) occurring at exactly the moments during which it can do the most damage. Turn the page…
Jackie Gilbert is a Professor of Management in the Middle Tennessee State University College of Business.
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