Why We Sabotage Ourselves – The Psychology of Self-Handicapping
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This episode explores the concept of self-handicapping and how individuals may sabotage their own success by creating obstacles.
“The self-handicapper reaches out for impediments, exaggerates handicaps, and embraces any factor reducing personal responsibility for mediocrity…” Steven Berglas and Edward Jones, Drug Choice as a Self-Handicapping Strategy Rather than simply contending with external obstacles to success, many of us actively collaborate in our own defeat. We are our own worst enemies and our inability […] The post Why We Sabotage Ourselves – The Psychology of Self-Handicapping first appeared on Academy of Ideas .
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