http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/07/why-our-ideal-self-seems-further-away.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/07/why-our-ideal-self-seems-further-away.php/comment-page-1#comment-21687 totalblue Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:28:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2008/07/why-our-ideal-self-seems-further-away-for-us-than-others.php#comment-21687 Interesting! Two thoughts came to mind. With regard to our being more sympathetic to the aspirations of those we know well: increasingly we live in a global world rather than in smaller communities. We know more people but less well than previous generations. Perhaps this adds to an inability to empathise with the majority of those around us. Secondly, many people are dissatisfied with their lives to a greater or lesser degree. The larger, submerged section of the iceberg contains the possibility of a better life, a more successful self, and those hopes for the future make the present more bearable. Interesting! Two thoughts came to mind. With regard to our being more sympathetic to the aspirations of those we know well: increasingly we live in a global world rather than in smaller communities. We know more people but less well than previous generations. Perhaps this adds to an inability to empathise with the majority of those around us. Secondly, many people are dissatisfied with their lives to a greater or lesser degree. The larger, submerged section of the iceberg contains the possibility of a better life, a more successful self, and those hopes for the future make the present more bearable.

]]> http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/07/why-our-ideal-self-seems-further-away.php/comment-page-1#comment-21679 Barbara(aka Layla) Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:01:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2008/07/why-our-ideal-self-seems-further-away-for-us-than-others.php#comment-21679 This was very informative...thanks for sharing it. This was very informative...thanks for sharing it.

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