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Feeling Something Doesn’t Mean It’s True…
COGNITION is perception: a deeply rooted understanding that solidifies core beliefs and practices throughout the workday, workweek… and the entire career.
Cognitions can be slanted positively as well as negatively, and finding the right calibration can be tricky. An overabundance of negative cognitions can deflate professional progress by lacing each day with fear and doubt. While an overabundance of positive cognitions limits one’s bandwidth to deal with real-world scenarios.
Negative cognitions hit hard in the moment, and prioritizing a STOP to negative loops can be life-changing for the self-made professional.
Here are some suggestions on how to interrupt negative cognition:
1. Counter it by challenging the validity of the negative cognition with facts.
2. Identify assumptions about healing, burnout, grief, and other emotions involved in your professional role, and be curious about these assumptions.
3. Find positive cognitions you’d rather be feeling- play around with them- interchange them, layer them, and decide which one you could try. For example, change “I am defective” to “I can trust my judgment.”
Feeling something does not mean it is true. When grief and burnout is loudly knocking and it takes the lead in the…
