How to Master Your Emotion
Utilizing the framework of Adlerian psychology
External events do not alone produce emotion, their interaction with your internal processes did. This internal process is called: mental framework.
Your mental frameworks manage your interpretations, interpretations give rise to appropriate emotions.
Events → mental framework → emotional response
Psychologist, Carol Dweck, has made a great case for it. People can either belong to a fixed or growth mindset group, given similar setbacks they’ll respond differently:
Failure → Fixed mindset (I’m a fool)→ regret
Failure → Growth mindset (This isn’t my time yet) → ambition
Failure is just an example of many events which can make you miserable. Bad fortunes, traumatic past, and personal weaknesses are also things that trigger bad emotions.
But what if there’s a mental framework you can learn to circumvent these undesirable states? Well, there is. Let me explain.
Etiology vs Teleology
It’s not rare to have these in mind:
“If only I have a less demanding job, it won’t be hard to grow a side hustle.” “If I have more money, I’d be happier” “It’s my anxiety that…
