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SKILL: 1. Dealing with complexity, coping with stress and uncertainty, and effective time management
EQF LEVEL (INTERNAL REFERENCE): 4
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1 Doubts
2 Uncertainty
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Introduction:
By the end of this LU, you will be able to adopt a self-care routine.
Content:
We crave certainty, but unfortunately our current societies do not offer a lot of it. Our careers tend to be nonlinear, changing from job to job, from city to city or even country to country.
When some upcoming event or some perceived upcoming event is there, our certainty cravings make us want to find out all the things we don't yet know about the new situation, so we start questioning things, trying to find the answers. Yet these questions can increase our uncertainty, and can lead to what the Psychologist George Nardone calls ‘The Pathological Doubt. We get obsessed trying to answer our doubts, but the answers that we get aren't good enough to satisfy our needs. Thus, our doubts keep getting bigger and bigger.
So, how can we try to deal with this situation? George Narde states that the way to deal with this is through therapeutic doubt. The therapeutic doubt consists of blocking all the non rational answers that we seek. According to this technique, when we don't have the right information to answer a certain doubt, we should avoid trying to solve it.
Doing this can feel, or actually be, difficult for some time, but it gets easier. Imagine that you have sent a report on a Friday at closing time for which you know that you won't receive any feedback until Monday. During the weekend you start having doubts about how it was received. But you can’t find the answer as you don’t have any information. If you try to solve these questions making up your answers you will dive into a whirlwind of doubts. On the other hand, if during the weekend you have doubts about it, but you remind yourself that since you don’t have any information you can’t do anything, the doubt might of course still be there, but you won't dive into a whirlwind of doubts.
This is not easy but you should start by accepting some facts. The first one is that doubt is going to exist. The second one is that, trying to avoid doubts can make them bigger. The third one will be that dealing with doubts in a healthy way makes them less powerful.
Language Point
Phrasal verbs
Read the sentence below:
If you try to solve these questions making up your answers, you will dive into a whirlwind of doubts.
The word in bold consists of two parts - make (the verb) and up (the particle). This is what we refer to as phrasal verbs. Every time we change the particle, we also change the meaning. However, the same verb + particle can have multiple meanings.
In the sentence above, make up means to invent something which is untrue. However, it could also mean:
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