Friday, October 23, 2009

10 steps to resist unwanted influences

Just about finished reading The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil which is an excellent book by Phillip Zimbardo of Stanford Prison Experiment fame. Most of the book is about how we as humans tend to succumb to situations created by a system. This is interesting enough but given my interest in Positive Psychology, I'm actually more interested in when someone doesn't succumb so I liked the 10 steps to resist unwanted influences:

  1. "I made a mistake!" - encourage admission of our mistakes
  2. "I am mindful" - pay attention; don't go on auto-pilot
  3. "I am responsible" - take responsibility for one's decisions and actions
  4. "I am Me, the best I can be." - do not allow others to deindividuate you
  5. "I respect just authority but rebel against unjust authority."
  6. "I want group acceptance, but value my independence."
  7. "I will be more frame-vigilant" - who make the frame becomes the artist, or the con artist
  8. "I will balance my time perspective" - don't become trapped in an expanded present moment
  9. "I will not sacrifice personal or civic freedoms for the illusion of security"
  10. "I can oppose unjust systems"

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