Our biggest enemy: limiting assumptions. We tend to always assume what is best for others, but not for ourselves. Assume a possible outcome which will then limit our actions and for some reason most people always assume things for the worse and not for the best. No wonder it will limit our actions rather than inspire to conceive fresh ideas.
I understand if the majority follows certain assumptions, then it is harder to follow our own, and more importantly, believe in our own individual capabilities forming a certain minority. Limits take away our freedom and inspirations, hence we don't really do much about it, but silently accept it from the majority. When problems accumulate to an amount making it hard to deal with, then we turn to psychologists to free ourselves.
Interestingly, since psychology tends to study and coach individual level processes, with little or no reference to society. Following limiting assumptions, I believe, has got to do things with following the social behaviours of others. But if sociology generally studies macro-level institutions and social processes, with little reference to individuals, then who do we need to listen to?! To others? To ourselves?
Both psychologists and sociologists would use your very own reference and knowledge through a different prism to enlarge a picture of you and to coach you through a pattern, which was created by you but not necessarily for you. So why are we still firing off with outdated attitudes borrowed and learned from others and not ourselves? Before you run out and buy a self-help book, I reckon you'd be better off buying yourself a cup of latte and just sit, allowing yourself to think positively, regardless of if others assumed this wasn't what you were supposed to do.
Project an assumption coming "from you for you" and don't let yourself down by visualizing images of possible outcomes projected by others. Easy? Not really, but who says you cannot do it. The moment you allow your image projecting, forming a picture as seen by others, the assumption you are building will be automatically theirs and not yours.
At the end of the day, everything we do shall be a choice and not a must and the answer to 'Says who?' is 'Says YOU!'
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