The Impact of Unrealistic Rules

The happiness trap is a series of questions and answers to help you uncover the shoods in your life that may or may not serve you. In this week's episode, we look at three different situations where unrealistic rules are holding us back from doing our best work. The first example involves an employee who believes he should be able to do more when it comes to his job because he doesn't have the band with to do more. A second case involved a professor who believed writing should be easy as they were 'smart' But once they realised their rule was wrong, they began working on addressing it so it didn't get in their way. We can also use diffusion, an acceptance and commitment