The Importance of Forgiveness

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Self-compassion doesn't make you less motivated to fix your mistakes, research shows. If I forgive myself for procrastinating or for breaking my diet, it's easier for me to stay in line with these goals. There might be an easy path to saying, oh, that's just the slacker inside me and there's something wrong with me. But another perspective says,You know what? There is some value. There's some part of you that actually wants that for some reason.

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To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?

Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.

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