Personality Themes

Photo by  Lauren McConachie  on  Unsplash Being too agreeable can tax your mental health. If you are habituated to be overly nice to others because you want people to like you and know that you are a good person, it would ultimately put you in the soup. If you usually try to please everyone and put others first by suppressing your views, concerns, and rights, then you are likely to end up suffering stress, resentment and depression. It only spoils the relationships sooner or later. Hence, the key to building meaningful relationships with others is to value your own views, concerns, and rights as much as you do with theirs. The problems with being too agreeable: In reality, the world is filled with all sorts of people. If you are too open, some people take advantage of it and try to manipulate you without respecting your wish and will. They project themselves to be better than you and try to gain the upper hand, thereby diminishing your identity. You may u...

Photo by  Jana Sabeth Schultz  on  Unsplash Do you recall a time when you had an argument or debate with someone and you ended up in frustration because of the wide difference of opinion you felt? Such an experience is bound to happen in everyone's life. Read the parable below which throws some light on the phenomenon. Two horses were grazing on a field. Suddenly the first horse picked up an argument with the second horse about a blade of grass that stood between them. The first horse said that the grass was brown in color. The second horse did not agree to this and contested that it was rather yellow in color. The situation slowly turned into debate and then into a fight. Photo by  Claire Nolan  on  Unsplash You will laugh on knowing the reality. The first horse only had to take a step forward and look at the other side of the grass to know it was actually yellow. The grass was brown on one side and yellow on the other. Hence the two h...