Are You A 'Chicken'?

Are You A 'Chicken'?  

Are You A 'Chicken'?  No sirrrrs, please DON'T get me wrong.  I have nothing against chickens.  On the other hand, I love chicken, way much better than any red meat.  So today's piece is NOT about our fav dish but instead, this is more about 'chickening out', that embarrassing reaction of shying away from something or a task that seems challenging or simply to decline or refuse or avoid something due to either a certain area of fear or uncertainty.   Sounds familiar❓❓❓

So this explains why sometimes we here one allegedly accusing someone else of being a 'chicken'.    Surprisingly, studies show that a lot of 'chickening out' apparently happen at the 'LAST MINUTE'.  And researches claim that we sometimes wrongly predict our possible behavior in embarrassing situations simply because of an 'EMPATHY GAP'⏳⏳⏳

So, we got this age-old problem:  Why do we often plan to take risks [like singing onstage or even skydiving] but would back out when that MOMENT OF TRUTH comes?  And this brings us back to that 'EMPATHY GAP' which is simply defined as our inability to forecast how we will behave in emotional situations.  And the results of researches will really surprise us all.💊💊💊

The commonality across almost all studies have proven that when we are primed with negative emotions, it leads us to become much more accurate in predicting our true willingness to pursue a specific act or plan.  Whereas for those not primed to the negative emotions, they were less empathetic to their future selves and significantly over-estimated themselves💎💎💎

In the most practical ways in life, experts advised that this all boils down for us to write down our list of goals and visualize how you handle each one and then, prepare a schedule or plan and endeavor to stick to it.  NEVER MOVE GOAL POSTs.  That's a common culprit wherein we avoid confronting a problem.  Bottom-line is be consistent in being positive both in your thinking and right when in action.  JUST DON'T CHICKEN OUT, it's a NO-NO❗❗❗