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Emotional Rigidity Vs. Emotional Agility

Psychology has always fascinated me for the sheer sense of how it explores the topic of individualism and collectivism and how we interact with one another in society. However, what is important to remember is how we drive our inner world is so very important when we deal with the outer world and in dealing with our emotional interaction with other people, i.e. how emotionally agile should we be vs. how emotional rigid.   However, when we think of our behaviour; we think of our brain – its structure or we think about our emotions. However. There is far more beyond this, which has to be included which begins with our mindsets – our mentality which refers to the manner in which we behave/believe in a certain way prior to an experience.  Having said that, it was  English economist John Maynard Keynes who compiled this famous quote,"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones?”   At a time of greater complexity, unprecedented tech