The Illusion Of Control

Many people, who are otherwise perfectly healthy can create patterns and have an illusion that they are somehow in control of the external events that no one could influence.

The belief is so strong that it can affect their behaviour and make them do superstitious actions that make no sen...

The illusion of control can be adaptive, in the sense that it encourages a focus on problem-solving behaviors as opposed to an emotional response.

Producing your best-informed guesswork prevents the anticipation in stress testing. However, there will always be some things you cannot comple...

• We cannot control most of the outside events and circumstances including our past, the weather, natural disasters or freak accidents.

• We cannot control what other people say, think or feel about us.

• What we can control is what we think, say or do. We can...