Decompression

Don't Be Labeled.

  • Oct 19, 2024
Don't Be Labeled.


When a person is labeled with a word or name, he or she will manage his or her self-impression so that his or her behavior is consistent with the labeled content. This phenomenon is called the "labeling effect" because it is caused by the labeling.

Psychology believes that the reason for the "labeling effect" is mainly because the "label" has a qualitative orientation, whether it is "good" or "bad", it is not the same as the "labeling effect". Whether it is "good" or "bad", it has a strong influence on a person's "self-identification of personality consciousness".


The result of "labeling" a person is often to make him or her develop in the direction that the "label" suggests.
By extension, when an employee is considered by his boss to be incapable in certain aspects, he will certainly doubt his own ability in this area, and then lose confidence in himself, even if he has the ability in this area, he will not show it again, and the employee will think, "The boss already thinks that I am incapable, so why should I still show it".


A very open, open-minded people with a confused wife living together for a long time, and gradually become small-minded, a confused, even a little unreasonable people married to a sensible husband gradually become no longer calculating, a love of anger by the husband love to talk and laugh, good flirting with his wife's influence on the smile often open, a miser will be able to take care of finances of his wife's influence to no longer regard the money as life. All this shows that environment can change people.


According to the analysis of psychologists, giving a person a slightly harder job than he is capable of is most likely to awaken a person's motivation. As this develops, he will become more and more capable. On the other hand, if a capable person is turned into an ordinary person, he just needs to be stuffed with some boring jobs that do not match his ability. If this development continues, even the most capable person will gradually get used to this degraded state, and thus, his ability will become worse and worse.

The environment affects people, people in what environment will adjust themselves as soon as possible to adapt to the environment. Therefore, in what kind of environment a person works, he will unconsciously, as soon as possible, habitually and instinctively adjust himself to that work environment.
It is often said that "young people are malleable", meaning that young people's character can be molded. Behind this statement, it is implied that the work environment has an impact on people's character. And it is the occupation that has a profound and irreversible impact on personality throughout one's life.


People work for about 30 to 40 years in their life, during this period, which industry they are engaged in, the occupational characteristics of this industry will inevitably penetrate deeply into people's thinking for a long period of time and change their personalities, and over time, the occupational character becomes the character of the person.

For example, a person has done more than thirty years of salesmen, then, with him, he will never "keep silent", will certainly be enthusiastic and cheerful to talk to you, but also relatively easy-going, not stubborn; and an accountant engaged in many years of work, it is generally conscientious and meticulous, relatively stereotypical and stubborn, and will not easily change their own ideas. All these different personalities are produced by long-term professional cultivation, which shows that the influence of profession on human character is extremely profound.

A person's life is not necessarily only a profession, may change roles many times. For example, do a few years of accounting, and do a few years of personnel, and then do a few years of sales, and even unemployment, doing business, the process of people affected by the characteristics of different occupations and honed, rich experience, insights, see the problem with a high degree, but also has a multiple composite personality, the achievement of the so-called "strong and soft" character, so that people may become a modern composite talent, become a socio-economic and social and economic development. Such a person may become a modern composite talent and a valuable asset in social and economic construction.

In the case of suitable age and certain potential for change, personality change will naturally occur. The core mechanism of personality change is "the internal drive to seek change, shaped by environmental stimuli or life experiences.

Some masculine traits, such as rationality, harshness, and lack of favoritism, tend to be dominant. Some of these traits are compatible with women's pre-existing personality traits, while others need to be molded in the workplace.

One would focus on whether the character expression matches the environment. In life to show tenderness, delicate, is a husband's tender wife, children loving mother, in the work of strict requirements for their own, hope that they are subordinates in the eyes of the awe-inspiring bosses and supervisors, which is determined by the professional environment.

A person usually can not change the environment, but the environment can affect the development of human personality, if you want the character is not affected by the work environment, we must find and their own character behavior habits do not occur or rarely conflict with the work environment, but even so will still be affected by the environment. In other words, character is shaped by life experience, life and time, is the sculptor of character, and work, is a carving knife in the hands of the sculptor.