Psychologists say that looking in the mirror for a while is good for finding your strengths and increasing your confidence. But if you keep looking left and right in front of the mirror, you are likely to find imperfections in yourself, which can affect your self-confidence and judgment.
The more you look in the mirror, the more you want to look in the mirror
Mustard, a white-collar worker, is a little anxious these days because the small mirror that has been sitting on his desk is broken. “The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. The two days are busier, no time to buy. Want to buy one online, but can not pick a good-looking. Easy to find an okay, and I’m afraid that the express way to break ……” a small mirror so opened the mustard tangled road, but her real anxiety is the two days are no mirror to take. She said, “Before sitting in front of the computer to write copy, write tired, bored, no inspiration, I will pick up the mirror to take a look, look at the mirror is like a method of self-relaxation and conditioning. Now it’s gone.”
But Mustard came up with a way to quench that thirst – download a mirror app on your iPhone and quench your thirst.
Look in the mirror for confidence, don’t get addicted
Are many people like Mustard who can’t live without a mirror?
The reporter did a small survey on twitter, 56.5% of people said “I look in the mirror when I need to, or when I’m really bored”, 29% said “often, when I’m free, I take out the mirror to measure myself”, and 14.5% said “besides brushing my teeth and washing my face”. 14.5% of people said “except for brushing my teeth and washing my face, I don’t look in the mirror if I can”. It seems that the majority of people still like to look in the mirror.
Many people who look in the mirror think they look good when they look in the mirror, which boosts their self-confidence and makes them feel better. However, it has also been reported that looking in the mirror for too long can easily cause anxiety instead.
Researchers at the University of Leeds Medical School in the UK asked volunteers to look in the mirror for 25 seconds and rate their satisfaction; they were then asked to stare in the mirror again for at least 10 minutes and rate again. The results found that as the time spent looking in the mirror was extended, self-satisfaction declined instead. When repeatedly looking in the mirror for more than 10 minutes, people’s feelings of anxiety and irritability were very pronounced.
While few people look at themselves in the mirror for up to 10 minutes in their daily lives, there are more people who do it all the time and look at themselves when they have nothing to do. The company’s main focus is on the development of a new product, the “new” product. “The more they look at it, the more they want to look at it” is their common description of the mirror, which seems to be enchanted.
Personality: Luise – Always looking at reflective objects
Luise says she is definitely a fan of mirrors, or mirrored objects for that matter. “It doesn’t take long to look in the mirror each time, but it’s definitely a lot of times.” She says, “When I leave the house in the morning, there are mirrored objects like window panes of parked cars on the road, glass doors and windows of small stores on the street, stainless steel objects, etc., I have to look at them all.”
Luise recalls that she seems to have had this habit since she was a student, just not as badly as now. “The first time I carried a mirror with me was because I often had to squeeze my pimples.” Now that the pimples are gone and the mirror is left behind, Luise looks in the mirror every now and then to make sure she looks good. “I look good!” That’s what she often says to herself when she looks in the mirror.
People: Nika – Mirror on the go, mirror on the phone
Nika doesn’t look in the mirror too much, but she makes sure to carry a small mirror with her. “Usually if I go out with a big bag, I’ll throw a lot of stuff in it. But if I bring a small bag, then besides my phone and wallet, it’s the mirror. If you don’t bring a bag, you can stuff a small mirror into your wallet. In case I don’t even bring my wallet, I can still use my phone because my SHARP phone is mirrored, and that’s one of the reasons I’ve refused to part with this one.” In short, in a word, Nika will not let the mirror leave her.
Nika said, “But I look in the mirror more often when I’m unhappy, and it makes me feel better to smile in the mirror.”
Find confidence, but don’t get addicted
Some psychologists say that looking in the mirror for a while is good for finding your strengths and adding confidence. The company’s main goal is to provide a better solution to the problem. It seems that it is good to look in the mirror to find confidence, but don’t get addicted to it.
While most people don’t look in the mirror to cause anxiety, looking in the mirror too often and relying on it can create certain problems. This is because after you overindulge in your image in the mirror, you are likely to have a greater contrast with the reality of yourself. The reporter found in the interview – about looking in the mirror, almost 90% of people have the same question: why do you feel good-looking when you look in the mirror, and find yourself so ugly once you take a picture? This discrepancy is likely to cause a person to be confused and doubtful.
The reason may be: your state of mind and purpose when you look in the mirror is likely to affect the image you see of yourself in the mirror, for example, when you are in a good mood it is easy to see your own merits, while the photo of yourself is completely objective; in addition, the mirror is a false image of yourself, which is upside down, while the photo of yourself is not.
If you are used to seeing your normal self, you are not used to it.
Both psychologically and physically, we should understand that there is a difference between what we see in the mirror and what we are in reality, and that looking in the mirror is only an aid to self-confirmation, and that true self-confidence has to be built by working hard in reality.