| Title | When Smart People Fail |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Pub Year | 1987 |
| Authors | Hyatt, C., & Gottlieb L. |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Keywords | autonomy, depression, despair, environment, self-esteem |
| Notes |
environment"There are several basic kinds of organizational environments: corporate, entrepreneurial, intrapreneurial (independent responsibility within a corporate structure), partnership, or complete autonomy (in the case of the artist). Sometimes the real you is in the wrong environment." (p. 109) despair"There is nothing new about despair. People have experienced it throughout history and literature. Winston Churchill called it his 'black dog'. You feel lonely, sad, depleted, unable to get out of bed in the morning, overwhelmed at the thought of getting dressed, and devoid of hope for the future. Despair can strike whether or not you have failed, and many people who fail never know its anguish at all. What, then, is the connection? In his book Feelings, psychiatrist Willard Gaylin says: 'Depression occurs when we loase confidence in our own coping mechanisms. We become depressed when we are bankrupt of self-esteem and self-confidence, when we no longer have the sense of our own capacities to insure either our actual survival or the worthiness or value of the life which we can sustain.' " (p. 55) |
