As we head into , Worklife is running our best, most insightful and most essential stories from It was a strategy that she continued to use until , when she felt she had matured enough to avoid the psychological crutch. Adele said the strategy helped her give her best to every performance during her breakout year.
Although the embodiment of a fictional persona may seem like a gimmick for pop stars, new research suggests there may be some real psychological benefits to the strategy. It allows us to rein in undesirable feelings like anxiety, increases our perseverance on challenging tasks, and boosts our self-control. Ethan Kross, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has led much of this research over the past decade, showing that even small shifts in perspective can help people to gain control of their emotions.
In one study, participants were asked to think about a challenging event in the future , such as an important exam, in one of two different ways. The differences were striking, with those taking the distanced viewpoint feeling much less anxious about the event, compared to the immersed group.
The self-distancing also encouraged greater feelings of self-efficacy — the sense that they could pro-actively cope with the situation and achieve their goal. In other experiments, participants were asked to give a small public talk. Like the distanced visualisation, this advice was designed to encourage the person to see the situation from an outside perspective. Once again, the creation of the psychological distance helped the participants to master their anxiety , reducing both their subjective ratings of the emotion and objective measures, such as the changes in heart rate and blood pressure that usually accompany threatening events.
And those feelings of greater confidence were reflected in the quality of the presentation itself, according to the judgement of independent observers asked to rate their performance. And this has led some researchers to wonder whether it could also improve elements of self-control like determination, by making sure that we keep focused on our goals even in the face of distraction. The memories we could have made Queen B, the memories! From 'Sweet Dreams' to 'Video Phone' and everything in between, she reigned supreme in the last decade.
Adding it all up together, she's sold over million records worldwide. That figure, together with the not-too-shabby husband Jay-Z's million sales, makes The Carters quite the unstoppable musical force.
Sasha Fierce'. Eoghan Cannon 2 years ago. Despite receiving mediocre reviews, it still went 1 on the US Billboard and went triple platinum, selling 3. For the next few years, those songs and more were played at every school dance and birthday party, in every mall, and of course on every radio station. She was pumping out hit after hit, and listening to them now is still just as enjoyable as when I was a kid hanging around my house with friends, singing and dancing along in the most embarrassing and cringey way imaginable.
Unfortunately, one of those was the idea of making I Am… Sasha Fierce a double album. The saving grace of the Sasha Fierce side is that at least you can dance along to it, making it easier to ignore the lack of lyrical progression.
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