If You Walk Around with a Hammer, Everything Starts to Look like a Nail

Elizabeth Lucas                              Psychology 1101                                        1/22/15

CT #11                

“If you walk around with a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail” – Author Unknown

This quote is really all about mindset. If you have a certain mindset then you will try to apply that mindset to every little circumstance, when in reality you should handle it completely different. This quote could also be correlated with the fact of if you have a goal; you will try to achieve that goal with whatever ability you have at the moment, no matter what the cost.

Sometimes people have a very strong attribute that controls them. When someone who is very violent is faced with any situation he will try to look for the solution to that situation through anger, violence, or fighting. They think that is the only way to solve problems. Another example is a police officer. Police officers’ duties are to protect and serve the citizens. They will do whatever it takes to achieve these duties even if it means endangered the public by flying down the highway or even shooting someone.