Anton KolhonenPsychologist, Psychotherapist
A road leading toward a mountain with a solitary silhouette, a Ψ symbol in the center, and a Russian quotation from Rudyard Kipling’s The Explorer on the left.

Anton Kolhonen’s visual composition about beginning the path into psychology, with a Russian excerpt from Rudyard Kipling’s The Explorer translated by Samuil Cherfas.

Decision to Become a Psychologist

1/27/2018 · 1 min read

Anton Kolhonen
AuthorAnton Kolhonen

The decision to become a psychologist is the moment when the inner voice stops being background and becomes a route. 🙋‍♂️ In this short fragment you can hear a call to go where the most important is hidden and the resolve to take a step toward the unknown. What was beyond the mountains, and why did this choice become a point of support on the path?

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Decision to Become a Psychologist

Joseph Rudyard Kipling
THE EXPLORER

“Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so:
‘Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges —
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!’”

So I went 📌

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Questions about this article

01What can become a turning point when choosing one’s path?

A turning point can be an inner sense that something important lies beyond familiar boundaries and needs to be pursued. In the post, that inner call becomes the decision to choose the path of a psychologist.

02Why can an inner voice push a person toward change?

It turns a vague sense of searching into a direction for action: not only to think about what lies ahead, but to take a step and go toward it.

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