How to Stop Losing Your Mind (Literally): The Surprising Science of Attention with Amishi Jha
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Experiencing conflict is not a problem, but to realize that the conflict does not mean to translate into the elaborated notion that I'm a complete failure and it's never gonna work out. That's the mind doing something else. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like Garbage In, Garbage Out, or You Are What You Think ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
We tend toward negativity self-pit. Jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.
Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf. Most of us live in doing mode, solving, planning, fixing, but what if the real key to clarity isn't doing more, but knowing when to be?
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