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Cultivating self-awareness and self-reflection
Prioritizing and setting boundaries for self-care
Practicing mindfulness and presence
Learned Helplessness
This is a mental state where, as a result of a certain bad experience, we believe that we can’t do anything about a certain problem.
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Positive Action
If you choose to change your life, even if you don’t know how to, you will figure it out. A solution-based and action-oriented approach will change the situation to your favor.
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Past Deciding The Future
We let our knowledge and experiences of the past project into our future, by making concrete predictions that this or that cannot happen due to what happened in the past.
But life is constantly changing, flowing like a river, and does not follow past patterns.
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Negative Motivation
We can start to feel helpless when we see people fail in a certain plan, and this could start acting as a negative motivation in our minds.
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Reaffirming Negative Beliefs
When you reaffirm your own belief that you can’t change certain things, you’re putting that belief inside the people around you. And you're especially impacting your loved ones.
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Move Towards A Growth Mindset
Move out of the fixed mindset, where you are stuck in inaction, towards a growth mindset.
In a growth mindset, you see obstacles as steps to success and everything seems to have a solution.
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Theory of mind
This is a social-cognitive skill that relates to the ability to think about your own mental state and the mental states of other people.
It's called a theory because what we believe is going on with other people is just that - a theory.
Unlearning Learned Helplessness
One can overcome learned helplessness by changing the attribution style, or the way one looks at the causes of events in one’s life.
- We tend to blame ourselves for the unpleasant situation and need to look towards external causes, instead of focusing on our perceived...
The Advanced Antifragile Skill
Learn that you don’t need to change your mental state to do what you’re committed to doing.
If you need the perfect mental state and a perfect set of circumstances to do your commitments, this is a fragile system. Anything that keeps you from doing the actions you need to do to get i...
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