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"Only by understanding our pain can we begin to control it and find better ways to deal with negative urges."
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"It's a curious truth that when you gently pay attention to negative emotions, they tend to dissipate - but positive ones expand."
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Distraction cost us time, and, like all actions, they are driven by the desire to escape discomfort.
As human beings, we have tendencies towards dissatisfaction and discomfort, which can play both against us
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"An endless circle of resisting, ruminating, and finally giving in to the desire perpetuates the cycle and quite possibly drives many of our unwanted behaviours."
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We can't control what we feel and think, but we can control what we do with them. Discover how in four simple steps:
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Through fun and play we can hold focus easier and combat our internal triggers of distraction. By doing it so we can transform any task into irresistible, we just need to take it as seriously as it deserves.
Play doesn't have to be pleasura...
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Reinventing our temperament can help us manage our internal triggers.
We don't run out of willpower. Believing we do makes us less likely to accomplish our goals, by providing a rationale to quit when we could otherwise persist
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"People who did not see willpower as a finite resource did not show signs of ego depletion."
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For mastering internal triggers we have to understand what motivates us, what's the root cause of our hunger for distraction.
We first need to diferentiate the root cause from the proximate causes, e.g. A task is boring for me (roo...
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"Fun is looking for the variability in something other people don't notice. It's breaking through the boredom and monotonoy to discover its hidden beauty."
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With no techniques for defusing temptation, mental abstinence can backfire. Resisting an impulse can cause rumination and reinforce desire.
We can deal with distractions that come from within by changing the way we think about them. It is p...
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"If satisfaction and pleasure were permanent, there might be little incentive to continue seeking further benefits or advances."
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Part 1 of Indistractable is dedicated to the art of mastering our internal triggers. The author divides this Part as follows:
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These ideas are a summary of the Part 1 of Indistractable - Master Internal Triggers. Soon I will publish more ideas respecting the remaining parts of the book in order to go deeper as it deserves.
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