2024-12-18
17 分钟Are you tired of letting overthinking and fear run your life? I'll break down the mental traps we all fall into—replaying worst-case scenarios, second-guessing everything, and staying stuck. Learn practical ways to silence the noise, stop hesitating, and make clear, confident decisions. If you're ready to let go of fear and take control, this episode is for you!
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Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast.
I'm your host, Rob Dial.
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And I'm going to talk about the way that we take reality and we distort reality with our minds and in turn hold ourselves back.
And my goal is to help you identify where you might be doing this in your life and then to give you some tools to get yourself out of it when you find yourself there so that you don't hold yourself back.
And this thing that we're going to talk about today is called catastrophizing, meaning you become fixated on the worst possible outcome for something in your life.
Oh, if I don't pass this test, then I'm going to fail this class.
And if I fail this class, I'll fail out of school.
And if I fail out of school, then, then I'll be a complete failure for the rest of my life.
Somehow a test and whether you do or don't pass it just became complete failure for the rest of your life.
That's an example of catastrophizing.
So the anxiety of a test automatically turns into being a complete failure in your life.
And I want you to understand that your brain is incredibly complex.
It's incredibly amazing, and it is really good at.
At protecting you.
And so what it does is you start thinking about the test and it's 25 steps ahead of you, and it turns into, you're going to be a complete failure if you fail this test.
Another example might be you get into a fight with your girlfriend and then you think, well, now she's definitely going to leave me.
And if my girlfriend leaves me, I'll be destroyed and I will never be able to trust again.