Growth Mindset Podcast Sam Webster Harris

Catastrophizing is a type of cognitive distortion. It's a faulty and inaccurate way of thinking that involves imagining the worst possible outcome in a given situation.
Catastrophizing can hold people back in life, work, and relationships and we all do it in some way, and some of us do it a lot more than others.
Understanding the natural psychological processes behind catastrophizing can help us build awareness and learn to create a more balanced and productive view of our futures.

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Chapters
00:00 What is catastrophising
03:00 Build awareness
05:52 Magnifying and minimising
07:15 The problem with imagined details
08:58 The human tendency to invent stories
12:01 Catastrophizing and being diagnosed with ADHD
14:56 Balancing worst and best scenarios
16:02 Social anxiety
17:48 Write a journal
19:10 Alex Hormozi selling gym subscriptions
19:48 Want and don't want chair
22:08 4 step method for mitigating catastrophization
22:13 Step 1 - Awareness 
23:20 Step 2 - Challenging the thought
24:03 Step 3 - Imagine the best
24:34 Step 4 - Accept uncertainty
26:19 Catastrophizing is the opposite of Growth mindset
26:40 Therapy & CBT
29:20 Mini Advert - BetterHelp
29:57 Episode Summary
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No one likes people who complain and yet it is so hard to stop complaining about problems in our life. Gratitude is sold as the answer to all our happiness woes. Stop having expectations, be happy and grateful for what you have, and never let another day go to waste.
It's so simple and yet it doesn't work because it isn't that easy.
This episode covers the most powerful strategy that has helped people find gratitude in many areas they didn't feel possible without meditating, journaling or re-aligning their chakras. Just some simple psychology and reframing the information in their heads to make them see what they already know.
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Chapters00:00 Introduction to the flaw with gratitude
00:35 Standard tips on how to build gratitude
00:54 Issues with gratitude - focusing on problems
01:38 Example - Lawn being ruined
02:18 Example - Arctic trip
02:57 Example - Frustrating emails
04:16 Recurring theme - great achievements will come with problems
06:14 Planning ahead
08:00 Example - Social influencer trolls
08:53 Example - Romantic partner problems
09:37 Recap - Notice to see the positive side of things
11:35 Next week's episode - Problems you don't want to have
11:42 Outro
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Complaining can be a very good diagnostic tool for identifying the actual problems in our life. The key is not just to sit around complaining about the same things year by year to learn how the important issues affect us and how to fix them.
Awareness of the major flaws in our situation and mindsets allows us to make a strategy for how we want to address them going forwards and build a life we don't complain about.

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Chapters00:00 Problems and illusions of the mind
00:41 General framework for complaints
01:28 3 types of problems
01:59 1st type of problem - the problem you want to have
02:35 2nd type of problem - the problem you can do nothing about
04:01 3rd problem - the problems you do not want to have
04:50 Issues of fixed mindsets
05:57 Community and purpose
07:15 Too many interests and desires
10:29 Assessing the scale of a problem
11:56 How our problems change over time
13:01 Turning complaints into tools
15:00 Some wise words
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Stoicism is the time-tested solution to life's problems and living with a greater peace of mind. In this mini-series of how to stop complaining we couldn't skip over the OG's of not complaining.
This episode breaks down the 5 most important concepts from Stoicism and how to apply them in the modern day:
The dichotomy of controlAmor Fait - Love of fateNegative visualizationVirtue is the soul goodMindful acceptance
With a few stories from Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius we get a great reminder of what's important in life =)
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Stoicism
01:59 1st concept - The dichotomy of control
04:33 2nd concept - Love of fate
08:08 3rd concept - negative visualization
09:55 4th concept - Virtue is the soul good
13:01 5th concept - Mindful acceptance
17:01 Outro
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There are plenty of people telling you to 10x everything next year. How about trying to enjoy the year?
2023 will come and it will go and you will never have that year again. So please make a point to enjoy it whilst it's there. Then see what else you can do whilst you're in it.

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You cannot master time, you can only master yourself.
Time will keep doing its thing and we can't ever blame it or be annoyed with it. We must accept it and look to ourselves to make decisions we feel better about.
As we launch into 2023 plenty of us are looking to smash goals and achievements this year in a race against the 2024 countdown. We discuss how to move from a scarcity mindset around time to creating a better relationship with our moments as they happen.
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Chapters:
00:00 - introduction01:39 - Time is the medium in which we exist02:50 - Time can't behave differently, only ourselves04:00 - Productivity is a false promise05:10 - How to reflect on your relationship with time07:00 - Happiness is not circumstances it's interpretation08:25 - Accidental advert for Vipassana retreats...10:50 - Your enemies enemy is your friend12:50 - Spend time learning how to spend time Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/growth-mindset-podcast.



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