You are a person who doesn’t trust people. It’s not like you find it difficult, but you do not trust others at all.
When asked, you reply with practiced ease: “I don’t even trust myself. So don’t feel too bad that I can’t trust you as you’d want me to.”
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I do this. Everyday.
Not that I succeed all the time at it.
It is hard to be a practicing Stoic with one exercise. But I try to pull it to the forefront of my thoughts whenever I feel like a fish flicked out of water.
Putting down a 200-pound…
Criticisms attack our ego faster and harder than we imagine. We all can be sensitive to criticism when it comes from the ‘right’ entity.
Many who insist words can’t hurt them, turn brittle when the ‘ cancel culture’ targets them. …
Perfectionism is often a colossal waste of your time and energy. Most perfectionists do not even recognize they’re perfectionists. So, how do you overcome it?
First, read these two paradoxical truisms:
Trolling is when a person antagonizes and torments you brutally on the internet, even when you back your arguments with scientific facts, to create an inflammatory ruckus that tries to do two things: 1. Push you down into a pit of excrement, 2. …
Building a new habit is more than breaking an old habit. When you fail to build a new habit, it is self-defeating labor as you keep circling the same loop. So, what are the smartest strategies?
The worst habit we all seem to have is we do not have it…
A pandemic can test us to our extreme limits. It can blur and warp our imaginations because the future doesn’t seem anything like our known past. In quarantine, it can break us from the inside, brick by brick. …
You’re having a bad day or a bad week. Every few hours, your mind wanders to one of those unpleasant times. You look around to check if others can see your face twist into sadness. No one’s bothered about you, so your eyes well up.
And it does not help at all when you get told the same old “you’re not the only one having problems in life” cliché — even by your own mind.
To have a better and happier life in the future, the right strategies you need have to be both practical and helpful.
We bring together 6 scientific and 1 philosophic strategies to help you create a brighter tomorrow. With these, however bleak your today is, you can always make your tomorrow brighter and happier.
1. When you overthink, it doesn’t let you reach any decision or take any action.
2. Overthinking is like a vacuum of some kind — it sucks you in.
3. Overthinking saps your energy. It’s like a hamster on a wheel — running fiercely but reaching nowhere.
4. Thinking is good. Overthinking is not. Stop overthinking; life is too short to waste on that.
5. Don’t ruin a new day thinking about yesterday. Yesterday is gone; why drag it back by overthinking?
6. Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness. Overthinking creates problems you never had.
Read all of the Greatest 50+ Overthinking Quotes collected from all over the internet.
And if you want to find out how overthinking hurts you psychologically, read this.
How do you get a positive attitude that stands strong in all weather? More so, when our world is pandemic-ridden and full of uncertainty and negativity.
A positive mindset is looking at the bright side of life and hoping those good things happen. …
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