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A Beginner’s Guide to Changing Your Mind and Living a Better Life
You are trapped by the shortcomings of your mind.
But, don’t worry — we all are. This is a bug of human existence.
Our minds are incredible things, there’s no doubt about it. It’s miraculous what they do. Our minds process the natural world into comprehensible bits of information so that we can, for the most part, successfully navigate it.
On the flip side, though, our minds cause us a lot of trouble. The mind is the source of our stress, anxiety, depression, frustration, anger, sadness, grief, and jealousy. Sometimes, these states of mind are completely overwhelming. And in these cases, our minds not only don’t work well, but they make us miserable, too.
Yet, some people appear to deal with these emotions better than others. Don’t they seem to bounce back from failure, loss, and mistakes? Don’t they seem to cope with life a little better than the rest of us?
All of the events in our lives are interpreted in our minds in a particular way based on what we’ve learned in the past. But, how we interpret those events matters. I think the only difference between someone who can bounce back from a failure versus someone who is mired in embarrassment, loss, and regret is how they think about the failure.
