Sven
Life made simple.
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In life you’ll find yourself in situations where you’re stuck or struggling, only to discover a solution that’s so simple it’s embarrassing and you’ll walk away shaking your head realising that all the stress and worry you carried was for nothing. All great truths are simple and easy to apply. They are not deep and complex. If it’s complex, it may not be true.
If you’re struggling with something, working hard putting lots of effort into making something happen… why are you working so hard? You’re doing something wrong.
Facts & Sayings
Principles
Social Anxiety
More on stress and learning behaviours
If you’re struggling with something, working hard putting lots of effort into making something happen… why are you working so hard? You’re doing something wrong.
Facts & Sayings
- All behaviours are learned and can be unlearned
- Stress is responsible for 90% of health issues
- Worrying about something is like praying for it to happen
- Stress makes you stupid
- A task begun is a task half done
- If you have ten tasks to complete, two are more valuable than the rest combined
- Your bedtime is your wake-up time
- Done is better than perfect
- Find out what’s needed, so you don’t waste time doing what you imagine is needed but isn’t
- Comfort in independence can become isolation from reality
- Your external world is a reflection of your internal world
- The way you do anything is the way you do everything
- Don’t put energy into things that don’t matter
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present
- Work harder on yourself than you do on your job
- What you focus on, you bring into your reality
- The universe gives you what you are not what you want
- The world is uncertain but your inner compass doesn’t have to be
- The mind doesn’t search for truths, it searches for confirmation, changing your beliefs changes your reality, if you believe you and the world are a certain way then you and the world will be that way
- Replace passive listening with active learning whenever you can feed your mind not your ears
Principles
- Kaizen
- Easy-wins
- Pareto
- Golden hour
- Next-day planning
Social Anxiety
- Stop performing, start being: you don’t need to be impressive, just present
- Eye contact improves connection and, with practice, becomes natural and automatic
- It’s hard to express yourself when you don’t know who you are or where you’re going
- Thinking badly of others makes you believe they think badly of you
- You don’t remember others’ awkward moments - they won’t remember yours
- General stress interferes with thinking, speaking, and connecting
- Everyone is too busy living their own life to dwell on yours
- You remember your mistakes more than anyone else does
- Insecurity fades with support, and a single positive experience can undo years of fear and self-consciousness
More on stress and learning behaviours
- 3/4 of most peoples daily thoughts are redundant, negative, limiting or self-sabotaging
- Stress causes blood to be pushed away from your viscera for growth and maintenance to your hands and feet for protection
- The body replaces 300 million cells a minute and 300 billion per day and the digestive tract lining is replaced every 3 days
- The first thing a baby does is work out who the parents are because they become the reference point: if they fall of a swing and the parent acts shocked the kid will cry but if the parent doesn’t overreact then the kid simply gets back on their feet
- In the first seven years of life behaviours and perceptions are downloaded into the subconcious mind through observation, after the first seven years of life behaviours and perceptions are downloaded into the subconcious mind through repetition
- Your life is being lived even though you think you’re living your life: 90% of everyday you use your subconscious mind, only 10% is conscious
- Let’s say you have a friend named Bill and you meet his parents and notice Bill behaves exactly like them, and everyone else can see it except Bill. We are all Bill