From the course: How to Beat Burnout, Exhaustion, and Stress

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Get curious about your thought traps

Get curious about your thought traps

- [Interviewer] And when it comes to undoing untidy thinking, what is some of the most frequent and problematic thinking that pops up for professionals? And how do we go about undoing that untidiness? - [Woman] Yes, our minds can get quite untidy. It's like I liken it to Marie Kondo for the mind. Got to kind of know what's in there and straighten it out. Well, I think a big one is with COVID has created tremendous amounts of uncertainty and our minds are absolutely programmed to hate uncertainty because it is not evolutionarily viable for us to live in uncertain conditions. Like we're on the prairie as a hunter and gatherers and we're like, we don't know what the weather patterns are or something's going to eat us. That's going to set us up to be highly anxious, nervous system activation. Lots of stress. Another study they've done with people is asked them, you want a shock now? Or you may not get a…

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