Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)
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But if you don't like breathing or breathing makes you anxious, you can just concentrate on something for 60 seconds.
Now, if you're anxious, you're going to think, oh my God, this is going to make me look so weird.
You can go to the bathroom to do it, you can step outside to do it, or you can just breathe quietly to yourself for 60 seconds.
I can almost guarantee you that if you're in a social interaction, you breathe for 60 seconds, unless you're like, you know, people can usually talk about themselves for 60 seconds without a problem, right?
So like, if you feel weird about it, do it anyway, and then build that distress tolerance.
Okay, so that's number one.
Breaking the loop of I'm addicted to self-help content, but I never do anything involves understanding what the origin, what the driving motivation for the self-help content is, and recognizing that social media fixes that problem without any kind of improvement.
Improvement has nothing to do with this.
Now, let's move on to part two.
Now, let's actually talk about the improver.
Currently learning a new language, reading 50 books.
Quit drinking, will quit smoking, doesn't care about everything, just anything wants to just improve themselves.
I'm proving does nothing all day, only improves.
So what's going on here?
Why are people so addicted to the 24-year-old improver?
So I think self-improvement is good.
I strive for self-improvement.
I think it's good to improve.