Dr. Nate Zinsser
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656 appearances
95 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 3d ago
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so that the imperfect physical world that we live in and your personal, physical, inevitable imperfections do not destroy the energy, the optimism, and the enthusiasm that you have been building up by reflecting constructively on your various memories and your experiences.
So I steal a whole lot of work from the positive psychology movement
spearheaded by Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania, looking at how do we mentally respond to setbacks?
Do we see them as temporary?
Yeah, they happen.
They suck.
But it was just a one-time deal.
Or do we say to ourselves, uh-oh, it happened, and it's going to happen over and over and over again.
Permanent.
Do we look at our setbacks as temporary or permanent?
Take your pick.
secondly do we look at our imperfections and our setbacks and our failures as basically limited in terms of where they occurred yes it happened in that inning of the baseball game yes it happened at that in that con conversation with that individual or that board meeting or do we say to ourselves oh every time everywhere all these things get screwed up do we keep them limited
Or do we globalize them?
Okay.
And third, and this is where it really gets important.
And this is what most people struggle with most of all.
When a setback takes place, are we able to put it in a perspective?
Yeah, it happened, but it's non-representative of me.
It's non-representative of me.
It happened.
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