Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

I might be a 4 p.m.

gym person.

I might be a six.

So do what's realistic by lowering the entry barrier.

If you're not a morning person, don't do it in the morning.

Whatever it is that you're not a person of, don't do that.

And what is the, make it too small to fail.

Not too big to fail, make it too small to fail.

So lowering the entry barrier, doing something with a friend.

We have seen studies where you take two people and you say, all right, let's say you're going to climb this incline.

They show a person a fictitious incline.

Are you capable of doing it?

What do you think of this incline?

So knowing, even if their friend isn't there, just invoking the idea of doing an incline with a friend all of a sudden made the incline steep, perceptibly lower and less difficult.

So just the knowledge of I'm not alone.

I've got somebody with me, supporting me, someone who's got my back, someone who's encouraging me, somebody who wants me to win.

That is going to make you more likely to take on challenges and to perceive those challenges as being far less challenging.

One of the biggest things that happens in anxiety is or worry or not being able to start a new habit is that we overestimate the magnitude of the challenge of the problem.

Okay.

And we underestimate our ability to handle it.

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