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Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

That's where it goes to.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

So if this happens and this bad thing is going to happen, this guy, and all these things are going to happen, I'm going to be homeless and dead.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

Right?

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

You see how quickly it went in your mind?

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

Whereas you need to catch it early.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

It always starts with fear.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

It's always fear.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

Fear is your brain's trigger to tell you why you shouldn't do something.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

And sometimes that manifests in physical pain.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

This is the source of chronic pain.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

is always fear.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

So what you need is a limiting belief that you can always refer back to, like a secular prayer, like a little mantra that you can constantly bring up whenever you hear that little voice that tells you you're not ready, you're not good at this, this is going to hurt.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

And so one I could suggest to you, I recommend you make your own.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

I'll tell you one that I've used constantly.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

Whenever I get stressed about what if this, what if that,

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

I constantly repeat to myself, this is happening for me, not to me.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

This is happening for me.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

I didn't invent that.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

I got it from somebody else.

Founder's Story
The Real Reason You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It | Ep. 331 with Nir Eyal NYT Best Selling Author

I don't remember who anymore.