Nir Eyal

Whereas you need to catch it early.

It always starts with fear.

It's always fear.

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

And sometimes that manifests in physical pain.

This is the source of chronic pain.

is always fear.

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.

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

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

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

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

This is happening for me.

I didn't invent that.

I got it from somebody else.

I don't remember who anymore.

Oh, my brother told me, and I'm sure he got it from somebody else.

This is happening for me.

happening for me, right?

Just like you said, you said it so perfectly.