How we screw ourselves over and sabotage our happiness. Learn the cognitive biases, comfortable lies and deceitful practices that become routines and invite joy back into your life! In this psychology and self-improvement-focused episode, our host, Sam Webster, exposes the 7 toxic habits that secretly create misery - and how to ditch them for good. If you want to break destructive patterns holding you back from the happiness you deserve, this frank life skills discussion is for you. Become your own best friend and start making choices that set you up for success, not sabotage. Your future self will thank you! - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be the best we can be. - - - Connect with Sam: Sam's newsletter on creativity - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen Youtube - @Samjam - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Exposing 7 Habits of Miserable People Chapters: 00:00 Create happiness, remove misery 01:03 Pre-roll advert 01:07 Habits of miserable people 01:12 Bad habit - #1 Lying to ourselves 04:13 Bad habit #2 - Procrastination 07:39 Bad habit #3 - Victimhood and avoiding responsibility 10:10 Bad habit #4 - Money 13:17 Bad habit #5 - Isolation 17:52 Bad Habit #6 - Social Media 20:35 Bad habit #7 - Ignoring real self-care 25:03 Bonus Habit - Fixed Mindset and resistant to change 26:34 Send off Topics: procrastination lying to yourself motte-and-bailey fallacy victim mentality financial habits isolation social media comparison self care mental health fixed mindset happiness present moment personal development mindset transformation stop sabotaging yourself break bad habits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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