Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Chad Silverstein on practicing learned optimism and self-awareness. The speaker urges listeners to notice their internal self-talk, intentionally cultivate optimism, write down guiding principles, invite accountability from others, and actively work to change pessimistic thought patterns that harm health and relationships.
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That little voice in our head. It's a hard thing to be aware of and conscious of because it's there all the time. So you actually have to spend time and make an investment in personal and professional development where you get time to stop, slow down, and listen and watch how your brain works. Study yourself and catch when you're being pessimistic and give people permission around you to call you out when you are. It's a hard thing to do. It's so hard. Everyone's so busy doing their thing. And it's rare when you have really positive, optimistic people around you, but you want to be one of those individuals, and unfortunately, most people are not. So you got to do something to lean against the tendency of being pessimistic, which really has crazy consequences if you make yourself sick because you're so pessimistic that you ruin relationships because people don't want to be around you. So. So you have to tune in and think about that. And so one of the ways you can do that is to write about it, what you believe about it, and put some principles in your life into your whip that you feel like, you know you want to pursue, and that you want to make those your burning desire, your platform for how to build your core, and give people permission to hold you accountable to it. So that's just one thing you can actually do. Even though you can't control all the thoughts that are kind of coming in and out of your head every day, you can actually, you know, work on yourself, listen to them, and you can change them, and you just have to actually make the effort to do so. So what are your little thoughts telling you, and how much do you pay attention to them, and what are you going to do about it?
