David Jenyns argues that where you focus your attention directly shapes how you feel. Focusing on threats triggers fear; designing a compelling future reduces depression and suicidal ideation. Overdose deaths have increased 400% in the last 20 years, he says, because our threat-detection systems evolved for physical danger, not modern anxiety.
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Where focus goes, energy flows. Most people are focused on what they're afraid of, and so more fear comes their way. And it's easy because we all have a 2 million year old brain that's designed to look for what's wrong, to protect. So we protect ourselves to fight it, or to run for it, or to freeze. That's the way our old brain is wired. But that brain is never going to make you happy. You have to learn to take control of your focus. We've had 100,000 people overdose on drugs. We have more depression and more people in a suicidal mode than we've ever seen in the last two years. Because people need a compelling future. You can deal with a tough today if you got a compelling tomorrow. And so what I help people do is design that. But once you change your focus, you'll change how you feel. Focus and feeling go to go.
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