A short talk by Dr. Aziz encouraging acceptance of both positive and negative life experiences. He frames life as a mixture of successes (wins) and failures (mistakes) and advocates shifting one’s response from avoidance and overreaction to openness and willingness to 'bring it all on.'
So you got to call it out and say, that's not how life works. Life is all of it. Life is a mixture of pleasure and pain, good outcomes and bad outcomes. The good outcomes I call successes or wins. The bad outcomes I call mistakes or failures. And then the more you freak out about those, you don't get just more good outcomes because you freaked out about your mistakes. You are collapsing. Your nervous system, your energy system, your emotional system, your mind, everything is in place, floating to try to get experience fewer discomfort, fewer outcomes. So what we need to do is we need to shift that and say, bring it all on. Yeah, I'm here to do all of it.
