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Your brain can't process "don't" commands, so telling yourself not to fail actually makes you focus on failing. Instead, replace the unwanted thought with a vivid image like a blue tiger to redirect your attention and stop the self-sabotage.
Your brain can't process "don't" commands, so telling yourself not to fail actually makes you focus on failing. Instead, replace the unwanted thought with a vivid image like a blue tiger to redirect your attention and stop the self-sabotage.
If I go in the room and I say, hey baby, don't get mad, she gonna say, why am I not getting mad? What did you do? What happened? What happened? What did you do? What happened? She doesn't know how to not get mad. If I say, hey guys, whatever you do, don't think about a pink elephant. First thing you do is think about a pink— your subconscious mind doesn't know how to not do something. So when you tell yourself, hey, don't screw this up. Hey, don't fail. Hey, don't get mad. Guess what? You're gonna do the exact thing that you're just— that you don't want to do. What do I want? The way that you stop thinking about a pink elephant is you get busy thinking about a blue tiger or a green whale or whatever
