Lewis Howes explores whether it matters more to think positive or stop thinking negative. The conversation centers on habitual negative thoughts and introduces the five Cs, common patterns that trap people in negativity.
Which you think is more important, more.
Positive thinking or less negative thinking?
And I say this is not a trick question.
And I'll let them wrestle with that for a little bit in it.
For the group that we're talking to.
Today, it's a very provocative question. And the studies are unequivocal. It's less negative thinking. Positive thinking is important and keep it up, keep it high. But if you want to get your real knowledge, just cut down on the negative thinking. Cut it down, Cut it down. That's the villain voice, that's the critic in your head. That's the demotivator, that's the discounter. That's the one that raises the doubts.
And you can shut it up.
It takes practice, it takes some discipline.
But people say, well, I think I'm.
Aware of my negative thinking. But they're not. About 70% of our negative thinking goes on perceived by us. It is so embedded in our day to day behavior.
Not even aware of it. We're not even aware of it. About 70%. It is so much just ingrained in the way we go about living.
It's habitual thinking. Yes.
And so let me show you how, tell you how it shows up. I talk about the five Cs. Okay. Okay. The sneak attack of the five Cs. Okay. The first one is complaining.
Grappling, Grappling, grappling. You know, it's too hot in Dallas.
It is, but that's not going to change if I grab about it. Okay, so the first one is complaining.
The next one's criticizing. Well, the grid went down today in Texas. We had brownouts. My air conditioners. Yeah. And there's always someone to criticize.
So we've got complaining, we got criticizing.
Next one is concern. And I'm not talking about being empathic here and having concern for some other person.
I'm talking about garden variety worrying.
I'm concerned about this.
Well, I'm concerned about inflation. Well, I'm concerned about, you know, the news.
The next one is commiserating. Commiserating.
We come in and I sat down with this person and they start their seas, their seat complaining. And I say, I get it, man. Yeah, I understand. I'm not doing anybody any good when I start commiserating.
I'm not doing anyone any good. It's, it's, it's destructive to both of us. And then the last one is catastrophizing, which is just when you're really down, you just blow things all out of proportion.
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