Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Mindset and Trauma #shorts

Name: Mindset and Trauma #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-07-11T14:00:07+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: Nir Eyal reflects on how many high-performing artists and athletes are driven both away from past trauma and toward achievement. He suggests that…

11 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Nir Eyal reflects on how many high-performing artists and athletes are driven both away from past trauma and toward achievement. He suggests that traumatic experiences can motivate exceptional accomplishments when reframed productively — distinguishing post-traumatic stress from post-traumatic growth — and emphasizes that how we frame and use discomfort determines the outcome.

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If you look at amazing artists or athletes, it's interesting how many of them have some kind of trauma, right? Have you ever noticed that they're running away from something just as much as they're running towards something? They're trying to prove something to their alcoholic father. They're trying to prove something to somebody because of what happened to them. So, you know, we have post traumatic stress. We also have post traumatic growth, depending on how we frame that and what we do with that discomfort. There's a lot of people who do amazing things driven by these same goblins that other people run away from. It's about how we reframe that discomfort.