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The speaker argues that calling everything "triggering" dilutes the clinical term tied to PTSD and reflects our need for certainty. Real solutions require personal responsibility to manage your own reactions, not changing the world around you.
The speaker argues that calling everything "triggering" dilutes the clinical term tied to PTSD and reflects our need for certainty. Real solutions require personal responsibility to manage your own reactions, not changing the world around you.
Certainty is the basis, the basic human need. It's a survival need. But most of us in this room are far from survival, although we will act like it sometimes because our brain can be triggered. And what triggers it— by the way, trigger, I hate the term trigger, but I use it because it's now used in the culture all the time. The word trigger actually comes for someone who's had a true trauma, like somebody who's had PTSD, and they get triggered. Now we use that term for anything somebody says we don't like, which is absurd. That is not a trigger, but we'll use the word in the way people use it. The bottom line is you want to make it so you de-trigger yourself, not try to change the world to do that. The only way you can do that is if you take 100% responsibility for whatever you're experiencing.
Tony Robbins Helps Her Use the Power of Her Own Mind to Manifest A Better Life
