Summary:
In this episode I discuss how being flexible can help us be less anxious. When we optimize and set up routines this keeps us confined and doesn’t allow us to change plans and adapt.
This episode was inspired in part by this article from zenhabits.net
"If your life is optimized, it’s easy to break. To give you another example … let’s say you have an optimized sleep routine. It’s amazing, and you get great sleep this way! But then you have to fumigate your house, so you have to sleep at a relative’s house. Your entire optimized routine is thrown off, so you get horrible sleep for a few days. Then you try to optimize your sleep for travel, getting a great setup for sleeping on the plane and trains. Then your favorite sleep mask, ear plugs (or noise-canceling headphones) and travel pillow get stolen. No sleep! The most optimized thing to do, then, is to not optimize — get good at dealing with everything, from sleeping on trains without any kind of setup to sleeping on the ground. Unoptimize your life by getting good at dealing with unoptimal situations. Throw randomized craziness into your life. Forget about optimizing, and learn flexibility, learn to deal, learn to let go, learn to adapt."
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TAP 275 - Anxiety Setbacks
TAP 274 - Why Anxiety Is On The Rise
TAP 273 - Surgery Experience
TAP 272 - Dental Anxiety
TAP 271 - Ketogenic Diet for Anxiety
TAP 270 - Just Start
TAP 269 - Florence Sloane on Collapsing and How She Recovered
TAP 268 - Stop Trying So Hard
TAP 267 - Patience and Satisfaction
TAP 266 - Moving House
TAP 265 - How to Help Someone With Anxiety
TAP 264 - Anticipatory Anxiety
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TAP 262 - Finding The Right Job
TAP 261 - No FOMO
TAP 260 - Presenting At Work
TAP 259 - Social Media Challenge
TAP 258 - Mexico & Getting Through Tough Times
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