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 496 - You First - 12 Days of Less Anxiety
TAP 495 - Hard Conversations - 12 Days of Less Anxiety
TAP 494 - Leaning In - 12 Days of Less Anxiety
TAP 493 - Gratitude - 12 Days of Less Anxiety
TAP 492 - Matthew Quick - We Are The Light
TAP 491 - Tim on The Hidden Upside
TAP 490 - Enough
TAP 489 - Stop Trying to Change People
TAP 488 - Changing Careers
TAP 487 - Tim Shares His Story With Justine Carino
TAP 486 - Anxiety After Breakup
TAP 485 - More Experiences. Less Things.
TAP 484 - How To Engage More In Life
TAP 483 - Practice Doing Nothing
TAP 482 - All We Have is Now
TAP 481 - Being Comfortable Away From Home
TAP 480 - Social Media Hangover
TAP 479 - The Freedom of Unplugging
TAP 478 - Justine Carino on Dysfunctional Families, Workaholics and Why Our Brains Resist Change
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