How we take into consideration ourselves and the world, is what shapes how we expertise the world. Not solely does it form our expertise, however our considering is without doubt one of the fundamental drivers that determines our success in each avenue of life. Much of our considering might be useful for propelling us ahead in the direction of our objectives, however a lot of our considering is definitely UNHELPFUL and prevents us from attaining our objectives. To assist us take cost of our considering and use it for good, our knowledgeable immediately is Dr. Dona Locke.
The three massive questions we’re going to reply are:
1. What precisely are “thinking patterns”, and the way will we distinguish between these which can be useful and unhelpful?
2. Why will we generally default to unhelpful patterns of considering?
3. What steps can we take to start out utilizing useful considering patterns and psychological fashions to assist us obtain our objectives?
How to start out a Mayo Clinic Human Optimization Project “Pod-Club”:
Step 1: Find 2-30 mates who wish to get higher
Step 2: Choose your episodes (might be centered on particular themes or random)
Step 3: Listen to/watch the episodes
Step 4: Meet together with your group to work by the offered dialogue questions within the PDF for every episode, and be happy so as to add your personal!
Step 5: Celebrate the truth that you might be turning passive data into motion!
Discussion Questions for this Episode:
1) How do you personally outline “helpful” and “unhelpful” considering patterns? How does this relate to your prior conception of “positive vs. negative” ideas?
2) What are a number of the key traits that separate “helpful thinking” from “unhelpful thinking?”
3) What is an space of your life the place you are likely to expertise “unhelpful thinking patterns?” Why do you assume that is the case, and what are a number of the destructive impacts that end result?
4) If you had been in a position to shift your perspective from “positive vs. negative” considering to “helpful vs. unhelpful” considering, what advantages do you assume you’ll expertise?
5) Do you assume recognizing your considering as “helpful” vs. “unhelpful” will likely be simple or difficult? Go round your group and ask everybody if this will likely be simple or onerous for them. Then, ask why?
6) Once you’ll be able to acknowledge sure ideas as “unhelpful”, what methods will you employ to maneuver on and never perseverate on them (take into consideration the methods provided in part three of this episode).
7) Tell your group at the least one new factor (motion step) you will do or conduct you will undertake to enhance your considering on account of this episode?
8) After others checklist the "one new thing" of "action step" they’re going to do, assist them refine that to make it extra: clear, goal, measurable, and easy. The extra we will make our actions clear, goal, measurable, and easy, the extra possible we’re to do them and benefit from the course of!
0:00 Welcome to the Human Optimization Project
0:35 Introducing Dr. Dona Locke and Today’s Topic
2:00 What Are Thinking Patterns?
4:10 How Mental Models Shape Our Thinking
6:00 Helpful vs. Unhelpful — Key Differences
8:10 Why “Positive vs. Negative” Misses the Point
10:10 Common Traits of Unhelpful Thinking Patterns
13:00 Cognitive Biases and Self-Talk Distortions
16:00 Qualities of Helpful Thinking Patterns
18:50 Why We Default to Unhelpful Thoughts
22:00 Biology and the Brain’s Problem-Solving Bias
25:10 Managing the “Smoke Alarm” of the Mind
29:40 Recognizing and Reframing Your Inner Narrator
36:00 Practical Steps for Building Helpful Thought Habits
45:00 Final Insights and Challenge to the Audience
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