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2283: [Part 1] Shut Up and Be Patient by Mark Manson on Psychological Inertia & Emotional Habits

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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The Importance of Changing Your Mind

We all have this greater inner psychological inertia in us. Externally, we may be these lithe and fun little com bulations of talkative flesh. But internally, psychologically, we are all these massive steamships that take their sweep picking time just o turn enough to not hit an iceberg. This is because our minds are essentially accumulations of habits. And if you want to change them, that is, change your identity, how you perceive yourself or how you adapt to the world, well you'd better slam that steering wheel to the side and be ready to hit a couple of icebergs - ships this big don't turn so well.

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