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Resilience, Grit, Toughness and Learning How to Do Hard Things

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Turning Down the Dial of the Thought, Feeling, Behavior Pattern

A lot of toughness is actually learning how to do that, not only with your voices, but your feelings and emotions. So it's basically a don't take any of your thoughts or voices in your head too seriously. And depending on the situation, you're going to have to go one of two ways. The way i kind of like to conceptialize it for turning that dial is we can either zoom in or we can zoom out. There's some fascinating research that says, again, if we get stck on the narrow like, let's say you have this feeling that's just cycling over and over and over again in your head, and your your inner voice is stuck on like

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