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Harvard Professor Says THIS Is the Secret to Success (It’s Not What You Think)

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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The Importance of Approaching Anxiety

The opposite of avoidance is approach. Do you just tell the person to get over it and get back to work? The first one is the perception of threat, right? You've flown many times before in your life, but now your brain convinced you that that flight was a threat, a perceived threat. It's not a real danger, it's a perception. And so I have done this over and over and over again in my life. If I just don't do it, then I'm going to be okay, but you actually make it worse.

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