
Handling the “Mental Fire”
The Anxious Achiever
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How to Respond to Change and Difference in a Positive Way
We can either respond to change and difference by going through an auto pilot series of values and behaviour s we've been taught. Many times that starts with toxic competition, the idea that it's a zerosome game,. We must fight each other. And then perfection ism, which is the idea that we don't have any error to try anything new because everything must be perfect in a specific way all the time. Those automatic narratives hearken back to the sort of sense of fear and anxiety that a lot of people feel when their way is threatened. So i call that the culture about a pilot, which, it os happens, is automatic, but its not necessarily healthy or productive.
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