The Negativity Bias

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We're living our lives from the survive brain, 90% of the time and we're miserable. So here's a little mnemonic device that I've developed. The first A is aware, I'm aware I'm angry. The second A is I acknowledge it like I just did. And when you start practicing that it widens what we call the resilient zone. This is one of the things I talk about in terms of microchillers. These are little five minute exercises or less that really boost our confidence and boost our moods.

Bryan Robinson shares the small, but impactful practices that help us strike a healthier work-life balance.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The key difference between loving work and workaholism

2) How to keep your survive brain from overwhelming you

3) Four micro chillers that offset stress and boost your mood

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— ABOUT BRYAN —

Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, psychotherapist in private practice, and award-winning author of two novels and 40 nonfiction books that have been translated into 15 languages. He has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, ABC's World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, NBC Universal, the CBS Early Show, and The Marketplace on PBS. He hosted the PBS documentary “Overdoing It: How to Slow Down and Take Care of Yourself.” His book, Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them, is now in its third edition (New York University Press, 1998; 2007; 2014). He developed the Work Addiction Risk Test (WART), an instrument used worldwide to measure work addiction. He lives in Asheville with his spouse, one Yorkie, three Golden doodles, and Krishna, an adopted cat, who wandered into their lives, along with occasional bears at night.

• Bryan’s book: #Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life

• Bryan’s website: BryanRobinsonBooks.com

• Workaholic test: How Chill Are You?

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor Frankl

• Book: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

• Past episode: 267: Managing Self-Doubt to Tackle Bigger Challenges with Tara Mohr

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