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The Non-Anxious Leader Podcast

Episode 193: How to Make Your Anxiety Work for You

Sep 19, 2022
08:41
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Discover how anxiety can be beneficial for your mental health and happiness. Learn how to reframe anxiety and utilize it for motivation, creativity, and social connection.
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Quick takeaways

  • Reframing anxiety as a positive force helps harness its advantages for protection, creativity, social connection, and persistence.
  • Anxiety motivates perseverance and creates a belief in positive outcomes, while reframing anxiety as excitement can be more effective in managing it.

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Reframing Anxiety as a Positive

Anxiety is not inherently bad; it is our emotional processing of anxiety that can make it detrimental. By reframing anxiety as a positive force, we can harness its evolutionary advantage for protection, creativity, social connection, and persistence. Rather than trying to eliminate or suppress anxiety, we should focus on mastering how to feel anxious.

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