Complaining can be a very good diagnostic tool for identifying the actual problems in our life. The key is not just to sit around complaining about the same things year by year to learn how the important issues affect us and how to fix them.
Awareness of the major flaws in our situation and mindsets allows us to make a strategy for how we want to address them going forwards and build a life we don't complain about.
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Chapters
00:00 Problems and illusions of the mind
00:41 General framework for complaints
01:28 3 types of problems
01:59 1st type of problem - the problem you want to have
02:35 2nd type of problem - the problem you can do nothing about
04:01 3rd problem - the problems you do not want to have
04:50 Issues of fixed mindsets
05:57 Community and purpose
07:15 Too many interests and desires
10:29 Assessing the scale of a problem
11:56 How our problems change over time
13:01 Turning complaints into tools
15:00 Some wise words
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Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement