From the course: Becoming Indistractable
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Coping with personal internal triggers
From the course: Becoming Indistractable
Coping with personal internal triggers
- If we are going to manage distraction, we have to figure out healthier ways to deal with these internal triggers. Now, we talked a lot about these internal triggers that originate in the workplace, but what about all the other internal triggers that plague us throughout the day? Loneliness, boredom, fatigue, how do we deal with these uncomfortable sensations? Well, psychologists tell us that there's two ways. We can either fix the problem, or we can find ways to learn how to cope. Let me share a few strategies for learning how to cope in a healthy way with these internal triggers. The first way is to note the sensation. Psychologists tell us that by simply giving a name to what it is that we are experiencing, what is that internal trigger, we begin to have power over it. The next step is to get curious about that sensation. You know, a lot of people, when they feel something they don't really want to feel, they ignore it, they stuff it down. But in fact, psychologists tell us that's…
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