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Outcomes
Daily meaningful activities
using skills you already have
gets you into flow.
Flow frequently brings outcomes:
- emotional outcomes (makes us happy)
- material outcomes (fruits of our labour)
Outcomes keep us going.
But sometimes...
we get derailed by bad mood
- by negative events or emotions around us
- due to our own failing
- by recalling a negative past
and lose our flow.
Negativity captures our attention
more than positivity.
So we stay down
due to the negative feedback loop:
Negativity and pessimism reinforce themselves.
We need emotional stability to keep us going.
Negativity hinders progress
Hamster in a box
...
Learned helplessness
[Martin Seligman]
-V-
Baby Elephant Syndrome
...
Hamster Procrastination Cycle
- Do nothing
- Have regrets
- Doubt yourself
- Feel helpless
- GOTO 1
How to break out?
Time Perspectives
[Philip Zimbardo]
- positive past
- negative past
- present
- future
Focusing on
positive past- negative past
- present
future
results in a hamster, depressions.
Refocusing on
- positive past
negative pastpresent- future
breaks out of the hamster.
Positive Cycle of Flow
- Do meaningful actions
- Feel good
- Growing skills
- Believe in yourself
- GOTO 1
How to orient yourself towards the future?
Personal Vision
How to perceive your past positively?
Choice of attitude
We are free to choose our reaction to events.
[Viktor Frankl]
We choose how we interpret our past.
TOOL: Choice of attitude
(originally named Inner-game; not related to Timothy Gallwey’s work)
Interpreting seemingly negative events
as neutral or even positive.
Event → 😟/😐/😀
Default:
Failure → 😟
Choice:
Failure → 😐/😀
Micro-habit that can be trained.
Learned optimism
- by Martin Seligman