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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
Learned optimism
- by Martin Seligman