Rather, they’re seeing the world as they expect to see it or because they’ve organized it into

When you automatically respond in whatever unhelpful way you do, you’re hooked.

Walking Your Why

there are seven basic emotions: joy, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, contempt and disgust.

go. That is why we need to treat emotions and thoughts in the same way we treat those corporate reports, as mere position papers, subject to our evaluation, rather than as representations of solid reality leading to action points.

Unfortunately, trying not to do something takes a surprising amount of mental bandwidth

here’s what experiences of sadness, anger, guilt or fear can do:

His old uncomfortable thought process simply didn’t serve him anymore.

Hook 1: Thought-blaming