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Area: Thinking
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Talk to yourself in the second person
'You can handle this' works better than 'I can handle this', and the reason is not mystical.
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Reinterpret the situation instead of suppressing the feeling
Pushing an emotion down costs more and works less than changing what the event means.
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Name the worry a time and postpone it until then
You are not trying to stop worrying. You are trying to make it keep an appointment.
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Stop believing willpower is a fuel tank
The idea that self-control depletes like a battery failed to replicate, badly.
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Do not just visualise the outcome
Fantasising about success measurably reduces the effort you put in. There is a fix.
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Write to find out whether you actually have a thought
Most of what feels like thinking dissolves the moment you try to write it in full sentences.
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Ask what would have to be true for you to be wrong
Considering the opposite is one of the few debiasing techniques that actually holds up.