Mindset Flashcards
Repetition
What is the pain motivator?
Strenuous work, (Toxic dust)
“If I do not do it, who will” = _________?
Ownership
The only thing that matters?
How you feel about yourself when you are by yourself.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and weak minds discuss people.
If you feel Burnout?
Stop immediately, must avoid a mortality event
Goal-based judgment calls
“Does it move me to my goals and current objectives” Simple way to make decisions and filter emotions
Goals must have? Three things
WHAT, HOW, and a by WHEN
When getting answers, information from people
Yes, no, or a restraining order
Be obsessed with “ “
“Is it working or not” Do not tie up your self-esteem in it
Be skeptical of your ideas
Skeptical of everything. Dont lose self confidence
Anti-fragile identity
Learner
Don’t praise the intelligence, Praise ______?
Praise the process
Excuses are__________?
Real and terrifyingly valid. They will destroy you.
The last 10% takes as much as ____________
as the first 90%. Recognize when you need to just push through.
Balance obsession and delusion
The delusion will give you something larger than life to shoot for.
Growth mindset =
Believing you are not limited by your current position or how you were born
False growth mindset =
Thinking you’re growing, but not making any progress towards goals/objectives
Extreme Ownership
Own everything
Attributing Agency to Difficulty
Giving power to difficulty. Do not let it happen
Physiological immune system
Designed to protect you, but will lie to you. “It’s okay you didn’t get the job, you didn’t want it anyway”
Alway find a path to YES
You are a meaning-making machine
Deep limbic system- the only job is to assign meaning. Right or wrong
Your brain uses shortcuts
Heuristics. Made to save energy, but make sure you make good ones or they will fuck you up faster and more efficiently
Your brain has modes: Sympathetic and parasympathetic
Sympathetic- fight or flight
Parasympathetic- Rest and Digest
Thinking: All or Nothing
Black or white, Success or Failure. Nothing in between
Thinking: Overgeneralizing
When you apply one detail of a scenario to every aspect of your life.
Thinking: Catastrophizing
When you imagine the domino effect of a worst-case scenario
Thinking: Personalization
Making everything about you, whether it applies or not
Thinking: Mind reading
When you convince yourself that you know what people are thinking.
Thinking: Mental filtering
Focusing on the negative and ignoring the positive. We tend to assume the negative to protect ourselves (Survival instinct)
Thinking: Emotional reasoning
Inaccurate belief that your emotions are the truth. There is no relationship between feelings and truth
You are having a biological experience
Tug of war between mind and physics
Thinking: Labeling
Basing your identity on a single behavior, characteristic, or event
Thinking: Fortune Telling
Predicting the future through the lens of your beliefs. Beliefs are assigned meanings and narratives about yourself and the world. If your beliefs are negative you will predict a negative outcome. This is the root of anxiety.
Brain and body are a singular unit
Body talks to brain (Gut Biome). Deep limbic system will take signals from body to assign meaning to external events. (Chile Enchilada)
“What you allow yourself to repeat…
…you will become.”
“You’re never going to be able to move forward in the way that you want…UNLESS…
You can compel yourself to act.”
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 1
Optimize your mind and body
Sleep, meditate, exercise, diet, joyful connection
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 2
Get hyped on yourself
-earn self-credibilty
1. set small goal
2. achieve the goal
3. never waiver (no excuses)
4. repeat
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 3
aim to something you care deeply about
-gives you energy-
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 4
build discipline into self-identity
“I’m the type of person who _________”
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 5
trap yourself with congruence
tell other people, create another source of accountability
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 6
create a discipline rule set
-what are the things you must do-
1. Be extremely truthful (it makes you act truthfully)
2. Dont allow impulse decisions
3. Think to create action. Act to create new thoughts
4. Mix in the inevitable overhead work.
5. What you start, is what you finish (Be careful of what you start)
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 7
Make failure hard
-Simplify and eliminate decisions
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 8
reward and punish yourself
Carefully, 80% reward - 20% punish until you get a handle on yourself
Steps to iron-clad discipline
Step 9
surround yourself with disciplined people
-like everything, surround yourself with people who have what you want.
Creating Clarity
Step 1
Quiet your mind
-Find a quiet centered space to create clarity
Creating Clarity
Step 2
Decide what you’re going to want
1. starter business to buy a larger business
stop comparing yourself to others
comparison is the thief of joy
Creating Clarity
Step 3
identify the person living your ideal life
-list five things (Not RSTLE) about them