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The 1 Mindset Shift That Will Save You 7 Hours of Worrying a Week
The art of reframing and resetting
Self-help is naturally grandiose.
It has to be. It’s overbaked by nature. It’s not false because it probably has worked for someone somewhere but results are always mixed. It’s why a good handful of people that read self-help continue to do so forever. As if constantly iterating and learning with new lessons.
You don’t ever finish with self-help, although Mark Manson will tell you differently. Or maybe I just can’t appreciate his view yet.
Educational vs. curative
Self-help isn’t curative so much as it is educational. It’s a repertoire to lean into should you need it, when you need it. It’s not one-read fixes all.
That being said, there are psychological tricks and tips that you come across sometimes which are game-changing. Those things that seem to just click and genuinely change your life. Not in a revolutionary way.
It’s not like you read a book and you’re cured forever. It’s more the case that you learn something and your outlook changes, and that changes lead to a tangible change in happiness.
That’s what happened to me when I learnt about reframing.
