Wie erfolgreiche Menschen Angst als Antrieb nutzen

0:00How do you define stress? Um, great question. I might have written it down, so I'll give you a better answer. This is why the book is so useful. [laughter] I write things down so I don't have to remember them, which is a there's a great um there's a great uh meme where it's the it's like the John Cena meme where he's like like you know, like can't believe it. It's like I I write things down so I won't have to uh remember them. And it's like I write things down so that I can remember them.

0:30It's like wait what? [laughter] Um see if I can find it here. Yeah. Um so I observe anxiety occurring when there are many priorities. Sorry. Many many choices and um unclear priorities.

1:02Basically, there's conflict because if you think about like what is a decision, right? A decision is that you cut off options, right? It's the you know, it's a the opposite of having to make a decision is making a commitment, which is the elimination of alternatives. And so there was significantly le like if you replay the the game the levels of a video game and you already know how to beat all the you know the first four levels you have very little anxiety because you know exactly what you need to do. And so I think that anxiety comes up when you don't know what to do and you typically don't know what to do when you have too many options and not enough priorities.

1:43the other successful people that you've spent time with, have you noticed that any of them have proclivities toward stress? >> Sure. I think there's I mean Leila's super stressed and she's very successful. Given that you two have done similar amounts of volume, is it really just the areas that she's inexperienced with or has done less volume that she's stressed about or I think she she's like this is kind of like the the Doberman versus whatever scenario she I think she has for whatever reason a more natural proclivity towards anxiety. I have one that's more tends towards anger. Um I don't see that as good. I don't see that as bad. just as it is what it is. And I think we've both used, you know, don't overanalyze your pleasure, don't over analyze your fuel. Um, there have been many times that her anxiety has served her, right? She uses that kind of like frenetic energy and she just channels it towards getting things done. Um, and I probably do the same thing just from an anger perspective. And so this is why I think that we we you know, I think it it's more helpful to not feel like you are beholden or that you are broken there's something wrong with you for experiencing human emotions. I think it's just what do you what do you get from them? Because if you can have a negative emotion and make something positive from it, was it a negative emotion?

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