one way to separate yourself from what ever thought…
Page 32 one way to separate yourself from what ever thought is stressing you out is to remember that your mind is bringing it up to help you in someway. Your job is to then to look at that thought and determine whether you were getting worked up unnecessarily.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Let That Sht Go*
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When you need the real reason buried under a problem, ask why five times in a row until you strike bedrock; and protect the slow system from the fast one the way Kahneman did, refusing on principle to say yes to a request on the phone, because the quick answer is so rarely the wise one. Manage the inner voice. When a thought is strangling you, learn to step back and see it as just a thought — a passing appearance of words, not a fact; practice changing your inner dialogue, or stopping it altogether for stretches of the day. Watch your emotions as they rise and name them in the moment, which slips a sliver of space between the feeling and whatever you do about it. — The Mind in the Cockpit
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