1045: How to Stop Overthinking and Build Mental Resilience with Joseph Nguyen

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Nguyen discusses the hidden relationship between thinking and suffering—and offers a powerful framework for achieving peace of mind.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to spot and stop negative judgments

2) How to PAUSE overthinking

3) How to beat procrastination with SPA

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— ABOUT JOSEPH —

Joseph Nguyen is the author of the #1 international bestselling book, Don't Believe Everything You Think, which has been translated into 40+ languages. He is a writer who helps others realize who they truly are beyond their own thinking and conditioning to live an abundant life free from psychological and emotional suffering. When he's not busy petting his three cats that he's allergic to, he spends the rest of his time writing, teaching, speaking, and sharing timeless wisdom to help people discover their own divinity from within and how they are the answer they’ve been looking for their entire lives.

• Book: Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering (Beyond Suffering)

• Website: JosephNguyen.org

• YouTube: @itsjosephnguyen

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: "A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy One" by Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert

• Book: Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success by Napoleon Hill

• Past episode: 429: A Navy SEAL’s Surprising Key to Building Unstoppable Teams: Caring

• Past episode: 1037: A Better Approach to Chasing Goals: Tiny Experiments with Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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0:00.0	Although we can't change the event or even our initial thought of it, we can always let go of the thinking or judgment about whatever is going on.
0:19.1	And that's where the power lies.
0:22.7	Thoughts have no power over us unless we believe them to be true. So the belief in the judgment is what causes this suffering
0:29.5	and is the difference. Peace comes from being present. It is a natural byproduct of doing so.
0:37.3	The more that we are able to do that,
0:39.2	that's the happier we would be for sure.
0:50.6	That's Joseph Wynn. He's the author of multiple books, including the number one international
0:54.8	bestseller, Don't Believe Everything You Think. Through his writing, he helps others live an abundant
1:00.2	life free from psychological and emotional suffering. So you'll learn one, how to spot and stop
1:06.0	negative thoughts, two, how to pause overthinking, and three, how to beat procrastination with SPA.
1:14.3	And if you like a summary write-up with these actionable takeaways,
1:16.9	I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter at awesome at your job.com.
1:22.4	I'm Pete McItis.
1:23.6	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:25.1	And now, here's Joseph.
1:30.7	Joseph, welcome.
1:32.0	Thank you so much for having me, Pete.
1:33.8	Well, I'm excited to talk about your area of expertise.
1:39.7	Your book, Don't Believe Everything You Think, has just taken off tremendously. Congratulations.
1:46.5	And the title is so good. It's so funny, Amazon Auto Complaints. If you type, don't believe
1:54.5	everything you think. It's like, nice. Yeah, that's a great advertisement, I guess, and a great, just a slogan just to have all
2:02.8	over Amazon.
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