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Do You F*cking Mind?

148. This is why you need to stop explaining yourself

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.9915 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This episode goes into why over-explaining yourself can actually stop you from taking action, make you doubt yourself, and make you become easily swayed by what other people think you should do with your life. This episode will explain what you should be doing instead.

 

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0:00.0

Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to today's episode. So this episode is going to be all about

0:04.7

not explaining yourself or how to stop over-explaining yourself and just take action on something.

0:11.6

I'm going to go into why over-explaining yourself actually stops you from taking action. It makes

0:17.3

you over-analyze things. It makes you become more self-critical in a bad way.

0:21.7

It basically is a really, really, if you want to cock-block yourself from taking action,

0:26.4

then explain yourself to everybody. Explain why you're taking actions, why you think a certain way,

0:31.1

why this, why that, why that, okay? I'm going to get you to feel more confident and more

0:36.0

comfortable with your decision to do things without

0:38.7

the need to explain yourself, okay? And you're going to feel a lot better. Once you really

0:43.2

grasp all of this, you're going to feel a lot better about just doing things for yourself

0:47.4

without kind of announcing it to the world or making sure that people approve or making sure

0:52.0

that people agree, okay? Because if you keep doing that, you're going to,

0:56.5

it lowers your levels of motivation, it lowers your drive,

0:59.8

it makes you become more critical, it makes you become critical about things

1:03.1

that you don't even need to criticize,

1:04.9

and it stops you from doing the things that you want to be doing.

1:07.5

And it also makes you less confident within yourself.

1:12.5

So if that doesn't make you think, okay okay let me listen to this episode right now then i don't know what will okay before we do

1:16.9

that little bit of a life update i just came back from this from nusa from the sunshine coast um i grew up in

1:24.1

nusa with you know some amazing, obviously with my parents and my sister

1:27.8

and went to high school there, had some incredible friends and one of my best friends,

1:32.0

Sophie, got married and that's why I went up for the wedding and I stayed with one of my best

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