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Do You F*cking Mind?

164. Are ultimatums toxic or necessary?

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

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Are ultimatums toxic or necessary?

 

Let’s talk ultimatums. When are they healthy and when are they toxic? Can you give an ultimatum and not be controlling?

 

I answer all your questions on this podcast episode and give you a whole lot to think about if and when you want to give an ultimatum.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.4

This is something that I think is that everyone has a love, hate relationship around the concept

0:11.2

of an ultimatum. I think a lot of people think that automatically an ultimatum is a toxic behavior.

0:16.7

It's a way to control somebody and other people look at ultimatums as setting a boundary.

0:21.3

I'm actually going to break down how to look at ultimatums and how you should use ultimatums

0:28.1

and also how you should interpret when somebody is giving you an ultimatum, okay?

0:32.9

So I did put the call out on my Instagram and I asked, I put a few question boxes and I asked

0:38.6

how many people think ultimatums are a good thing. I also asked when have you ever been given

0:45.1

an ultimatum or when have you given one and what was it? And then lastly, I asked you guys to ask

0:49.9

me questions around the concept of ultimatum. So I'm going to be going through all of that

0:53.9

in this episode. There is so much to talk about. So I'm going to be going through all of that in this

0:54.3

episode. There is so much to talk about. So I'm not going to give you a life update. I'm not going to go

0:59.4

into a brain fact today. We're going straight into the ultimatums. Okay, so firstly, let's figure out

1:06.6

what, let's talk about what it is. So it's a tool that can be used to set a clear boundary,

1:11.9

and it really should just be used for that.

1:14.9

That's how I want you to be looking at an ultimatum

1:17.1

if you're ever thinking about using it.

1:19.1

It means, and if you look it up as far as a dictionary is concerned,

1:22.1

it means a final proposition, a final condition or demand.

1:26.2

It is a warning that unless something changes, action will be

1:30.1

taken. So really think about that when you are considering giving an ultimatum. You have to really mean it

1:37.1

because you're saying this is the final condition. And if these conditions are broken, I'm the one

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