If you ever said my kid is killing me, my partner drives me crazy, my boss makes me go in saying

this job is driving me mad and at the end of my arrive at my mind max and back, I'm stressed out of my mind. I'm starving. That is the lie. And if you want to lie to yourself, which we all do, tell yourself a better life.

I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet

to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit and

work. I am thrilled to be here and thrilled to talk to you all. I spent 33 years studying

human behavior. People think that human behavior is very complex but it really isn't. It's actually very, very simple and one of the things that will help you to understand why we get

so anxious when we're in changes that we are wired to react much more to loss than to change.

I'm going to say in half an hour talking about your wiring, why you do what you do.

And when you know why you do what you do, then you can do what you want to do, not what you do do.

So I'm going to take you through a lot of stuff.

I'm going to almost condense 30 years of human behavior into 30 minutes and that's okay because you just have to

know some very simple things. So let's talk about your mind. We're in a place in

the world now where there's so much uncertainty. I know that I left America on June the 20th for a month and discovered that after I got to London. I can't actually get back into America and no one knows when I can go back.

They're saying maybe December even though I have a visa and a work permit. It's a lot of

uncertainty. I've left my house, my cats. my house has been flooded while I'm here, all kinds of stuff has gone on.

So I've got a lot of uncertainty and human beings have an important need. Here it is. We need certainty. That is a human need. I need certainty.

Well, how can I have it when my house is flooded? I don't know when I can go back to America, my daughter's dad just died and

there's all kinds of stuff going on.

But in the midst of all of that, it all comes down to how you dialogue with you the way you feel about everything the

virus your job your relationship your body your health your emotional well being is

down to two things, only two.

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