3352: The Habit of Calm When You’re Feeling Frustrated by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits on Personal Growth

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3352: Leo Babauta offers practical steps to build the habit of staying calm during moments of frustration. By noticing habitual reactions like shutting down or lashing out, and learning to pause, breathe, and open up with compassion, Babauta shows how you can shift from anger to connection, leading to more thoughtful and empathetic responses. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://zenhabits.net/frustrating/ Quotes to ponder: "This comes from the hope that things will be calm, orderly, simple, solid, and under control. The world doesn’t comply with this hope so we get frustrated and angry." "Once you practice this, you get more and more comfortable being in the middle of frustration, and you don’t need to relieve the feeling by lashing out." "The problem is your closed heart. Try not indulging in that shutting down, and opening yourself a little." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is optimal living daily. The habit of calm when you're feeling frustrated by
0:06.8	Leibabouda of Zen Habits.net and I'm just a molecule very own personal
0:11.2	narrator today and everyday. Me narrating means there
0:14.8	are no interviews on this show. It's just a short podcast where we can both
0:18.8	improve our lives one day at a time. So with that let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:25.0	The habit of calm when you're feeling frustrated by Leobabouta of Zen Habits.net.
0:35.0	Someone recently asked me about getting frustrated when they feel overloaded
0:40.0	and then shutting down or lashing out.
0:44.0	Quote, this has been something I've struggled with for most of my life.
0:49.0	At an instance today where I could have been more calm and rational about the situation, but calm and rationality gave way to
0:56.4	frustration and anger. I'm wondering what habits I can use instead to keep from falling into fits of anger."
1:05.0	This probably sounds familiar to some of us. We feel overloaded and then maybe lash out
1:11.0	at someone in frustration and anger.
1:13.8	This comes from the hope that things will be calm, orderly, simple, solid, and under control.
1:21.9	The world doesn't comply with his hope however as it is chaotic
1:26.4	disorder constantly changing never fixed and groundless so get frustrated, angry at others and feel anxiety. So how do we
1:37.1	deal with the frustration that arises? How can we create a habit of calm?
1:43.8	I'm going to share a series of practices that you can turn into habits.
1:48.8	When you notice yourself feeling frustrated instead of lashing out,
1:52.4	practice the following.
1:54.0	If you practice them over and over, whenever you notice frustration,
1:58.0	you will start to shift.
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