Catastrophizing // SPARTAN MIND 020

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes when we encounter struggle or a challenge we transform what might be best identified as a small problem into a catastrophe. You know the phrase, “turning a molehill into a mountain.” So that’s an actual psychological phenomenon called, Catastrophizing. This way of thinking can get you into trouble, however, because not all problems are catastrophes. In order to remain balanced and grounded human beings it’s important that are responses to problems are congruent with the degree of challenge in front of us.

LESSONS:
Catastrophizing: When you transform a small problem into a catastrophe and act accordingly.
Take each problem as it comes and use a grading system to help you if you need. Ask yourself, Is this an emergency, a large problem, medium problem, small problem, or insignificant.
Remember, the more sound your responses are to certain problems, the more capable you will feel in your ability to handle them.

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0:00.0	Hey Spartans, are you catastrophizing?
0:04.0	Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here with Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up podcast family. I'm here every Wednesday
0:16.7	giving you little nuggets about how to clear that junk in your mind so that you can race better and live better. And today we're talking
0:25.0	about catastrophizing. So catastrophizing is when basically you make a
0:30.5	mountain out of a mole hill, right?
0:33.0	That's the saying, I think.
0:34.5	So it's when you experience something
0:37.2	that may actually not be a catastrophe,
0:40.2	but the way that you respond to it is if it was a catastrophe.
0:46.5	And the reason why this cannot be so great for your thinking and certainly not be so great
0:51.6	for your performance in life is because you want your responses
0:55.1	to be congruent with what's in front of you, right?
0:58.6	So if I, for example, got like a paper cut and then I threw a total tantrum about that paper cut and like reamed somebody out because of it.
1:06.7	Like that would not be very helpful, right? Or let's say you're on a Spartan race and you trip and you fall and all of a sudden you're like well now I'm a
1:15.5	DNF. Well not really you just tripped and you fall you got to get back up again and keep going
1:20.0	okay so one of the tools that I like to use to sort of back away from this issue of
1:26.5	catastrophizing is to use like a scale to basically grade the experience in terms of how much of an emergency it really is.
1:36.2	So ask yourself, is this an emergency?
1:39.3	Is this a big problem?
1:41.2	A medium problem? A little problem, or is this rather insignificant?
1:46.9	And then ask yourself, and is my response to what's happening, congruent with the level of that emergency.
1:55.0	That's going to help you stop catastrophizing and help you respond better to the things that you're experiencing.
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