If you're only being productive under certain circumstances, certain very specific circumstances,

then you're essentially training yourself to be unproductive in all the other circumstances.

So most other situations, you're not going to be as productive

unless you have X Y Z right. And that usually isn't helpful because that perfect

state that perfect situation is not going to be easy to get in it's not going to be

portable so you're not going to be able to get into that state wherever you are

unless it involves like just a specific meditation that gets you in the right head

space or something like that but in general

you're not going to be able to get yourself into that perfect state before you start

working so in most other situations you know you're going to kind of be like I'm not

feeling it, right?

Instead, it's more helpful to train yourself

and learn how to get work done regardless of the situation.

Hey everybody, before we start the show,

I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general,

and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to

feel it out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's

okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am

a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

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