Welcome to Spartan Mind, the newest addition to the Spartan Up Podcast family. I'm Dr. L, Spartan's chief Mindoc.

I'm going to be here each Wednesday bringing you back to the couch to toughen up your mind to get you super uncomfortable, working you through a little internal barbed wire so that you can increase your physical execution and your performance in life.

So keep listening to the Spartan Up podcast that you're used to on Tuesdays.

You'll find me here on Wednesdays and Spartan Way habits on Thursdays.

Now that's a trifecta. factor.

Hey Spartans, today we're talking about filtering.

Filtering is one of those mindset traps that we all have a tendency to fall into.

And really what filtering is is filtering out the positive and focusing in on the negative. And we all

all struggle with this from time to time sometimes just where we filter

is different from person to person.

And the reason why it's important to talk about

filtering is because filtering can really

decrease our confidence and lower our self-esteem. Now a lot of people

actually filter on purpose because they feel like focusing in on the

negative is going to motivate them to do

better and keep them in check. But I can tell you right now that we're actually not

very good at that. Filtering, as we know from data, really doesn't make us

feel very good about ourselves.

So here's an example of filtering, one that I know I've fallen into and maybe you have to.

You present a project to somebody and nearly everybody in the room afterwards comes up to you and says

that was so great, oh my gosh I loved it, you were so funny here or that was so smart, I never

would have thought of that. But then you've got that one person who comes up to you afterwards and points out something that just feels a little negative, like a little thorny.

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