Are you tired of that same old rehashed personal growth advice that all seems to boil down to?

Think positively and all your problems will go away.

If affirmations feel like lies and positive thinking feels like denial,

then I want you to get ready.

The overwhelmed brain is here to help you create the life you want now. Hello, this is Paul Kolyani, the host of the overwhelmed brain, the personal growth show for the critical thinker. the We'll talk about why we do the things we do and what we can do to reach higher levels of happiness and lower levels of stress and overwhelm.

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All right, everyone knows or has met at least one irrational person in their lives.

Whether it's a relative, a coworker, or even a friend, heck, even someone who is completely rational most of the time who suddenly loses it because something triggers him or her.

But unless they have some sort of psychosis,

there are ways to bring an irrational person

back to rational thought.

And for all intents and purposes, we'll call rational thought, quote, reality.

Let's just all agree for the sake of this episode that reality is when we experience life without adding our own meaning to it.

So when we're confronting an irrational person, they are usually adding their own meaning to a situation that may or may not be real.

For example, a restaurant patron could be yelling at the waiter about how cold his soup is.

Most people would consider yelling in this context to be a tad

irrational. I know I would as there are people starving right now who'd love a

cold bowl of soup so I would look over at this guy and think to myself how irrational he was being.

It would appear to me that the restaurant patron feels like he is being

disrespected and cheated. After all, if he paid $8 for a bowl of soup,

I'm sure he expects it to be hot.

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