ITL171: How to Beat Anxiety: The Simple Realizations That Erase Our Stress
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, I talk about the myths that keep us living in fear, and how to stop anxiety from ruling our lives.
The key to unlocking our confidence is examining our fear.
- If you could put people on a scale and see the level of fear in their lives, I am convinced smart people would be on the higher end of the scale.
- Smarter people have bigger imaginations, and possibly more opportunities for fear.
- If you know what fear is, you can determine the effect it has on your life.
- Fear is nothing but the misuse of the creative imagination that has been put in you.
In The Noticer, there is a section that is based on a real study of what's really happening during our episodes of stress and anxiety.
- 40% of what you worry about will never happen.
- 30% has already happened and is in the past.
- 12% has to do with totally needless imaginings.
- 10% involves petty little things about what other people think.
- 8% was left for legitimate concerns, and most of them we actually have control over—but we're using all our energy worrying about the other things.
You are in control—so direct your imagination to things that excite you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.5 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.5 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:18.6 | Andy, thank you once again for joining us. Thank you, David, and I'm excited |
| 0:22.9 | to be here. Love doing this. Excellent. Well, you are in the middle of right now, you know, |
| 0:29.0 | the earlier part of the year, the first few months, for some reason, has always been |
| 0:33.0 | busier for the corporate speaking schedule. And you're in the midst of traveling quite a bit. |
| 0:40.2 | Have you been able to rest at all recently or are you just going nonstop? |
| 0:45.3 | No, I'm spending a bunch of time with a family and, yeah, it's not nonstop. I mean, you know the calendar. |
| 0:53.9 | And I guess you don't really know what I'm doing |
| 0:56.4 | minute by minute when I'm not on the road, but I'm writing and spend a lot of time with Polly and the Boys. |
| 1:04.3 | That's fantastic, and we are excited about a book that we can't give all the details on just yet, but there is a new children's book |
| 1:13.3 | coming out very soon. And I know you're excited about that project. It's called, well, |
| 1:18.7 | why don't you tell us what it's called? You know me tell them the name of it? Absolutely. Why not? |
| 1:23.6 | I just actually saw it myself yesterday. And what did you think? I loved it. I thought |
| 1:30.8 | man, this video was called Henry Hodges. And man, I, you know, I mean, obviously I wrote it, |
| 1:37.3 | but it's, it is amazing what the illustrator did with this. I just, I love it. It really is. And kids are going to love this book, the illustration, the, um... And it's a rhyming story. Right. The, uh, the, uh, the, the, uh, the different animals are in there. Obviously, uh, there's humor. Uh, you're just an amazing storyteller. So we're really excited about that. I said we weren't |
| 2:01.5 | going to tell too many details, but apparently we're throwing that out the window. It doesn't matter. |
| 2:04.8 | Let me say this, the last night, you know, I got the book, and it was the first time I'd ever seen it. |
| 2:11.3 | And when I was writing this, and I was coming up, and we're not going to give away the farm here, |
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