S6 EP2: Beating Your Confirmation Bias
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever set yourself up for a bad week? Or set yourself up to miss your workout? You might think that the answer is no, but it’s actually pretty easy to set yourself up for failure using your own confirmation bias. Instead, you want to set yourself up for success. Listen to Rachael and Kelsea discuss the concept of “predictive whining”, how to see possibilities rather than limitations, and why you need to understand that you can’t predict the future.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- What “predictive whining” means
- How predictive whining is a type of confirmation bias
- How your brain looks to confirm things for you
- How a mindset switch can help you
- Confirming that you’re going to be too tired to get in your workout
- Changing the way you look at your week and your workout
- Looking at your workout as something you’re doing for you, as a form of self-care
- Seeing possibilities rather than limitations
- What makes you feel defensive
- Understanding that you can’t predict the future
- Thinking about the things you do want to happen instead of the things you don’t want to happen
- Knowing you’re prepared
- Taking little steps
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And it's okay to feel defensive when you start to think about something like that. |
| 0:04.7 | But I always, I go to this for myself. |
| 0:07.8 | If I feel very defensive about anything that's said towards me, I always say, like, you need to |
| 0:13.8 | sit with that, whether you agree with it or don't. |
| 0:15.7 | You could come out with, I still don't agree with that at the end of the day. |
| 0:18.8 | But I always, always, always told myself, |
| 0:21.7 | if I have that strong of an emotional reaction or a defensive reaction to something that said about me, |
| 0:26.7 | I have to sit with it. |
| 0:28.2 | That's a rule for me. |
| 0:29.4 | Red flag. |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.4 | Red flag. |
| 0:30.9 | Why is this triggering me so much? |
| 0:33.3 | Why am I so upset? |
| 0:47.7 | The big question is this in a world of fake instagram models and bad diets how do real people achieve their fitness goals we are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:57.2 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:06.6 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:10.5 | Welcome to the Thigh Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:15.7 | Hi and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:19.6 | And I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:21.0 | And we are wearing the same sweatshirt right now. |
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