Are you spending wasted time mind rating?

Hey Spartans!

Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up Podcast family. So today we're talking about mind reading.

Mind reading is when you make assumptions about what somebody else is thinking.

It's trying to read their mind.

The thing about it, though, is that it's really

a completely pointless exercise,

because unless you're a psychic or a medium

that actually has those abilities,

we can't ever know what somebody else is thinking

unless we ask them what they're thinking, right?

Now, yes, you may have friends or family, partner,

spouses who you have a general idea of what they're thinking most of the time some of the time maybe right but generally speaking we have no idea what's in somebody else's mind. But when we make assumptions about it

and engage in mind reading,

it can actually put us in positions

to impact our behavior and affect our feelings

in ways that aren't helpful.

So let me give you an example of that.

Let's say you've signed up for your first Spartan race.

Awesome, way to go.

But at work, you decide to tell a colleague, a trusted colleague, and the first thing out of their mouth is,

oh, really?

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