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Sustainable Minimalists

The Negativity Bias

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

If you're like most humans, 70-percent of your thoughts each day skew negative.  The good news? You aren't your thoughts; you're the observer. On today's show therapist Risa Williams shows us how to break free of the negativity bias that afflicts our species once and for all. Here's a preview: [1:00] No-Spend Reset wrap-up! Here are the biggest takeaways from you, our listeners [8:30] The real-life and real-time benefits of being the observer [11:30] How to catch your bias towards negativity *before* you spiral [17:00] Whatever you decide to instantly re-play in your brain impacts your mood. Is it time to change the channel? [38:00] Changes to the podcast are a-comin'! Now's your time for public comment   Resource mentioned:  The Motivation Mindset podcast   -- Resources mentioned: This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0

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1:00.8

Well, hello my friends, welcome back.

1:05.0

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 439 of sustainable minimalists.

1:11.1

This is a show about intentional, eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's

1:16.1

show we're discussing the why and how behind observing your thinking patterns. Oh yes we are. now before we get into that I must say we

1:25.1

actually have a three-part smorgas board show today. Part one is we're

1:29.9

wrapping up our no-spend reset, which happened last month in January. I have some thoughts. I asked

1:36.9

you for all your thoughts, so we're going to do that before the interview. If you have no desire

1:41.4

to wrap up the no-spend challenge, you can skip ahead a couple minutes, maybe to about minute six, and you'll get into the interview.

1:48.0

So no-spend wrap-up, that's part one. Part two is our interview on observing our thoughts. And then part 3 after the

1:57.0

interview, so that part where nobody usually listens, I really would love it if you

2:01.8

listen today because I'm giving you some housekeeping issues on the future of this podcast.

2:08.0

Things are a change in around here and so I hope you will stay until after the interview to hear all of that.

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