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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday morning. What kind of person

do you think you are? Take a moment to think about how you think about yourself and how

maybe you think others think about you. Do you see yourself as an inherently happy person

as an anxious person, an excitable person? I think very often we will have a fixed idea

of how we see ourselves and how we think others might see us. I know a number of different

people who have said to me, can I am a really sort anxious person? And I understand the

sentiment and I understand the feeling, the emotion they're talking about. But I wonder

sometimes if we somehow limit ourselves by thinking of ourselves in that way as just

a particular type of way we may well be the kind of person who is predisposed to a particular

type of emotion, a particular type of thinking. We might be a person who frequently experiences

a particular type of thinking or a particular type of emotion, but that's not who we are.

We simply experience that emotion more frequently than other emotions. We simply think about

those things more than we do other things. And that's a really important differentiation

to make. Because if we live within the confines thinking that we are only a sad person, an

anxious person, an angry person, if we're thinking about other people, oh, they're a really

angry person. As soon as we do that, we kind of start to limit ourselves, we start to

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