Are Your Words Succinct And Your Thoughts Useful? QTL | 030

This episode of Question This Life is a solo episode with your host. 

Key Topics: 

 

PART 1

- Being succinct. The challenge of getting your thoughts out through your spoken word quickly and succinctly. 

- The challenges of being long-winded, struggling to get your thoughts out quickly. 

- The feeling like your words are slower than your thoughts - playing catch up with what's already coming out of your mouth. 

- The interesting different types of personalities that you come across in social situations - how people deal with communicating differently. 

- The feeling of 'missing your turn' to speak - in conversation, especially in a group setting. 

- Coming to terms with the fact that you don't have to feel pressured to be entertaining, funny, insightful, interesting - you can also just 'be' there. 

- The advice from professional comedians - including Tony Hinchliffe - regarding removing unnecessary fat and detail from your jokes, and integrating this advice into day-to-day life. 

 

PART 2

- How much the 'stories' we make up in our minds influence our reality - keeping aware of this. 

- An example from the host's week gone by where the possibility to overthink, and make more of a nothing situation, was present and was caught just in time. 

- How your 'inner child' traumas still have the ability to influence your life today, unhelpfully making mountains out of molehills in your mind.

- Remembering the concept that the opinion other people have about you is absolutely none of your business. 

- Remembering the concepts of abundance and gratitude -whenever the possibility to overthink and make negative stories in your mind pops up. 

- Not allowing your mind to wander, and get yourself derailed when fear or anxiety pops up, but rather always choosing to be grateful for what you do have, and remembering that you have everything you need. 

- The concept of not harbouring fear or resentment with anyone from your past - but rather learning from the experience, integrating any pain and suffering and becoming stronger. 

- Realising that when you go through multiple scenarios in your mind this is you causing yourself stress, causing yourself worry - and not helping the situation whatsoever. 

- The principle of sending positive wishes to the people who inluenced you negatively in the past well, 'praying' for them, empathising with their situation that made them so negative to you, and integrating that positive emotion switch into your frame of mind. 

- Realising that all the fear, doubt, worry and pain suffered in the past sharpens you, makes you stronger and points you into the direction where you actually want to go. 

- Realising that if you are doing something unique, worthwhile and interesting - following your heart and your passions - this will definitely rub people up the wrong way. Negative feedback from negative people can also be a sign you are doing things right.

 

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