I particularly like the act on impulse, I hold back for many fears, insecurity, confidence, failure, shyness, the list goes on and on. As soon as I feel an impulse to do something all of these things become my brake. Sometimes on rare occasions I can force myself into leaving my mind empty after I get an impulse, thus not permitting those doubts to get in and inhibit me from taking action or effecting my choices. I would be so much further along with my online project of sending moments of calm out into the world if I had of acted on impulses. I will keep what you said in the front of my mind ready for the next opportunity.
I was very impressed, and I can be a little picky, as evidenced by my next comment that I, as a psychologist, felt compelled to touch on. When Robbins alludes to the infamous Psych 101 courses and references one of the field's greatest theorists at the time, Abraham Maslow (and his Hierarchy of Needs). Robbins referred to him as "Andrew," which is close, but no cigar; however, for someone outside of the field, it's quite impressive.
With the overabundance of topics inundating nearly every form of social media, of the millions of 'talks' that have been given, more than half of them lack a quality (I fall in this category, too) that leaves me feeling slight disappointment in my poor selection choice, as well as the time I gave up that could have been better spent elsewhere to achieve more. I feel cheated at times.
Perhaps I have not learned which of the multitude of TED Talk arenas that now exist are of superior quality, because after watching this, and others in the past, I KNOW THEY EXIST! WHERE ARE THEY?! I'm tired of quantity, I want quality! While everyone deserves their chance to shine, I want to be intellectually stimulated and challenged by people who have the awareness, the courage, and the insight to go deep and be real.
I can't be the only person who feels this way, can I? I don't want to respond to a colleague's questions about how so many Ted Talks are 'fine." On that note, I'll reiterate once again that Mel Robbins' talk surpassed 'fine." Clearly, she inspired me to the point where I felt compelled to speak my mind.
I had a terrible problem with addiction and procrastination but have been spontaneously cured! The only way I could have been more inspired is if you wouldn't have sold us short on the four hundred trillion thing (there are actually 3 more zero's). Maybe that side of your brain was busy balancing autopilot and e-brake.
It also made me realize that to achieve something and get what you want, you have to just force yourself no matter how badly you want that doughnut or want to hit the snooze button etc. Especially when she said that we will never want to do what it takes. She's right in every way. All we want is that brain autopilot mode and we don't want to do anything that puts us out of our comfort zone. We get too used to being comfortable. There's a motto I like that's along the lines of "a man must master his circumstances or risk being mastered by them" which emphasizes the point that when opportunities present themselves, you should act, force yourself to, otherwise they slip away as your situation remains unchanged trying to find happiness in life.
Only 1/3 of Americans are dissatisfied with their lives? That means that almost 2/3 of the yanks are clueless and/or so brainwashed that they just enjoy being slaves; (2) I like numbers and that 1 in 4*10^11 is good to know, assuming that the math is right, but what are the odds that Joe-the-plumber with no connections will ever live like a royal (assuming that that's his goal in life)?
She does make some good points. However she doesn't caution against burning out. Every time we use what she calls 'activation energy' it depletes it, and it takes time to recover it again. So if someone suddenly tries to force themselves to do every idea that comes to their mind, they will quickly burn out and become disappointed in themselves for not being to keep up this pattern of forcing themselves all the time, and possibly give up. So expanding the comfort zone slowly, and pacing yourself is important, in my opinion. Also I got the feeling that she did this talk in the way she did (over the top presentation, many comedic elements, etc.) mainly to advertise her capabilities for the showbiz world, as well as sell her books.
Not accepting false narratives, refusing to allow people to feel they gate keep my life, fighting against plagiarist economic parasites who attempt to discredit MI with nonsense, keeping more of my intellectual property to myself until get to a place where MI can actually benefit from my intellect, not adjusting myself to ease identity thieves, not allowing dems & their minstrels to use identity politics to erase my identity just because I'm Independent, not allowing reps & their minstrels to attribute my perspective to someone else just because I'm Independent, refusing to allow gang stalking to break my spirit isn't screwing myself over. When people attempt to rob MI of my future & destiny they are screwed in the head, not MI.
