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You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
Andrew Bernstein
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Andrew Bernstein
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 6
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Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
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You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.
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We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.
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... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.
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Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
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To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.
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The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
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Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
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If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.
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Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
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A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
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People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.
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The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.
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The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
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Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
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