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← Previous segment →e way up to the mental health reframes from the book. I'll do at least one a day if I remember. We did a bunch of them yesterday, but let me get to the one I haven't got to yet.
How about this one? The usual frame: If somebody insults you, you think to yourself, "Ah, that insult is damaging my brain. That insult hurts me. It's causing me damage." Right? We act like an insult hurts us. Well, it does actually. Anything that you perceive becomes a part of your memory, part of your brain. So yeah, somebody insults you, it might hang around and cause a problem. So the old way is that an insult is damaging to your mental health.
Here's a reframe that you might take advantage of. The reframe is that an insult is a confession from the other person. An insult is a confession that your accuser can't refute your opinion or has personal problems of some sort. Typically when somebody's criticizing you, they're not the best people and they're not in the best place in life. And once you realize, wait a minute, these are not the best people and they're not having a great life, if the thing that was the best thing they could do today was criticize me, that's not very good. I feel sorry for my accuser. Anyway, so an insult is a confession that they don't have a good argument.
Do you know what people do when they have a good argument? I say this all the time, but the more often you hear it, the better. When people have a good argument, you know what they do? They use it. They use a good argument. When people don't have an argument, what do they do? They call you a communist or they call you a fascist or something. No, an insult is just a confession. So once you see it that way, the insults don't bother you anymore.
Anyway, how about some science? There's a new study that says helping other people can slow your cognitive decline by up t
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o 20%. University of Texas said, "Awesome." Now, how many of you knew that this refers to helping or volunteering outside the home? I don't know why they said outside the home. Seems like helping anywhere would be good. But does that make sense to you that if you become a helpful person that it would be good for your own brain? Here's why that makes sense to me. I have to admit I didn't know that…
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