Why Your Mind Gets Weaker Every Day (And How to Fix It)

Why Your Mind Gets Weaker Every Day (And How to Fix It)

🧠 Discover the secrets to developing unshakeable mental strength that commands respect without saying a word.

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TIMESTAMP
0:00 - Introduction
1:08 - Chapter 1: "Your Mind's Current Operating System"
2:25 - Chapter 2: "Fear Inoculation Protocols"
3:45 - Chapter 3: "Cognitive Armor Construction"
5:14 - Chapter 4: "Pressure Alchemy"
6:33 - Chapter 5: "Strategic Apathy Deployment"
8:08 - Chapter 6: "Decision Fatigue Immunity"
9:28 - Chapter 7: "Emotional Callusing"
10:51 - Chapter 8: "Reality Negotiation”
12:20 - Chapter 9: "Antifragile Thinking"
13:34 - Chapter 10: "Confident Projection"

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS
1/ Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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2/ Mindset by Carol D. Dweck
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3/ Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
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4/ The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
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5/ Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
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6/ Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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7/ Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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8/ Essentialism by Greg McKeown
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9/ The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
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10/ Deep Work by Cal Newport
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RESEARCH PAPERS
1/ Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the Stress Response by Alia J. Crum, Peter Salovey, Shawn Achor
sparq.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj19021/files…
Shows that adopting a “stress-is-enhancing” mindset leads to better cognitive, physiological, and behavioral outcomes under pressure.

2/ The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance by K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, Clemens Tesch-Romer
graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pd…
Demonstrates that expert-level performance is achieved through sustained, structured practice and exposure to challenges.

3/ Changes in grey matter induced by training by Bogdan Draganski et al.
www.nature.com/articles/427311a
Provides neuroimaging evidence that training and learning new skills cause structural changes in the adult brain.

4/ Emotion regulation: affective, cognitive, and social consequences by James J. Gross
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12212647/
Reviews the effectiveness of different emotion regulation strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal.

5/ Seeing the Silver Lining: Cognitive Reappraisal Ability Moderates the Relationship Between Stress and Depressive Symptoms by Allison S. Troy, Iris B. Mauss, et al.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3278301/
Finds that the ability to cognitively reappraise stressful events buffers against depression.

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