- Do Hard Things On Purpose
Choosing challenge strengthens your prefrontal cortex and builds long-term mental resilience.
2. Hurt Better: Pain isn’t optional—but your brain’s interpretation of it is. Meaning transforms suffering into growth.
3. Want Less: You’re not addicted to dopamine—you’re clinging to outdated thoughts. Reframe false needs.
4. Let Routines Rule: Structure frees up cognitive energy and anchors the mind in predictability and control.
5. Reject the Lie That You Have It Figured Out: Overcertainty kills curiosity—and curiosity is a cognitive antidote to despair.
6. Embrace Limits (Use Strategic, Healthy “No’s”): Boundaries protect cognitive bandwidth and prevent mental burnout.
7. View People as Wells, Not Pits: Others aren’t drains—they’re potential sources of feedback and strength if approached with open cognition.
8. Sleep Like Your Sanity Depends On It (It Does): Sleep isn’t passive—it’s prefrontal maintenance that stabilizes thought and mood.
9. Reframe the Meaning of Struggle: Struggle becomes suffering when left unexplored. Reframing creates containers for pain.
10. Don’t Feel Your Way Forward—Think Your Way Through: Feelings are outputs. Clear thinking rewires your emotional landscape.
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