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If you ever feel nervous before a presentation, meeting, or your one-on-one, it may be a symptom of performance anxiety. It’s completely normal, and most of us experience it to some degree. The thing that many people don’t know is this: There are two distinct types of performance anxiety.
There are a million ways we can give definitions and names to our inner voices, thought patterns, and brain functions. They’re all borne of different people’s desires to conceptualise their intangible inner workings. Some will be incredibly helpful for one individual, and meaningless for another.
Rationalisation is not “designed to discover our unconscious reasons: hidden beliefs and desires. Rather, it constructs new beliefs and desires where none had existed, to extract information from the non-rational processes that influence our behavior.”
Being aware of our biases can help us unravel the selective way in which we interpret the world. It can allow us to take a step back and look at what is really happening, intentionally noticing the evidence on both sides. Alternatively, we can allow our mind to run with the bias, embracing the tendency to notice things that support our beliefs or goals.
If you have ever experience a visceral sense of overwhelm that seemed to pin you in place, you can likely connect with the concept of task paralysis. Suddenly, your to-do list becomes an insurmountable wall, and you’re completely stuck.
Trying to account for every possible version of the future at once is a mental juggling act. When many moving parts are still unresolved, the planning becomes overwhelming, because none of the decisions can actually be made yet.
The Restless Saboteur thrives on busyness. It doesn’t just keep your calendar full, it keeps your mind full too. Planning the next thing. Jumping between tasks. Filling the silence. All in the name of progress… but progress toward what? Read more start noticing what your busyness might be hiding.
When was the last time you reached a goal, or got a result you were working towards? Fulfilled a dream after persistence and dedication?
Maybe, for a moment, it felt good. But before you had the chance to really take it in, your mind jumped ahead. What’s next? What needs fixing? Where could I be better?
Have you ever felt an overwhelming need to take charge, to ensure everything runs exactly as it should? Maybe you catch yourself micromanaging, struggling to delegate, or feeling tense when things don’t go according to plan. If this sounds familiar, you may identify with the Controller Saboteur.
