Are you focused on making the right decision or making the decision right? Ellen Langer has an action item for you when you’re faced with a stressful decision. Episode 892. ✌🏼🌱 - Rich

One of the things I say when people who are stressed, stress requires two things, I believe. First is a belief that something's going to happen. And second, that when it happens, it's going to be awful. So attack both of those. The first, give yourself three, five reasons why it won't happen. And you immediately feel better because you went from single-mindedly, this thing is going to happen, to maybe it won't. But the more fun part, fun for me, but not for most people, is to then say, okay, let's assume it does happen. How is that actually an advantage? And when you do that, then you're in a position where it might happen, it might not happen. Either way, I'm going to be fine. Events don't cause stress. The outcomes of events are a function of our thoughts about them. And so if you're making a decision, and you know that if this happens, it'll be fine. If that happens, it'll be fine. Doesn't matter what happens.