Imagine your mind is like a car. If you had to do a 100k mile "mental health check" like you would with a car, what checklist of say 12 points would you look at? How?
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classes of shackles:
- limiting beliefs & assumptions
- meatbag status (health)
- outdated habits & coping mechanisms
- immediate environment
- peer group
- financial situation
- information diet
- social reality
they're all connected, which is why they're hard to break
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Replying to @visakanv and @sonyaellenmann
IMO basically there are multiple points of failure for executive dysfunction
- meatbag-level
- self-concept
- tactical
- environmental/contextual
- strategic
it takes some exec function to troubleshoot this to begin with, which proves that the universe has a dark sense of humor
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12 point mental health check:
1. look in the mirror. do you respect that person?
2. mind depends on functional meatbag. is meatbag status acceptable?
3. do you like the people you're hanging out with most?
4. do you have something in life to look forward to?
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5. where/how do you live? do your environment(s) represent you acceptably?
6. look at your correspondence – last 100 messages, tweets, statuses, etc. what picture do they paint of you?
7. Consider the last 10 years of your life. Is there a pattern to be observed? What is it?
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8. Bug-catching. Look back at the painful, bad experiences of your life. What was your involvement in them? Are there discernably suboptimal patterns of thought, beliefs that need debugging?
9. Regret minimization. What have you regretted already? How minimize what's left?
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10. Social obligations. Can you make amends with the people you have hurt, disappointed, upset? Can you contribute to your community?
11. Humor – have you laughed lately?
12. Re-review all of the above, articulate whatever you think needs doing, then go do that
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this is very good but I would frame it as life health rather than mind health
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the open secret is that it's basically the same thing
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Not necessarily. Money is the reason the things are coupled. If you are rich enough you can separate the coupled parts.
wait... if you are rich, you could have a healthy life with an unhealthy mind, or an unhealthy life with a healthy mind...? I feel like that's a contradiction in terms, but maybe I'm framing my terms differently...?
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Compartmentalize. It's possible to have a financially healthy life without a healthy mental life. It is possible to be physically healthy through money (just pay for the best doctors, trainers...). Any aspect of health you can outsource you can make healthy in an isolated way.
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