How Cutting Out Distractions Builds Resilience
Dr. Patrick Jeffs
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You need

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to cut out some of these distractions when I'm pumping gas and

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they start telling me the word of the day. And what's going on on Twitter

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at the gas pump. I literally

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walk 20 feet away from my car and

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I'll just like stare at the trees.

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People probably think I am a weirdo.

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But I don't want that stuff in my life. So I have the

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privilege to make a decision to say in that moment. I

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don't want any of this.

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But we generally don't do things like that. We generally just like

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grin and bear it right and we just like take it.

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But I'm encouraging you to if we have sort more

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self-awareness, we feel what these moments are like and we're

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like, oh that doesn't feel good. I'm just gonna walk away and my

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gas pumps itself and then when it's done,

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I've just like stared at the trees. My body's kind

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of like come back in but we need to make times for these sorts

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of things.