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How to Push Yourself to Grow Without Being Too Hard On Yourself
Being someone with a Type A personality who struggles with depression isn’t easy. There is a constant battle going on between your emotions and logical side.
You wonder how hard you can be on yourself before you break down mentally. But you also aren’t sure how to not be so easy on yourself that you don’t get anything done.
Where’s the sweet spot in the middle where you push yourself just enough that you can reach your goals, but not so hard that you begin to fall?
This is how I used to think about this problem until yesterday when I came across this video by Better Ideas:
There’s a lot of great advice in there, but the one thing that struck me was when he talks about the two parts of the brain — your primal and logical sides:
“Don’t be a slavedriver to the primal side of your brain or your primal side of your brain won’t feel listened to. It’ll lash out and it won’t want to do anything that the logical side of your brain wants it to do.”
