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you are your own mood organ

http://space4commerce.blogspot.com/2009/…

Your internal mental state is your choice. You can choose to despair and die

For a decade or so in my teens and early twenties I acted as if my internal mental state was not my choice.

It made me miserable.

It’s been a bit more than a decade since I decided that my internal mental state was my choice, and it was my responsibility to every day pick the mental state I wanted.

I’ve been a lot happier, and accomplished a lot more.

I’ve developed a long, crazy set of instructions for running my own brain – a half-assed, reverse engineered owner’s manual scribbled on figurative napkins and empty envelopes … and it works.

Brian distills down a large chunk of it above.

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2 Responses to “you are your own mood organ”

  1. Brian E. Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 9:05 am

    I was in a similar situation, though I got out of it before my twenties. It took me a little while longer to figure out that other people’s internal mental state was their choice.

  2. Max Lybbert Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    [quote comment="179449"]It took me a little while longer to figure out that other people’s internal mental state was their choice.[/quote]

    well said. And the same thing happened to me: I realized I was the master of my destiny before I realized others were the masters of their destiny.