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Difficult emotions can get under your skin if you're not careful. Sport and performance consultant Jessica Woods calls this the "jumping cholla effect," inspired by a sneaky kind of cactus that detaches and burrows its spines into unsuspecting passersby. In this empowering talk, she shares four mood-regulating strategies to help you gain self-awareness of your feelings, avoid catching other people's emotions and perform at your peak — whatever the prickly situation may be.
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I’m more blunt, I just say I don’t want to hear this and walk away
youre just built different
That’s how I bottle things up and explode at some point lol
OK!
I have a couple of questions, if I may.
Why was trying to listen to everything you said extremely hard? I found it hard to follow and digest immediately. Is it just me or was it something you were doing on purpose.
Secondly, what is Boris Johnson doing down in the comments and what’s the purpose of congratulating Kosovo right here?
I’ve seen the lady somewhere but I don’t know where and when.
Some people just want to aggress, and they take pleasure in getting a rise from you, knowing this is a great help in just ignoring the people who obviously are out to push anyones buttons, rain down their frustrations on anyone who gets upset or angry in return, just tune out their negative energies, ask yourself what you are feeling, what is your daily mood, and do not let others stress you into feeling bad, sad, angry. OK, so what, now what. Loved this TED talk.
Quite right. Some people like to get your goat. It is satisfying. If this is hard to imagine remember how much evil fun it was in middle school to make a substitute teacher lose her temper or even cry. (Sorry) or to play keep away catch and make a little kid upset when you throw the ball over their head. In German there is a word for this. Scheidenfrude. Delight in the suffering of others.
sry but that didnt really help..
To me the examples were spot on.
Ty, Jessica
The Jumping Cholla effect is really what happens when we don’t train our thoughts and emotions
Sometimes I step back from negative emotions, other times I think I should step back from negative people.
why is the audio kinda bad
Thank you so much for this!
And *that’s* the reason my spirit-animal is a capybara. Have you ever seen an irritable capybara?
All well and good in the classroom or shrinks office but in the real world boiling rage can’t be reasoned with like that.
How does one avoid catching mind-numbing conformity from the broader culture?
This might be the best talk on the topic of emotions that I’ve listened to
My boss: You’re late again.
Me: Ok. So what? NOW WHAT?!
Boss: You’re fired
Yeah none of this works if you have neuro diverse brain.
Jessica looks nice, DM me sweetie!
I so can not relate, guess this works differently when you’re a dude….?