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Today's episode takes an initial look at the concept of the growth mindset, specifically exploring the differences between a tendency to 'prove yourself' or 'improve yourself' in whatever aspect of life you are focused on.

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Today's episode focuses on better understanding what self esteem is through providing possible definitions, whilst increasing awareness that self esteem is a fluid concept that can differ throughout the various areas of your life. Take time to understand where you currently rate your self esteem and return in the future to explore ways to encourage healthier self esteem at this time.

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The episode breaks down the process of registering thoughts and emotions in order to improve self awareness and better understand the situations that can trigger you in unhelpful ways.

For more information about Self Awareness listen to the past episodes listed below;

Awareness - Developing Internal Awareness - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2569749/episodes/18443070

Awareness - Groundhog Day - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2569749/episodes/18551511

Awareness - All I know, is that I know nothing - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2569749/episodes/18629116

Awareness - What I knew about myself has changed - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2569749/episodes/18879210

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In this episode I will be talking about the Fear Of Missing Out, or FOMO and how that can influence cognitive fatigue as it can relate to tendencies towards perfectionism, and can increase decision fatigue too.

Check out other episodes in the series, which can be accessed through the links below

Decision Fatigue episode

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2569749/episodes/19139713

Perfectionism episode

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2569749/episodes/19139729

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Perfectionism can impact lives in many ways. It can also contribute to cognitive fatigue, and in this episode two potential ways in which perfectionism can increase cognitive fatigue are outlined and and exercise is provided to explore alternatives.

Click to access the episode about Idea creation vs Decision making

Click to access the episode about Context Switching

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The brain works differently when creating an idea than it does when making finalizing decisions regarding that idea. While creation can be uplifting decision making can contribute to fatigue. But we can't and shouldn't avoid making decisions. So how can we reduce our decision fatigue? Find out in today's episode.

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We have the tools available to us now-a-days that can help reduce the amount of time we spend on many activities, and while this is generally a good thing it may create an unrealistic perception that we can get an increasing amount of activities done per day.

We need to stop comparing our brains to computer processors and start using the time we create for ourselves to reduce cognitive fatigue instead. This episode provides an alternative perspective you can start exploring today.

Click for the episode: 'Cognitive Fatigue - Context Switching'

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This is the start of a series of episodes that dive deeper into potential factors that can contribute towards the experience of cognitive fatigue, which at best can leave us experiencing occasional brain fog or mental tiredness and at worse could be a large contributor to burnout.

Today's episode focuses on the role that context switching can play and how that can appear in your day to day life.

An exercise that can be used to increase focus and reduce context switching for a few minutes is the exercise of "Engaging the Senses" and can be listened to by clicking the link below;

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2569749/episodes/18879080