Like a utility player in baseball, this word has all the range to insert into our life lineup in many positions.
The other day my friend passed along a video in my DMs. You can watch it here if you want.
There’s an area of social media that unfortunately is popular and it deals with doom and gloom shit. A year ago, I would have felt worse after watching this video and it would have affected more than 1 minute of my life. Sometimes I’d lose days over this sort of shit. It even has a name now, it’s called doomscrolling:
I would have responded internally with something to the effect of:
“America is going down, what are we doing?”
“What’s gotten into people, it is bizarre.”
Or some other 3rd example…
Then I would have gone down a huge rabbit hole on it, doomscrolling continued…
The negative attractor field of the information sucks you in if you’re not aware…
After falling into the trap of falling into the bigger Twitter accounts game… Your attention, I learned this filter from a different guy on the Internet.
Applied elsewhere, what is the utility of believing this video to be true?
What is the utility of thinking my players don’t want to listen to me?
What is the utility of thinking I’m going to stay stuck in Tier 3 junior hockey forever?
If you’re up on Quantum Mechanics 101… You’ll know where you place your attention is where you place your energy.
If you can then ask, do I want my precious life energy going into this idea/video/topic/etc?
More often than not, the answer will be ‘no’.
Now here is something with great utility…
Develop a utility filter.
You are the placebo or nocebo.
These two things override objective reality.
The new game in 2024 and beyond is training your mind to what is useful, beneficial, empowering, encouraging, enlightening…
The game is not getting sucked into how ‘shitty’ something is.
Whatever you believe is true for you.
Is it of positive use?
Does it give you an advantage?
Does it make you smarter?
Happier?
Healthier?
Wealthier?
What value does it provide?
Where does it calibrate?
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