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7 Crippling Mental Patterns That Are Keeping You From True Happiness

Zachary Minott
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8 min readJul 30, 2021

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You are the most malicious villain in the story of “you”.

You stand in your own way. You create your own roadblocks. You are the reason that you’re not happy.

Why?

The way you perceive and react to reality and its entropic nature are what either make you or break you when it comes to defining a happy, content and satisfying existence.

How to break the vicious cycle that constantly plunges you into a pit of despair? Identify the patterns of thought that you constantly find yourself defaulting to and aim to make an actionable, permanent change to your core belief system. In other words, you need to be less reactionary and more in control of your mind by responding to life with the utmost intent.

I’m here to help you identify those crippling mental patterns that are blocking you from breaching the walls of your personal Nirvana. That being said, here are 7 very common, negative mental patterns that you might identify and resolve within yourself.

You Try to Predict What’ll Make You Happy

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Zachary Minott
Zachary Minott

Written by Zachary Minott

Salesforce Architect | Olympic Weightlifter | Pseudo-Philosopher | Email: zacharyminott1997@gmail.com

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