How to build emotional immunity

I'm always amused by "experts" who tell people that to succeed they have to have belief, or they have to have confidence or they have to have discipline. But we don't "have" these things. We build these things. In today's episode, I'm going to...

An episode of the The Psychology of Weight Loss podcast, hosted by Dean Dwyer, titled "How to build emotional immunity" was published on September 6, 2019 and runs 22 minutes.

September 6, 2019 ·22m · The Psychology of Weight Loss

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I'm always amused by "experts" who tell people that to succeed they have to have belief, or they have to have confidence or they have to have discipline. But we don't "have" these things. We build these things.

In today's episode, I'm going to share some strategies on how you can begin to teach yourself how to have more of any virtue you want; from belief to emotional immunity. And I will do that of course by sharing a few stories that you will most definitely find entertaining.

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