Summary of Reid Wilson's Stopping the Noise in Your Head

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#1 Worry is a useful tool when it helps us solve our problems. But when it becomes a bothersome noise in our heads, we need to kick it to the curb.

#2 I have spent most of my career working with anxious clients. When people ask what drew me to this field, I answer, It takes one to treat one. I experience a combination of guilt and worry when I don’t set aside time to work on a project, and I constantly worry that I’m not being productive enough.

#3 Worry is meant to be an initial response to a problem, not the problem itself. If we don’t place our worries within the problem-solving process, they will hurt us emotionally.

#4 Worry can serve an essential function by helping us solve legitimate problems, but it can also be debilitating when it gets in the way of our performance. We will look at when anxious worrying disrupts us instead of helping us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822521513

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Insights on Reid Wilson and Ph.D.'s Stopping the Noise in Your Head

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Worry is a useful tool when it helps us solve our problems. But when it becomes a bothersome noise in our heads, we need to kick it to the curb.

#2

I have spent most of my career working with anxious clients. When people ask what drew me to this field, I answer, It takes one to treat one. I experience a combination of guilt and worry when I don’t set aside time to work on a project, and I constantly worry that I’m not being productive enough.

#3

Worry is meant to be an initial response to a problem, not the problem itself. If we don’t place our worries within the problem-solving process, they will hurt us emotionally.

#4

Worry can serve an essential function by helping us solve legitimate problems, but it can also be debilitating when it gets in the way of our performance. We will look at when anxious worrying disrupts us instead of helping us.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

All competitions involve strategies and tactics. You implement your broad strategies by applying tactics moment-by-moment. To overcome your unnecessary worries and anxiety, you must consider that you are engaged in a mental competition with broad strategies and more precise tactics.

#2

To win the battle against Anxiety, you must change your attitude. You must willingly choose to feel clumsy, awkward, and afraid. This will help you move purposefully into unknown territory, which is what you need to do to defeat Anxiety.

#3

The game of poker is played between two people, and it is based on studying your opponents and predicting their moves. If you can identify your competitors’ trademarks and tendencies, you can use this information against them.

#4

Anxiety is the cleverest of challengers because it studies our weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and needs. It exaggerates our natural responses to threat