Key insights from
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
By Amy Morin
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11 minute read
Published Mar 7, 2017
What you'll learn
At age 23, clinical psychologist Amy Morin lost her mother to a brain aneurysm. On the three-year anniversary of her mother’s death, Morin lost her husband. Not long after remarrying, her father-in-law was diagnosed with a terminal cancer. Refusing to be shattered by yet another death, she sat down to write a list of mental pits that she would need to avoid as she anticipated yet another loss.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 You will only be as good as your worst habits.
- 2 Mental strength is not stuffing feelings or acting tough, but good self-regulation skills.
- 3 If you keep throwing pity parties, you will eventually run out of guests.
- 4 People don’t have power over you unless you give it to them.
- 5 Mentally strong people learn from mistakes instead of making them over and over.
- 6 Mentally strong people don’t obsess about things they can’t change.
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