Think of your mind as a tool — like Google Maps. Your mind predicts pathways to get you to your desired goal, and maps the relevant reality. In a nutshell: it predicts, maps reality, and acts as a navigation system.

✔️ excited, fun, courageous, interested, engaged, curious, focused, awed, mesmerized.

✖️ afraid, anxious, scared, bored, disengaged, dull, distracted, dread, terror.

In a nutshell: You suffer by paying attention to what you don’t want. You enjoy it by paying attention to what you want.