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Twenty one sentences that will make you mentally stronger than 98% of people

Alex Mathers
2 min readAug 27, 2024

Let’s dive right in:

  • Happy people know the past has no bearing whatsoever on their present behaviour.
  • Overwhelm can be diminished quickly with five slow, shallow, nasal breaths.
  • No one has the power to decrease your self-worth because self-worth is just an idea.
  • If you’re struggling but rarely exercise — that’s the bulk of your issue right there.
  • Stress is not caused by external circumstances but rather by internal ideas.
  • If you want to feel good about yourself, help others feel good about themselves.
  • The stiller your mind, the more connected to life force, and therefore creatively joyful you will be.
  • Walking for at least twenty minutes will solve over 85% of your problems.
  • If you can find a way to be ok with being disliked, you will be unstoppable.
  • Remaining calm when triggered is the number one life skill.
  • Suffering is always tied to the illusion that we have a ‘self’ to protect, which is simply not true.
  • Miserable people expect others to be a certain way.
  • The happiest people expect nothing from no one.

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Alex Mathers
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Responses (342)

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Stress is not caused by external circumstances but rather by internal ideas.

This sentence is where I check out because I know the rest of it is privileged nonsense from someone who’s never had a real problem in their life.

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Walking for at least twenty minutes will solve over 85% of your problems.

I can vouch for this.

285

As much as I know all of these things, I love reading your articles for a refresher. Thank you as always.

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