Nocebos in Life from Other People

In this video, I want to give you some food for thought about how often we get nocebos in life from people around us. Think about it: let's say we get some kind of an idea for a project or anything we want to do in life that we're so excited about, enthusiastic. It feels great. And then if there are negative people around us, you know, the kind of people who you tell them some ideas and the first thing they'll say instead of "That's going to be amazing," they'll say, "Well, what if that doesn't work?" "Well, what if you lose your money?" "Well, what if you get hurt?" "What if this bad thing happens?" I don't like that, right?

The Impact of Negative Feedback

Those people, what happens when they do that? They just go on their merry life like nothing happens, but they just give you a nocebo. They just gave you the anticipation of something bad that's going to happen. You lose your confidence, you start second-guessing yourself, you lose that excitement and that exhilaration of having some idea. And maybe you've had this feeling as well where like five minutes later you're like, "Maybe that's really not a good idea. Okay, I shouldn't do that." And maybe you do it later. But that just created a hurdle in your mind that you got to jump over, right? Like you gotta kind of fight that nocebo, fight that doubt they placed in your mind.

Recognizing Nocebo Givers

Most people have experienced this, I know I've experienced this. And there are just certain people, you tell them something, their response is to give you a nocebo. That's just their personality. The idea in this video is that instead of telling those people more similar things in the future, they might be nice people otherwise. But in these kinds of situations, when you're excited, you have some forward-looking something you're excited about, don't engage with those people. Even though you may feel the need to share it with someone, to talk about your ideas with somebody great. Not those people, because they'll ruin it for you unnecessarily.

Protecting Your Mindset

Now we understand the power of mindset and the power of nocebo. It's real because they place that doubt in you and it sours everything. So just, you can make the mistake once of telling some person something and they give you that negative feedback that, "Oh, it's not going to work," "Oh, you're not good enough." You know, this kind of stuff. Just never come back to them again. Whenever you have other good ideas, no matter what those ideas are, that's almost like something you gotta watch in your life to protect yourself.