How we screw ourselves over and sabotage our happiness.\nLearn the cognitive biases, comfortable lies and deceitful practices that become routines and invite joy back into your life!\n\nIn this psychology and self-improvement-focused episode, our host, Sam Webster, exposes the 7 toxic habits that secretly create misery - and how to ditch them for good.\nIf you want to break destructive patterns holding you back from the happiness you deserve, this frank life skills discussion is for you. Become your own best friend and start making choices that set you up for success, not sabotage. Your future self will thank you!\n\n- - -\n\nOn the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.\n\nThrough a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be the best we can be.\n\n- - -\n\nConnect with Sam:\n\nSam's newsletter on creativity - Explosive Thinking\nWatch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)\nTwitter - @samjamharris\nInstagram - @SamJam.zen\nYoutube - @Samjam\n\n- - -\n\nShow: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement\n\nEpisode: Exposing 7 Habits of Miserable People\xa0\n\nChapters:\n00:00 Create happiness, remove misery\n01:03 Pre-roll advert\n01:07 Habits of miserable people\n01:12 Bad habit - #1 Lying to ourselves\n04:13 Bad habit #2 - Procrastination\n07:39 Bad habit #3 - Victimhood and avoiding responsibility\n10:10 Bad habit #4 - Money\n13:17 Bad habit #5 - Isolation\n17:52 Bad Habit #6 - Social Media\n20:35 Bad habit #7 - Ignoring real self-care\n25:03 Bonus Habit - Fixed Mindset and resistant to change\n26:34 Send off\n\nTopics:\nprocrastination\nlying to yourself\nmotte-and-bailey fallacy\nvictim mentality\nfinancial habits\nisolation\nsocial media comparison\nself care\nmental health\nfixed mindset\nhappiness\npresent moment\npersonal development\nmindset transformation\nstop sabotaging yourself\nbreak bad habits\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices