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Why Your Feelings Don’t Control You

2025-09-03 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: His medical past

In a Short, Ali says thoughts, feelings and actions need not be correlated: not feeling like doing something decides nothing, the feeling is not the master, and the link we draw between a feeling and acting is a story we make up.

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00:00:00 — Thoughts, feelings and actions do not have to be correlated

  • ★★ Ali may have the thought that he shouldn't make YouTube videos because people will laugh at him, and feel embarrassment, shame, cringe or fear about it, but that need not stop him making them. — 00:00:00 · YouTube
  • ★★ When Ali had a hospital job, he did not want to go to work on Sunday evenings or on Monday mornings, when his alarm went off at 6:30 for an hour's drive to the hospital, but the feeling did not stop him going. — 00:00:00

  • ★★★ Recognising that thoughts, feelings and actions need not be related has really helped Ali: not feeling like doing something means neither that you shouldn't do it nor that you should; the feeling is not the master, you are. — 00:00:29

    “The feeling is not the master. You are the master.”

  • ★★★ For almost everything where we link a feeling to acting or not acting, Ali says, we make up a story, such as that posting an Instagram reel will kill us; post it anyway and within minutes the feeling dissipates. — 00:00:29 · Instagram

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