Summary of Buy a Notebook. It Will Make You Confident.

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The video discusses the benefits of expressive writing for managing anxiety and negative thoughts. It advises viewers to write electronically, as typing faster prevents writer's from rereading what they have written. It also provides a website where users can keep track of their thoughts and feelings.

• 00:00:00 The video discusses the benefits of writing, specifically expressive writing, for managing anxiety and negative thoughts. It advises viewers to write electronically, as typing faster prevents writer's from rereading what they have written. It also provides a website where users can keep track of their thoughts and feelings.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses how doing a simple exercise can help increase confidence levels. You will need a pen, paper, and a hand that you prefer. Rating your confidence at the moment, and writing down adjectives that describe yourself that you like and dislike, with your dominant hand, and with your non-dominant hand, is the exercise. After doing the exercise, rating your confidence again, the participant finds that they feel more confident. The theory is that we tend to distrust and lose confidence in the things that we write with our non-dominant hand, so by writing them down with the hand that you prefer the least, this can be a way of lessening the impact of your negative beliefs. The idea is that by doing this, you can turn yourself into becoming less convinced about something. The video also includes a quote from Ronald Reagan about how little thinking is actually done in English, and a quote from Theodore Roosevelt about how to improve your thinking skills. The video concludes with a suggestion to brush up on your mental skills by taking classes on logic, mathematics, and STEM subjects from Brilliant.