Cognitive flexibility

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If you want to be mentally strong, mentally robust, you need a few things.

The first thing that you need is mental flexibility.

Mental flexibility and agility might be one of the most fundamental factors that contributes to mental health and wellbeing.

If you have mental rigidity, Things need to be a certain way.

Things need to happen a certain way.

But if you absolutely need things to be a certain way in order for your internal state to be all right, then that is a type of compulsion.

That is not mental wellness or mental health.

And so the first marker of mental health and wellness is being able to have mental flexibility, that you can view things from multiple vantage points, that you can meet a set of circumstances and hope for an outcome But be okay if that outcome doesn't happen, that you can adjust, you can adapt.

Welcome to the Autistic Mile.

Today's episode is called Cognitive Inflexibility.

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Today we're going to discuss cognitive inflexibility.

We're going to talk about cognitive dysfunction, okay? And we're going to kind of shed some light on this in particular because this is something that I hate to be all about me, but this is something that impacts me to a great extent.