Looking for book suggestions that could help with this. I’ve enjoyed books like Discipline is Destiny, Atomic Habits, etc… but I have read enough “self-help” or “self-discovery” and I am still very much in a rut.
I am 32. Up until maybe 27-28 I was a confident, fun, and outgoing person who other people enjoyed being around. Now, I am so consumed with work and the stress of everyday life that I feel like I’ve become a curmudgeon and I can see that people don’t enjoy conversing with me like they used to. When people try to start a conversation, I reply with a negative observation or point. While the defensive part of me would like to explain that I am just a realist – I know this is not the case after years of awkward conversations. How do I get my mind to stop reverting to the pessimistic side of things? I haven’t always been this way but I am really struggling to turn things around.
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