STOP Talking About Mental Health, This Is More Important! Simon Sinek 

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Finding the circle of friends, colleagues, and mentors to be able to call when you want to cry is the hardest thing to find in life. To be able not to feel guilty or burdening others by talking and "they" listen is special indeed.

"I allow for periods of darkness." WHY did what Simon said resonated so much with that simple statement, and I interpreted it as relieving. Thank you Simon for your honesty.

Simon is such a fascinating man. As a professional supervisor, I find his knowledge on leadership so impactful to the norm. Can’t get enough.

Perfectionists are prone to depression and disappointment, because it doesn’t exist. When I did a counselling course, we weren’t allowed to say ‘fine’. I’ve disliked that word ever since 😅 I agree with Simon. As a speaker myself, I was told that my vulnerability was my strength. Thank you for the honesty ❤

I had never thought about the term “mental health” in the way that Simon described it. We throw the term around a lot, especially now as we have begun to realize that how someone is doing mentally/emotionally is just as important, if not more, than their physical health. Though I never considered before that using the word “health” can imply that if someone is experiencing different emotions such as sadness then something is wrong, but in reality it is normal and actually good for us to experience a wide range of emotions. Simon brought up the term “mental fitness” because within that we have the range of emotions from joy, to sadness, anger, loneliness, etc. and each one of those serves a purpose. I really liked this term and agree with everything Simon said regarding the importance of looking at it this way and not looking at our emotions through the lens of “there is only one right way to feel.” I hope to be able to incorporate it and use it to encourage people that it is okay to sit with their different emotions and remind them that does not make them any less of a person, but rather means they are working on the mental fitness. I think that by switching the focus from “mental health” to “mental fitness” we can encourage people to explore their emotions more and not be disappointment in themselves if they have a day where they are just not feeling great, because just as we all have days where we are weaker in the gym, we are going to have days where we aren’t the happiest we could be. I think that through doing this we are encouraging people and what could be potential patients that just as they do things to work on their physical health such as eating right and exercising, they can also work on their mental fitness through sitting with those different emotions and valuing them. When you experiences sadness it can make you experience happiness more because you now understand what it feels like to be on the other side. When I think about this in terms of ethical principles and what we should be doing as humans, but as a future physical I think that encouraging people to view their emotions this way and be okay with feeling different ways is a great example of beneficence, or the act of doing good and preventing harm. I say this because it is our human nature to be sad, happy, upset, and joyful and if we tell someone that feeling these things isn’t right or natural we are forcing them to try and believe that something is wrong or that they need to put on a mask if they are experiencing what others deem as an inappropriate feeling. That can have negative effects on both their mental state, but physical as well so through encouraging people to be willing to experience different emotions and to be honest with them we can better take care of them because we know what they are facing.

THIS clip is a start to helping our youth feel "it's ok" to be off for a day or two. Love Simon, always have! 🙏

THANK YOU!! for making a clips page. Can't always listen to full podcasts, so it's great having the salient points pulled out and packaged up.

Love that mental fitness allowing dark times Days with and days without I hear you It makes me human to have good and bad days

Thanks for sharing this Simon and for calling this out. We treat mental health as a permanent state which it's not. We all have good and challenging days. Acknowledging it and continuously work on our mental fitness is a great way to see it. Loving it and you have been a great inspiration for how I lead my team. Thank you! 🙏

It's that Raw "AUTHENTICITY" that brings in the human connection we know deep down

Somin is such a cool person! He makes things make sense in a kind manner. Huge respect to the work he is doing.

That happened to me in work. Was like a rabbit in the headlights. Well said Simon, it's OK to be vulnerable 👏

3:13 - 5:35 is my main focus in life right now! 🙌 SO glad to hear someone else say it, especially someone as articulate and switched on as Simon 🙏 thank you both for this episode!

being Open about how your feeling is obviously simple but takes an amount of nerve & courage. I would consider it next level .Simon’s got his head around it. Interesting & admirable

Simon is such a fascinating human being! I’m very much inspired by this. ‘Mental fitness’ does make a lot more sense than ‘mental health’. Simon, I do hope you’re in a good place now.

I agree with you Simon. It's mental fitness.

Really refreshing to feel and hear honesty from leader types💜🙏🏼🌈🍀

Admirer your courage to open up and share how you feel. I think you can be a great singer someday, you have an amazing gift of your voice. Singing bring so much joy and happiness, which also the best therapy. Thank you very much for your time.

Another very insightful and useful clip! Thank you ❤

This man has a beautiful mind. Love him.

Mental Fitness ✨

Great share!

Relatable Humanness ❤ Love this too!

That was amazing!! Totally relate to feeling weirdly grateful for the low moments… in one myself atm!

Because I acknowledged that I’m human ✨

I love you even more now Mr Sinek ❤

Joy and Sorrow by Gibran perfectly describes this explanation.

Thank you Gentlemen🙌🏼✨👑

Exactly what I needed right now.

Thanks for keeping it real and sharing your journey.

How are you? So so...got diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease. Had my bowels removed, lost my job, my Mrs of 20 years walked out and took my dogs with her...I think I'm doing ok...I'm still here..🙌

When he gives the example of going blank on stage, there’s a theory about that. His mind did it deliberately. The reason for this is that your subconscious wants to know if consciously you are prepared to go to the next level or if you’ll duff out in the future. So it shuts down its help in the most critical situation to see what you’ll do. If you dig yourself out of it and come back for more, your subconscious thinks, ok you’re up for this let’s go to the next level together. Hope I’ve explained that well, but that’s the gist of it. x

This really hit home.

Brilliant as ever, honest and relatable.

Mental Fitness ❤ Love This

Love the framing. A bad day at the mental gym

Wonderful advice.

Would you appreciate summer more if you didn’t have the tough days in winter? Darkness, shadow, provide reference point for state of being, just like feeling what you feel.

Simon does it again. Awesome clip.

Our virtues are the cure for what ailes you. Grace humbleness appreciation greatfullness and all the rest.

Keep in mind that he's a perfectionist and sees the word health with a 100 percent value. It's not cool to disavow a word for all because of one personal perspective. Be careful of thought gurus who speak in quasi-absolutes. That said, glad he'll be moving to a new phase of his life. Perhaps he'll tame some of his perfectionism. Good for him to shift gears .

I love this. Thanks for sharing.

I love the honesty and authenticity of this interview. It is truly inspiring. Thank you. Just subscribed.

what a legend!!!❤❤❤❤💯💯💯💯

It's clear he is a troubled individual. Thank you for opening up simon, this is more powerful than all your other videos put together.

This is less about the term and more about the meaning we ascribe to the term so just changing the word isn’t the goal. The goal would be to nuance what it means. I agree with the sentiment. Society by and large is so intolerant of emotions and keen to pathologise and medicalise their emotional experiences rather than seeing them in context and understanding it’s part of what it means to be human. What he’s saying is not new and there are thousands of professionals and survivors campaigning about this across the world. If you want to see some real experts talk about this I’d suggest you look at people like Jacqui Dillon, Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle, James Davies, Peter Kinderman.

Beautiful realness

When you analyze the problems / challenges you face and break them down. in 2 parts. 1 part you have no control over. let it slide. 2 part you have control over directly. act on it and you will see you can act list grow smaller and be happy on what you did.

Simón is the best.

Great clip. Put my own things in perspective.

Yes, mental fitness

Just stumbled across this channel (as you do), I've watched a bunch of his interviews and man I like his interviewing style, nice breath of fresh air in the interviewing world for me. Consider me a new sub.

great energy man keep it up

Because we re human and this is life 😊

This is a great point.... Might steal this Simon lol

great podcast!

Really great channel great production work 10/10 would sub

Great to some extent i did the same things. Let's hope best for me 🙏😊. Keep it up

Love this :)

Umm no. I can't wait until, we as a society, get past this idea that someone who has mental health issues, "is just having a dark day". There are people who have tangible, real disorders in their brains. They deserve real compassion and care, not to be discarded because they aren't "productive". Next thing we know, people are gonna start claiming that mental health is just a fad and you can "catch it" by listening to a song or watching a TV show.

Let alone the “mental health” conversation may have a large degree of industry capture involved including perverse incentives.

You have REALLY successful people on your channel. They’re academics and unicorns. Which is inspirational for those who look up. What about those people who look sideways. Who are like them. I’m just a cab driver, but by the end of this year my gross unearned income will be £100k. No skills. No qualifications. Just grinding. How about I come on your show and represent‘normal’ people? Kind regards, Perry

Mental health is the wellbeing of your mind. There is no destination, we go through ups and downs in life, seasons in life and this affects the state of mind i.e mental health". Mental health as a term is not supposed to define reaching perfection, that's more about how you view mental health. If you view it this way then it's dangerous because perfection doesn't exist. Mental health is a wide subject matter with many subheadings but the term is simple.

Wisdom.

I’m fine. Two words that often mean I’m not fine.

3:15 Video title is a bit off. He doesn't tell people not to talk about mental health, he just says he personally doesn't like the term and instead prefers 'mental fitness' (which to many of us amounts to the same thing).

Mental health is much more than just mental "fitness" - actual clinic conditions require so much more than just training your mind like in a gym, it might need specialised help, medication etc. that go beyond his gym example. And that what the mental health debate tries to de-stigmatise

Pivot so I can have significant impact again✨

I love the idea of mental fitness, I am a former affiliate president for the National Alliance of Mental Illness. I have never liked the term mental illness, mental fitness is a great place to start, I also like the term brain disorder. If I have a chemical imbalance in my brain it is no different than having high blood pressure and taking medication for that. It’s about being the healthiest, fit person possible, mentally and physically

I wonder why by I can't get enything useful for me from Simon 🤔

I find that interpretation of 'mental health' unusual. Simon's description of his own term 'mental fitness' is exactly how I interpret mental health. What he describes as his interpretation of mental health is what we would normally refer to as mental illness. If I'm sitting around eating lots of junk food and not exercising, I would say I'm not healthy. I'm not ill, I'm not sick - just unhealthy. Same mentally. And the point of our collective focus on mental health lately, is that that IS OK. It's fine to take time for yourself, to have off days, and to prioritise whatever maintenance you need. Not disagreeing with his point just find that interpretation and the need for a new term unusual. What he's describing is toxic positivity - not healthy at all. Is this how mental health is interpreted in the US?

Is it genuine to say that 'the bigger the channel, the bigger the guests'? You already have an enormous public profile... I am not subscribed, I have two small yt channels myself and always wish for more subscribers, but as a viewer, I really enjoy your videos but I don't want yt to put them in front of me everyday. I like to stumble upon them every few weeks, I enjoy the fact that I have forgotten about the channel, then in one afternoon I can binge-watch loads of your new content to 'catch-up'' .. :-)

clickbait title, but good content

I knew this guy wasn’t as tough, as he appeared to be. Try being ALONE in your 1000 sq feet home, for 2.5 years, no physical contact with anyone. No one to call your friend, or count on, & Toxic family members, yet remain unaffected. I have conditioned myself this way.

Not sure why the title is saying "STOP Talking About Mental Health" - literally what Simon describes, i.e. talking about how you feel on down days, is basically talking about mental health...?

I don’t like the term Mental Health either🙌🏼

Wow

Stopped answering FINE = Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, & Emotional. From Aerosmith 😅

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Being this wise and self-aware might be less relatable than he thinks 😅

❤️💖❤️💖❤️🙏❤️💖❤️💖❤️

I watch because I’m interested in the some of the guests (some of whom are famous); am really turned off however whenever the interviewer starts to delve too much into what he thinks, anecdotes relating to how successful he is etc etc 💤

Naahh, focusing on mental health in the USA is very very important!

So he basically said sneezing is not a pneumonia. Newsworthy.

Sounds like he's been learning from Michael A Singer.

Dang bro. He ask how are, not why you are.

Mental fitness sounds more tiresome than equanimity of sound mental health practice. Training or working out at the gym seems to have more connotations of perfect health attached to it, whereas health is for everybody. Even those who don’t want to “work out”.

I look at it as We Have good days and Great days!! And Dr. Karl Jung , embrace your Darkside because we all have one. You don’t have to live there. Lol

This song by the brilliant artist Ren fits this interview perfectly! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s_nc1IVoMxc.html Hear him through! It IS really good. ✨👌🏼✨

The talk might be out there on youtube, but the workplace and 99% of jobs are still the same silly shit and 99% of people try to get by to pay bills, not searching for fulfillment in their dayjobs. The hustle youtube sphere has only ever been a bubble fo maybe 5% of the workforce to begin with.

This is such clickbait. "mental health" and "mental fitness" are like the exact same thing. When I think about mental health, I don't think of it as an all or nothing thing, the way that he seems to think about it. and when I think "mental fitness" I don't automatically think sliding scale.

Mentally unfit

Mental fitness - bang on !

I like Simon Sinek's work but I think he simplifies the concept of mental health here. "Fitness" typically relates to an activity of some kind that aids in the improvement of overall health, but the term "health" (especially in mental health) doesn't refer to an end destination or state - it relates to our overall ability to navigate life in the face of ups and downs, and that includes allowing for all emotions, states and circumstances. Work by Steven Hayes (developer of ACT), Les Greenberg (EFT), and Seligman (Positive Psychology) emphasises this point. So, mental health *is* the description of our ability to navigate the ups and downs of life (rather than trying to avoid, suppress, or deny what we feel, for example). Mental "fitness" would describe the stuff we do to maintain mental health (e.g., exercise, get sufficient sleep, practice self-acceptance, engage in enjoyable activities, etc.) Definitions matter because, if we're saying "mental health" is an unhelpful term, it's likely to add to the stigma. Just like we engage in fitness to aid our physical health, we can also do the same to improve our mental health. But he's right in the sense that some people imply mental health is to be "happy and positive" all the time, but that's not at all what the concept means.

this was the answer to "how are you?" Omg...