How Mental Health can help you thrive.
1. Relationships
Web3 is highly social.
Being successful in Web3 means developing, nurturing, and sustaining good relationships with others in your team or community.
Having good mental health improves the openness, self-awareness, and empathy needed to do so.
2. Making Decisions
In Web3, people won't tell you what to do.
Should you work on this or that project? What's the next most important thing to focus on?
The ability to think clearly and make decisions you're really aligned with is worth a lot.
3. Learning
More mental less stress, better sleep, better knowledge of yourself, more energy.
All those things improve with mental health. And they're essential to learning and evolving in complex environments.
4. Agency
Take back control and stop following the hype.
Being more in touch with yourself will help you avoid FOMO while sticking to your long-term and more ambitious personal goals.
5. Vitality
We can't achieve goals or happiness if we're tired and burnt all of the time.
Prioritizing mental health is the path to unlocking vitality and a virtuous cycle of feeling better, achieving more, and enjoying more.
6. Impact
Improving all the aspects above: decision-making, vitality, agency, learning, relationships, and so on... makes you more impactful.
It also makes you last in time instead of burning out every few months, which is how you'll win in the medium and long term.
7. Fulfilment
Good mental health keeps us focused on others.
Few are the things that make us as fulfilled as making a contribution.
Whether that's to your DAO, company, friends, or family, making contributions gradually improves our sense of utility and self-esteem.
8. Stability
Web3 is a roller coaster.
Staying in touch with your deeper aspirations and what feels truly good to you (i.e. not quick dopamine hits) will give you the foundations you need to stop caring about ups and downs and focus on evergreen pleasures.
*This article was adapted from a Twitter thread by Louis*
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