How do you get a different patterning once you realize you are doing auto-sabotage?

Question

What kind of activities or actions are to be taken?

Answer 1

Well first you should just stop. Get some friends and ask them what they're doing so you have an alternative.

After that, find some other interests and work at specializing in your talents. Auto-sabotage is a destructive force which doesn't help anyone (it isn't even a form of creative destruction that effectively critiques others) least of all yourself.

Focus on getting out there and making something of yourself, and do it for your own sake, not to prove your potential and abilities to others.