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Day 13,503 - Self-Doubt, Friend or Foe.mp3
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00:00:18 Kevin
Hey, gang, Kevin here. Life 22. And I know on this beautiful Monday morning that you wanted.
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A little bit more of my intro song, so that's why I let my tee ball strain out and I let you guys got down down Diggy with with their opening credits. Well, so I wanted to start you guys off on a beautiful motivational Monday. So this week's topic.
00:00:46 Kevin
Is overcoming self doubt. So I worked with my assistant grok here and we came up with this one but.
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I don't really like grock's answer to it, and maybe I should reply. So Grok learns and grows. You know, I don't know if grok is capable of that yet. Sharpening him.
00:01:09 Kevin
Like I would another human being like an employee. Like a child like myself. Like anything else, you know, you just go back and forth and you sharpen those around you by being by remaining vigilant and staying sharp. So here. But to that same degree, that same anecdote right there is.
00:01:28 Kevin
Overcoming self doubt, right? So what Grock is talking about this morning is.
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Snow self doubt can be a sneaky thief stealing confidence, stalling progress and making us question our worth. But that's not. But here's the thing, it's just a voice, not a verdict. Right? OK, well.
00:01:52 Kevin
He's saying, be defiant and.
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You know it's normal.
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To have this little internal battle, and I'm not disagreeing with that, but what I think is in his little paragraph here, he is missing out on a very important point, which I'd like to point out to y'all.
00:02:12 Kevin
So self doubt, right? The little, the devil and the Angel on either shoulder. Right. It is the IT is the thing that is constantly. Yeah. Like yes you can.
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Question like you may question yourself, you may doubt yourself and that is healthy. Do not exterminate self doubt. Self doubt is what keeps you alive, right? Is your own internal knife sharpener. If you will right.
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You have to understand the other side of it, right you are both. You are both yourself doubt and you are both the self, right? So that is.
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As the self doubt is the knife sharpener.
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You are the knife, but what most people don't understand is their motivation, right? Your motivation is what the self doubt is kind of diffusing, right? It is the water being poured into the gas, right? So you need to overcome that because.
00:03:12 Kevin
You need to strengthen your motivation. Your motivation is the force that pushes the knife against the sharpener, right? A lot of people like to be lazy and let the self doubt win. It's the easier path, right? You don't have to put up any fight. You don't have to struggle. You don't have to put a resistance. You can just go back to bed. You can just do this. You can do that well, guess what? You don't get **** done doing that way.
00:03:34 Kevin
Right. And that's why Mondays seem like.
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A lazy conundrum to your weak right well.
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Start it up another.
00:03:42 Kevin
Well, yeah, because you gotta get off your ***. You gotta stop doing nothing and you gotta start sharpening your blade.
00:03:50 Kevin
OK, you need to push back. That's why we do. Don't back down December. It is a very important portion of learning how to hone your.
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Overcoming of self doubt.
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You know that that devil on your shoulder that's pushing back against you is very healthy. It is very healthy to keep your knife sharp and vigilant, right? You need to. You need to be on your toes. You need to know that at any turn something bad could happen. So you need that self doubt to be pushing you so that when something actually does happen that is external to yourself, you are prepared.
00:04:24 Kevin
So being cognizant of all these little things in your life will allow you to be better person, be a better human being, and it will also keep you.
00:04:40 Kevin
It'll keep you prepared. I mean, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse than being ill prepared. Well, I mean, there are things that are worse, but there it is. A it is something that is is not a good thing, right. So, no, I want you to also think about it this way. You're overcoming.
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Overcoming your self doubt.
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It is.
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It can be a fickle a mistress because you don't want to.
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Think that you're overcoming yourself doubt by lying to yourself now, like little white lies to yourself. Like screw that guy. We can do this. Screw that little voice inside my head. We can do this like those little ones, those little motivational pick me up so like the ones if you have to lie to yourself to get your *** out of bed.
00:05:31 Kevin
In the morning, like yes, OK, but.
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You can do this. So is it a lie? Right? Like, break it down, break it down. Because I I want you also to follow. I we're we're covering 2 stones this week. We're we're overturning them. Right. So one is the overcoming self doubt and into that is we don't want you to fall into the trap of Breaking Jordan Peterson's eighth rule which is.
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Tell the truth, or at least don't lie so.
00:06:00 Kevin
No, I don't want you to lie to other people. But I don't want you to lie to yourself, because as soon as you start lying to yourself, you be you like, take it as truth.
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Once you've convinced yourself of the lie, and now all of a sudden you're just espousing lies.
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And.
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Upon lies upon lies, because you don't know any better, because you've you believe them as truths. See. So don't lie. And if you start lying to yourself like ohh.
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The voice inside my head is so right.
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I can't. I can't do this. Uh. And that's where the lie comes in and that it also gives in to your weakness. And it gives in to the fact that you are.
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You're just being lazy. It is the easy way out. Yeah, the easy way out is to lie to yourself, to tell you that. Yeah, the inner voice inside your head is. Is right and then become downtrodden. And then.
00:06:57 Kevin
Sit in bed all day, then you lose your job. You don't make any money. You're moving back in with your parents.
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You.
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You're getting angry because everybody on social media is talking about all these bums on welfare and that's you because you're a lazy ***** ** ****. You didn't decide to get out of bed in the morning, so you lost your job, right?
00:07:16 Kevin
And this is what we're trying to help. We're trying to help you become a better person because this channel isn't just about Kevin's rantings. It's also about, like, my journey and my journey.
00:07:26 Kevin
Is helping you guys. It's pulling you up by your bootstraps.
00:07:30 Kevin
I mean, you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps, but I'm here to help. So that's where the motivational Monday comes in, because that is something that we've kind of been in order to help myself. I have to help others and by helping others help myself. So it is a it is a beautiful conundrum that I've got myself into, but.
00:07:51 Kevin
We're all better for it, right? So with that, so I hope that you overcome yourself doubt if you have any questions. If you have any comments or concerns, please let us know in the comments below. Write us our e-mail is available. I'm sure if you're crafty enough, you can find my cell phone number and text me. But.
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But.
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With that said, folks, we will see you guys next time. Life 22, don't forget to enjoy your last day of March before we jump into April. And you know what that means? That means another life theme, so it won't be this theme of tomorrow. Well, it'll be the theme of the month, but it won't be the title of Tomorrow's morning show, but we will have.
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Day.
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April's life theme episode, which we do every month, is our life theme, and it's part of the entire just like motivational Mondays. It's part of the entire, like, growth progress, self help.
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Centering of your life, that is a part of our channel. So thanks guys. We'll see you guys tomorrow.
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One life, 22.
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