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Mel Robbins: The Simple Truth About Chasing Happiness — Transcript

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  1. 0:00What do you think is the hardest thing
  2. 0:03you're working on right now? Like what's
  3. 0:05the most challenging thing you're
  4. 0:06working on internally or externally?
  5. 0:08Could be creatively. It could be
  6. 0:11habit-wise. What is What is something
  7. 0:13that you're struggling with or grappling
  8. 0:14with that you're working through?
  9. 0:16>> Happiness.
  10. 0:18>> Wow. Okay.
  11. 0:19>> Yeah. Happiness. It's interesting. I was
  12. 0:22um getting ready to come over here this
  13. 0:24morning and so I My daughter goes to
  14. 0:26school here uh at the Thornton School
  15. 0:28for Music. She's a senior and she spent
  16. 0:30the night with me last night. I'm going
  17. 0:31to tell you the story because it's
  18. 0:32relevant about both learning things the
  19. 0:35hard way and about happiness. So, she
  20. 0:39slept in my bed with me last night and
  21. 0:42it was so awesome and I just love her
  22. 0:45and she's 22 and she's about to like
  23. 0:48burst into the next chapter of her life.
  24. 0:51It is so exciting and I miss her
  25. 0:54terribly, terribly. And I Oh, I'm I'm
  26. 0:59going to get like totally choked up when
  27. 1:00I think about it cuz I live on the other
  28. 1:02side of the country. And I think one of
  29. 1:05the hardest things that you have to do
  30. 1:06in life if you really love somebody is
  31. 1:09to encourage them to leave, to encourage
  32. 1:12them to grow.
  33. 1:15And um I can't believe how choked up I'm
  34. 1:17getting about this cuz I mean this just
  35. 1:18happened this morning and I was laying
  36. 1:20in bed and she's sound asleep, you know,
  37. 1:22like sprolled out like this 22year-old
  38. 1:25sleep and sweating [laughter] and you
  39. 1:27know, just like this. And I thought,
  40. 1:29"Oh, I want to take a picture of this
  41. 1:30moment." And then I thought, "No, she's
  42. 1:32going to kill me cuz she looks
  43. 1:33terrible." And you know how that rolls
  44. 1:35when you're 20 years old. And so I
  45. 1:38closed my eyes to just capture the
  46. 1:39memory. And I thought
  47. 1:43why is it that I am always
  48. 1:47gripping onto the thing that makes me
  49. 1:51unhappy?
  50. 1:53What is it about this campaign? I call
  51. 1:55it the campaign of misery. like instead
  52. 1:58of focusing on the fact that here I am
  53. 2:02first of all lucky enough to be in Los
  54. 2:04Angeles to be able to have the means to
  55. 2:06go see her for parents weekend that I
  56. 2:08have a relationship with her where she
  57. 2:10would want to come and just snuggle up
  58. 2:12and spend the night that she is pursuing
  59. 2:14her passion and dream of being a singer
  60. 2:17songwriter that she is just killing it
  61. 2:20she's happy
  62. 2:22why am I always defaulting to the loss
  63. 2:27>> and so when I say that I'm working on
  64. 2:30happiness.
  65. 2:31What I've realized about myself, Jay, is
  66. 2:34that I have done a lot of things in
  67. 2:38life, but I've spent the vast majority
  68. 2:40of my life being so busy and keeping
  69. 2:44myself so busy as a means to outrun, I
  70. 2:49think, a deep-seated unhappiness.
  71. 2:52And that when the pandemic hit and I had
  72. 2:55to slow down and I had to truly say to
  73. 2:57myself, okay, you can't go anywhere. You
  74. 3:00cannot regulate your anxiety by running
  75. 3:02to Target. You can't catch a plane. You
  76. 3:05can't you like it's you and your like
  77. 3:09you and yourself right now, Mel. And all
  78. 3:12the coping mechanisms that you used to
  79. 3:13have that distracted you from the fact
  80. 3:16that you're just not that happy.
  81. 3:19>> They're not there anymore. And unless I
  82. 3:20want to drink myself into the ground,
  83. 3:22which I don't, and numb it or hit the
  84. 3:24vape pen or take a go, like unless I
  85. 3:26want to numb it, I got to deal with it.
  86. 3:29And so I've spent the last two years and
  87. 3:31I continue to focus right now on the
  88. 3:36number one goal that I have, which is to
  89. 3:38learn how to be happy and content
  90. 3:41wherever I am.
  91. 3:43And so this morning is the perfect
  92. 3:45example of catching this profound
  93. 3:47sadness which is part of the human
  94. 3:49experience deeply missing somebody is
  95. 3:52also about loving them right and
  96. 3:55noticing that I was going into the
  97. 3:57negative and part of being content and
  98. 4:00being happy wherever I am is not trying
  99. 4:02to fix things. It's being okay with
  100. 4:05things. It's allowing the emotion to
  101. 4:07rise up and then noticing that there's a
  102. 4:11different way to feel.
  103. 4:13>> And so in that moment, I just am doing
  104. 4:15what I'm doing a lot of, which is just
  105. 4:18breathing through those deep moments
  106. 4:19where I'm like, why am I complaining
  107. 4:21about this? This is so stupid. Why am I
  108. 4:22obsessing about this thing tomorrow and
  109. 4:24I'm not even here right now? And
  110. 4:27refraraming things in a more positive
  111. 4:30way. And this might surprise people
  112. 4:31because I I am a very positive person. I
  113. 4:34am a very optimistic person, but when I
  114. 4:38really slow down,
  115. 4:40my mind runs a million miles an hour and
  116. 4:42normally it's 15 steps ahead, which
  117. 4:44means I'm never content where I am.
  118. 4:47And so I've been doing a ton of work
  119. 4:49like in my nervous system, in my body,
  120. 4:51instead of going right up here and
  121. 4:53trying to wrestle with my thoughts, I've
  122. 4:55been going down into here to just anchor
  123. 4:59in my body and slow things down and be
  124. 5:02physically where I am, where my feet
  125. 5:04are. And so then there was a second
  126. 5:06thing that happened. So again, I'm
  127. 5:07working on happiness. That's the thing
  128. 5:09I'm really like working on. It's like a
  129. 5:11muscle, right? Um, I'm in the bathroom
  130. 5:14and I am terrible at doing my hair. I
  131. 5:18know it looks really decent today, but
  132. 5:19normally I look like a freaking
  133. 5:22labradoodle on a humid day. Like, that's
  134. 5:25just me. I just have never figured out
  135. 5:27the hair situation. And so, I finally
  136. 5:30said, "That's it. I have got to figure
  137. 5:31out how to make my hair look halfway
  138. 5:35okay." Like, I'm not even looking for
  139. 5:37amazing. I'm just looking for okay. And
  140. 5:40so I was watching YouTube. I'm learning
  141. 5:42the tutorials. I've got the right
  142. 5:44sprays. And so Kendall comes rolling in
  143. 5:46after she wakes up. And I am sitting
  144. 5:48there trying to curl my hair, right,
  145. 5:50with this big fat curling. I'm terrible
  146. 5:52at it, Jay. And all of a sudden, I hit
  147. 5:55my freaking ear and I'm like, "OH." AND
  148. 5:58I AND I'M LIKE, "OH MY GOD, I just
  149. 6:00burned my ear." And Kendall casually
  150. 6:02goes, "Well, you got to learn somehow."
  151. 6:04[laughter] And she walks out of the
  152. 6:06room. I think there is so much wisdom in
  153. 6:08that.
  154. 6:09Because that is how you learn. That is
  155. 6:13how you learn how close to hold a
  156. 6:16curling iron to your ear. You burn
  157. 6:18yourself and then your whole body
  158. 6:21absorbs the lesson and you don't go that
  159. 6:24close to the fire next time. Mhm.
  160. 6:26>> And I'm doing that dance with happiness
  161. 6:28and contentment
  162. 6:31that when I feel the fire of discontent
  163. 6:34or friction or complaining or looking
  164. 6:36for what's wrong,
  165. 6:39I pull the curling iron a little away
  166. 6:42from the ear and I go back into a safer,
  167. 6:48calmer place.
  168. 6:49>> That was a beautiful answer. I I didn't
  169. 6:52know what to expect when I asked that
  170. 6:53question. I really appreciate you, you
  171. 6:56know, going that inward with it because
  172. 6:58you could have gone a number of ways. I
  173. 7:00I fully understand and empathize what
  174. 7:03you're saying because my mom and my
  175. 7:06family do something similar. So, and I
  176. 7:09love my mom. I have a great relationship
  177. 7:10with my mom. She's amazing and anything
  178. 7:11that's good about me is because of her.
  179. 7:14But every time I go back to London, the
  180. 7:17day I land, my family will say, "Well,
  181. 7:20you're only here for 21 days." I'm like,
  182. 7:2421 days? Like, that's three weeks. Even
  183. 7:27if you added up all the hours weekly
  184. 7:30that you spend with time with someone,
  185. 7:31it probably won't account for 21 full
  186. 7:34days with full presence. And then a week
  187. 7:37will go and be like, "Oh, you've only
  188. 7:38got 40 14 days left. Oh, you've only got
  189. 7:41seven days left. Oh, you're leaving
  190. 7:43today." And and that mindset just keeps
  191. 7:46forcing you to think that day 21 is day
  192. 7:49one, right? Right? As in that day, 21
  193. 7:51days left is the same as one day left.
  194. 7:53And you're living all 21 days as there's
  195. 7:55only one day left. And I' I've taken
  196. 7:58time and I've sat with my mom so many
  197. 8:00times to have that conversation with
  198. 8:01her. And I said, "Mom, if you celebrate
  199. 8:03that we have 21 days and we're going to
  200. 8:05make the most of it and we're going to
  201. 8:06create new memories and create new
  202. 8:08experiences, then you're going to be
  203. 8:10happier for these 21 days. And yes,
  204. 8:12you're going to miss me the same. It's
  205. 8:14not going to change that. And I'm going
  206. 8:15to miss you." So, I I have personal
  207. 8:17experience of that. on the other end of
  208. 8:19it with having that conversation with my
  209. 8:22mom where she's really grown in
  210. 8:26understanding how that thought hasn't
  211. 8:28served her
  212. 8:29>> right
  213. 8:30>> and she's so much happier for it now
  214. 8:32when I go back. So that I definitely
  215. 8:34identify with that. What what you
  216. 8:35touched on at the end there though was
  217. 8:37really interesting to me when you talk
  218. 8:38about happiness.
  219. 8:40It sounds like you believe you deserve
  220. 8:42it and you sound like you believe it's
  221. 8:46yours for the taking. Like it's like it
  222. 8:48is a clear goal direction. It's there.
  223. 8:51>> Yeah.
  224. 8:52>> And I think what's happened is
  225. 8:54subconsciously or consciously so many of
  226. 8:56us don't feel we deserve happiness or we
  227. 9:00don't feel we're worthy of happiness or
  228. 9:03we actually think mediocrity is a safer
  229. 9:06place to live because then we don't have
  230. 9:08our expectations being unmet. We don't
  231. 9:11have the fall of I wanted this but I got
  232. 9:15this. Right? And so I've been I had a
  233. 9:17friend the other day who sent me a
  234. 9:18message and he said, "Take a look at
  235. 9:20this and it was all about how really we
  236. 9:22shouldn't strive for happiness. We
  237. 9:24should strive for mediocrity because
  238. 9:27mediocrity is where most people will end
  239. 9:29up." So that was literally this is the
  240. 9:32message. So my friend messaged me. He
  241. 9:34goes, "What do you think of this?"
  242. 9:35>> I think it sucks. That's what Mel
  243. 9:37Robinson I think it's the worst advice
  244. 9:38I've ever freaking heard. How about
  245. 9:40that? It's the dumbest thing I've ever
  246. 9:42heard. Here's the thing, Jay.
  247. 9:45So, one of the things I also wanted to
  248. 9:47say is that I'm 54 and it's taken me a
  249. 9:52long time to figure out that I was
  250. 9:56actually not a happy person. And I don't
  251. 10:00think I act I I I really truly
  252. 10:02understood
  253. 10:03what happiness is. And maybe I'm using
  254. 10:06the wrong word. Maybe the word is the
  255. 10:08problem because I always associated
  256. 10:10happiness with like parties and laughter
  257. 10:12and like I'm just like full of joy and
  258. 10:14I'm and I just, you know, it's like this
  259. 10:16very positive thing. And again, I am a
  260. 10:19positive person. I'm a very optimistic
  261. 10:21person. But if you were to put a speaker
  262. 10:23on my head and broadcast the things I
  263. 10:25said to myself, you would literally
  264. 10:27check me in to the seventh floor at Mass
  265. 10:29General Hospital in Boston,
  266. 10:30Massachusetts, because it was a constant
  267. 10:33drum beat of negativity. And as I one by
  268. 10:37one by one Jay started to fix the
  269. 10:40problems in my marriage and my finances
  270. 10:44um with my anxiety as I built a business
  271. 10:47you know a lot of people are surprised
  272. 10:48to learn that most of what you see that
  273. 10:50I've built has been built in the last
  274. 10:52six years literally and so I as I
  275. 10:58started fixing things outside
  276. 11:01that default drum beat did not go away.
  277. 11:06>> It just was a situation where I no
  278. 11:09longer had anything outside of me that
  279. 11:11was rationally wrong. So, I turned it
  280. 11:15back on me and just started hammering me
  281. 11:20in in in crazy ways. I'll give you an
  282. 11:22example. So, this is where I started to
  283. 11:24have this breakthrough. So, I was
  284. 11:26sitting my my husband and I have just uh
  285. 11:29bought a house in Vermont. And I know
  286. 11:32you guys, you know, are in your new
  287. 11:34home. It's an incredible thing to do. It
  288. 11:37is our dream house. It's the house that
  289. 11:38his parents built. It's the family
  290. 11:40house. We not only were able to purchase
  291. 11:43this thing, we have been able to
  292. 11:44completely renovate it, make it our own.
  293. 11:47This place is the closest place to God
  294. 11:50that I have ever been. We sit nestled
  295. 11:54between mountains with a 140 mile view
  296. 11:57straight down a valley with cascading
  297. 12:00like it is
  298. 12:02just spectacular. When I would sit in
  299. 12:06therapy sessions eight years ago and my
  300. 12:09therapist would ask me to come up with
  301. 12:11like a um you know like a totem or a
  302. 12:13spiritual guide or vision whatever for
  303. 12:16truth or God or what it's always this
  304. 12:19view. And so lo and behold, eight years
  305. 12:21later, we freaking live there. And I'm
  306. 12:25sitting on this covered deck looking
  307. 12:28down the valley. My daughter is sitting
  308. 12:29next to me, our other daughter who lives
  309. 12:31in Boston who's 23. And it's Sunday. And
  310. 12:34normally on Sundays,
  311. 12:37I'm not even present on Sundays because
  312. 12:39I'm now got the Sunday scaries. I'm now
  313. 12:41thinking about the week ahead. She is
  314. 12:43starting to now do that. Okay, I got to
  315. 12:45get going. I got to I got to pack the
  316. 12:46car. I got to get going. I got to I got
  317. 12:48a big week of work this week. And it's
  318. 12:507:30 in the morning on a spectacular day
  319. 12:55and the energy is starting and I
  320. 12:57recognize the energy because that is the
  321. 13:00campaign of misery that I have lived
  322. 13:02with for 50 years. And I'm sitting there
  323. 13:06and I'm thinking, "Oh, this is
  324. 13:07interesting.
  325. 13:09That's me."
  326. 13:11And then I stopped in that moment, Jay,
  327. 13:13and I thought, "I don't feel that right
  328. 13:16now.
  329. 13:18I just feel that exactly where I am
  330. 13:22looking at this view
  331. 13:24is exactly
  332. 13:26where I'm supposed to be. And it was so
  333. 13:29profound. It's almost like that moment
  334. 13:31where Echart Tole has on the bench in
  335. 13:35the beginning of the power of now where
  336. 13:37I have this profound experience where I
  337. 13:40think wait a minute is this what
  338. 13:44happiness is
  339. 13:46that I'm not 15 steps ahead
  340. 13:50I'm just able to be right here without
  341. 13:53the anxiety without the stress I mean
  342. 13:56that is like a revolutionary experience
  343. 13:58for me. I don't think I had ever not
  344. 14:02felt the default of a revved up nervous
  345. 14:05system, an anxious mind, or a to-do list
  346. 14:08that was a mile long. And I don't want
  347. 14:11to go back to that sort of frenetic
  348. 14:13busyness that creates chronic stress.
  349. 14:16And you know, the challenge for me right
  350. 14:17now is how do I stay in a space that's
  351. 14:19that's happy? Because I love the game of
  352. 14:23building a business. I love pushing
  353. 14:25myself. I love like and I realized, oh
  354. 14:28wait, you actually need both. You need
  355. 14:32deep spiritual quiet time and you need
  356. 14:36the busyiness of Los Angeles or Boston
  357. 14:39or New York in small sprints. But that
  358. 14:42can't be your default anymore, woman.
  359. 14:44>> And that's a that's such a great
  360. 14:46realization and reflection, I think,
  361. 14:48when you come to that. And it it takes a
  362. 14:50lot of self-acceptance to come to that
  363. 14:52because I think we think of life as
  364. 14:56binary like you have to make a choice.
  365. 14:58You're either going to be a hustler or
  366. 15:00you're going to be peaceful. You're
  367. 15:02either going to be a winner or you're
  368. 15:04going to be a loser. You're either going
  369. 15:06to be wisdom and zen or you're going to
  370. 15:09be money and materialistic. Right? And
  371. 15:12it's almost like you feel you have to
  372. 15:14make those choices early in life. And I
  373. 15:17think when you came in here, we were
  374. 15:18talking about something and I really
  375. 15:21really think it's something that a lot
  376. 15:23of our listeners will resonate with. The
  377. 15:26idea that so many of us experience pain
  378. 15:32of not going after what we want or what
  379. 15:35we need or what we feel is our calling
  380. 15:40>> because of the pain that comes with
  381. 15:41that.
  382. 15:42>> And so we settle for the pain of where
  383. 15:44we are.
  384. 15:45>> Yeah. And I think those two ideas are
  385. 15:48related because again we think there's
  386. 15:50this choice you have to make at any
  387. 15:52point in time where it's like I'm either
  388. 15:54going to live the life of my dreams or
  389. 15:56I'm going to be stuck forever and then
  390. 15:59we're like okay well I'll be stuck
  391. 16:00forever because my dreams seem so far
  392. 16:02away. I remember being there and it's
  393. 16:05always hard to help everyone who's
  394. 16:08listening realize how much I felt that
  395. 16:11way.
  396. 16:11>> So how old were you? I this was six
  397. 16:13years ago for me. It was
  398. 16:14>> Oh my god. That's right. You like have
  399. 16:16this crazy parallel path.
  400. 16:17>> Yeah. Six years ago. So it was six years
  401. 16:19ago. I was working a safe corporate job.
  402. 16:22Six months from now I was about to be
  403. 16:24married to Radhi and I was making
  404. 16:30£31,500
  405. 16:31a year and that was my salary at this
  406. 16:34company. And I was doing extremely well
  407. 16:36at the company. So I had a good track to
  408. 16:38to progress there.
  409. 16:40And I'm sitting there going, I've been
  410. 16:42there for two years and I'm like, I
  411. 16:44don't think this is where I'm meant to
  412. 16:46be. I was looking at people who'd been
  413. 16:48at the company for decades. I was I've
  414. 16:50always said to people, look 10, 20 years
  415. 16:51ahead of you and
  416. 16:53>> look at that person in a company and go,
  417. 16:54is that where I want to be?
  418. 16:56>> And I was like, well, even if they paid
  419. 16:57me as much as that person's paid, even
  420. 16:59if I got all the benefits that person
  421. 17:00got,
  422. 17:01>> I don't think I want to do that in my
  423. 17:0350s. And so I thought to myself, okay,
  424. 17:07well then I have to take a risk. So, and
  425. 17:10and obviously that was like a 2-year
  426. 17:11journey of even convincing myself. Let's
  427. 17:14talk about that. If someone's sitting
  428. 17:15there right now passionate about
  429. 17:17something, wanting to get inspired,
  430. 17:19wanting to do something, but they're
  431. 17:20settling for the pain of where they are.
  432. 17:22And that's why I asked that med
  433. 17:24mediocrity and happiness question.
  434. 17:25>> Yeah.
  435. 17:26>> It is really that dance between I'm
  436. 17:28going to settle for where I'm at or I'm
  437. 17:30going to be where I want to be. How do
  438. 17:32you think about that journey? How do you
  439. 17:33>> You know what just popped into my mind
  440. 17:34in a weird way? Cancer. If you got
  441. 17:36diagnosed with a cancer that was
  442. 17:39treatable, would you try to treat your
  443. 17:42cancer?
  444. 17:42>> Yes,
  445. 17:42>> of course you would. Because otherwise
  446. 17:44it would kill you. When you feel this
  447. 17:48call or this this burning desire and I
  448. 17:52feel like we all have this flame inside
  449. 17:54of us. We are not like a boiler where
  450. 17:56the pilot light can blow out. That is
  451. 17:58not how a human being is wired. you,
  452. 18:00whether you're stuck, whether you're in
  453. 18:02pain, whether you're suffering, you
  454. 18:04still have this this flame inside you
  455. 18:08that is burning. And when you actively
  456. 18:12engage in your own campaign of misery
  457. 18:16and you actively tell yourself the
  458. 18:19reasons why it's not going to work or
  459. 18:20the reasons why you can't do it or the
  460. 18:23reasons why now is not the time or
  461. 18:26you're never going to make it happen or
  462. 18:28it was great for Jay or great for je for
  463. 18:30Mel but nothing ever works out for when
  464. 18:32you engage in your own campaign of
  465. 18:34misery you are creating literally a
  466. 18:38cancer inside of you that eats at you
  467. 18:42and we don't realize that by engaging in
  468. 18:46this campaign of misery because it's
  469. 18:48active that flame is burning inside you
  470. 18:51and you are actively convincing yourself
  471. 18:54not to do anything it is an active
  472. 18:58engage that's why I call it a campaign
  473. 19:01because that flame is going to keep on
  474. 19:02burning which is why the campaign has to
  475. 19:05get louder and the excuses have to get
  476. 19:06louder and you know what starts to
  477. 19:08happen is you start to listen to that
  478. 19:10campaign and you start to feel pain
  479. 19:13because there's something burning inside
  480. 19:15of you. And the only cure for this is to
  481. 19:20stop listening to that campaign and
  482. 19:23simply start taking small steps, just
  483. 19:25one every day toward the thing that you
  484. 19:27want. I talk to my daughter about this
  485. 19:28all the time. So she dreams, absolutely
  486. 19:31dreams of being a singer, songwriter,
  487. 19:35solo artist with a a successful career,
  488. 19:38literally stadium tours. And if I'm
  489. 19:41being perfectly honest, this kid has all
  490. 19:44of the talent and all of the like she's
  491. 19:47one of those five tool players and she
  492. 19:49is a great person, kind and just
  493. 19:52awesome. And she's even in a program for
  494. 19:55it, the best in the country. She has
  495. 19:57everything. She just has to do the work.
  496. 20:00What is the work? Well, the work is
  497. 20:04simply writing crappy songs every day.
  498. 20:08The work is not listening to the
  499. 20:11campaign of misery because all around
  500. 20:13you, you're going to see evidence of
  501. 20:15this person's better or that person this
  502. 20:16or this one's that or there. Uh-uh. When
  503. 20:19you listen to that campaign in your
  504. 20:22head, it is like a cancer inside. It
  505. 20:24causes pain because you can feel when
  506. 20:28you are giving up on your own potential
  507. 20:31>> and that is the worst kind of life to
  508. 20:33live. You are either in the stands
  509. 20:36commenting about the game or you're on
  510. 20:38the court playing it. And right now I
  511. 20:40want you to think about that flame
  512. 20:42inside you, that dream that you have.
  513. 20:45And I'm going to go back to my daughter
  514. 20:46who is on the court. But she will be the
  515. 20:48first to say that for many years she was
  516. 20:50engaged in her own campaign of misery
  517. 20:52sitting in the stands telling herself
  518. 20:55why she can't get on the the court right
  519. 20:57now. And so I like that visual because
  520. 21:00at any moment it literally like cuts
  521. 21:02right to the truth. Are you in the
  522. 21:03stands criticizing who the people who
  523. 21:06are playing the game or being jealous of
  524. 21:08them or in the stands telling yourself
  525. 21:11it's not time to jump in or are you on
  526. 21:13the freaking court? There's only two
  527. 21:16places to be in life. That's it. There
  528. 21:18is no middle ground here. And so what I
  529. 21:22want to say also is that being in the
  530. 21:25stands is loud. It is an active thing
  531. 21:28that you're doing. This is not a passive
  532. 21:30thing that we do to ourselves. We
  533. 21:32actively argue against our dream and our
  534. 21:35potential. And that is a thousand%
  535. 21:39tied to your happiness, to your
  536. 21:41confidence. Because if you are arguing
  537. 21:43against your own god-given potential,
  538. 21:47you are actively destroying your
  539. 21:50confidence. You're actively destroying
  540. 21:52possibility in your life. And here's the
  541. 21:53thing, you freaking know it.
  542. 21:55>> Yeah,
  543. 21:55>> people know when they have imposttor
  544. 21:57syndrome. They know it. They talk about
  545. 22:00it openly. And I also hate the term fake
  546. 22:02it till you make it. And here's why.
  547. 22:04When you say, "I'm just going to fake it
  548. 22:05till you make it," you are calling
  549. 22:06yourself a fake. It amplifies your
  550. 22:10self-doubt. instead say this. I'm going
  551. 22:13to get on the court and try until I make
  552. 22:16it.
  553. 22:17>> Because the pain of sitting in the
  554. 22:19stands and never getting down there is
  555. 22:22way greater than tripping on the court.
  556. 22:25>> Mhm.
  557. 22:26>> Way greater. You're causing your And
  558. 22:28this is the thing I want people to
  559. 22:29understand. You are causing yourself so
  560. 22:32much pain by laughing off and making
  561. 22:35jokes about how it's never going to
  562. 22:37happen. You are causing yourself so much
  563. 22:39pain by thinking about it. Get out of
  564. 22:42the freaking stands and get back on the
  565. 22:45court in your life.

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