Confidence comes as a result of evidence, otherwise it's just delusion. Having an epic story is about taking more risks. You don't need confidence to start. Walk before you talk, and eventually your path will talk for you. Confidence comes from experience. Outwork your doubt. Effort is unnoticed until you win. Upload 21 podcasts and you are part of the 1% podcaster (90% don't go past 1, 9% don't go past 20). Try harder means don't give up, the price for excellence has never been so low. You are the asset you're building, not the views on your first videos. 10 views is already a small team, 200 is an auditorium. Be too good to fail. Work more than elders to beat their experience. The message is 10% of how people consume, 90% is the context around the message. Context over Content. Build your proof and the content will take care of itself. All the greatest games aren't winnable (finite like basketball) but must keep going (infinite like marriage and health). Not giving up is winning. Anything worth doing takes great time. Play not to win nor by fear of loosing, play to the best of your ability as long as possible. Love hard work for what is does to you. Your character is your only asset. Play to outlast. Don't blame past failures, change current ones. People use problems as a reason to suck. Choose the more epic options, it'll be great to talk about no matter if it's a success or a failure. More disadvantages means more epic story when you win.
Alex HormoziMeaning comes from impact, who would be worse off if you stopped working? World class performers had an early teacher who made learning fun, up to a point where mastery self-reinforces motivation. Potential isn't fixed, we all have hidden potentials ready to be discovered. The best way to deal with uncertainty is to look at your past self and see how much you've changed as well as if you're proud of it. You don't need a detailed map but a simple compass for general directions. If you're not failing occasionally, you're not trying hard enough and should take more risks. We overestimate how bad failure will be and underestimate how resilient we are. If you don't grow after a trauma, you haven't done it justice. When you talk about your own shortcomings, people will respect you more and give you opportunities to grow that they wouldn't dare before. Ask people for ways you can improve and what you should subtract. Thinking that you are the only one not to have a bias will make you arrogant and wrong. Become smart by avoiding being wrong. Now that information is everywhere but not always optimal, you need to be discerning more than you need to be curious.
Adam GrantSelf-esteem is self-earned regardless of outside influences. Move forward towards what you really want. If you find something you care about more than you, you have a way to stop thinking about yourself. There is limit to willpower but there is no limit to obsession. Make your life a place of performance and fun engineered for your comfort and play. You already are what you want to be. What you say matters if you've lived it, not if you've read it. You experience the part of life you focus on and what's wrong is always available, look at the impact of what you're believing. There is always something to be grateful for. Don't make your family suffer because of your ego. The quality of your life is the quality of you emotions, which are contagious. Focus on what you have as much as you do on what you want. Focus on what you have control over more than on what you can't control. Learning to anticipate is important but it shouldn't remove you from the joy of the present. Philanthropy is giving, not matter the currency (time, money) and amount (cents, millions). Most of your thoughts have been framed by your environment, pre-framed them beforehand. When you produce an impossible result, you will do even more afterwards. Turn your should into must and destroy bad framing. You are here to serve like-minded people, not to please everyone. Anything can be achieved alone but it goes faster in a group thanks to immersion. You get rewarded in public for what you practiced in private. Time flies when all your needs are being met. You can't have freedom as long as you play the victim, biography is not destiny. Once you become an achiever, the drive is never going to leave you. Recognize fundamentals patterns to remove fear then use them to live a better life until you can create your own patterns. Work hard in the spring (10s & 20s) and summer (30s & 40s) to reap in the fall (50s & 60s).
Tony Robbins