On Purpose with Jay Shetty - 3 Reasons You Feel Inferior To Others & How To See Yourself As Someone Who Matters

Episode Date: June 12, 2020

How do you truly feel when you look in the mirror and see the person staring back at you? Shetty believes the biggest thing holding people back from reaching true potential is wanting to be someone el...se other than themselves. Jay takes an honest look at what gets in the way of living with acceptance of who they are & the steps one can take to conquer feelings of inferiority. You'll learn how to leave feelings of inferiority behind, why you matter & belong here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her into the train yard. This is what it sounds like inside the box-top. And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful that it changed me. But the rails do that to everyone. There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil, you're going to find them there in the rail yard. Undenail Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us and the city of the rails. Listen to City of the Rails on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your
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Starting point is 00:01:34 You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica podcast. Check it out on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. How many of you have heard this? You're not enough, you don't belong here. Who do you think you are? Why do you even bother to try? If this is how you're constantly going through life, believing you're not important to yourself, it has a harmful effect on your well-being and how you show up, how you show up at work,
Starting point is 00:02:01 how you show up in your relationships, how you show up in your friendships, how you show at work, how you shop in your relationships, how you shop in your friendships, how you shop everywhere. You'll always play it small, you'll always play it safe and cautiously live your life, which isn't what you're here for. What's your purpose? Hey everyone, welcome to on purpose, the place where we listen, learn and grow, and dissect themes from multiple angles. Look at things from different perspectives. Have our minds blown and Really get to grow together. I absolutely love being with you every single week. I have to be honest with you and say that
Starting point is 00:02:37 This community is so special to me and I'm so grateful that we get to Tackle some of the biggest challenges of our times together and I really can't wait. This is something I'm so grateful that we get to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our times together. And I really can't wait. This is something I'm super excited about. I can't wait till lockdown is over. People can travel more. And I can actually do these as events. I mean, how amazing would that be?
Starting point is 00:02:56 I hope you're gonna show up if you listen to this. Imagine I came to your city and we did an event and we sold out a theater to start. We did it in a few years. We sell out a stadium and how amazing would it be if we were able to be together. I can't wait to meet you. I can't wait to hug you. I can't wait to be live with you.
Starting point is 00:03:12 It will be such a special experience to be in the same vicinity and hold energy and presence. Well, we can all move forward together. And I hope you're going to show up when that comes out. I know that I'm definitely gonna be trying to do a room on my book that comes out in September the 8th, this year, 2020. And even if I can't for the book, I'll definitely be back. So I'm really, really excited.
Starting point is 00:03:34 We have decades ahead of us to build a relationship, build a journey. And if you're part of the on purpose community, I 100% value you so, so much. So today I wanna talk about something that I think is really, really powerful. And it's about this feeling of being inferior to others. And how to really understand how to see yourself as someone that matters and can make a difference. Literally every single week,
Starting point is 00:04:09 I am pained when I see negative self-talking messages across social media. I read comments like, I could never do that. I read comments like, oh yeah, but that only happens to special people. I read messages like, oh, I wish that happened to me. Well, that's not going to happen for people like me. And the reason why it pains me so much and even more, I guess, is that I can empathize and relate to that because I felt exactly the same way. And I may have told you this somewhere else before, but I remember when I really wanted
Starting point is 00:04:58 to make content and videos and I'd kind of got to a point where I didn't think anything was going to work. I'd been procrastinating and overthinking for a long time. And I remember someone saying to me, why don't you start a YouTube channel? And I remember my response. I don't think I said it out loud, but in my head, my response was, well, that works for like one in a million people. Well, that works if you're just in Bieber.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Well, that works if you're young, not me. That doesn't happen to me. I'm 28 years old. That's not gonna happen to me. And I didn't realize me repeating that things were not going to happen to me were the reason why things were not happening for me. And it's incredible how we create a reality for ourselves based on repeated patterns of words and thoughts. Now I'm sure plenty of you have gone into countless situations where you felt inferior
Starting point is 00:06:08 or as if you didn't belong. Maybe you remember going into a job interview where you looked around and felt others were probably more qualified. How many times have you felt that? You're waiting and I remember waiting in so many interview rooms. You know, they all put you in the same room and it's awkward. Everyone's like, what college did you go to? Where did you study? Everyone's
Starting point is 00:06:32 sizing each other's suits and clothes up and seeing who looks right. I remember when I went for my interview at a big corporate company and we were waiting in the waiting room, each waiting for our turn. I remember someone talking about how they had a masters and how they are studying this really difficult thing. And it made me so uncomfortable and inferior in that moment and someone else was telling them about all the experience they had and the amazing companies they'd worked for. And it was really unnerving. Like how many of you have been in that situation?
Starting point is 00:07:11 It made me really nervous. Or maybe you remember going into dining at a restaurant where you felt you didn't belong, right? It was fancier than you're used to. It was more than maybe your parents could have afforded in the past. You were surrounded by people who earnedcier than you're used to. It was more than maybe your parents could have afforded in the past. You were surrounded by people who earned more than you, and that made you feel inferior.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Right, how many times have you been in that situation? Or maybe you're walking into a shopping outlet that you believed was out of your sphere, right? Sometimes you're walking in a store. I remember, this is a few years ago when I visited LA before I lived here. Me and my wife were walking on Radeo Drive. We went as tourists. We don't just go walk on Radeo Drive. And we were walking on Radeo Drive. And I remember seeing the Ralph Lauren store and I wanted to go inside. So I went inside the Ralph Lauren store. We walked inside, I went into the watch section and I was admiring this
Starting point is 00:08:06 watch there and the person, credit to them, was very respectful. I definitely didn't, you know, I wasn't dressed in a way that looked like I could buy anything there and I couldn't afford anything in the store that I was looking at for sure. And I remember really admiring a watch and I remember asking them how much it was. And they told me that this watch was $15,000. I just, you know, like, I was just so shocked that that watch that I was looking at was $15,000. I walked out of there quicker than I've walked out
Starting point is 00:08:36 anywhere before. But again, like, you know, maybe you fell inferior in that way. And maybe, you know, maybe you fell inferior when you're visiting a friend's neighborhood and just feeling out of place. How many of you have any time experienced some sort of inferiority complex in some area of life? And you know what? Sometimes it's not even a situation. You get it just simply looking in the mirror. Like you feel you're inadequate when it comes
Starting point is 00:09:02 to your height, when it comes to your height, when it comes to your weight, when it comes to your facial or bodily features, when it comes to your skin, whether that's the tone or the color or the skin quality, whatever it is, right? Like, you know, you feel inferior of your hair. And the truth is the list goes on and on. Now, what does inferior really mean? The way inferior is defined is a lower in rank status or quality. It's a universal human feeling which can also be compared to a feeling of incompleteness, smallness, weakness, ignorance and just overall not being able to fully rely on yourself to complete your task or your needs a
Starting point is 00:09:48 Small consistent cry that speaks to you all day You're not good enough You don't belong here Who do you think you are? Why even bother or try? You look different from everyone else. You are not enough. How many of you have heard this? You're not enough. You don't belong here. You're not good enough. Who do you think you are? Why do you even bother to try? Now, I'm going on a
Starting point is 00:10:19 length about this because I really want you to follow me on this episode. I seriously think there's nothing more important than this. If this is how you're constantly going through life, believing you're not equally as important as going around you and even more not as a comparison, but just important to yourself, it has a harmful effect on your well-being and how you show up, how you show up at work, how you show up in your relationships, how you show up in your friendships, how you show up everywhere. You'll always play it small, you'll always play it safe and cautiously live your life, which isn't what you're here for.
Starting point is 00:10:55 There's a beautiful quote that I remember and I just want to find it here so I can share it with all you. Let me bring it up. I'm just literally searching it right now. Who's it by? Let's have a look. I believe it's from William Shed, this quote. And it's a beautiful quote.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Oh, it's also from John Augustus Shed, but the quote says something like this. A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. Right? A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for. A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for. Ships are meant to cross ocean. Ships are meant to deal with tumultuous waves. They're meant to help you cross over to another place. That's what our lives are about. They're about crossing over to another side.
Starting point is 00:11:44 There's about improving, about growing, about moving, about traveling. And so why place small, why place safe, cautiously live your life when that's normal you're here for. Now the ideal person grows up in a society where they feel they belong, they matter, and this encourages a healthy outlook. And unfortunately, that's not the case for all of us, right? I have friends who feel they have bad hair, funny accents, weird noses, too short, too tall. And my response is immediately to ask them,
Starting point is 00:12:17 who taught you this, and why do you believe this to be true? How does this feeling of inferiority develop? That's my biggest question, what I find fascinating because we all have it in some area of our lives. And sometimes we try to overcompensate. When you think back to that example I gave you of the people in that interview room, I actually never saw that. So I actually ended up getting that job and don't remember seeing some of the people there, ever get the job there, and you wonder how many people are overcompensating for the feeling of inferiority
Starting point is 00:12:50 and how that gets in the way of them performing at their best, right? And I feel it, we all feel inferiority in different ways, but how does this feeling of inferiority develop? Famous psychologist and associate of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, believed that all human experiences, feelings of inferiority as children and spend the rest of their lives trying to compensate for those feelings, right? All humans experience feelings of inferiority
Starting point is 00:13:18 as children and spend the rest of their lives trying to compensate for those same feelings. and spend the rest of their lives trying to compensate for those same feelings. He also noted that it can also be used as a healthy motivation. Those feelings of inferiority activate a person to strive upward so that normal feelings of inferiority impel the human being to solve his or her problems successfully. Now, this is what I like about it, right? Because sometimes we think that that inferiority is our weakness, but actually that inferiority ends up being our strength when we see it
Starting point is 00:13:53 from this perspective. And so often we just don't recognize this. We don't give it the opportunity to do that, but it is so true. So from this, we can conclude that there are benefits to feeling inferior. They cause us to jump to action and pursuit of a greater feeling of security.
Starting point is 00:14:13 But too much of it can lead to shame and guilt of one's existence, and that's what I want to focus on today. I want you to leave this episode of feeling that you're here for a purpose, that you matter, that you belong and no longer wish to be anyone different from who you truly, truly are. So here are the reasons why you feel inferior to others.
Starting point is 00:14:37 And when we unpack these, we start breaking them. Right, when you unpack something, when you unpack a box, you break down the box right you rip open the box you open it up you take what's out of that you unpack it you flat pack the box you throw away in the trash when you unpack something you break it down when we unpack the reasons for why we feel inferior we break them down whereas if you just leave them as they are then they just stay as they are and those boxes keep building. Right? Those
Starting point is 00:15:07 boxes just keep developing. Those boxes just keep piling on top of each other again and again and again and again. And they get to that point where they just really end up there. Right? That's what happens to each and every single one of us. So here are the reasons why you feel inferior to others. Number one is the media, and there are three reasons I want to give you today. Now I'd like to include a quote from Malcolm X, who said that the media is the most powerful entity on the earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent. And we see this all around
Starting point is 00:15:45 us with the media, how the media shifts our attention from subject to subject, theme to theme. And whatever the media is talking about is what we're talking about. Right? And that comes with good things too. If the media is talking about a song or a movie, we're talking about that song or a movie. If the media is talking about this particular issue, and the news, we're talking about that issue in the news. How many times have you seen footage of protests where people are looting, writing, and hurting others? Right?
Starting point is 00:16:08 And I'm sure you're nodding your head and agreement on this because we've heard if it bleeds, it leads. You do not, you don't often see peaceful protests where people are holding hands singing and embracing everyone with love. Now I was sharing that on my social media page recently and people were like, wow, Jay, we're not seeing this. Right? We're not seeing this on the news.
Starting point is 00:16:26 So I shared the above because it's crucial to realize that media is a tool. You can't fully take what the media says about you, about your position, about who you are to heart because it's being created by certain people. And usually the people that create it are creating it for themselves. Movie shows certain people who have wealth or education or status and beauty and other groups are represented not in that way. And I urge you to view entertainment, social media, magazines and everything you consume as a tool and not reality. It is just showing you what the specific people
Starting point is 00:17:05 that created that really think and what they're trying to highlight. How you see yourself represented in the media takes a toll on how you shop in the world. I'll give you a personal example. Like, you know, for a long time, a lot of people in America saw Indian people as a poo in the Simpsons, right?
Starting point is 00:17:23 Like that was the character. Or Howard and Kumar get the munchies with the South Asian and the Asian appearance. And I remember like, when I first moved to America, I remember I went to get a haircut. And this is only four years ago. I remember someone saying to me like, oh, I thought you were from India
Starting point is 00:17:39 because I've never really seen an Indian person. This was in New York, by the way, where there are plenty of Indian people. And the feeling that, you know, like probably that I worked in a store or something, so just completely not understanding, right, and everything else around them. Hey, it's Debbie Brown. And my podcast, Deeply Well, is a soft place to land on your wellness journey. I hold conscious conversations with leaders and radical healers and wellness and mental health
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Starting point is 00:20:55 just like the rest of us. When a relationship breaks down, I take copious notes and I want to share them with you. Anybody with two eyes and a brain knows that too much Alfredo sauce is just no good for you. But if you're going to eat it, they're not going to stop you. So he's going to continue to give you the Alfredo sauce and put it even on your grits if you don't stop him.
Starting point is 00:21:23 Listen to the art spot on the iHeart Video app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Now the second one is past experiences. I want to share a quote by Dr. Joe Dispenser. He said, if you want to create a new life, a new personal reality, you have to change your personality, which means you better start thinking about what you've been thinking about and changing it. Now, I love this so much because it gets the root of why you
Starting point is 00:21:50 are the way you are today. In other words, you're not just going to wake up feeling a sense of security in which you're without, you know, doing anything about the past, which created the current you. In order to become someone else, you need to start from the beginning. I want you to please do an exercise with me. Remember, this isn't a homo-coral choreo. This is your life which we're talking about here. So, I want you to take out a sheet of paper and simply write,
Starting point is 00:22:16 I felt small when. I felt attacked when. When people do this to me, I feel unheard. The person who makes me feel bad is. The situation that I felt most humiliated in was, please take time to write these and fill them out with your past memories. Get this out of your head and spirit and onto paper where it's tangible. Not only will this give you insight to why you approach certain situations, people and places with inferiority, but the awareness you need so moving forward you can break this cycle. Now, once you've done with the above,
Starting point is 00:22:57 let's flip these questions and do the opposite. I felt powerful when. I felt appreciated when. I felt extremely valuable when. I felt proud when. After you do this, you'll find that you have had plenty of moments where you exceeded your own expectations, intellectual abilities and limitations you've set on yourself. The reality of our brains and bodies is that we often hold on to the negative because it's a stronger emotion, which causes you to focus on that specific memory and burn it into your psyche. Now when the negative past experiences come up, you have a toolkit of positive evidence you can quickly focus on.
Starting point is 00:23:39 As Dr. Dispenser says, where you place your attention is where you place your energy. Let's focus on healing our past and not nurturing our wounds. After this, you'll slowly start to demonstrate new habits in how you show up, which will dampen the opportunities for feelings of inferiority. Because now you've done the work to understand why they arise in the first place, your identity is linked to all the past events in your life by owning, analyzing and reframing you learn the lessons from them and start to create the new you. You will no longer be wrapped up in your reality of believing the lies of someone else's
Starting point is 00:24:18 judgment, because that's all it is. Someone's perception of you, not your truth. The third reason why we feel inferior to others is from our current reality. This is one of my favorite topics, the present. If for any reason throughout your day, you're wishing you could look, act, or talk differently than who you currently are, remember that you're playing
Starting point is 00:24:44 into the victim role. Today, if you're not going after the opportunities that excite you, if you're not pursuing partners who you're attracted to, raising your hand when you want to voice something important, wearing the clothes you really want, saying no when you feel it's necessary, you are strengthening your inferiority complex. With everything that you do, you are either practicing something beneficial or detrimental to your self-image. Please decide wisely. I understand that making these choices
Starting point is 00:25:14 to show up confidently is one that induces fear and causes us to shrink back into our old ways. So here's a fix that's helped a lot of people. It consists of two parts. Number one, use death as a reminder to operate with urgency. Something Ryan Holliday speaks of frequently and the stoic teachings. It's about understanding that this day may be your last. So why not go for it? The second one is critical. So many of us don't do things because of the fear of what others might think or say or how they'll react.
Starting point is 00:25:50 Learn to care more about what you think of you rather than what a stranger thinks of you. Remember that we are social creatures. Whenever someone says stop caring what others think of you that biologically will never work. But you can care more about what you think of you rather than what someone else thinks of you that biologically will never work, but you can care more about what you think of you rather than what someone else thinks of you. Think about the difference, that is mind blowing if you think about that for a moment, right? Think about that for a moment.
Starting point is 00:26:13 If someone just says don't care about what other people think, that's actually biologically, I'm not gonna say impossible because there's nothing's impossible, but it's biologically very difficult to do. But recognizing that your view of you is more important than someone else's view of you, is something very, very, very possible.
Starting point is 00:26:30 I really believe you matter. I believe that you can make a difference. I believe that no one should live feeling like they don't matter. Never look in the mirror and judge yourself based off of someone else. Only the person you were yesterday. This is something that you truly need to absorb.
Starting point is 00:26:48 If you keep allowing yourself to dwell on your imperfections and wishing you had what someone else did, you'll be at that for the rest of your life. I think this is often so overlooked when it comes to success. I believe that you first have to like yourself in order to achieve great success in a healthy manner. What a shame it is to live this one life in your own skin but constantly wish it
Starting point is 00:27:12 were a different shade, different height, different shape, different mind. From my understanding, you only have this one temple that houses your consciousness and energy. Take care of it. that house is your consciousness and energy. Take care of it. I'm Mungesha Tikhler and to be honest, I don't believe in astrology, but from the moment I was born, it's been a part of my life. In India, it's like smoking. You might not smoke, but you're going to get secondhand astrology. And lately, I've been wondering if the universe has been trying to tell me to stop running and pay attention, because maybe there is magic in the stars if you're willing to look for it. So I rounded up some friends and we dove in and let me tell you, it got weird fast.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Tantric curses, major league baseball teams, cancelled marriages, K-pop! But just what I thought I had to handle on this sweet and curious show about astrology, my whole world can crash down. Situation doesn't look good, there is risk too far. And my whole view on astrology, it changed. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, I think your ideas are going to change too. Listen to Skyline Drive and the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the 1680s, a feisty opera singer burned down an unnery and stole away with her secret lover.
Starting point is 00:28:41 In 1810, a pirate queen negotiated her cruiseway to total freedom with all their loot. During World War II, a flirtatious gambling double agent helped keep D-Day a secret from the Germans. What are these stories having common? They're all about real women who were left out of your history books. If you're tired of missing out, check out the Womanica podcast, a daily women's history podcast highlighting women you may not have heard of, but definitely should know about. I'm your host, Jenny Kaplan, and for me,
Starting point is 00:29:15 diving into these stories is the best part of my day. I learned something new about women from around the world and leave feeling amazed, inspired, and sometimes shocked. Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is what it sounds like inside the box-top. I'm journalist and I'm Morton in my podcast, City of the Rails.
Starting point is 00:29:39 I plunge into the dark world of America's railroads, searching for my daughter Ruby, who ran off to hop train. I'm just like stuck on this train, not where I'm gonna end up. And I jump. Following my daughter, I found a secret city of unforgettable characters living outside society, off the grid and on the edge. I was in love with a lifestyle and the freedom
Starting point is 00:30:02 this community. No one understands who we truly are. The rails made me question everything I knew about motherhood, history, and the thing we call the American dream. It's the last vestige of American freedom. Everything about it is extreme. You're either going to die, or you can have this incredible rebirth and really understand
Starting point is 00:30:25 who you are. Come with me to find out what waits for us in the city of the rails. Listen to city of the rails on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast or cityoftherails.com. And this leads me to the next pillar. I'm highlighting Jordan Peterson's book here. There's a chapter from his book, 12 Rules for Life. The chapter that best describes this teaching is rule two. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. He goes into detail about why people tend to take care of others and their pets more than themselves. People are better at feeling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves.
Starting point is 00:31:08 When someone else has a health issue in your family or your friend group, you become a doctor, but with yourself, you just let it go. When I read this, I was shocked, but it also made sense for my past experiences with myself and people. I have friends who will leave a business function because they have to run home and feed their cat, take their dog for a walk and so on. People do not neglect these things because they see as their responsibility, they see their pet as deserving of these basic non-negotiable. So why is it possible that sometimes we sleep only a few hours or we don't eat enough, we don't take our medication on time. We don't drink that green juice, or we consume junk media and junk food, or cheat on our spouses.
Starting point is 00:31:49 We don't work out. Here's a quote from the same chapter. The problem is, we know so much more about ourselves than anyone else. We know the full range of our secret transgressions, are insufficiencies and inadequacies. No one is more familiar than you with all the ways your minds and body afford. No one has more reason to hold you in contempt, so see you as pathetic and by withholding something that might do you good. You can punish yourself for all your failings and we often do that we punish ourselves. I really recommend you go and get the book, but you're consistently taking
Starting point is 00:32:28 score every day of all the things you do. When you tell yourself, I'm going to start reading every day for 10 minutes, but day after day you don't, how do you think that affects the way you look at yourself? Whenever you don't keep an agreement with yourself, your self-respect diminishes. It declines. Next time around subconsciously, your mind already knows you're not going to follow through with whatever you tell yourself and actually this becomes a destructive habit that's hard to break. When you don't take care of yourself because you believe you do not matter, you end up becoming vengeful, taking it out on people around you,
Starting point is 00:33:03 and overall not a positive energy to be around. You end up treating vengeful, taking it out on people around you, and overall not a positive energy to be around. You end up treating others poorly too because your inner world will always reflect in reality. When you treat people wrongly, how does that make you feel? I'm sure it lowers your sense of self-worth, which only amplifies the cycle. If you go around defeated as a victim, it's easy to invite situations of inferiority to knock on your door. Now, this is a topic we can go on for ages. The key here is to keep your agreements to yourself. Be hard on yourself when it comes to keeping agreements, but kind and nurturing when you believe you're not measuring up. The more you keep your word and follow through,
Starting point is 00:33:45 your confidence and judgment of yourself will increase drastically. This is the goal. Have you noticed that this didn't involve anyone by yourself? You know what it feels like to give into your vices? Whether it's overeating, drugs, porn or alcohol? Go to the other side where you treat yourself
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