On Purpose with Jay Shetty - 3 Reasons You Feel Inferior To Others & How To See Yourself As Someone Who Matters
Episode Date: June 12, 2020How 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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You're not enough, you don't belong here.
Who do you think you are?
Why do you even bother to try?
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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 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?
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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,
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
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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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
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,
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,
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.
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you can quickly focus on.
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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
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
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
to show up confidently is one that induces fear
and causes us to shrink back into our old ways.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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in order to achieve great success in a healthy
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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.
When someone else has a health issue in your family or your friend group, you become a doctor,
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I really recommend you go and get the book, but you're consistently taking
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,
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,
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
like someone you're responsible for helping.
In tough situations where you need to make a decision, ask yourself, what would I tell my mother to do in this situation?
Substitute whoever you love with your mother, but this will open your heart, compassion, and empathy.
And that's what you need to give yourself.
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