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Speaker 1: People don't want perfect, they want authentic. People don't want flawless,

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Speaker 1: they want vulnerable. People don't want polished, they want real.

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Speaker 1: People don't want the highlight reel, they want the human

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Speaker 1: don't want someone who has it all together, they want

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Speaker 1: someone who's willing to figure it out. Because perfection may impress,

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Speaker 1: but vulnerability connects. The number one health and wellness podcast

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Speaker 1: Jay Sety, Jay sheddyet Hey everyone, it's Jay Sheddy. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to On Purpose. Today's episode is all about what

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Speaker 1: to do when no one believes in you or supports you.

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Speaker 1: The sad truth is I hear this wherever I am

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Speaker 1: in the world, when I'm traveling, when i'm me people,

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Speaker 1: when I'm connecting, one of the top things I hear is, Jay,

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Speaker 1: the people around me don't believe in me. The people

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Speaker 1: encourage me. Actually, I'm scared that if I launch my company,

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Speaker 1: if I start my podcast, if I write my book,

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Speaker 1: if I build my business, the people around me are

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Speaker 1: going to tear it down before I even have the

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Speaker 1: are walking through life feeling alone. Maybe you've actually felt

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Speaker 1: disconnected from your community, maybe you've felt isolated. Will you think,

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Speaker 1: why does no one help me? Why does no one

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Speaker 1: believe in me? Why does no one support me? If

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Speaker 1: you've ever felt any of those things and you're struggling

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Speaker 1: with that self belief, that self doubt, this episode is

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Speaker 1: Stop seeking support, start creating proof. The science says we

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Speaker 1: experience a cognitive bias called the false consensus effect. We

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Speaker 1: Here's why that's counterintuitive. We think we need validation before

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Speaker 1: we act, but in reality, people often believe in you

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Speaker 1: after you prove the idea works, not before. Imagine this,

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Speaker 1: You're at a party. You say something you think is

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Speaker 1: That's the false consensus effect in action. The false this

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Speaker 1: consensus effect is a cognitive bias where we assume that

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Speaker 1: feel obvious, logical, even universal to us. In other words,

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Speaker 1: if I believe this, most people probably do too. Spoiler,

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Speaker 1: they don't, and science proves it. The science says. This

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Speaker 1: term was coined by psychologists Lee Ross, David Green, and

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Speaker 1: Andrew House in the late nineteen seventies. In one famous study,

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Speaker 1: This bias shows up everywhere, especially when you're building something new.

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Speaker 1: You assume your idea is clearly brilliant, but others don't

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Speaker 1: but they're not. In your head. The problem isn't your idea,

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Speaker 1: it's that you overestimated how obvious it would be to

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Speaker 1: and that's not a flaw. It's a reminder you're early,

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Speaker 1: you're unique, You're supposed to be misunderstood at first. Instead

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Speaker 1: That's not a red flag. That's the beginning of something original.

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Speaker 1: Try this today. Make something small and tangible that shows

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Speaker 1: Maybe they wanted to quit their job at one point

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