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Speaker 1: to your friend like that. Now, I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: saying you just want to look at yourself and be like, no,

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Speaker 1: isn't true, and saying you're the worst also isn't true.

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Speaker 1: The number one health and wellness podcast Jay Setty Jay Shetty,

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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose. I'm Jay Shetty,

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Speaker 1: the author of New York Times best selling books Think

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Speaker 1: Like a Monk and Eight Rules of Love. And I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad you're here today because i think one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest challenges that I'm hearing so many of you

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Speaker 1: dealing with right now is not the voices outside. It's

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Speaker 1: not the voice of your friends, it's not the voice

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Speaker 1: of your families. It's the voice in side your head.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever felt that you've got a critic sitting

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Speaker 1: to overanalyze, criticize, complain about every move you make, every

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Speaker 1: you find that that critical voice is blocking you from

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Speaker 1: living your best life, is blocking you from unleashing your potential,

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Speaker 1: is blocking you from making that idea happen. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: have an idea for a podcast, but the voice in

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Speaker 1: your head always says, don't do it. Maybe you have

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Speaker 1: an idea about how to impact the world positively, and

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Speaker 1: you've a voice in your head saying you're not good enough.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you have the desire to build your own business,

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Speaker 1: head says it's a stupid idea. Whatever it is, we

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Speaker 1: all go through moments in life where we keep beating

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Speaker 1: ourselves up. If you're someone who wants to silence that

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Speaker 1: you're someone who wants to break through that negative spiral

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Speaker 1: in your mind, this episode is for you. And if

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Speaker 1: you're someone who wants to stop beating yourself up and

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Speaker 1: start lifting yourself up, this episode is for you. Let's

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Speaker 1: is that self criticism feels like control, but it's actually sabotaged.

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Speaker 1: Right when we criticize ourself, we think we're in control,

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Speaker 1: we think we know everything, We think we're correcting ourselves.

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Speaker 1: What we don't realize is we're actually sabotaging ourselves. Imagine

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Speaker 1: a top tennis player keeps berating themselves after every missed shot.

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Speaker 1: Instead of focusing, they actually are just beating themselves up

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Speaker 1: speech that was given by Roger Federer at Dartmouth University,

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Speaker 1: and he said that in his career he has missed

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Speaker 1: It makes the present, lose time, money, energy, everything. Ask

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Speaker 1: Kristin Nef's research on self compassion from two thousand and

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Speaker 1: five shows that students who forgave themselves for procrastinating studied

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Speaker 1: I remember I've not played golf very often, but I

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Speaker 1: being loyal to people who weren't loyal to you. Forgive

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Speaker 1: It's about saying, you know that mistake I made, that's

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Speaker 1: free you from actually blocking yourself from growth. The second

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Speaker 1: like that? Imagine your best friend failed a job interview.

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Speaker 1: Would you say you're useless? You should have prepared better,

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Speaker 1: athletes who used positive instructional self talk improved performance, while

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Speaker 1: negative self talk led to choking under pressure. Think about that.

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Speaker 1: So we all have self talk. You can't stop the

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Speaker 1: self talk, but those that were constructive, those that were positive,

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Speaker 1: We're trying to beat ourselves up so that we do more,

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Speaker 1: Shame yourself. It won't change you. Compassion will. Don't blame yourself.

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Speaker 1: Some of the most meaningful conversations I've ever had happened

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Speaker 1: that when they look for problems, they look for systems

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Speaker 1: and solutions, not criticism, not shame. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. I hope you'll share this with a friend

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Speaker 1: who struggles with this too. I hope you'll discuss it

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Speaker 1: with them, and I'll see you on the next episode.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. I'm forever in your corner and

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Speaker 1: I'm always rooting for you. If you love this episode,

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Speaker 1: you love my conversation with doctor Joe Dispenser on why

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Speaker 1: stress and overthinking negatively impacts your brain and heart and

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Speaker 1: how to change your habits that are on autopilot. Listen

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Speaker 1: to it right now. How many times do we have

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Speaker 1: to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering. That's

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Speaker 1: the moment of change. No one cares how many times

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Speaker 1: you fell off the bicycle if you ride the bicycle,

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Speaker 1: now you ride the bike.