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Modern Wisdom

#1027 - Mel Robbins - The Secret to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Mel Robbins is a motivational speaker, podcast host and author. If motivation can’t be trusted, what should you rely on instead? Bestselling author and top podcaster Mel Robbins explains why discipline and emotional control are the real keys to success, and how to build the mindset needed to follow through when it counts. Expect to learn why we cling to control even when we know it makes us miserable and why we focus on things we can't control, how to better deal with the judgment of others, where self-compassion comes from, how to get a grip on your anxiety and ADHD, what "Let Them" theory means and how to employ it, where self-compassion actually comes from and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get $100 off the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get a free bottle of D3K2, an AG1 Welcome Kit, and more when you first subscribe at https://ag1.info/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, so Keynesian Beauty Contest.

0:01.8

Yes.

0:02.5

People are asked to rank who is the most beautiful. Yes. But they're also then asked to rank who they think other people think is the most beautiful. Yes. And then is that also the thing where you're then told that the stuff is screwed up and you're seeing the data and then you come back and you rank the same people differently because you were shown how other people are. Oh, maybe. There might be a twist on it. So this guy's actually done it, but he's done it for...

0:24.0

So he basically... and you rank the same people differently because you were shown how other people are. Oh, maybe there might be a twist on it.

0:22.3

So this guy's actually done it, but he's done it for the way.

0:24.5

So he basically has the most incredible data set that shows that people agree on 88% of the things that are important in life.

0:36.9

Now, we may disagree on policy and how to get there,

0:39.2

but people want exactly the same things. And right now, we're in this massive moment of collective

0:45.5

self-silencing. And part of the reason why, and it's super fascinating when he talks about the

0:49.9

brain, since we're so wired for connection and social rejection feels like pain, that when you see that,

0:56.5

I don't know what the stats are today because it's an old study, but you're probably familiar

0:59.9

with that study that looked at Twitter and how I think it was like 80 or 90 percent of the content

1:06.0

came from 10 percent of the accounts. And right now, if you look at what's going on in social, the five percent

1:13.0

of the most extreme voices on both sides dominate 90 percent of the conversation. And everybody

1:18.7

else is sort of in the middle going, can my fucking parents just stop screaming at each other?

1:27.0

And everybody is self-silencing because nobody wants to get into it with anybody, and we are

1:33.7

under the collective illusion that because you're not saying something, you agree with what's

1:39.5

happening.

1:40.5

And his data is so important and so hopeful and meaningful.

1:45.9

And then he has this incredible historical example about the Velvet Revolution that happened, which was the revolution that happened, I believe, in the 80s.

1:55.9

It's the only time a communist government was overthrown without a single bullet being fired or a single

2:02.6

person dying. And there's an 80-page free kind of historical paper about it. It all began with

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