This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1141. Be free, even when people disagree.

By T.K. Coleman of T.K. Coleman.com, anime-rearing-on-person narrator Justin Mollick,

reading two from some amazing blogs and books, and I'll get right to it as we optimize your life.

Be free, even when people disagree, by T.K. Coleman of T.K. Coleman.com.

Be free, even when people disagree.

Answer to any of those questions is yes, then you may be guilty of treating away your power

for the sake of protecting your ego. Lots of people know how to be cool and confident,

as long as everyone is nodding their heads in agreement with them.

It's a lot harder to be cool and confident when someone listens to you and says,

sorry, I'm not buying anything you're saying. Lots of people know how to be powerful

when they're standing up in the front of a room, waxing eloquently about how amazing

their products or perspectives are. It's a lot harder to respond powerfully when someone falls

asleep or walks out during your sales pitch. What does it really mean to be confident?

What does it really mean to be powerful? I'll give you at least one condition that's necessary

for both. It's the ability to stand in the presence of people who are unimpressed,

uninspired, or unconvinced by you without feeling threatened and unsettled by their reaction.

Ramdas captured it well when he said, quote, you can be right without being righteous about it.

End quote. That is, you can be free to act on your own knowledge of what's right for you without

needing to push your view as if it's the one right way for everyone else. You can be free to get

value out of whatever you want without wasting time worrying about those who don't get it.

If you want something, is it not enough for you to want it? Is it really necessary that others

want the same things in order for your desires to be regarded as valid? If you feel something,

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