Humans have the tendency to err towards the negative, and I want to train myself to go towards

the positive and say, what can I positively take away from this experience?

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do the same. Buckle up and let's build. What is up? Today, what I want to talk about is how

I stopped beating myself up despite my mistakes and

failures while building my business. And this came from a question that somebody asked in,

I think it was like an Instagram poll. And they basically said, you know, how do you keep

moving forward without beating yourself up when you've made so many mistakes? And this wasn't

directed toward me, though I've made countless mistakes. But it was really directed about

themselves. And this is a

question that I've gotten time and time again. And I kind of had to put more thought towards it because

I could regurgitate with some other YouTube person or podcast as told you, but it wouldn't be the

truth. And so I really had to dissect my mental framework for how I stopped doing this to myself.

And I'll start with the premise, which is I think that anyone who is driven towards success

and who is ambitious, a lot of the times they, the other side of that ambition or the other

side of that success is that that person tends to be very hard on themselves.

And so a lot of the times the beliefs that come with that are beliefs like, well, I don't

know if I could be successful if I didn't beat myself up, if I wasn't so hard on myself, et cetera, et cetera.

And I don't believe this to be true.

It was a belief that I held for a very long time, which was if I'm not hard on myself, and I'm not extremely judgmental and critical of myself, then I'm not going to have this drive to succeed. But what it actually

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