441 SelfWork: How to Grow From Self-Doubt and Failure
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today on SelfWork, we’re focusing on self-doubt and how to grow from failure. Or what you’re calling failure.
But labeling something as a failure can be used in several different ways , can’t it? It can be motivating, or it can stop you in your tracks. It can cause tremendous embarrassment, even shame, or you can use it to grow. What you tell yourself about failure has such a strong impact on whether it leads you into depression, even apathy, or whether you take that failure in stride and integrate it – make it a part of your learning and keeping on keeping on.
The power of self-doubt or what you tell yourself about failure is very important to whether you let those failures define you and cause you extreme self-doubt and paralysis. Or whether you accept failure – but not define yourself by it.
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Vital Links:
SelfWork episode on imposter syndrome
Jeff Haden's article on self-doubt in Inc. Magazine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Self Work. This is Dr. Margaret. |
| 0:03.7 | Today we're talking about self-doubt, depression, and how to grow from failure. |
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| 1:22.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work, we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them, |
| 1:31.1 | whether that's learning self-acceptance, taking action, or seeking therapy or treatment. |
| 1:36.8 | Eight years ago, I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you |
| 1:40.5 | who might already be knowledgeable about middle health treatment, |
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