61. The True You: How to Reach Your Potential Through Self-Assessment
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Change and growth are the keys to reaching our potential in life, and we can achieve this transformation through a process of constant self-assessment. Tune in as Monica and Michael explore how we can use consistent, deep, and honest introspection as a powerful tool for ditching negative thoughts and behaviors and revealing the immense greatness of our soul.
The person that I am today, despite all of the good things I’ve done, is not the person I am meant to be. – Michael Berg
Further readings:
Path of the Righteous by Moshe Chaim Luzzato
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| 0:00.0 | If we're not constantly assessing ourselves, then we're never going to become the person we're meant to become. |
| 0:14.0 | The main goal is how do I really manifest the great potential in light of my soul in this world? And the only way that that happens is if I am consistently changing. |
| 0:25.6 | I want to just take us back to where most people live. |
| 0:28.6 | And they live in the realm of my dreams, my destiny, my desired outcome is so far out there. |
| 0:36.6 | And I'm going to work really hard every day to |
| 0:39.5 | eventually get there and in the process they judge themselves so completely |
| 0:43.7 | that they almost paralyzed and immobilize themselves. There is the danger which a |
| 0:47.7 | lot of people fall to that in the process of self-assessment it leads to |
| 0:51.7 | self-judgment and that's why when we talk about spiritual work, it has to be constant and tremendous effort |
| 0:57.7 | because the ego is so powerful. How else will you match it? How else will you meet it? |
| 1:03.1 | That's very important. Very important. |
| 1:08.2 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast, episode 61. |
| 1:12.5 | So I'm sure our listeners are really busy this week practicing non-judgment. |
| 1:18.4 | And we were thinking about it a lot as well. |
| 1:21.3 | After we left the last episodes, we decided to go further and deeper in this topic and really talk about what is a healthy or proactive |
| 1:31.8 | way to judge oneself. And again, the word judgment, I am allergic to. So I think it is aligned |
| 1:38.3 | with self-assessment, self-awareness, feedback, internal feedback, internal validation. |
| 1:45.5 | That's the direction we're going in. |
| 1:47.2 | Yeah, interesting. |
| 1:47.8 | But the word that the phrase that the Kabbalists use is the accounting of our soul. |
| 1:54.0 | Oh, good, because that's what I was thinking too. |
| 1:55.8 | And also discernment, right? |
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