Hello and welcome to the new Mindset Who-This podcast. My name is Case Kenny at

Case. Cany on Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no-BS episodes

dedicated to helping you become the person you're meant to be leave

your comfort zone and live a purposeful and fulfilling life.

Let's go. Oh, All right. Welcome to episode 632. Hello my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of new mindset who this as always

Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me and today I want to talk about what's worth fighting for and what's not.

And I'll tell you what made me want to do this episode.

I have this quote that's been sitting in my notes

on my phone for a while as a reminder for me.

And it's from Dostoevsky, the from his book Crime and Punishment I'm sure you read that in school at some point but the the quote is a really powerful one that's pretty like savage quote he, your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

Your worst sin is that you have betrayed and destroyed yourself for nothing.

And I'll take this out of context because I guess the context of the book

doesn't really matter the quote stands alone. What matters about this is that the power

of not betraying yourself from recognizing what is worth fighting for and what is not.

And although the quote is pretty heavy, right?

I think it's one of the most empowering things you can realize, that some things in life are worth hanging on to fighting for digging in

because it has goodness to offer it can reciprocate what you offer as promise and joy but some things are not some things only have

bare minimum some things are a ghost of joy some things are a shiny surface and

nothing more and that's it And to pursue those things blindly in the pursuit of some

illusion, yeah that is a bit of self-betrayal. It's self-betrayal to do that in the

face of all the things you've learned, all promises you made yourself all the standards and boundaries you've created in a world of you know distractions and empty promises though it's so easy and I think it's one of the, you know,

ultimate signs of being human, it's easy to fall into the trap of fighting things,

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