Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k 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.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 656. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset, Who Dis? As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about something that I've just coined on the spot here, the transitive property of embarrassing yourself. Of course, not a scientific explanation by any means, but it's something I've noticed when it comes to allowing

yourself to be cringe, to be embarrassing, to be a beginner, to take an awkward first step,

to shoot your shot, whatever it is, finding freedom in the act of doing that thing instead of

embarrassment, the thing that we are so wired to avoid at all costs. And this realization came

from something I did this past week. If you don't know on Instagram, you might know that I first

started writing quotes in Chicago by writing them on like post-it notes and pieces of paper and

coffee cups and then walking around the city of Chicago and taking pictures while I did. And I would put

the quotes on poles or on ledges or on a wall or I would just hold it and then I would take a

picture of it and then I would post it. And I always like doing this downtown, especially in like

the most crowded areas like on Michigan Ave or on the river walk or on State Street because

I liked having a really active background with people, kind of added some energy and context to the

quote. But because of this, when I first started at least, I always felt so awkward to be standing

there, a grown man holding a cheesy sensitive quote while people stared at me and watched.

It was like, you know, taking a selfie is sometimes awkward enough doing it while holding a quote

is another thing. And I would just be so embarrassed by it. It felt so embarrassing. And I, you know,

I would try to take the picture real quick so people wouldn't get a good look at it, right? And, you know, now, of course, in retrospect, that behavior of trying to avoid the embarrassment,

that was the cringe part, right? Me, Case, the guy who shares his feelings for a living trying to

hide my art, trying to hide the thing that I'm so passionate about. But regardless, fast forward now, after doing this

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