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

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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 755. 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, a simple message from me to you. And it goes like this. I say, you didn't deserve that. That's it. You didn't deserve what happened to you. You did not deserve what happened to you. And I think this is a message we all

collectively need to hear because at some point in our lives, someone hurt us in a way we absolutely

did not deserve. But instead of questioning them, we questioned ourselves. We internalized their

behavior as evidence of something, evidence that we were flawed or to

this or to that or too emotional or too demanding or too naive or to trusting, anything really to make

sense of their actions. And we don't realize how often I think we do this. Like it's essentially

rewriting history. We tell ourselves,

well, we should have known better. We should have been more guarded. We should have reacted differently.

We should have moved differently. It's like we like should have our way into believing that in some

weird twisted sense of rewriting history, the pain was somehow a fair outcome or like deserved even at the

worst level. But you didn't deserve what happened to you. Sometimes you don't deserve it at all.

And that's all it is. A lot of the time, that's all it is. You didn't deserve it, period.

And I think coming back to this message or a is. You didn't deserve it, period. And I think coming back to this message

or a mindset of you didn't deserve it, it addresses what I think is like the worst human habit we

have, which is justifying other people's behavior as our responsibility. And we do this in an

interesting way, I think, I believe. We do this because

blame at least gives us a sense of control, a small sense of control. If it was our fault,

well, then we can prevent it next time. If it was, you know, something about us, then at least the

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