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 774. 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 wrote this on Instagram the other day, and it seemed to really resonate.

So I want to talk about it.

I wrote, you're supposed to be cringe.

It's literally the cheat code.

Every breakthrough, every connection, every story worth telling in your future memoir requires

you to risk looking ridiculous at first. And frankly, this is a topic that I've written quite a bit about.

I've also written, it's only cringe until you're the one they're making documentaries about.

I've also written, I have a theory that the universe gives more to people who are willing to look

cringe in the pursuit of joy. The topic of cringe. It's something I feel strongly about. And

I hope me pushing the cringe agenda doesn't come off as just some, you know, go for it. And

who cares what people think? Motivational rhetoric. I've done episodes before on how people do notice and

people do judge you for your cringe moments.

But I do want to raise two things in this episode.

First, research suggests that our fear of cringe is overblown and it's actually backwards

in that the moments that we're like frankly desperate to avoid

are the exact ones that push us forward and the evidence for this comes from some quite rigorous

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