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fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 776. 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 the two kinds of actions you can take in life and why I think it's important to know the difference between them. But higher level than that even, I want to talk about reinventing yourself, upgrading yourself,

welcoming you to the next most rewarding chapter of your life. I want to talk about how the only way that happens is if you take bold action, bold behavior to literally, and this is important,

to literally revise who you are. And that's the headline here.

It's that bold behavior revises who you are. It's not bold beliefs. It's not bold ambition.

It's not bold clarity. It's bold behavior revises who you are. And this is something I need to

remind myself, I'd say, because most people,

myself like formerly included here, we believe that identity comes first, then action comes

because of identity, right? Like we say, I need to become this person, then I'll do the thing.

I'll apply when I feel confident. I'll speak up when I am smart enough. I'll

raise my rates of my business when I have more clients and I'm more established, right? We need the

belief. Then we assume the action will follow. Or then we say we rationalize, then I'll do the action. But

research in modern psychology suggests

the opposite is the true path, like the literal opposite. It's referred to a self-perception theory,

which basically in 1972 there's this social psychologist, Daryl Bem, who came up with a concept,

self-perception theory. and he basically argued that we usually

infer our own attitudes and our own identities by observing our own behavior. And when our

internal states are ambiguous, that is, when we're unsure, whether we're confident, whether

we're capable, whether we're smart enough, whether we're ambitious enough, whether we're confident, whether we're capable, whether we're smart enough,

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