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 780.

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 the idea that you hear this all time, right, that how someone treats you is a reflection of who they are. We've heard this before,

right? And it's true. It's honest. I would say it's accurate. But I find that it certainly doesn't take away the sting of how they treated you or hurt you. It kind of falls flat. So I want to dive into this a bit more to prove that it's a true statement. And in that truth, find peace when you're on the receiving end of other people's hurtful behavior. So I guess in that sense,

I do want to try something different. Like I want to skip the part where I, even I want to really

badly. So let's skip the part where I just try to make you feel better. And instead, let's go to

the part where we think a bit harder about other people's imperfect actions.

Like, let's obsess over this for just a minute because I think we could find some clarity here.

Because the thing about how someone treats you as a reflection of them, not you, it's not in that, it's not about you being innocent, right?

This isn't some get out of jail free card for you. it's not about you being innocent, right? This isn't some get out of jail

free card for you. It's not about you in any sense. This is all about capacity, specifically

emotional capacity. And capacity, real, like actual capacity is all about measurement. Like, honestly, here's how I think about it.

Like, think about a cup, not a metaphorical cup. I'm talking about an actual cup in front of you.

It's round. You put water in it, a cup. It's sitting on your kitchen counter right now.

That cup can only hold what it can hold. It has a maximum volume to it. If you pour 12 ounces into an

eight ounce cup, you don't get eight ounces, you don't get 12 ounces of cup. You get a mess and then

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