Best of 2016: Conversations We’re Afraid to Have with Jerry Colonna

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The “you’re an imposter” mantra is beautiful oft repeated phrase from one’s inner critic. But there are a lot of other phrases the inner critic uses, so it’s kind of a subset of this self loathing that goes on. You correctly linked it to the kind of merging of sense of self and self worth with work. But I would argue that it’s even deeper. It’s merging a sense of self and self worth with almost anything that’s extrinsic to this meatball called me. One of the more profound teachings from Buddhism goes like this: you are lovable, you are worthy. Not because of anything you’ve done, but simply because you exist. – Jerry Colonna

Jerry Colonna is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction

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0:00.0	The your an imposter mantra is a beautiful oft repeated phrase from one's inner critic.
0:11.7	But there are a lot of other phrases that the inner critic uses. So it's kind of a subset of this self-loathing that goes on.
0:20.0	And I think you correctly linked it to the kind of merging of sense of self and self-worth
0:29.7	with work. But I would argue it's even deeper.
0:35.0	It's merging a sense of self and a sense of self worth
0:40.1	with almost anything that's extrinsic to this meat bag called me.
0:50.0	One of the more profound teachings from Buddhism is that it basically goes like this,
0:57.7	you are lovable, you are worthy, not because of anything that you have done, but simply because you exist.
1:07.0	And to my mind, that flies in the face of almost every Western philosophical tradition that I was ever raised with,
1:20.0	which was that salvation and everlasting peace, a kind of equanimity, that I am okay.
1:31.6	I suffer and I'm okay. I'm in pain and I'm okay I'm happy and I'm okay I'm sad and I'm okay
1:38.4	that kind of equanimity is only available to us in the hereafter and only available to people who either have been
1:47.1	chosen preordained by God or someone lucky enough to have figured out what the right things to do are.
1:57.0	I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
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2:45.0	Jerry, welcome to the Un Mistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
2:50.0	Oh, thank you for having me. It's really an honor and pleasure to be here.
2:54.5	Well, it is really, really cool to have you here.
2:56.9	I came across your work by way of the reboot podcast, which I found when I was going through a particularly difficult time myself.
3:04.7	And what really drew me into your work was the fact that you were willing to go to places in
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