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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Bonus: Is This a Cult and Other Questions About the Clutch

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Listen in as Kara answers questions like "Is the Clutch a cult?" and more in this bonus Q+A episode.

Get more info here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/bonus-clutch-qa/

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0:00.0

Really, if you are listening, you're still here, you're still showing off, and you are on the fence about showing the clutch.

0:05.7

I really want to know why. I want to know what's holding you back from joining us, and I want to answer whatever your concerns are.

0:14.0

And my goal always is for you to make a decision that you feel good about.

0:19.8

Right? Like, you might think my goal is to get you to join the clutch, and it's not.

0:24.3

I mean, obviously, I think the clutch is amazing. That's why I created it, and I know how much it is changing women's lives inside the group.

0:32.5

But I want you to make the decision. Right? All of my work is about teaching women that they are their own authority, and that they can trust themselves to make good decisions.

0:44.1

Right? And the reason that we sometimes need coaching on a decision is that we don't trust ourselves, and that we don't understand how the human brain works.

0:53.4

And we think that what we think is that the rightness of a decision is what will make us feel certain.

1:00.5

Right? That's how we're kind of taught it works. Like, if you know it's the right decision, then you'll feel sure about it.

1:07.1

And if you're worried about it or you're not sure, then that might mean that it would be the wrong decision.

1:12.6

And to that, I just want to say, like, I have you met a human brain, because that's not how human brains operate.

1:19.6

My brain can be very sure that I eat the wrong thing for lunch.

1:24.4

A decision that doesn't matter can't be evaluated by anyone else. Right? And it's completely really relevant to my overall life journey and satisfaction.

1:34.4

Like, my brain can be not sure I'm doing things right about literally anything.

1:39.5

And some of the best decisions in my life that I've ever made, I've had lots of doubts about.

1:45.2

Like, I have doubts about my business all the time. Still a really good decision.

1:50.7

But like, think about this, right? Do you all think that when I was like, you know, this close to getting a job as a law professor,

1:58.0

and running a think tank at Columbia Law School, I've gone to Harvard Law School, I've clerked on federal courts,

2:03.6

I've been a litigator, I've been an academic, I have put 15 years into this career.

2:08.5

I think I should quit and become a life coach and go get certified by this will, but I heard on the internet.

2:13.2

Like, my brain was not like, cool, cool, no doubts, no concerns, no notes, just go for it.

2:20.0

I had so many doubts, but it was still an amazing decision for me, right?

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