Disqualifying the Positives - SPARTAN MIND ep. 023
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Disqualifying the positives occurs when you discount positive experiences and accomplishments but invite in the negative. It can occur anywhere and becomes problematic when you struggle to acknowledge achievement. We need to own and be proud of the things that we do well in order to build self-confidence and a sense of pride. When we disqualify the positives we are not feeding our brains with the positive medicine that they deserve.
LESSONS:
Disqualifying the positives is a mindset trap that leaves you disowning positive accomplishments but attaching to negative experiences.
We need to own that which we have achieved, as this serves as important medicine for our self-esteem and self-confidence.
Try owning your achievements and patting yourself on the back when you have worked hard for something and created success.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you're disqualifying the positive? |
| 0:02.8 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here, your chief mind doc with Spartan Mind, |
| 0:11.6 | part of the Spartan Up Podcast Family. |
| 0:14.2 | Today we're talking about disqualifying the positives. |
| 0:18.2 | So disqualifying the positives is basically exactly what it sounds like. |
| 0:23.0 | Anything that's positive that kind of happens around you or to you, |
| 0:27.0 | you disqualify and you place either onto something else or avoid completely. |
| 0:32.0 | Okay? So let me give you an example of that. something else or avoid completely. |
| 0:33.0 | So let me give you an example of that. |
| 0:34.8 | Let's say you take a math test, right? |
| 0:38.1 | And you get a 98. |
| 0:40.4 | Well, when you get that math test back, you could easily disqualify the positive by saying something |
| 0:46.8 | like, well, the math test was easy. |
| 0:50.0 | The problem with that is that usually individuals who disqualify the positive invite in the negative. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay? |
| 0:58.0 | So let's say on that same math test, you got a 55, right? |
| 1:02.0 | And you get that math test back. Well, instead of saying, oh, that math test was really |
| 1:06.8 | hard, you internalize it as something that you've done. I didn't study hard enough or I'm not very bright. I'm not very |
| 1:16.7 | smart. Whereas with the positive with the 100 you disqualified it. You discounted it and placed it on something else. The math test was just easy. |
| 1:26.0 | Not, I worked really hard for that or I'm very bright and intelligent. |
| 1:32.0 | So the reason why disqualifying the positive |
| 1:35.4 | can get you into trouble is because we need |
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