Man, we're going in a real dark place. I've never talked about this stuff out.

The American entrepreneur broadcaster Tom Billio.

I'm about to ruin that fucking good mood.

I tried to believe I was special and either a luck of the draw or the fact that I really

am average, I would always run into somebody better than me. I was sliding rapidly towards depression.

The breakthrough for me was to accept that I was hopelessly average and that that was still

going to allow me to be successful. I can sum up personal responsibility in a single quote by

Kobe Bryant. Booze, don't block dunks. The most insidious thing about excuses, you have a valid

reason to feel like a victim. But the question is, is that going to serve you moving forward?

When I reflect on how many people in our society are feeling anxious these days, is there something

we are just fundamentally doing wrong about the way that we're living our lives?

Yes. And what is that?

I would lose respect for myself if I didn't say this. So here it goes.

So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the DiroViceio USA edition.

I hope nobody's listening. But if you are, then please keep this yourself.

The story you tell yourself about yourself is the single most important thing you're going to craft.

In fact, I was watching a compilation of things you'd set up stairs before I came down stairs

and that really stuck out to me because when I think about the tomboy story that I know,

it's the question that I find so repeatedly fascinating is how a man went from what you told me

in our last conversation. Many years ago you were someone that was kind of counted out by seemingly

by your mother, by yourself and other people around you, your current wife's father to this guy

that I see as the antithesis of that. How did you change that self-story?

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