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Exclusive: Sean Astin—Is Your Self-Doubt Keeping You From Success?

Good Money with Derrick Kinney

Derrick Kinney

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Is self-doubt holding you back from your dreams? Sean Astin shares how a sense of perspective and a sense of humor can help you overcome obstacles and achieve what you want in life. If you’ve suffered a setback, he says it’s good to acknowledge your pain, just don’t wallow in it. And don’t forget to laugh a little bit!

What you will learn:

  • Why to take stock of who you are
  • How to recognize self-doubt
  • The power of acknowledging your pain but not wallowing in it
  • The secret of using mental focus to push forward
  • How having a sense of perspective and a sense of humor pays off

Quotes:

  • “There are certain benchmarks in your life that say this is a moment to take stock of who you are.” – Sean Astin
  • “The two things that it’s important to do are identify it accurately. What is the accurate root cause of the pain I’m feeling right now? Two, how am I going to deal with it?” – Sean Astin
  • “My wife’s grandfather used to always say, ‘If you listen, you will know what you know and what they know.’” – Sean Astin
  • “I finally had a real breakthrough in training leading up to it, where I got to a place where I knew I could do it. I believed I could do it. So, that carried me through.” – Sean Astin
  • “What’s painful in this minute is going to be bliss in 10 minutes.” – Sean Astin
  • “Laugh a little bit. Laugh. Don’t take it too seriously. You’ve got to be able to laugh at yourself.” – Sean Astin

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get started, I've got a new free report just uploaded to our website.

0:05.4

It's called Three Beliefs about Money. Your kids should learn that no one is teaching them.

0:11.8

As a parent, you want your kids to reach their full

0:14.7

potential and make a difference in the world. That's what every parent wants,

0:18.4

whether their kids are in junior high, high school, college, or they're out of the house.

0:23.0

Listen, I know many of you don't feel equipped to teach your kids how to make money,

0:29.0

how to save money, and how to invest it.

0:31.0

But it's just not right for your child to miss out on every opportunity

0:36.4

for success. I want them to become financially independent so they don't end up financially

0:42.0

dependent on you.

0:44.0

Go to good money framework.com now for this valuable free report.

0:50.0

That's good money framework.com.

0:52.0

And now here's the podcast. That's Good Money Framework.

0:52.5

And now here's the podcast.

0:54.0

Welcome to the good money, Good Hands, Good Work Podcast, where we believe money is not bad and good people should have more of it.

1:10.0

Good money in the hands of good people gets good work done.

1:13.6

I'm your host Derek Kenny.

1:15.6

Today we have an exclusive bonus episode for you with actor Sean Aston.

1:21.2

This was a fun conversation as he joined me by phone from the back patio of his

1:26.8

LA home.

1:27.8

Ashon is best known for his roles as Sam Wise Gamji in the Lord of the Rings trilogy as Mikey Walsh in the Goonies and Bob Newby in Stranger Things and he starred in two of my favorites as Daniel Rudinger in Rudy and as Hank Irwin in Woodlawn.

1:45.0

But there's much more to Sean's story.

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