Have You Adopted a Victim Mentality?

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🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:24.5	On an individual level and on a group level, we have seen ever-increasing behavior of victimization.
0:45.9	We've seen this nationally and families, personally.
0:50.6	I'm going to just be talking about it personally.
0:55.5	When it's on a national level, it's an ideology and an attempt for power.
1:02.1	However, we're going to be talking about it on a personal level.
1:05.9	You want to identify if you, listening to me right now now have adopted a victim mentality, how can you do
1:15.9	that? How can you know this is your schick? Assess whether you consistently deflect.
1:29.3	When you consistently feel powerless against your circumstances
1:35.1	or habitually blame others.
1:40.7	This mindset shows itself as kind of you relying on self-pity, spending a lot of time going over and over and over past hurts.
1:55.0	And my favorite one talking to people on the air, is consistently resisting feedback because you see it as some kind
2:07.0	of an attack.
2:12.3	So let me go through some of this again. So you can look inside your gut and see if this isn't the whole
2:23.6	identity you've embraced. Blame shifting. Are you constantly blaming bad luck other people when stuff goes south?
2:41.5	Rather than acknowledging your own role,
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