I want to start the episode with a story pertaining to criticism, doubt, and how we internalize

it, how it affects us or doesn't, which is the point of the story here.

And in this little story, there are some frogs and they're hopping along and two of them

fall into this little pit.

And they're stuck down there. And you have the ones up top looking down saying, oh my God, guys, that is, that's a death sentence. You're done. Don't even try. It's over for you. And they're frantically hopping. They're trying to get out. They're scared. And the people up top are the frogs up top are saying, you're done,

it's over, stop, don't waste your time. One of them finally concedes, maybe you're right,

jumps further down into the pit, and ultimately dies. The other one keeps jumping, keeps

jumping, and the frog's on top are saying, stop, don't waste your time,

there's no point, there's no point, you're done. But he keeps jumping and ultimately gets out.

And when he gets to the top, the frogs are saying, didn't you hear us? We were saying that there

was no way out, that you were dead pretty much.

And the frog communicates basically that he's deaf, right?

So he couldn't hear a word.

And the beauty in that is that, you know, when you don't hear the negativity, when you don't hear the doubt,

you create your own reality right truth is defined

by the author you are the author of your own story the future hasn't been created yet and so giving

someone else control over that outcome you know doesn't make sense it actually doesn't make sense right similar to to one of my favorite uh i don't know if it doesn't make sense. It actually doesn't make sense, right?

Similar to one of my favorite, I don't know if it's a quote,

but the idea that most of the people who did fantastic things

were too ignorant to understand the odds, right?

It's like when you allow outside circumstances to dictate what's real, they're holding the pen and they're deciding.

But when you have clarity and when you have a laser focus on what matters and what's important, you know, all the nuance and the detail outside of that, what other people think

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