ITL208: How to Break Free from the "Victim" Mindset and Go Accomplish Amazing Things
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on how I’ve chosen not to focus on being a victim and how you, too, can keep away from this mentality.
There are challenging things happening in all our lives that give us the opportunity to “check out.”
- However, you can choose what mentality you focus on.
- There isn’t really a how. You either choose your mentality or you do not.
Society continues to believe that choice is the foundation of everything we do.
- That is like flipping a coin if you don’t know the foundation of what a good choice is or why choices yield certain results.
- Your thinking is the foundation. Every choice you’ll ever make is based on it.
- Because you have free will, you can choose how you think by deciding who you spend time with, what you read or watch, and what you spend time thinking about.
- Choosing your thinking requires you to act against your instincts.
I have never seen an incredible leader who was not incredible at leading themselves.
- You have been created with a will that is stronger than your emotions.
- You have been created with the ability to act a certain way despite how you feel.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy, and I am once again |
| 0:19.4 | joined by Andy Andrews. Andy, how are you? I'm doing great. I'm doing |
| 0:22.8 | great. You good? I am. And I need you to just hang tight for just second because I'm going to say |
| 0:26.7 | something that you probably would never say. You probably don't even want me to say. |
| 0:30.8 | Oh, good. That's a great introduction. But for everybody that's listening, we always are talking |
| 0:35.0 | about how we offer this podcast as great value. |
| 0:39.3 | Andy loves to converse with people, to hear from people, to answer questions. |
| 0:43.1 | He's thinking through a lot of the same issues that people are going through in their lives, |
| 0:46.9 | and we just happen to put a microphone in front of him as he's thinking through these issues with you. |
| 0:52.6 | But we also encourage people to share |
| 0:56.0 | this material with other people in their lives that they feel like would be positively |
| 1:00.9 | impacted by this podcast. If you're one of those people that kind of struggles with how to |
| 1:06.5 | introduce Andy, his books, this podcast, any of the other material that we've put together. |
| 1:12.2 | If you struggle with how to introduce all of that to your friends, to your coworkers, |
| 1:17.3 | I want to give you some ammunition really quick because sometimes we're a little bit too guarded |
| 1:22.8 | as to why Andy has a podcast, why he writes books, why they sell millions of copies all over the world. |
| 1:30.0 | So let me give you some ammunition as you share this with some of your coworkers and with the rest of your friends and family. |
| 1:37.0 | Within the last six weeks, Andy has been sought after and consulted by the CEOs and presidents of five separate billion-dollar companies. |
| 1:48.0 | A couple of them are multi-billion-dollar companies, and one of them is a, how do you say it, tens of billions of dollar company. |
| 1:57.0 | So the corporate world seeks out Andy, his perspective, and his insight for their |
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