Life-sucking Lie #2: I’m Not Good Enough.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2015
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
How often have you told yourself, "I'm not good enough, old enough, accomplished enough, credentialed enough, or any other 'enough' to get paid real money or get the gig I want more than anyone else?"
Newsflash, there's a good chance you're right.
It may well be true that there ARE indeed plenty of other people and organizations who are better at what you do than you are. But, there's also a dirty little secret in the world of business and success.
Very often the job, opportunity, gig does not go to the most qualified person. You can still get the plum position, sweet job and serious paycheck if you understand why.
In today's Good Life Riff, we're busting the old "I'm not good enough" myth and revealing what matters, oftentimes even more than qualifications.
So, stop beating yourself up for being "along the road to higher value." And start understanding what people really want and what you need to give them to create the opportunities you most desire.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I'm just not smart enough. |
| 0:04.9 | There are millions smarter, more qualified, credentialed, people and companies that do |
| 0:09.6 | the exact same thing. |
| 0:11.6 | People want the best and I'm not the best, so why bother? |
| 0:16.5 | This is something that's said to me so many times as an excuse for inaction. |
| 0:22.6 | In today's Good Life project short, we're going to dive into and deconstruct this as |
| 0:27.4 | another in the lies that keep us from success. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Jonathan Fields. |
| 0:33.0 | This is Good Life Project. |
| 0:36.7 | So let's kind of dive into it and deconstruct it a little bit. |
| 0:40.1 | And rather than make this another rar-ra, your sort of cool, confidence-building session, |
| 0:44.5 | let's do something a bit radical. |
| 0:46.6 | So here's the thing. |
| 0:47.9 | When you say I'm not smart enough, there are millions smarter, more qualified, credentialed |
| 0:52.4 | people and companies that do the same thing. |
| 0:55.6 | You may be right. |
| 0:57.2 | At least about you not being the smartest fish in the pond, you may not in fact be the |
| 1:01.8 | smartest, the most experienced person in your space. |
| 1:05.6 | You may be a total newbie or somewhere on the path to craft and mastery. |
| 1:11.2 | No doubt you still need to raise your skill level to a certain baseline of value before |
| 1:17.3 | you can command value in exchange for what you offer. |
| 1:21.4 | But here's the reality about who gets the gig in the world of business. |
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