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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

(Matt Monday): How to Be Confident When You DON'T FEEL ATTRACTIVE

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

If you struggle to feel confident because you don’t like the way you look, make listening to this episode the top priority of your day today (and be sure to stay until the end for a special bonus!) I promise you won’t regret it.

Your coach,

Matthew x

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What if our facial symmetry isn't as great as the next person's?

0:02.9

What if we haven't got as much hair?

0:04.5

What if as a man we are shorter than the next person?

0:07.2

What you gonna tell me? No, you are tall!

0:09.2

How do you feel confident if you don't feel attractive?

0:32.8

It's one of the common problems among so many people is that I really don't,

0:38.1

I don't look in the mirror and think that I'm hot, I don't think that I'm sexy,

0:43.6

I don't think that I'm desirable. So how am I supposed to feel confident?

0:48.2

And then I'm told that being confident is what makes me attractive,

0:53.2

but I don't feel confident because I don't feel attractive.

0:55.8

So I get into this negative loop that I don't know how to break out of.

1:00.0

I like to think of confidence as split into a distinction.

1:09.4

There's self-acceptance, which is accepting ourselves for who we are today,

1:15.6

what we look like, our limitations, our body shape, our face, our hair, the things that we are

1:23.1

and have right now. And then there's self-esteem.

1:25.8

And self-esteem is different from self-acceptance because self-esteem is the things we do that make us proud

1:35.6

of ourselves. Self-acceptance is really just saying, what ingredients am I working with right now?

1:44.6

Those are my ingredients. I'm not gonna wish for others, there's pointless to wish for other ingredients.

1:50.0

These, this is my face, this is my body, this is my life, this is the age I am, this is where I am

1:57.7

right now in my life. Self-acceptance is the stopping of wishing for other people's ingredients

2:04.5

or different life and instead just accepting a radical acceptance of my life and me.

2:14.0

The real art of our lives comes from how good of a chef we are. Not wishing for different

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