Overcoming Self-Doubt | Orison Swett Marden
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Listen to episode 653 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden.
Motivational Podcast Excerpt: It is a superb faith (greater than any obstacle) that has made the great discoveries, that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of human endeavor. There is little fear for the future of the young person who has a deep-seated faith in themselves. Self-faith has ever been more than a match for difficulties. It has been the poor person’s friend, their best capital.
People with no assets but colossal faith in themselves have accomplished wonders, when capital without self-faith has failed. If you believe in yourself, you will be much more likely to do the larger things you are capable of than if you were to hold a lack-of-confidence attitude.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to an inspirational living podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1910. |
| 0:28.3 | No one has ever yet been able to make a satisfactory explanation of the philosophy of faith. |
| 0:40.4 | What is it that holds a person to their task, keeps up their courage and hope under trying |
| 0:46.7 | conditions, which enables them to endure with fortitude, even cheerfulness, all sorts of suffering. |
| 0:56.1 | What is it that sustains and reassures them after their last dollar is gone? |
| 1:01.9 | When friends and even family misunderstand them, or do not believe in them? |
| 1:08.2 | The world stands in wonder before the heroes who apparently lose everything in the world, |
| 1:13.9 | but their faith in what they set their hearts upon. Faith always takes the first step forward. It is a soul |
| 1:22.5 | sense, a spiritual foresight, which peers far beyond the physical eyes vision. |
| 1:30.2 | It is a courier which leads the way, opens the closed door, sees beyond the obstacles, |
| 1:38.1 | and points to the path which the less spiritual faculties could not see. It is a superb faith, greater than any obstacle, that has made the great discoveries, |
| 1:50.6 | that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of |
| 1:57.0 | human endeavor. |
| 1:58.9 | There is little fear for the future of the young person who has a deep-seated |
| 2:03.8 | faith in themselves. Self-faith has ever been more than a match for difficulties. It has been the |
| 2:11.3 | poor person's friend, their best capital. People with no assets but colossal faith in themselves have accomplished |
| 2:21.5 | wonders when capital without self-faith has failed. If you believe in yourself, you will be much |
| 2:29.1 | more likely to do the larger things you are capable of than if you were to hold a lack of confidence attitude. |
| 2:37.0 | If we could put a measuring line around your faith, it would give a pretty good estimate of your possibilities. |
| 2:45.0 | Nobody ever does a great thing with little faith. If your faith is weak, your efforts will be weak. If you admit that you |
| 2:54.1 | are full of flaws, that you are a blunderer, always unlucky, that you can never do things as other |
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