Redefining Success: Reconnecting with the fact that we are innately "enough"
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I reflect on the evolution of my podcast from Don't Tell Me the Score to A New Way of Being. This change reflects the shift from simply performance and success to exploring our innate wellbeing, acceptance, and the common struggle with feeling not good enough. I talk about why it’s so important to recognise that we are inherently "enough," beyond our thoughts, beliefs, and achievements.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome and thank you for joining me for this shorter episode of a new way of being |
| 0:06.0 | in which I just want to talk about the intention behind this podcast, behind the name and |
| 0:11.1 | as well share a short request ahead of the paperback release of my book Champion Thinking, |
| 0:18.2 | which is published by Bloomsbury, which comes out in January. |
| 0:21.5 | Now, as many of you know, a new way of being is a relatively new name. |
| 0:26.6 | Initially, this podcast was called Don't Tell Me the Score when I launched it on the BBC in |
| 0:30.4 | 2018. And the reason I decided to change the name was partly to bring all my different |
| 0:36.4 | platforms under one banner. And also, it was in |
| 0:39.6 | response to a theme and a trend that I really noticed, a pervasive and I would even say destructive |
| 0:47.3 | theme that I noticed in high performance in particular. So in sport, in business, and definitely |
| 0:53.6 | in politics, it's so obvious, but also in my own life. |
| 0:57.6 | When we are born, there is no question that simply being who we are is not okay, is not enough. |
| 1:05.7 | This is so obvious for anyone who is around small children or toddlers, it's just so abundantly clear that |
| 1:14.3 | they are just wholly themselves. There's no question of self-esteem. It's utterly meaningless. |
| 1:22.8 | There's no relationship with themselves. They simply exist. They have this innate sense of being enough just as |
| 1:30.4 | they are. They express their wants and needs without reservation, without censoring themselves, |
| 1:36.3 | any idea of regret, anxiety, shame. None of that stuff means anything. But we then lose touch with |
| 1:44.0 | that. But it's still we then lose touch with that. |
| 1:44.5 | But it's still true of all of us now. |
| 1:46.4 | We are still entirely enough just as we are, but we lose touch with that. |
| 1:52.5 | So why do we lose touch with that? |
| 1:53.8 | Well, as we grow and as the ego develops, we realize that some behaviors are welcomed by those people around us and by society at large, |
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