Signs you have the "Victim Mentality" and how to get rid of it

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Soccer, Football, Basketball, Crossfit, Mindset, Sports, Psychology, Dominate, Business

4.8 • 755 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Victim mentality isn't just weakness—it's a mindset that keeps even strong people stuck. In this episode, learn the difference between being victimized and living with a victim mentality, and how to root it out if you want real success.

You'll Learn:

The difference between victimized (event) vs. victim mentality (mindset)
Signs you're trapped in victim thinking
How Killas take full responsibility and move with power

Next Steps:
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Niyu Shobo. All right, so I'm going to be talking about the victim mentality today, a term that's used often.
0:10.8	I'm going to explain it, you know, because those with the victim mentality are not always the way that it seems.
0:20.4	They're not always helpless, you know, people who
0:23.3	look weak and dejected. Um, many people with the victim mentality are those who we consider
0:32.3	strong, those we look up to. Um, it's really a silent disease, if you will, all right? And it's a disease
0:39.7	that must be rooted out if you want to have success in your sport, in life in general. Because one
0:45.2	thing that you learn at some point or another is that life does not really care too much about how you feel.
0:57.4	And what that means is that we've all been dealt bad hands from time to time.
1:04.4	We've all had to deal with things that we didn't want to deal with.
1:08.7	And life didn't comfort us.
1:13.7	We had to learn to adjust. Now now some people don't learn to adjust they choose to remain victims and be and have the victim mentality all right
1:19.9	now that's uh not the same having victim mentality is not the same as being victimized all right
1:26.2	all of us have been victimized at some
1:27.7	point or another, meaning something happened to us. Someone wronged us. Someone took advantage of us.
1:34.7	Just think if you're someone who lives in a city and there's a storm and your house blows down or
1:39.7	a fire. Like these are situations where we were victim to the situations all right but victim
1:47.0	mentality is a mindset it's a mentality it's a mentality where you see yourself as powerless or at the
1:54.5	mercy of things outside of your control all right and it's something that if you have this mentality, it will keep you
2:01.8	stuck and it will not help you. Because essentially, it's an admission that you have no power
2:10.2	and you see everything in terms of being a victim, even when that's not the case. All right?
2:15.4	So I want to break down some signs that you have a
2:18.2	victim mentality. And I don't want you to think about this as though you either have it or you
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