Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast.

I'm your host Rob Dyle and if you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so

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You know, I'm going to talk about vulnerability and why we're afraid of it and also how to

embrace the power of it.

And you know, the reason why so many people, I would say 95% of people, maybe more, can't

be vulnerable is because they view vulnerability as weakness.

They think that if I show people who I truly am, if I show people who I truly am, then

they won't accept me or if I show people who I truly am, they'll actually hurt me.

And we think of vulnerability as kind of like a dark emotion, you know, vulnerability

is the core of fear, anxiety, shame, disappointment, all the really difficult emotions.

But vulnerability is also the core of love.

It's a core of joy, it's a core of happiness.

In you know, culture and ads and society always tells us that we're not good enough as we

are.

Right?

So we see magazines and even little girls magazines and they're all photoshopped.

We see all the men who are photoshopped in the fitness magazines.

We see the women on the front of cosmopolitan, all of them are all photoshopped.

If you go on to Instagram, everyone's photoshopped and we see those people and compare them to

ourselves and think, God, I'm nowhere near that.

Of course I can't show my true self because I'm nowhere near as good looking as them, as fit

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