What if every time you said, I'll try, you were actually announcing to yourself and everyone else that you just weren't going to do it?

Carla, why do you think that we've all been trained to accept trying as effort when it's actually kind of the opposite?

Oh my gosh. Well, we are taught to try from a very young age.

You know, our parents, they say, try harder, try your best, give it a try, just try it.

Because they believe that they were motivating us.

They believe they were encouraging us to do to act.

And it's so interesting that this is what we believe, because

we've been taught to believe it. But when you really take a deep dive and shine the spotlight on

and magnify the word try and what it really means, it's anything but encouraging and brave.

I'm Melissa Monty. This is Mindlove.

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