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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | They say the mind is a powerful thing, but what if we've been putting the wrong part of ourselves in charge all along? |
0:08.0 | For years, I believe that success came from strategy and |
0:12.8 | logic and overthinking my way to every solution. |
0:16.0 | I really bought into the idea that the brain was the ultimate authority. |
0:20.4 | But the more I leaned into that belief, the more disconnected I felt, from my body, from my purpose, from myself. |
0:29.0 | I remember when I landed a job at a pretty hot new startup. |
0:33.4 | On paper, it was a dream come true. |
0:35.6 | A generous salary, a really awesome, fancy title, |
0:39.7 | and the excitement of just being part of something |
0:42.2 | that was on the rise. My mind was doing |
0:45.5 | backflips telling me this is your big break and at first it was exhilarating the |
0:51.2 | energy the growth the potential it all just seems so perfect. |
0:55.9 | I was riding the wave of a company that everyone said was going places. |
1:00.1 | My LinkedIn profile looked impressive, my bank account was happy, and I really felt like I was finally making it. |
1:07.0 | But as months turned into years, something began to shift. |
1:12.0 | The joy I initially felt started to fade and it was replaced by this |
1:16.6 | nagging sense of emptiness. I was going through the motions, ticking all the boxes, but feeling increasingly hollow inside. |
1:26.7 | The long hours, the constant pressure, the office politics, all started to wear me down. |
1:33.7 | Yet my mind, ever the pragmatists kept insisting, |
1:37.4 | just stick it out, think of the resume boost. |
1:40.1 | Imagine where you'll be when this company really takes off. |
1:43.0 | So I stayed, ignoring the growing pit in my stomach, |
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