Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about the paradox of self-trust.

How do you develop trust in yourself in this work while at the heart of person.

There's a very interesting paradox at the heart of personal development, which is that on the one hand, all personal development

tells you to question yourself,

question the things you believe, and to really deeply doubt

very fundamental aspects of your being.

And then on the other hand, all... very fundamental aspects of your being.

And then on the other hand, all personal development advice,

tells you to trust yourself completely.

So what should you do? Should you doubt yourself? Or should you trust yourself?

How do we reconcile this? This is very difficult.

It's a very challenging sort of Gordian knot

for the newbie of personal development to unravel and even when you're getting to the

intermediate phases of personal development it's still very tricky to grapple with this.

Because really what you're doing with all personal development work is you're trying to understand, okay, what aspects of myself should I trust and what aspects of myself are deceptive and misleading and sort of

counterintuitively leading me down the wrong paths in life and finding that

middle ground being able to discern between the two is

what the bulk of the work is for. That's why you're doing the work you see.

I want to help you to sort out some of the good from the bad here.

So one problem is that you're not doubting deeply enough.

You're not doubting deeply enough. You're not nearly doubting deeply enough

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