The Self-Delusion Trap You Must Escape Now

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Darren Hardy demolishes the modern myth that “positive thinking” alone will change your life. He takes direct aim at the legacy of the Positive Mental Attitude movement and the current self-help echo chamber that encourages feel-good illusions over real-world progress. If you're not where you want to be, it's time to face a hard truth.

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0:00.0	Let the pain of the truth finally drive you to do something about it.
0:06.0	Because that is the only thing that's going to change your current situation.
0:10.7	Doing the work.
0:12.6	Stop trying to make yourself feel better by saying everything's okay and that you are great.
0:18.0	It is not okay and you are not great.
0:20.4	You can be, but you are not. Deal with it.
0:24.1	Face that first. Start with the truth. Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted
0:30.8	resource to help you become better every day. Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.
0:42.7	Now, you are here because you want to grow.
0:46.8	You want to improve. You want to be better. And you want to achieve what you haven't achieved before. Am I right? Well, then let's stop lying to ourselves. There is a great plague that
0:52.7	is propagated throughout our culture of the last 50 years,
0:56.2	concocted by the PMA movement in the 1970s, the positive mental attitude movement, which gave
1:02.7	birth to what is called a modern self-help industry today, which is bloomed into a full-flung
1:08.9	plague that has virally spread and expanded every day all day
1:12.8	on social media. It is the fairy tale that if you just think happy, think positive, happy and
1:19.8	positive things will happen for you. That's horse pucky and a lie, one that is hurting you
1:25.4	and actually stunting your growth. If you are unhappy with
1:29.2	your current results, it is precisely because you have been lying to yourself. Your lie has allowed it.
1:35.4	You've been telling yourself a story, a fairy tale. You've turned your head from the truth. You've been
1:40.9	looking the other way. You've purposely avoided the reality in the mirror.
1:45.7	If you really want to change, the only place to start is with the truth. If you're fat, thinking
1:52.4	positively isn't going to make you thin. If you're broke, affirmations aren't going to pay
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