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The Mindvalley Podcast

The Truth About Self-Love - Shadé Zahrai

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You’d be surprised how many people believe that self-love is the authority to be selfish. But what if you decided to define it differently instead? In this short episode, self-mastery expert Shadé Zahrai shares a better definition of self-love and her version is the antidote to imposter syndrome, the secret culprit that holds many people back. Get ready to become the Master of your confidence.      Listen out for: - The definition of self-efficacy. - The difference between self-love and self-esteem. - The true definition of imposter syndrome.  - How to overcome imposter syndrome.   ABOUT SHADÉ ZAHRAI Shadé Zahrai is a leadership ‘alchemist’ known for her ability to translate the latest in neuroscience and psychology research into practical and actionable strategies that drive mindset shifts and behavioral change in a systematic way. She is a bestselling author, Harvard-trained leadership coach, TEDx speaker, and was recently recognized as Adweek’s Careers Creator of the Year. Along with her Ph.D. research in leadership and career performance, Shadé has spent hours with hundreds of teams from startups to Fortune 500s, observing clear behavioral trends behind the happiest and most successful people.      Bonus:                                                                          - Find Vishen’s notes on this episode here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/Shade    - Listen to Vishen’s full interview with Shadé here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/MV356spotify                                         - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW     Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

To experience imposter syndrome means that you feel undeserving of your prior successes

0:06.8

and undeserving of prior achievements in spite of a track record of performance.

0:12.9

I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

0:17.3

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

0:21.2

and thought leaders on the planet.

0:23.2

It's got the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for my, body, spirit and work.

0:30.0

Self-esteem, how is that different from self-love? Is it essentially the same thing?

0:35.0

Good question. Now I think there's a there's a risk with language of self-love because some people

0:41.1

view that as the authority to be selfish in the sense that I'm going to be selfish and put

0:46.8

me first to everyone else's detriment. And so we we want to move away from that association

0:52.3

of self-love with selfishness and I am more important than you because it links to ego.

0:56.2

But if your view of self-love is, hey, I genuinely love who I am and the value that I bring,

1:01.3

then it's very closely linked. It's also closely linked to self-worth.

1:05.3

How valuable, how worthy you feel you are. I really appreciate that distinction. Let's go on to

1:09.8

the others. So that's where we start. We start with our self-esteem. The thing with self-esteem is

1:14.8

you need to be aware it's important because think about if you're a business owner, if you're

1:18.6

working as an employee, if you're an entrepreneur, if you have a high self-esteem, you're more likely

1:23.5

to take on new opportunities, respond positively in the face of failure, bounce back when something

1:29.2

doesn't work well, respond positively when unexpected things come your way. So really powerful.

1:35.4

Now the second trade or the next one is related to whether you believe that you can achieve your

1:41.2

goals. And so this concept, it's called self-efficacy. It was introduced by Albert Bandura in 1982.

1:47.6

It's defined as your judgments about how well you can execute, what you need to execute. So do

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