UFYB 39: Reaching Your Potential

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

I believe that most people misunderstand what potential is and what it actually means. This is a deep topic that has a lot of ramifications for how we think about the past and the future and what we can achieve in our lives. Listen in as we take a look at the difference between being past-focused and future-focused and how each approach affects the results you see in your life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism,
0:14.0	and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your
0:19.3	host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Paura Lowenthal.
0:31.3	Hello, hello my chickens. So I am having one of those days when you know those days you just
0:41.5	have a really hard time buckling down and getting your shit done, right? And you know often when this
0:48.2	happens as a sign to me that well either there's some unexplored thoughts I have to deal with. Of
0:53.0	course, like I always do a model and see if I'm avoiding my work for some reason. Sometimes it
0:57.6	means I'm like, I haven't been taking enough breaks. So I've just been trying to push myself too much
1:01.8	and my brain is just fried. But like occasionally there's just no good reason, right? I don't know what
1:07.3	it is. I slept. I ate. I'm not burned out. It could be hormonal. It could be the mood in the
1:12.6	stars. Like I have no idea, right? Whatever reason my brain just does not want to settle down today.
1:19.0	But I'm telling you this for a reason because number one, I want to reassure you that yeah,
1:24.6	this happens even to me. Right? Perfection is not the goal. So I no longer experience what I used to
1:31.6	experience all the time, which y'all are still experiencing all the time, which is kind of stressed
1:37.4	out procrastination and dread, right? That used to be like my dominant working emotional state.
1:43.4	And I really don't experience that anymore. It's kind of like a faint memory at this point,
1:46.6	which is so crazy. But yeah, I still have trouble focusing and getting stuff done once in a while.
1:51.8	But what's really different is how I treat myself about it. Right? I don't beat myself up. I don't
1:57.5	catastrophize. I don't make it mean that I'm wasting my potential and I'm never going to succeed in
2:02.7	life. And I don't torture myself with like this vision of what life would be like if I was perfectly
2:07.3	efficient. Right? And so that's kind of the reason that I want to tell you that's in addition to
2:13.0	being transparent about the fact that I'm not perfect and that that's totally fine and that the
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