I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Welcome to another episode of Who's Right? It is me.

Is it?

Or is it me this time?

No, I think I have a really good answer to this question.

It's one actually that I feel deeply, deeply, as the deep people-pleasing,

recovering people-pleaser is, I have a lot of feelings about this. So the question that we're

going to talk about today is a simple little word, no.

Why is it so hard to say no?

Is, you know, is saying yes weakness?

How do you decline something without feeling guilty?

Can, you know, being two people pleasing be a bad thing?

And I'm here to say, yes, it can be a bad thing.

It can be a bad thing.

But here's why it feels like it should be a bad thing. It can be a bad thing. But here's why it feels like it should be a good thing.

And I've thought a lot about this because in an ideal world, everyone's needs would be met without anyone having to ask for anything from

anyone, right? Like in an ideal world, like we would anticipate each other's needs and

freely give and receive in a great like burning man vibes kind of thing but that is not the world we live in we live

in a world of limited time and resources and if anybody knows anything i think time is above all

the greatest resource which is why you shan't not squander it. But the reason why it feels so

hard and you feel so guilty to say no is because in a vacuum, at least for me, I feel like the

vast majority of things people ask me to do, I would 100% do, right?

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