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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Why am I so vulnerable with the mistakes I've made? | #AskDavidMeltzer 15

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

One of my favorite quotes is from the poet David White, "Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing in the position or something we can arrange to do without vulnerability is not choice. Vulnerability is the underlying, ever present, and abiding under current of all natural state." In order to be vulnerable, we must illuminate our mistakes. Being vulnerable means that you are honest and accountable, especially when analyzing yourself. We need to know what we are good at, what areas we need to improve in, what we're hiding, our flaws, our experience where shame lies, we must be accountable and look within our ego to be truthful with ourselves. Simply put, being vulnerable makes you invulnerable. If you want me to answer your question on the podcast, tweet me @davidmeltzer, or email me a video at [email protected] of you asking me a question and I will answer it for a future episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You've been very public and one of the things that I love about your message is how vulnerable

0:04.8

you are with everything that has happened because a lot of people try and hide all the things that

0:10.2

haven't gone their way. So what would you say is a major breaking point for you and then the big

0:19.6

thing that I've heard you say also is to let go of it. How did you let go of it? I still think the

0:24.9

hardest thing is understanding that I have an unconscious competency to manipulate, to lie,

0:32.8

to oversell, back and sell. It comes with born salesman side of you. And so learning that I hated

0:41.2

my father because he was just like me. All the things I hated about him were my traits and that

0:47.2

these are ego-based things that I have to deal with and build on for my potential to live to the

0:53.2

truth. And so to be vulnerable is to be invulnerable. And I remember talking to one of my mentors in

0:59.2

the digital media space, Gary Vivinger-Chuck and Gary V said, as the first time, man, you know,

1:04.8

that's cool that you talk about your bankruptcy and most people would, you know, they say that's

1:08.9

courageous. He goes, but you and I know that you're just the tip of the iceberg of what the truth is.

1:15.2

And you'll see when you get more comfortable that you're able to tell people about all the different

1:20.8

ego-based consciousness issues that you have. So they feel comfortable. And in the end,

1:25.6

what I learned from Gary is that by being vulnerable, the closest that we get to the truth,

1:30.4

we become invulnerable. It's when we're not vulnerable. So the closer we get to the truth, the more

1:38.1

protected we become. Yeah, and we're totally vulnerable because there's nothing anybody can say

1:42.8

because we're comfortable with our truth. Where you're totally vulnerable is when you're overselling

1:48.0

back and selling, lying, manipulating people by hiding them. What is the truth? And so when people,

1:54.8

that's where we lose. We create void shortages, obstacles, resistance. We're putting faith into

1:58.8

the wrong thing. When you put faith into the truth, that number one, I'm accountable for everything

2:03.6

that I have in my life. I have attracted to myself and I'm going to learn from it. I forgive myself

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