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Welcome to a Mentum Friday, an episode 46 of the Passion Struck Podcast, which is now ranked in the top 0.5% of all podcasts globally.

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I recently did a podcast episode with Trabbel, where we discussed the importance of creating a bucket list.

And during our conversation, he said a quote, which inspired today's episode. He said, bro, dare, I play small. How dare I don't go as big as I possibly can.

And that got me thinking, what does it mean to play small? And why do so many of us decide to play small in our own lives? What are the consequences that happen if you do both short term and long term?

I thought I would unpack all of that and more. In today's episode, in our continuing shows that are focused on diplomacy and humility, this ties right into those topics precisely.

So what does it mean when we play small when we are playing small, we are living our life in a state of fear? Our actions become motivated by our low self work that need for outside validation, our own insecurities that desire for temporary comfort and avoiding those influences at all costs that cause us to stress or trepidation.

Playing small is actually the opposite of becoming passion struck. It is being in a state of indifference and living your life in an existence without passion.

It is settling for life that is okay, but not great existing, but not feeling fulfilled.

It is dismissing the very essence of what we want in life to maintain our current comfort zones of security, acceptance and control.

Playing small is living a life full of regrets because when we play small, we avoid the actions, mindsets and other shifts.

We need to achieve living a life that unleashes our creativity and our full capabilities. So why do we play small? Well, I'll give you an example from my own personal life.

So I can personalize this for you. I lived my life with a real and constant struggle to speak from my heart and let my true self and convictions be known.

A bit part of this for me was hiding from my underlying symptoms caused by post traumatic stress disorder and having multiple traumatic brain injuries.

And both of those caused me tremendous issues with cognitive abilities and not being able to think as quickly as I would like to or as others do on their feet.

Instead of conversing, I would usually remain silent as I would search for words to use as those conversations with flashbinding.

Because of my insecurities, I buried my truth from the world. I thought to myself, I don't want to be a burden on other people.

I don't want to let my secret out. I don't want to feel embarrassed if I forget my words or lose my track of thoughts.

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