Hey everybody,
So many people make big life decisions based on other people’s opinions.
It’s the biggest reason so many of you reading this right now are unhappy. Because you value someone else’s opinion more than your own. It’s why people stay in jobs they hate … so they can look “successful” to their friends, or their parents, or their peers.. Or why people don’t launch that business idea or that podcast or that project… because they’re too scared of looking like a “failure” in front of others.
Oh, you think you’re just a perfectionist and that’s why you’re not making that big move you want to make? You’re waiting until it’s perfect? You’re not a perfectionist – you’re scared of judgment. While I have massive empathy, I also want you to understand that if you want to start winning, get really good at getting quiet inside, stop listening to the boos (and the cheers), and focus on actually doing the thing you’ve been dreaming of.
Society has gotten really good at telling other people what they should be doing when they should really be telling themselves. When I lose, privately or publicly, I really don’t give a sh*t what your opinion is on my loss. Not only do I not give a shit what you think, strangers, I actually don’t care what anyone thinks.
I do not have the capacity to change the way I live my life based on the judgment of other people, even the ones I admire or love the most in the world. Not because I don’t love them or I don’t value their opinions, I just don’t have the capacity to not do the things that I want to do on this earth because of the judgment of others, which allows me to lose quite easily.
Once you get past caring about what “they” are gonna think, life can get real good.
