Success Is a Strange Thing

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Success is a strange thing. Failure can make you miserable, but I'm not sure that success will make you happy. Parents encourage their child to do well by praising when they succeed and criticizing when they fail. That lesson metastasizes through early adulthood into "I am only worthy of love, acceptance and belonging if I succeed" The best baseball players in the world failed 70% of the time and they were the best.

Lewis Howes is a former professional athlete, podcaster and an author.

Many people are wildly uncertain that they can achieve the things they want in life. If a lack of confidence killed more dreams than a lack of capability ever will, how can we get past this self-doubt and find a place of genuine, positive reassurance to start working from?

Expect to learn why your heroes aren't gods, where self doubt comes from, how to discover your mission in life, what you can learn about positivity from an army veteran who had his face blown off, how to stop negative self-talk, what to do if you don't have a support group around you, whether greatness begins with an action or a mindset first and much more...

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