Denzel Washington
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816 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Denzel Washington’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's not about you.
And so that right there also changed my attitude because then, from then on, in my career and in my life, I realized, hey, I don't always need to be the center of attention, which is what our ego wants us to do.
Our ego always wants it to be about us.
And it's not about us.
It's not about us at all.
In fact, in a situation like that, where the platoon commander wants to do something, maybe he sees something that I don't see, maybe he's got a different strategic objective that he wants to accomplish, and I'm undermining that.
And what does that do to our platoon?
Hey, it makes me feel great because I think, oh yeah, I might not be the guy in charge, but I'm out here making the calls.
That's your ego.
And what you have to do is subordinate your ego and be supportive of the person that's in charge and you move forward together as a team because that's what it's about.
It's not about me.
It's about the team.
If you are someone that deals with a crippling sense of insufficiency, your ability to discount any good thoughts you have in your mind is going to be so strong.
If you try and lead with positivity first, I need to think it, wish it, believe it, and I will achieve it.
Your set point of negativity is going to just crush that into the ground.
I'm speaking from personal experience.
right as the guy that was chronically unconfident and still has the imposter syndrome that does creep in you have to start with action it needs to be okay what would have had to have happened in a week's time for me to look back on that week and find pride in myself stop breaking promises to yourself when you say i'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7am and when the option comes to hit the snooze button don't do it there's one win that you've got for the day that's action
You want to leave your job and become a writer.
Okay, can you commit to writing one blog post on Substack per week for the next three weeks?
That would make you feel like less of a loser if you did that.
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