Dr. Nate Zinsser
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first heard Sep 2024
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And that is a daily deposit into that mental bank account that I described.
So you establish the bank account, and then you add to it, and you add to it, and you add to it, and you add to it.
Those are the two most important exercises, practical drills that people can do to build up a sense of certainty about themselves.
Same deal.
That's a great way to understand it.
Yes.
All of the above qualify.
Any memory, any statement about yourself in the present, any fantasies,
vision of something you want in the future that creates a sense of energy and optimism and enthusiasm is worth hanging onto, however small it might be.
The point that you're raising, Ed, which is really important, is that so many of us were brought up to think that we can only value our experience, we can only value ourselves
if we have achieved everything that the world has deemed to be important.
Great grades in school, great bunch of friends, won every game you ever played in, had the most attractive spouse possible.
We have been socialized to kind of search for, hang on to, and unfortunately define ourselves by our negative experiences.
So much of our socialization has brought us to that.
And I am constantly, and it sounds like you're constantly as well, urging people to look for, hang on to, and define yourself by the quality of your effort, the successes that you have achieved, and basically the magnitude of the obstacles that you have overcome.
That's what you want to define yourself by.
I emptied my daggone mailbox at the end of the day before I left the office.
They never fully recovered from that setback.
What I say to them is we've got to protect that bank account of yours.
We've got to set up some cognitive safeguards.
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