Dr. Nate Zinsser
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656 appearances
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2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 3d ago
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There could be consequences, but that setback does not tell the truth about me.
So I have to keep my setbacks and failures temporary, limited, not the truth, as opposed to permanent, everywhere, and absolutely the truth about myself.
And that's just a distinction that everybody can make.
It takes some practice to establish that as a habit.
And I'm constantly counseling people to do that, challenging them to put just the difficulties of life with a capital L in those temporary, limited, and not the truth terms.
Because if we go that way, we are blind to our own
possibilities and to our own capabilities.
That is precisely the point.
Instead of, okay, I failed at something.
They make the categorical judgment.
Henceforth, I am a failure.
No, you might have goofed that calculus test.
You might have goofed that fitness test.
You might have goofed your execution of your high bar set in the gymnastics meet.
Okay, let's leave it right there.
Let's not draw the conclusion that
I'm a failure categorically.
And people have to practice that.
Yeah.
I think the word enthusiasm sometimes gets misinterpreted to mean confetti and balloons and angels blowing trumpets.
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