Erica Zia

Only your ego makes you think you are worth protecting, and being worth protecting is what makes you anxious.

If you can abandon the notion that every speck of harm that comes your way must be avoided at all costs, you can better relax.

The usual frame, I am a priceless work of art that must be protected.

The reframe, I am a potato that is easily replaced.

be the potato.

I love this so much and I really feel like I do my best to live this way and to keep this in my mind.

And I really don't get embarrassed.

I never really feel bullied.

Like when someone's bullying me, like I know they're trying to bully me and I'm like, I don't care.

Like I just don't care because I know my intentions and who I am.

And so the other stuff is just noise.

And also living, in my opinion, living in a day and age with social media, like X, for example, could be really brutal.

You have to just be tough and you just have to let things roll off of you and not be embarrassed.

And I think a lot of you have really, really good things to say.

You have really good thoughts and opinions.

And maybe you're holding yourself back because you're afraid someone might think what you're saying is stupid or

what if they don't like what I say?

I better clam up and not do it.

And I think Scott would challenge all of us to do that thing.

Start small if you have to, but do that thing.