Jay Shetty

Because their difficult times remind them that they're a failure.

Because that's the story that they built around it.

Yeah, I've never heard about it.

Yeah, because we just make it out like everything's our fault.

Yeah, yeah.

And there's enough evidence to prove that.

Yes.

If you're looking for it.

We know that there's things we can control and there's things we can't control.

But when you were saying, you were calling it the external locus,

When your mind space is locked in the external locus, you feel powerless because you are.

Yeah.

And that, I love that connection because if we believe we're powerless, it's because we're finding all the evidence that we're powerless.

So if I considered the...

weather today and your mood and my success online today as a dictation of how good I am, then I'm going to feel powerless because I actually am powerless by the three metrics that I've chosen to do it by.

So it's not even that your story is inaccurate.

Your story is just wrongly focused.

Completely.

Yeah.

And so just that simple shift back to say,