Rob Dial

You begin to believe in yourself, not because you repeated some affirmations in the mirror that some book told you to say, but because you've gathered enough evidence by watching yourself that you show up for yourself no matter what.

That's what confidence is.

You can't brainwash yourself to be confident.

It's stupid.

You show up, you see yourself show up, and you continue to go, oh, I'm seeing who I am.

I do believe in myself.

It's evidence that when you say you're going to do something, you actually do it.

And eventually, something really kind of interesting happens.

The thing that used to require discipline to start becomes more automatic.

The thing that used to feel hard feels way more normal.

The thing that used to feel impossible becomes part of who you are and you just do it.

That's why winners are like often less talented than most people think.

They're like less motivated than people think.

They're less special.

They're usually not even that smart, right?

So it's like, I think sometimes the smarter people are the ones that overthink everything.

Sometimes the people who are successful just kind of

average.

They're not the smartest people.

They're not the dumbest people, but they just do it.