Stop Trying to Fix Yourself (It Probably Isn't Working Anyway)
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Stop Trying to Fix Yourself (It Probably Isn't Working Anyway)
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About this listen
In this episode, I explore why most self-improvement approaches fall short, not because people aren't trying hard enough, but because they're working too far downstream.
I use the image of people falling into a river. Most self-help is focused on pulling people out of the water. But what if you went further upstream to understand why they're falling in? When we're caught in a thought-created reality, fighting that thinking with more thinking is like trying to rescue a burnt biscuit. The best baker in the world cannot save it. You start again.
We don't need fixing. We have innate well-being already within us. Our minds are self-correcting systems. Like a snow globe, they settle when we stop shaking them. The more we understand how our experience is actually created, the less we try to wrestle with it, and the more naturally clarity, confidence, and peace return.
If you've been working hard on yourself and feel like something still isn't clicking, this might be the most useful episode you hear all year.