Betsy GuerraBilingual Keynote Speaker, Psychotherapist/Coach, Author, Leadership Training and Life Coach Certification

I can't VS I don't know how to #motivation #podcast

4 Jun 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:43

Betsy Guerra argues that "I can't" usually means "I don't know how to." The difference matters: saying you can't buy a car feels like a dead end, but admitting you don't know how to build wealth opens a path forward. She also pushes back on trying, saying you either do something or you don't.

Chapters

Many times, "I can't" means "I don't know how to." That's different. I can't buy the car. Well, I don't know how to create the means so that I can get the car, right? So there's a difference between "I can't" and "I don't know how to because I've never done it before." So if you've never been wealthy before, if you've never felt like you have more than you know what to do with, it's not that you can't. It's that you haven't been able to do it in the past and you don't know how to. That's a different energy. I'm trying. No, you don't try. You don't try. You either do or you don't. We don't try. A friend of mine would always say that her dad told her like, "You try to pick up that paper from the floor. Try, try to pick it up." No, you either pick it up or you don't. So we don't say, "Try, I'm trying." No, no, no, you're doing, you're actually doing it.