A short YouTube talk by Chad Silverstein offering practical personal-advice mantras: 'care, but not that much' about others' opinions, and 'play it out till the end' when making decisions. He emphasizes balancing healthy concern for others with self-authenticity and using scenario planning to foresee consequences and choose wisely.
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We tend to care so much about what people think. We care so much about what people think, so much so that we. We change who we are because we're trying to get their approval, because we're scared. And early on, Chet taught me, you know, you should care, but not that much. And I just. I love that mantra. You should care, but not that much. And I teach my kids this. And it's. It's so powerful, you know, if you tend to seek to try to get the approval of other people and you have authority figures, your life, that you are trying to either impress or they pay you, but it's okay to care what people think. You know, when people say you shouldn't care what people think, that's crap. There's no way you care what people think. You're human, you know, but don't care that much. And one other one I'll share that I think is one of my favorites I got from one of the other Builtly clients, Brett Kaufman. He used to say to me, play it out till the end. And I think there's real wisdom in that statement. And that is that if you are able to play out the scenarios over of things that you're considering doing, decisions that you're going to make, and you can play out the scenarios of what could happen, play devil's advocate, and you can see those things kind of before they happen. Be a little visionary. Don't tell yourself you're not visionary. Just put pen to paper and play out the different scenarios, and you can deliberately make a decision to not do something that you were going to do. That's wisdom. That is awesome wisdom.
