Chris Collins argues you're separate from your feelings, moods, and past. He uses his entry into the music industry to show why seeing yourself as bigger than your circumstances matters for accountability and growth, and why your actions, not your predecessors, define who you are.
So we are not our feelings, we are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world. This was a great. This digs right into what I was saying. Personal vision, right? That was the whole thing, is how, like, seeing ourselves bigger than the things. For me, where that stood, too, is being a little bigger than the things that happened to you and not being defined by your experiences. And that was important for me because, too, I come in to the music industry bearing, like, these really big footprints, these big, magnanimous people prior to me that have their own greatness and flaws. And seeing yourself separate from that is very important because that's how you don't. You know, you can be transparent and, you know, understand and be accountable that those things exist. And because that's a weakness that people use against you, you know, being aware of it, but then also knowing that, you know, that's not me. This is who I am. This is who I've developed as a person. This is what my emotional bank account looks like. This is what I bring to the table. And all of those things still happen. I'm a product of them. But I am my actions, my personal vision.
