The speaker argues that admitting "I don't know" opens your mind to growth, while certainty closes it off. Personal change starts when you stop believing the limiting stories from parents, teachers, and society, and instead breathe, stay open, and let new possibilities in.
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Meaning I have to start taking responsibility for my perception. And unfortunately, as we go through life, our parents, our teachers, strangers, even social media, the TV, movies, they feed us stories, you know, and, and a lot of them are limiting beliefs. And actually, the best thing that we can say to ourselves is I don't know, because when I say I don't know what's wrong, what's going on, how to get from here to there, it opens my mind. But most of us have too much pride to say, I don't know, because we've also been taught fake it till you make it, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You know, we hear these things and we identify with them, but they don't work. They're hurting us. And so we have to, we have to be open, have an open mind. Like, if I can invite anybody listening to this right now, like, just let's all take a deep breath in and ask for an open mind. Like, can I open my mind to the idea that I might not know? And, and when I can just open it just a little bit, then something new can come in. But when I say I know, I know, I know, yeah, I know that, I, I know that too. And you know, when we say we know, we close our mind to a new experience. And I want to invite everybody right now that you could actually have a new experience right now. We just have to be open to it. And so by saying those words, I'm not sure, I don't know, it creates an opening so that something new could possibly come in.