Brendon Burchard explains that he decided to write a book on motivation after losing his own motivation following a brain injury. He reflects on how people ‘play small,’ repeatedly compromise, and end up living by others’ expectations—losing personal freedom, courage, and the ability to pursue what’s right for them. Themes include self-limitation and social oppression as barriers to living into one’s greatness.
I decided to write a book on motivation because I had been losing mine because of that brain injury. And I started thinking about what happens for people that prevents them from living into their greatness. They play small. And then because they play small, they compromise, and they compromise and they compromise and they compromise. And suddenly they're not even living their own life anymore. They're living in accordance to other people's expectations. They lost their sense of personal freedom and the guts and the courage to pursue what is right for them, unencumbered by other people's demands. Remember self limitation, social oppression.
