A short YouTube talk by Dr. Aziz (confidence coach) sharing a personal anecdote about his 2-year-old son Armand to illustrate unapologetic confidence. He recounts a potty-training episode during a walk and draws the lesson that owning one’s actions without embarrassment is a form of confidence people can emulate. The piece closes with an encouraging sign-off.
While he may not look like it right now, that little guy right there is a supreme master of confidence. And on my commute to work. Bye, guys. I'm gonna tell you a little story about him, about his supreme confidence and particularly his ability to be unapologetic. Now, sure, he's 2 years old, so maybe, maybe we lost that ability as we got older, more afraid of what people are gonna think of us. But let me tell you the story. Just the other day we were going for a walk to the store and it's about a 12 minute walk to the grocery store. Although if you're with a 2 and a 4 year old, it's a 45 minute walk to get there. So we're going along and he's potty training. Armand is his name, he's 2 years old and he's potty training. And so any chance that we can get him to a bathroom or to be able to use the bathroom not in his diaper is a win, right? So we're walking, we're about halfway there to the store, and all of a sudden he's like, I have to go pee. And so we don't want to tell him, go pee in your diaper because, you know, the goal is to, is to help him every time he can identify to go pee, to do it. So we're on the sidewalk, right? In case you're wondering, by the way, that's my house and this is my commute to work. Takes me about 15 seconds of walking, which is awesome. So we're on the side of the street and he's like, I have to pee, I have to pee. And I'm like, oh, okay, let's help you pee. So we kind of go off to the side near a hedge or something, and I'm like, let me just help him, help him use the bathroom. So I pull down his pants, pull down his diaper. And then there's this guy, Candice. Like there's a guy coming and he's like mid p. And I'm just like, well, whatever, like, what are you gonna do? And it turns out that we were like outside that guy's house. And he walks up and he gets closer and he's about to pass by and Armand's finished and we pull up his pants and then he turns and as the guy goes by, he goes, hi, hi, hi. And the guy finally, after the third one is like, gives him like a grunt. And I thought that was fascinating. Now, whether you agree with peeing in public or not is sort of a Moot point and more so notice it's unapologetic. He's just like, yeah, I just did that. And I think, what a confident stance. I loved it. I was like, that's awesome. And you know, he's too young probably to be self conscious about it, but how could you apply that? How could I apply that? How could when, you know, when someone comments on your shirt or your shoes or you know, gives you a little bit of, gives you a little bit of shit for something like, oh, you said that or you did that, you just, hi. You know, you just own it. Yeah, that's right. That's what I did. That's what I'm wearing. You like it. Oh, yeah, that's what I said. And you're just totally unapologetic about it. And not only like, you know, someone calls you out and you feel defensive, but you're unapologetic. Like Armand is actually like, hi. Hi. Right? So when you feel that impulse to cringe and hold back and hide from the person, what if you just totally. This is just own it. Just own it. That's the lesson here from the two year old. So hope that serves you. Hope you can use that today. Until we speak again, may have the courage to be who you are, to have the courage to pee in public and own it and whatever else you might want to do. And until we speak again, you're awesome. Take care.
