Evan Carmichael argues that real self-worth comes from internal belief, not external praise or social media wins. Setting easy goals and celebrating them online gives a fleeting ego boost, but true self-love requires pursuing ambitious goals that match your actual potential.
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How do you feel about yourself? Are you proud of yourself? This is an inside game. If you want to have more self-confidence, more self-love, more self-belief, it's about how do you feel about yourself? Not what other people tell you, not what looks good on Instagram or YouTube. How do you feel about yourself? People, I think, fall into two buckets. One, you'll have people who set really small goals and then achieve them, and then they get celebrated. And you might feel good because you posted that win on Instagram. You made a YouTube video and you can show off about how great you are. But really, you know that you could have done more. You just set your sights way too low, right? I use the example of running a race against 3-year-olds. Great. You could win that race against 3-year-olds. You can do it. You can do it blindfolded. You could do it maybe even crawling. Maybe you can win that race pretty easily, though. And winning that race might get you a little medal and you can post about it on Instagram and show off how you won and you can get all these accolades and people cheering you on. But you know you're capable of more.
