Dr. Phil says anxiety without real danger comes from a false story you tell yourself. Fear of failure stops people from moving forward. He argues you need to live intentionally, discover what matters to you, and ask what you'll do with your unique existence.
Anxiety, depression, and loneliness are the highest they've ever been since records started being kept among our young people. If people are having anxiety in the absence of genuine threat, then they're obviously telling themselves something that isn't true. You said in the past that the internal dialogue of anxiety is fatalistic. You have to live with intention, because if you get up and you're just reactive to what happens in your life instead of choosing what you do, then you're just living reactively.
I think the fear of failure, you know, grips a lot of people and keeps them from taking that step forward.
You've got to find that thing that really fills you up, and the way to do that is you have to start asking yourself questions. What matters to me? There will never be another you. What are you going to do with it?
For someone that's watching this podcast, how do they go about figuring out what their purpose is?
If you're looking for an answer, you've got to start asking the right questions, and some of those right questions
