T. Harv Eker explains that a "conditioned mind" acts protectively by telling people they are "not enough," keeping them in a familiar but limiting comfort zone. He argues this internal voice prefers the known (even if bad) over the unknown, which prevents success, and offers a quick practice: acknowledge the thought, breathe, thank it, and move forward anyway.
It always says, you're not enough. You're not good enough for this. And where do you think that comes from? Yep. That's the protective mind. Stay here. Stay here. Don't do anything outside of the outside of the box. Because if you do, you could get hurt. To the conditioned mind, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't. So we'll stay here where it's not so good, because at least we know. We know this rut. We know this comfort zone. Even though it's not good, we know we're familiar with it. We're okay here. At least we're alone. Live. Great. But you'll never, ever, ever achieve anything. You'll never be successful, because you keep on listening to that. So take a nice, deep breath, say, hey, thank you for sharing. And I'm going for it anyways.
