Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

🌟New Episode🎙️What if the voice in your head saying you're not enough became your greatest ally?

11 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Fleet Maull responds to a parent who wants his child to be good at everything, pointing out the hypocrisy and showing how comparison culture in media and schools damages wellbeing. He reframes the inner critic as a potential ally instead of an enemy.

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I was giving a talk on depression, this guy in the audience said, excuse me, can I ask you a question? I said, of course. He said, how can I make my kid good at everything? I said, are you? He said, no. I said, well, that's your answer. If you're not good at every subject, why would you expect your kid to be? Isn't that rather hypocritical and very damaging? Be elated. What he's good at doesn't have to be good at anything else. So I think, you know, we know that comparison is a thief of joy. But magazines, the media, but also the school system make you compare yourself. That person's thinner than me, richer than me, got more than me. That kid at school. School is better than me.