Jacqueline Elliott argues that anger and past slights are powerful motivators. She describes keeping a mental Rolodex of insults about weight, introversion, and potential, then using that fuel to prove people wrong and drive change.
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There's people that are led by madness or anger in there, like, hey, I need to prove myself. Or this person in high school told me that I wasn't going to amount to anything. Or that I wasn't, you know, you know, overweight and I can never be, you know, in shape. Or this person told me that I was too much of an introvert and I was never going to get a job, if you can remember. And that's why we talk about that Rolodex in your head of that thing that that's constant driver. And I don't know why we're led that way. The vast majority of people get motivated to change. When they get pissed off and they get their back against wall, they need to prove themselves. That's kind of human. That's part of, like, that, that whole competitiveness that we have inside of us to want to change.