A short personal reflection (YouTube video) by James Laughlin where the speaker recounts childhood and young-adult experiences of bullying and persistent negative self-talk, describing how repeated criticism led him to believe he was 'not good enough' and how he later reframed these experiences into motivation to 'back yourself' and treat doubt as a challenge.
As a younger lad, like through school and young adult life, had, I don't know, let's call it bullying. I don't know. There was, there was a lot of negative self talk. Yeah, you. You touched on the negative self talk in racing before. That doesn't really exist for me anymore. But, yeah, there was a lot of negative self talk because, yeah, I didn't think I was good enough because I'd been told that I was shit by my peers, yet told something often enough, you start to believe it. So, yeah, I believed that I was insufficient, not good enough. And again, that's something that I've weaponized. Back yourself. Back yourself all the way. And if anybody doubts you see that as a challenge.
