Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

NO PRICE TAG ON SELF-LOVE

7 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A speaker reflects that many people carry deep shame and try to "outrun" feelings of unworthiness through money and success, but material success cannot heal internal pain. The speaker contrasts healthy ambition (exploring capacity) with attempting to escape self-worth issues, warning that chasing success to avoid pain leads to burnout and exhaustion.

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There are so many of us that have so much shame and so much pain and so many things we're trying to hide. And I will tell you, there's a huge difference between making money because you want to explore your own capacity and trying to outrun your own self. And try and because, listen, there is not enough money in the world, not enough success in the world to outrun your own lack of worthiness. I mean, it just doesn't actually happen. And watching other people kind of come up in this industry with me and watching them get burnt out, that is the difference. If you're trying to outrun your own pain, like, you can't run fast enough. And you will get so tired. Right? And so I, I think one of the, the secrets of, of really the mental work is understanding that everything you think is wrong with you is normal. Part of being a human being.