Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

There's nothing wrong with you

6 May 2023 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("There's nothing wrong with you") in which Joe Polish critiques mainstream self-help approaches and advocates focusing on people’s strengths rather than their weaknesses. He contrasts messages that tell people "what's wrong with you and how to fix it" with an alternative framing: "what's right with you and how to enhance it," and reiterates the core claim "there's nothing wrong with you."

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The vast majority of the self help world is, you know, and it's gotten better over the last few years, certainly, because we keep discovering and learning more. And there's people, I would like to think like us, that really speak to people's strengths, not their weaknesses. Where so much of the self help world is what's wrong with you and how to fix it versus what's right with you and how to enhance it or amplify it. Right. And so that's kind of what your message is about, like saying, okay, first off, if you think that you're fucked up, what do you think a person who constantly thinks they're fucked up is? How are they going to live into that? They're going to do, you know, they're going to feel that way. Whereas you say several times in there, there's nothing wrong with you.