Kim Lisa TaylorSecurities Attorney, Founder, Syndication Attorneys, PLLC · Corporate Securities Attorney, 2x Best-Selling Author, Nationwide Speaker | Private Placement

The Lies That Feel Like Truth: Overcoming Mental Barriers in Syndication

7 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker introduces the concept of "lies that feel like truth"—deep‑seated, false beliefs that masquerade as reality and block us from taking action, especially in high‑stakes situations like talking to investors or facing rejection. The speaker illustrates how these mental barriers can regress us to a childlike state, using a 5‑year‑old self metaphor to show how fear can make us feel like a child behind the wheel. The core advice is to bring these hidden lies to the surface, examine them, and recognize them as false narratives, thereby freeing ourselves to pursue the goals we claim to want.

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And I call it the lie that feels like the truth. It feels so true inside of us that we can't do this thing, or whatever it is, but it's a lie, and it's a barrier that blocks us from actually stepping into the thing that we say that we want to do. And then, like, you hit up against something like talking to an investor, or somebody says no to you, or whatever, or you're like, oh my gosh, this is daunting. And then you kind of go into that like 5-year-old self, and now the 5-year-old is like driving, and you're just like, ah. So you want to like bring that to your forefront, of those mental barriers to your forefront, so you can like expose them for what they are— the lies that feel like the truth.