This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "You Need Something to Fight For!" featuring a conversation between Brendon Burchard, Ed Mylett, and Lewis Howes. The discussion revolves around finding motivation beyond oneself, dealing with self-doubt, and overcoming negative thinking patterns.
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You need to find someone to fight for.
If you're broke, you're fighting for survival. If you're going to break through, you're.
Fighting for somebody else. Wow.
You need to find somebody or something to fight for that is beyond you. And when you find that, when you find that, that's when the breakthrough happens.
How do you not go back into self doubt when, okay, you get excited to fight for someone or something greater and you're, you're living in that space, but then something doesn't work out, or then it doesn't hit number one, or people continue to laugh at you, or you're, the money's not coming, just don't.
Stop pretending those are going to go away. Doubt's not the problem. Stopping is.
A lot of people have doubt, but they keep going. If doubt becomes a signal to stop, you'll always fail.
If doubt is a signal to learn and to try again, now you're in the scientific method and you win. So doubt should be a signal to learn and to try something new.
But even doubt's not the problem.
Catastrophizing is a problem.
What does that mean?
Catastrophizing is where a lot of learned helplessness comes from. It's where you worry about ruin in your life, which is one of the great fears we have as humans. If I do this, I'll be ruined.
I'll be ruined, everything will go away and they'll reject me and I won't be able to handle it. So I'll be inadequate too.
And so here's what. Write this down. If you ever want to understand your negative thinking, write this acronym.
I'm going to give you down. Zaps. Zaps.
You guys will be having success and then you'll zap yourself.
And when you zap yourself, you'll stop. Zap.
Z, A, P, S. The Z stands for zoom in.
Problem happens, you zoom in on it. Difficulty. You zoom in on it.
You failed.
You zoom in on it. They made fun of you. You zoom in on it. Then the A is you attach self. You attach identity to the problem.
You attach identity to the ruin, the failure.
Yes, I am the failure. Now it's not just a bad thing happened. I am impacted by it. I am. You zoom in on what's wrong?
You got to stop that.
You got to zoom in on what's possible.
Yeah.
You got to zoom in on blessings. You got to zoom in on grace.
You got to open up that perspective.
You got to open up that aperture. So you zoom in on what's wrong. You attach personality or identity to the.
Problem, then p is it? Then you punish yourself.
Oh, man, I used to do that all the time.
Yeah, you punish yourself. You shut yourself down. You speak terribly to yourself. Procrastination is punishment. All of these things you punish yourself, you neglect. And you don't just punish yourself with the bad, you neglect yourself from the good.
