A short motivational talk (transcript) identifying three psychological barriers—fear of failure, fear of criticism, and feelings of unworthiness—that stem from imposter syndrome and prevent people from "exploding their results." The speaker explains each fear with everyday examples and concludes by recapping the three points.
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Doesn't matter where you live, how old you are, what level of income you make. There's three things that hold people back from exploding their results. And you said the first one, it's really they have got imposter syndrome. And with imposter syndrome comes number one, the fear of failure. Right? It's almost like if I try to invest in something, you know, I could fail. If I try to invest in, you know, something I'm not familiar with, what if it doesn't work out? If I try to do this, you know, know, what if I lose all my money? So number one is if I try, I could fail. That takes us to number two, which is, well, what if people don't agree with me doing it? What if my spouse doesn't agree? What if my parents don't agree? What if my colleagues at work think I'm stupid for doing this right? What are people gonna think? So number one is the fear of failure. Now we've got number two, the fear of criticism. That takes us to the third and final one that be, which is called the fear of not being worthy of it. I'm not worthy of investing and making all this money. I should just be happy with the job I've got, or I should just be happy with the house I have, or I can at least put food on the table. And it's really a self worth, self wealth, and self esteem issue where they just don't feel worthy of it. So if we recap those three things and it all comes from imposter syndrome, it's really if I try, I could fail is number one. People might not like my idea, they'll criticize me as two, and I'm not worthy is really number three. So what do we do with that?