STOP Sabotaging Yourself | Mitesh Khatri | Law Of Attraction

23 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief segment of the YouTube video, Paridhi Dhingra explains why high‑achieving individuals often undermine their own success after receiving promotions or new opportunities. She notes that people claim they "can't handle" the new responsibilities and then engage in self‑sabotage. To avoid confronting the uncomfortable truth that they are undermining themselves, they create seemingly logical, justifiable reasons for their behavior. Dhingra attributes this pattern to the brain’s fundamental drive to preserve itself, which leads it to resist change and perceived threats, even when those threats are actually opportunities for growth.

I know people who've got promotions and sabotaged. So they come here and they're like, I can't handle this. This is too much.
So they self-sabotage.
And then they will give themselves very justifiable reasons to self-sabotage because we never want to tell ourselves that I'm that bad that I'm destroying my own opportunity. So I have to give myself justifiable reasons because the first job of your brain is to preserve yourself.