Dr. Ray Catania's mentor told him to "let yourself die"—shed the old version of himself. His ego created fear that stopped him from publishing his first book. When he finally clicked publish, he says, a new version of himself emerged.
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At one point you had— you were told by one of your mentors that you had to kill your old life or let yourself die. That's the words.
You need to let yourself die. I've written this book, the first one, but I was petrified to publish it. And that's all ego-driven. That's all my ego saying, you're not good enough. You can't be an author. Who do you think you are doing this? It is all egoic mind nonsense, limiting beliefs pushing me down. You need to let Yourself die. You're not that old Ray anymore. He's got to be dead in order for this new Ray to be reborn. And you, you're petrified of becoming the new Ray because you don't understand how to be him yet. And that's perfectly normal. But you have to publish the book and it will help you with that process. I went home, I was like, okay, 1, 2, 3, and I click and it went off to publishing. And that's the story of the first book. I was scared.