The speaker argues that self-defeating thoughts like "I'm not good enough" keep you stuck. He suggests using physical symbols—a watch, glasses, a distinctive outfit—to shift your self-image. This psychological trick, called enclothed cognition, can change how you see yourself and what you're able to achieve.
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How do we show up? We show up as, oh, I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough. I don't know if I could do this. I don't know if this is gonna work. Is that helping you in any way? Like, you're already believing that you're somebody else. You might as well stop believing that you're a piece of shit. You might as well start believing that you're something great, that you're something amazing, that can achieve anything that you want. Right? You might as well. So really, what do you believe in yourself? It'd be a great question for you to ask pen and paper and write down, what do you believe in yourself? Who do you think you are? And then ask yourself, what do you want to believe in yourself? Is there some sort of reminder that you can have to remind yourself of who you are, who you're going to be? You know, obviously you're probably not going to go to the office, maybe, maybe not wearing a Batman cape or, you know, adore the explorer outfit. If you want to, you definitely can. But do you have something that you could have? Is it a watch? Is it a pair of glasses? Is it a certain way that you dress, where you just dress a certain way and it makes you feel a certain way about yourself? This isn't pseudoscience. This is actually proven in psychology that enclosed cognition is a real thing. How can you use enclosed cognition? So you start to change your own self perception, because what you perceive of yourself is what you're going to achieve in this world.