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Saying This, Keeps You Poor

Name: Saying This, Keeps You Poor
Uploaded: 2024-09-23T07:00:15+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this self‑help monologue, the speaker argues that declarative "I am" statements (e.g., "I am bad at math") create self‑imposed limits that stop people…

23 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this self‑help monologue, the speaker argues that declarative "I am" statements (e.g., "I am bad at math") create self‑imposed limits that stop people from trying new things. Drawing from a personal story, they recount how a negative belief about math, formed after a poor 8th‑grade experience, persisted into adulthood. In their early 20s they deliberately broke the pattern by abandoning calculators, practicing mental math, and performing calculations publicly, which gradually built competence and confidence. The speaker uses this transformation to illustrate a broader growth‑mindset principle: any skill can be learned if one replaces limiting self‑labels with intentional practice and exposure.

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I think people give themselves these "I am" statements like, "I'm not this way. I'm the type of person who," and then they box themselves in by immediately no longer trying things because they say, "I'm not that type of person." Until I was in my early 20s, I had an "I am" statement that I am bad at math, and it was because at that point I realized that I was like, I've just been saying this my whole life because in 8th grade I had a bad teacher, or I was a bad student, whatever, but I didn't learn as much as I should have in 8th grade, and so after that point, I basically learned everything until Algebra 2. And then as soon as we got into precalculus, I had a pretty bad experience. And so then from then on, I pretty much just cheated. In my early 20s, I was like, I need to not make this a thing. And so I decided to stop using a calculator for everything. And so whenever I could do math, I just tried to do it in my head. And I would check with a calculator afterwards and I would see how far off I was until eventually I started getting pretty good at it. Then I started just doing math in front of people because that's what I was doing for the last few years. And people were like, dude, you're so good at math. And I remember the first time someone said that to me, I was like, huh? And so I say that because like everything is, like if it is a skill, you can learn it.