Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

You’re Not Broken — You’re Just Listening to the Wrong Voice

27 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang uses an orange, a ladder, and a dumbbell to show how your inner critic works. It tells you your ideas are stupid or stops you from speaking up. The real problem isn't that you're broken, it's that you're listening to the wrong voice.

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And I love how you're making it visual for us, from the orange to the ladder to now the dumbbell. I think it brings me back to also when I'm coaching people, I see them come up with thoughts that we can call distortions. We can call the inner voice speaking against you. And the inner voice says that, Utkarsh, don't raise your voice in the meeting because no one is going to listen to you. Or the idea that you have, it's a stupid idea. Or the question that you want to ask, no one needs to know that question. And that inner critic, I ask them, like, if you're so aware of that inner critic, then what's stopping you from, from not listening to it or listening to it? And, and then I also help them understand that there is the benefit of that inner critic, which I think you've beautifully pointed out. And I think everyone needs to read the book.