Vishen Lakhiani explores how to reframe failure by shifting from worrying what others think to asking what life is asking of you. Instead of spiraling into unworthiness, the speakers suggest viewing setbacks as invitations to see your infinite potential and move toward courage and renewal.
Sometimes when sadness enters our life, it comes with an additional companion, unworthiness. When we get dumped, unworthiness comes in. When we lose a job, unworthiness comes in. When we fail at a business or a project, unworthiness comes in. How do we balance this to sadness and its sidekick, unworthiness?
Sidekick. That's beautiful. Generally speaking, when that sense of unworthiness is there, we're looking at our life through the lens of what we think other people are thinking about us. And so we'll project this sadness onto the lens of someone else and look at ourselves. You know, he stumbled, he fell, he lost, he didn't make it. And so we have to become uninterested in what we think others are thinking about us. And we have to ask ourselves, what does life think about me right now? You know, many names for life. You can call life God, love, intelligence of the universe, whatever name we call it. But life sees us through the lens of potential. When life looks at us, life sees that there's so much more to us than what has happened to us. There's so much more to us than any experience we have had. And so we ask ourselves, how is life seeing me right now? And what is life asking of me? How does life see me? And what does life ask asking of me? Life sees me as infinite potential. Life is asking me to be courageous right now. Life is asking me to be strong right now. Life is asking me to start over right now. Life is asking me to go deep within my own soul and discover gifts that I forgot about that I put on the shelf. So if we go to those two questions, how does life see me? And what is life asking of me? Will start to spiral up. Because a disempowering question will spiral us down. What's wrong? Why me? Why is life doing this to me? What big mistake did I make will go down? If we ask a different kind of question, we'll spiral up and we'll be more receptive to answers of inspiration, insight, guidance. That's always here. But we have to be receptive to it.
I love that answer. That's beautiful. There's so much to digest there.
That space of sadness, as it begins to move faster through observation, there's more of us that gets to express. So what looks like a hindrance right now actually becomes an opening for more life to flow through. Beautiful sa.
