Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Why judging others is actually a reflection of your own hidden void.

27 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, the speaker argues that whenever we judge others, it signals a missing or disowned part of ourselves. Being either overly humble (unable to recognize admired traits in others) or overly proud (refusing to see those traits within us) creates an internal emptiness—a "void." This void compels nature to push us toward experiences that force us to confront and integrate those disowned aspects, ultimately leading to a sense of fullness that already exists within us but is hidden by our pride or humility.

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If you're too humble to admit what you see in others that you admire, you have a missing part. You have an emptiness. You have a void, a vacuum. If you are too proud to admit what you see in somebody inside you, you have a void, an emptiness. So anytime you judge, you have emptiness, you have a void, and nature doesn't want that. So it's going to keep driving you, and it's going to keep making you pursue and attract events to fill that void. To eventually teach you to own the parts you've been disowning so you can have fullness. Because the fullness is already present, but you're unwilling to see it because you're too proud or too humble to admit it.