The work instills the worth
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Summary
Confidence is a byproduct of keeping the commitments you make to yourself in private. When nobody else is around and you decide to go to the gym tomorrow morning, or to make those calls tomorrow morning or I m going to hire that person, and you don t, you erode your confidence. It s always been that way.
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your self-worth comes on the backside of doing the work. The way I like to think about it is the work
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instills the worth. So a lot of people go, well, I need to feel confident before I do the thing. No,
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you do the thing to build the confidence. Confidence is a byproduct of keeping the
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commitments you make to yourself in private. When nobody else is around and you decide I'm going to
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the gym tomorrow morning, or I'm going to make those calls tomorrow morning, or I'm going to
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hire that person. And you don't, you erode your confidence. It's always been that way. It's never
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not been that way. Don't be as scared of the work because your capacity to do the work is
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expanded at the extremities of what you think is hard. And when you're pushing at the extremities,
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instead of pulling back and you push, you get to grow. It's the coolest thing.