
About this episode
A few years ago, as part of the research for my first book, I asked a group of centenarians for the advice they'd most like to give to their younger selves.
One of them offered this piece of wisdom:
Those lies dilute your attention, pull you toward distractions, and cut into your confidence. They give you an easy out when the truth requires more painful accountability.
Those lies keep you from running at full power. Self-protection that becomes self-rejection.
In the years since that conversation, I've often found myself reflecting on the comment as a thought experiment for my own life:
What are the lies I'm telling myself right now?
Through identifying those lies, I've slowly learned to stopped telling them.
Here are 7 lies I finally stopped telling myself...
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