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Feb. 26, 2024

Practice #68 - DESTROY All Doubt

Practice #68 - DESTROY All Doubt
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Use emotion first then logic. Sorry about audio, I don't notice until after Practice #70.

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So in a recent morning, I was really doubting myself.

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I was really doubting whether I was actually making progress, whether I was actually like

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going to achieve my goals.

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I was really doubting my future.

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It's like when you let that doubt overcome you, it's scary because it's hard to escape that.

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And so I was doing my workout in the morning and I was literally just like walking around,

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literally questioning like, is this going to be enough, is this enough?

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Am I going to achieve my goals? Am I going to find success?

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All this stuff, it's been seven months since I started the podcast, not much results.

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But then I'm just like, I'm still like rummaging through my thoughts and my thoughts are running rampant.

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Literally just going off on their own.

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And all of a sudden, I just get this burst of energy.

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I'm just like, no, no, no, I'm a beast.

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And I just like punch a metal structure.

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It hurt really bad, but I just like run around.

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I'm like, no, I'm doing this.

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Like this is exactly what I'm supposed to be doing.

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I am doing this like screw down.

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And then I just like basically logically convinced myself.

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After I convinced myself emotionally.

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So like the first thing was convincing myself emotionally, getting myself out of that rut.

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Like I was in a rut of doubt.

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Literally my thoughts were doubting in a cycle.

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And then I was like, no, I gotta get out of this because this is an emotional trap.

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And the only way to free yourself from an emotional trap is to use emotion.

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You can't use logic.

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Like you can't just be like, oh, but like this and this and this, like that's why that didn't work.

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That wouldn't work.

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And I was trying to do that.

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I was trying to be like, oh, but like this is logic.

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It didn't work.

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But the moment I would like literally remind myself to freaking hype up and get like excited and screw the doubt, slay that like literally absolutely freaking kill it.

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Like obliterate that thing.

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Like once I did that, that's when I was like, oh, like literally tension alleviated.

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And so I was literally just like running around the park, literally like freaking phone like this, like hitting things.

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And then like there's this, um, it's like a children's playground and I'm there at like five in the morning.

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And there's this like bongo set, kind of like a plastic like drum set.

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And I was just like playing a song.

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It's like boom, boom, boom, boom.

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And I was just like going crazy.

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Literally just getting hype.

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I was like, dude, screw that because the moment you allow doubt to freaking rampage your life.

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That's when you lose.

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Losers are doubters.

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Never forget that.

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And it goes the other way too.

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Doubters are losers.

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So, but we all doubt.

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It's just a matter of who's going to actually destroy the doubt out of their mind or not before it comes too late.

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So I destroyed that doubt and I was like, I was literally running around, running around the park.

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And then I was like, once I got myself emotionally on the same level, then I could like reinforce it and reassure myself through logic.

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I was like, okay, but this is like that.

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And then like, if I do this for a certain amount of time, or if I do this until I get good enough, like, and that's when the logic comes in.

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So much so that I literally like drew pictures for myself in my journal that night.

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And I was literally drawing like, okay, this is what the graph looks like.

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And then I'm at this point.

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All I have to do is have patience and just keep getting better.

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And then eventually I'll start to grow.

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Like, eventually the rewards will start to compound.

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Like I literally just went through an entire thing.

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I probably spent like 30 to 45 minutes brainstorming logical reasons why I'll succeed.

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Like that's how important logic is, but you have to get your brain to a certain point.

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That's why public speakers,

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they usually start with a story.

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Like they're not just like, oh, if you do this, you'll get that.

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Or like do this for me.

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Like they never use logic right away.

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They always use a story because a story puts them on an emotional level.

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And it allows them to basically put their audience into the same emotional feelings that they were feeling at the time through their story.

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And then that basically is the same thing that happened to me where I was like doubting.

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The audience will be doubting.

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But then I literally just like, freaking infuse my brain with like electric emotions of excitement.

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Like hype.

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All of the happy good emotions, freaking inserted into my brain like a hard drive.

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And then that is when I was able to be like pliable.

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That's when I was actually able to be persuaded through logic.

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Like logic is useless until you actually use emotion to transfer their kind of like persona or baseline or whatever.

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I'm kind of having a hard time describing this.

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But basically public speakers have a crowd, they're let's say neutral or doubting.

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Or even like a little bit positive.

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Whatever.

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They are all not warm enough to actually get, like to actually change through logic.

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Because we're emotional creatures.

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We don't make decisions based off of logic.

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And then all the speaker has to do is get them onto the same emotional level to where they're logic.

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Like they're where they're actually pliable through logic.

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Just like how I did to myself.

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Like that's all there is to it.

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You just persuade them through the motion.

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Like get them to feel the emotion and then persuade them through logic.

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Like that's it.