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The Antidote to the One Poison Everyone Is Infected With
It is the reason Kobe Bryant was successful at anything he did
Self-doubt is the poison we are all plagued with
Have you ever read or heard something that led to fireworks going off in your head?
You look around, half-expecting to see brain matter everywhere because your mind feels blown. No?
Well, I recently experienced this exact feeling while watching a clip that has honestly changed my life. I don’t want to seem like I’m exaggerating, but it was an ‘Eureka’ moment that led to a series of epiphanies.
Here’s a quote from the clip
“Doubt is such a strange thing. There will be times when you succeed and times that you fail. So wasting your time doubting whether you are going to be successful or not is pointless. Just put one foot in front of the other, you control what you can control and then you see what the outcome is.
If you win, great, you’re gonna have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again.
If you lose, it sucks, but gonna have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again, anyway.”
Self-doubt is right — You are going to fail
This makes so much sense because doubt tries to shake you by saying — 'What if you fail?'
But the reality is that we are going to fail, at some point, in this project or future projects, surely we are going to fail.
So? Does that mean we shouldn’t still do the work? Because it’s not a 'success’?
Even the books that flopped, the songs that didn’t top the charts, the movies that bombed, the sports games that were lost, all of those still deserved to exist, not just the ones that were a success.
Self-doubt is also wrong — You are going to succeed
But we are also going to succeed, now or in future projects. No one knows which.
If we redefined success as showing up, and doing the work, as expressing ourselves, as making…
