How to overcome your limiting beliefs (Mark Manson) read-aloud
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This is a section reading from Mark Manson dot net of a blog called How to overcome your limiting beliefs. There's an old allegory about a baby elephant that is tied to a fence post as the baby elephant doug's in polls, it fails to break the fence or break the rope. Eventually it gives up and makes peace with its faith. The baby elephant is stuck, but eventually the elephant grows up and becomes a big adult elephant with gargantuan legs and a huge tusk and swirly trunk and it could easily walk away from the fence if you wanted to. But believing defense to be some immovable thing, the adult elephant remains tied to it, falsely believing it can never get away. What are limiting beliefs, limiting beliefs are false beliefs that prevent us from pursuing our goals and desires, limiting beliefs can keep you from doing important things like applying for your dream job or finding the relationship you want or leaving the one you don't want. They can also keep you from doing unimportant things like skydiving in your underwear or trying out that weird scotch, berry ice cream flavor that looks like a baby vomit in a cone. Our beliefs put boundaries and limitations on what we perceived to be reasonable behavior. My belief that stealing is wrong limits me from simply stealing the next car that rolls by grand theft auto style. This limiting belief is probably a good one to have. Therefore we can say that not all limiting beliefs are negative. In fact, we need some limiting beliefs in order to, you know, limit us from doing stupid stuff, but some limiting belief unnecessarily holds us back from who we want to become like the elephant that remains stuck to the fence. Post this limiting beliefs keep us in place without us even realizing it. These are the limiting beliefs I'll be addressing in this article Limiting beliefs typically come in three flavors. One limiting beliefs about yourself that makes you feel like you can't do something because something is inherently wrong with you two limiting beliefs about the world that makes you feel like you can't lose something because no one will let you. And three limiting beliefs about life that makes you feel like you can't do something because it's too difficult. I'll go over some common limiting beliefs in each of these categories and then explain how to overcome them at the end. So let's dive in limiting beliefs about yourself. Some of the most impacting limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves. For example, for many years, I falsely believe I was bad at writing. I know that sounds insane. A best selling author who spent most of his younger life believing he was a bad writer. But the truth is that I got four grades in writing when I was in school and I took those poor grades at face value, I was bad. So go do something else. It took me many years to realize that the reason I made bad grade was not because I was a bad writer, but because I never stuck to the assignments, I was the kid who, instead of writing an essay about George Washington wrote a sci fi fan fiction, imagining that the US government was founded by aliens as an experiment in human democracy. The teachers hated it. And it's that outside the box thinking that actually made me a good writer, nothing holds us back in life about ourselves, especially because so many of our beliefs about ourselves are laden with emotional attachments, insecurities and baggage that often must be unraveled before we can challenge the belief below are some examples of common limiting beliefs about yourself and how to attack them. One is age many people use age as an excuse to not do the things they wish to do. A lot of people think they're too old to go back to school, change careers, start dating again. Or even just learning some new skills at the other end of the spectrum, I often hear from people who think they're too young to apply for an awesome job, moved to a new city or change careers. You can see how nonsensical these beliefs can be when you realize that sometimes older younger people use their age to avoid doing the exact same thing. For example, some people think they're too old to start a business while others think they're too young, which one is it Him Neither personal traits. Sometimes you think that the personal trade is holding us back in some areas of our lives. Maybe you think you're too dumb to apply for a scholarship for a certain job or school or even just have a conversation about something smart with someone. Maybe you think you're too ugly to dr anyone who's even remotely attractive. Maybe you think that because you're right leg is slightly shorter than the left, you'll never look good and bare shorts or you're relegated to sweating your balls off each and every summer for the rest of your life. The tough part about limiting beliefs around our personal traits that we usually can't change them. So if you've decided that the world will simply forever hate us because we're short, well, we will feel doomed by that for the rest of our lives.