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Lenny Rachitsky: belief

31 Mar 2024 Lenny's Podcast How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)

“The one you shared about, "I've got this," reminds me, my wife took a course with the Artist's Way writer, Julia Cameron I think is her name.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky
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belief
Recorded
31 Mar 2024
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…Yes, exactly. That's another one. That's a great one. It can be very helpful. The one you shared about, "I've got this," reminds me, my wife took a course with the Artist's Way writer, Julia Cameron I think is her name. And she has this piece of advice where you name your critic, your inner critic that's always telling you to stop doing stuff. You name him or her. So I name mine Jim. And then when he or she is giving you things you don't want to hear, you're just like, "Jim, I got this. Jim, I don't need this advice." There is a lot of evidence on personifying the things that challenge us and then having conversations with it. It's a way of rationalizing some of the things that we do that are quite negative. So something there for sure to be thinking about.…

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