Pride
What it is telling youYou kept a promise to yourself. Attach the feeling to the effort, not the result.
How He Sees It.
Eric uses pride deliberately. He looks for small, difficult things, a cold shower or, in his case, a sixth straight week of workouts, that let him say he really did that, and he ties the feeling to doing them rather than to visible results.
It is also how he looks back. Mistakes included, he says he is proud of who he is today.
On Pride, Word for Word.
Each line links to the moment it was said or written.
“I think another great strategy to raise your self-image is to do things that make you go, man, I really did that.”
“You get your self-image attached to progress.”
“I’m proud of who I am today.”
What He Does With It.
Starts with something hard but small, and repeats it until it becomes part of who he is.
Episode 52: The Importance of and Ideas Around Raising Self-ImageTakes pride in the fact that progress is happening, even before he can see it.
Episode 52: The Importance of and Ideas Around Raising Self-ImageProves a new identity to himself through action, as he did in going from procrastinator to productive.
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