Latest / Man In Your Corner with Shaun Tucker / Stop Being an Approval Junkie: Take the Wheel of Your Life | Ep. 101
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- Shaun: I see you. I see you looking back at me, wondering if you are ready to acknowledge just how good, funny, wild, and clever you really are. Because the truth is, we're all approval junkies. We're all in it. For the slap on the back. And the gold watch. And the hip hip who fucking rah Look at the clever boy with his badge polishing his tro- Shine on you crazy diamond The truth is, we're all just monkeys wrapped in suits begging for the approval of others. those of you who don't know that quote. That is from Revolver. one of Jason Statham's probably first movies or. It's... It takes you on a trip. And if you haven't seen the movie, I suggest you watch it. Because it's literally just an ego trip. Of just how crazy we get when we get in our head. And how we let fear take the wheel of the fucking car that we're driving. because people say what drives you? What drives me? Nothing fucking drives me because I'm the fucking driver. That's the truth. And I invite everyone in this space. to really see that they are the driver of their own life. Because everyone around you will try and convince you that you're not. and it's only up to you to realise that you have the wheel right in front of you. is how many of us have been raised from a place where performance was the guidance, performance was the key to success. you're measured by how you performed on a school, in school on a math quiz or an essay that was written from your heart, but you got a D for it. And you still don't know how to take it in because people don't know how to give feedback that's growth oriented. Instead it's... You suck. who in the world has felt that feeling where I can't even read it back or accept it because I don't actually understand what the problem is. Nobody understands you like you understand yourself. And if you're still trying to understand yourself like I am, man, what a fucked up world we live in. But let's be honest, I would not want to live any other way. The fact that you meet someone on the street and they say something you've just been thinking. What kind of reality do we live in where we're all just mirrors of each other? It's crazy. but I wouldn't change it for the world. And what about that thing we call sleep, where you fall so deeply unconscious? and you just wake up as if no time has passed or you drift off into this other state of or this other realm of consciousness where you can be anything and do anything Let's say have an arm wrestle with Arnold Schwarzenegger if you choose. What a cool place we live in. I encourage everyone to take the steering wheel and put the foot on the gas and just see how fast and hard you can go wherever you want to go. Let's do it.