166: Earn Your Easy- expectation management for when things feel tough

The Confidence Project Podcast · Nov 13, 2019 · 24m

Have you ever watched someone do something and you think to yourself "it can't be THAT hard!"?

...then you do it, and you're frustrated that it IS hard? Then you attach some BS story to it feeling hard and want to quit? Yeah, that's expectation mismanagement, and it usually comes from a lack of understanding of what it actually takes to be good at something, what it actually takes to make something "look" easy.

When someone knows the ins-and-outs of something, they're able to correctly manage your expectations. If someone ever told me that "running a business is easy", I'd have to assume that…