Psychology
Robbins says sitting on sidelines creates cancer-like pain inside you
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Bestselling Author on the Truth about Happiness | Mel Robbins
"When you feel this call or this burning desire, you still have this flame inside you that is burning. And when you actively engage in your own campaign of misery, and you actively tell yourself the reasons why it's not gonna work or the reasons why you can't do it, you are creating literally a cancer inside of you that eats at you. You are causing yourself so much pain by sitting in the stands and never getting down there."
Robbins uses stark medical imagery to describe the internal damage caused by not pursuing one's dreams, comparing self-defeating thoughts to cancer. She argues that people actively campaign against their own potential through negative self-talk, and that this creates more suffering than the risk of failure itself. She urges people to stop sitting in the stands criticizing and get on the court of their own lives.
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