Quick Spoon: When your brain makes success feel like a mistake
Ever noticed how your mind talks you out of big opportunities?
In this Quick Spoon, Jill Stoddard shares what happened when a TEDx opportunity triggered a spiral of self-doubt — and what we can learn from it.
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Transcript
Speaker 4: Hi there, and welcome to People Soup, quick Spoon, real conversations about work leadership and being human grounded in behavioral science. With practical ideas you can actually use. I'm Ross Macintosh and here's your quick spoon.
Jill: Yeah. So it was, this last minute opportunity that I was given you know, I, I was, already preparing to want to do this at some point, but I wasn't ready. But this sort of fell in my lap. And so it was like deer in headlights kind of panic, like, Oh my God, I'm not, I'm not ready.
Oh, well, obviously she was [:And, you know, so basically these thoughts were just present throughout the entire experience. And I just really did not think that I could do this.
I was feeling like particularly self conscious about memorializing myself on video for forever. I was just overwhelmed with self doubt and fear. And I really didn't know if I could do it.
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