3 Things To Keep In Mind When Facing Self Doubt

The way to love the process is to bake hits of dopamine into your journey.

Oct 15, 2023

1. Bake into your journeys

When you have big dreams and journeys (mine is to become a great father, writer, and speaker). Then, you have to keep yourself motivated for the long haul. These are the types of things that take years or decades to achieve. This leaves a lot of space for self-doubt, depression, and sheer boredom.

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The key is to love the process (yea, trust me I understand how cliche that shit sounds, but I address that in an upcoming essay don’t worry). The way to love the process is to bake hits of dopamine into your journey. Basically, identify your why (why are you embarking on your journey and taking each step), incorporate childlike giddiness in everything you do, make sure to fail even when you win, and shorten the feedback loop so you get little wins here and now.

2. Zeroes Contain Infinities

Basically, the weaknesses we have can often be turned into strengths. Self-doubt is in many ways a strength because it forces you to get better at your craft. The reason there is a good shot you will escape the gravity of mediocrity is that self-doubt allows you to know where to work towards. Self Doubt means you are doing something you are scared of and not good at it (that’s how you know you are improving/growing). There are so many more reasons self-doubt is good for me, but find the reasons it is good for you as well.

3. Create Lazy Habits

Lazy habits are about doing something small every day and using lazy strategies to make sure that the action becomes an unconscious habit. Having habits will mean you work through/despite your self-doubt because that’s the only way you will eventually create stuff you are proud of.

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