#207 Shedding Cultural Assumptions About Success: The False Dichotomy that’s Holding You Back (19:25)




Success Through Failure with Jim Harshaw Jr show

Summary: We are raised with an “or” mindset. You can be a firefighter or an astronaut. A doctor or a lawyer. A football player or a baseball player. However, this mindset doesn’t serve you well when incorporated into your psyche. You begin to agree with the cultural assumptions that you can be either a successful businessman or a good father but not both. That you can either be in shape or work long hours, but not both. These are simply false dichotomies that we accept without thinking about the real possibili