Overcoming Perfectionism and Self-Doubt and Becoming Flawesome With Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

Episode Highlights With Kristina How she was born in a country that doesn’t exist anymore and was selected for the Olympic reserves multiple times Why too much positivity can actually be detrimental to us and how to safeguard against this Life is like a dance and there aren’t necessarily simple answers or linear paths How she defines authenticity and what happens when we aren’t authentic to ourselves The dark side of personal growth and how the extremes can feed our insecurities How to reframe and instead of thinking of slaying the dragons think of taming them and learning to ride them Vulnerability has two components: the courage of acting despite the fear and the uncertainty of not knowing what will result How people can misuse the practice of meditation or gratitude when they start to happen on autopilot What emotional analgesia is and why she believes it is a big problem for us You can’t numb emotions selectively… if you numb one, you numb the ability to feel all of them Remembering that we are allowed to feel all of our emotions and not judge them and still choose to act from our values and not our emotions We are not our emotions but why they are valuable feedback Self love is actually about the relationship with yourself The difference between self love and self care and why this difference is important Self care is skin deep and self love has more depth Is imposter syndrome actually a sign that you’ve done something good? An important question: Can you still love yourself if you fail? When we use love as currency and how to avoid this Try an experiment of replacing judgement with curiosity in your relationship with yourself Resources We Mention Becoming Flawesome: The Key to Living an Imperfectly Authentic Life by Kristina Mand-Lakhiani Mindvalley The Best of Fyodor Dostoevsky Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations (Lewis Carroll Classics) by Lewis Carroll