You can be enough right now and still want to grow. One doesn’t cancel the other.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Two ideas get treated as opposites that are not. Being fine as you are is a statement about your worth, which is not up for negotiation. Wanting to get better is a statement about your skills, which change constantly. People who confuse the two either refuse to improve in case it proves they were lacking, or chase improvement because they believe they are currently worth nothing.

Try holding both this week: train hard at the thing you are bad at, and refuse to insult yourself while doing it. Those are compatible. Your best stretch of improvement will come from exactly that combination.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you want to improve without calling yourself insufficient?

MORE IN MINDSET & IDENTITY

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