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@Will_V I understand the importance of identity and agree with your post in general. What doesn’t seem straightforward to me is this part:
Because I think this is what confuses me, even if I fully know who I am and what I want, if I am unable to get what I want, how can I really be looked up to for guidance by other people?
I understand you should be able to face your mistakes and failures and take responsibility, but after a point responsibility doesn’t seem enough. If you are not delivering, and let’s say get lost while sailing every single time, people will start getting tired of it.
And I don’t see a way to make sure that you will be succeeding in general. Maybe it’s fine and you should be ok with your failures as well and bouncing back, but after a while if they pile up and you seem to not be achieving your goals, it feels that it will affect your identity.
To get back to the original point of the article, maybe you fully believe in connecting with new people and opening women showing your intentions. If you keep trying and failing time after time though, it seems very difficult to keep seeing yourself as the cool social guy who people love having around.
Maybe there is always a way to win long term, if you really search for it. It’s just that for me going and acting on what I want is something I can see how to practice, but believing I will be a winner in the end is not obvious.
Maybe you just train every skill so much that you are confident you can handle most situations after a while. I feel my main issue has always been that I have not felt good enough at my level in most things. Probably because I understood what I didn’t know yet, so I didn’t feel deserving to lead others.
It’s connected to this idea that you learn better, when you teach. I just never really feel qualified for teaching unless I am well beyond the level I am teaching. And even then if I know I still have many things to learn I will be hesitant leading people.
And regarding my initial point, especially with things that are social and include influencing people it’s not straightforward to me how you train yourself and at some point you say ok I am good at this now. Maybe you just have to follow a process, treat social interactions as practice, and believe that at the end of it you will find success. When the success doesn’t seem to be coming though, it’s a bit of a question how to keep believing in yourself and that you will make it eventually.
It feels like it’s the only one of these things that is not fully dependent on you. Because you can take responsibility, you can throw yourself in all kinds of difficult situations, develop routines, but is there a way to make sure you will achieve the goals you set?Set some big goals and achieve them
Because I think this is what confuses me, even if I fully know who I am and what I want, if I am unable to get what I want, how can I really be looked up to for guidance by other people?
I understand you should be able to face your mistakes and failures and take responsibility, but after a point responsibility doesn’t seem enough. If you are not delivering, and let’s say get lost while sailing every single time, people will start getting tired of it.
And I don’t see a way to make sure that you will be succeeding in general. Maybe it’s fine and you should be ok with your failures as well and bouncing back, but after a while if they pile up and you seem to not be achieving your goals, it feels that it will affect your identity.
To get back to the original point of the article, maybe you fully believe in connecting with new people and opening women showing your intentions. If you keep trying and failing time after time though, it seems very difficult to keep seeing yourself as the cool social guy who people love having around.
Maybe there is always a way to win long term, if you really search for it. It’s just that for me going and acting on what I want is something I can see how to practice, but believing I will be a winner in the end is not obvious.
Maybe you just train every skill so much that you are confident you can handle most situations after a while. I feel my main issue has always been that I have not felt good enough at my level in most things. Probably because I understood what I didn’t know yet, so I didn’t feel deserving to lead others.
It’s connected to this idea that you learn better, when you teach. I just never really feel qualified for teaching unless I am well beyond the level I am teaching. And even then if I know I still have many things to learn I will be hesitant leading people.
And regarding my initial point, especially with things that are social and include influencing people it’s not straightforward to me how you train yourself and at some point you say ok I am good at this now. Maybe you just have to follow a process, treat social interactions as practice, and believe that at the end of it you will find success. When the success doesn’t seem to be coming though, it’s a bit of a question how to keep believing in yourself and that you will make it eventually.