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Dr Rangan Chatterjee"Focus On Yourself & Everything Will Fall Into Place!" - LIVE The Life You Really Want | Mel Robbins
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Mel Robbins on Letting Others Be and Reclaiming Your Life
- Mel Robbins says that holding expectations over other people, and believing you must meet theirs, drains your energy and creates friction in relationships, and that saying 'Let them' helps you accept people as they are.
- Using social media posting as an example, Robbins and Dr. Rangan Chatterjee describe how seeking validation gives control to others, and Chatterjee notes that being rewarded for changing yourself is even more dangerous.
- Robbins argues that procrastination is a freeze stress response and that overthinking stems from childhood habits of monitoring other people's reactions, and she suggests applying 'Let them' to the specific outcome you fear.
- Robbins attributes her relatability to her openness about her past struggles, including alcoholism, near divorce and nearly $800,000 in debt, and to being the same person on and off camera.
- Robbins says she uses 'Let them' to handle criticism, including attacks on the simplicity of her advice, because she knows the truth of who she is and why she does her work.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasExpectations of others and of yourself create the same friction
Robbins says you feel exhausted by believing you must meet everyone's expectations while being frustrated that others don't meet yours. Letting people be who they are improves relationships and your own life.
Seeking validation hands your power to others
Robbins describes editing posts and checking likes as giving control to things you can't control. Chatterjee adds that if changing yourself earns validation, you learn that changing who you are is the way to get it.
No one else is stopping you from living your life
Robbins says you are stopping yourself by treating other people as the problem and looking outward for validation you need inside. She compares this to the point that nobody gets sober until they stop drinking.
Procrastination is a physiological stress response
Robbins says procrastination is the freeze response, which shows up when you are overwhelmed or stressed and lack the mental energy a task needs. She likens it to a trauma response to life.
Apply 'Let them' directly to what you fear
Robbins suggests that when overthinking about someone's reaction, you say 'Let them think something negative' or 'Let them be disappointed.' She says this works better than claiming you don't care what people think, which she says isn't true.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesYou will never take control of your own life until you first stop trying to control everyone and everything out there, what they think, what they do, all of it, and you pull it back, and you focus on you
— Mel Robbins
The more you let people be who they are, the more you're accepting them as they are, and that makes your relationships better.
— Mel Robbins
When I was at my lowest moments, Dr. Chatterjee, it wasn't ability that was missing, it was hope.
— Mel Robbins
When somebody is able to make something look easy, what you know when it looks easy is that there was an extraordinary amount of hard work that went into making it easy.
— Mel Robbins
They don't realize how difficult it is to get to simplicity.
— Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
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SPEAKERS
Motivational speaker, author, and podcast host known for the “5 Second Rule” and behavior-change frameworks such as “Let Them.”
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
hostMedical doctor and host of the podcast “Feel Better, Live More,” focused on lifestyle medicine and behavior change.
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