The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Welcome to the Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma where you’ll receive the mental models, daily routines, and productivity tactics that Robin Sharma has taught to the titans of industry, sports superstars, and elite performers who he has served as a private mentor to for over 31 years. You'll learn how to live a truly world-class life while you accelerate your productivity, grow your leadership, build your business, and scale your impact on the world.
The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Beneath Your Irritations Is the Opportunity for Growth
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As human beings, it’s ever so easy to sit on the summit of high-judgement and self-righteousness on seeing another human being doing something we consider wrong.
Yet, as we spend more time in meditation, reflection and awareness building, we often and generally realize we do the same thing. Fascinating, yes?
Maybe it looks slightly different than the thing that we do yet the main idea here is that we too are regularly guilty of the very acts we get so troubled by. When someone else does it.
By practicing the practice of seeing someone displaying one of the flaws that make us human and praying for the power to forgive them because they are “just like me”, we relax. We breathe. We ground.
And then we reach the serenity that makes our days so much richer.
In my book, The Greatness Guide, which I wrote many years ago, I quoted Carl Jung and I just wrote it in a chapter, know, love your irritations. And in that chapter of The Greatness Guide, I say, Carl Jung taught us, beneath your irritations is the opportunity for growth. And so every time you feel insecure and you need to use I and advertise how great you are, successful are you, and you turn the conversation on to you. If you're really wise, you'll go deeper and just say, what is the hole within me that I haven't filled, that I'm trying to fill from external validation.