Advanced Shadowing English With Steven Bartlett - The Diary of a CEO | Bristist accent

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AI GeneratedThe speaker discusses the transformative power of belief and how personal struggles, such as childhood shame and financial insecurity, can serve as the primary fuel for success. By viewing belief as a means of escape and leveraging desperation as energy, the speaker explains how they overcame obstacles and rejection to achieve their goals.
My favourite quote ever, because it just like hit me like a ton of bricks.
Many years later, it's those that think they can and those that think they can't are both
usually right. Many years later, it's those that think they can and those that think they can't
are both usually right. Many years later, it's those that think they can and those that think
they can't are both usually right. And people think, well, if you're capable you believe
you can. No. And people think, well, if you're capable you believe you can. No. And people
think, well, if you're capable you believe you can. No. It's because belief itself is
the escape velocity. It's because belief itself is the escape velocity. It's because belief
itself is the escape velocity of any hell or prison that you're in, for many of us.
So I started because I didn't have a plan B and I was desperate for you.
Maybe through shame or insecurity.
Because of what I said earlier about being the black kid or the poor kid in my context.
I was desperate to fill that gap, that hole in me.
Which was the sort of like subtle background murmur of shame my whole childhood.
And the way that I thought I could fill it was
the validation from like
doing something great with myself or getting the money.
That was always like the thing causing me awkwardness as a kid.
That was always like the thing causing me awkwardness as a kid
and not having the money.
So whatever the like motivation was
and not having the money.
So whatever the like motivation was
Like not having the money.
So whatever the like motivation was
Whether I was being dragged or I was driven
I think the two are like indistinguishable
I think the two are like indistinguishable.
There was enough energy that pushed me through all of those.
The hard stuff where like people tell you no.
You don't feel like you're making any progress at all.
My favourite quote ever, because it just hit me like a ton of bricks many years later,
is those that think they can and those that think they can't are both usually right.
And people think, well, if you're capable you believe you can.
No.
It's because belief itself is the escape velocity of any hell or prison that you're in, for
many of us.
So I started because I didn't have a plan B and I was desperate for, maybe through shame
or insecurity because of what I said earlier about being the black kid or the poor kid
in my context.
I was desperate to fill that gap, that hole in me, which was the sort of subtle background
murmur of shame my whole childhood.
And the way that I thought I could fill it was the validation from doing something great
with myself or getting the money that was always the thing causing me awkwardness as
a kid, not having the money.
So whatever the motivation was, whether I was being dragged or I was driven, I think
the two are indistinguishable.
There was enough energy that pushed me through all of the hard stuff where people tell you
no and you don't feel like you're making any progress at all.
