Why So Serious?
How Trying To Get Yourself To Be Taken Seriously Sets You Back On The Path To Success
Why So Serious?
How Trying To Get Yourself To Be Taken Seriously Sets You Back On The Path To Success
Written by a human, for humans, always.
There are so many people in the world right now...
Who are trying to prove themselves...
All the time...
Everywhere...
To everyone that they are around.
I get it...
So many different sources tell us that that is how you gain success in life.
You need others to take you seriously.
The result...
Is that so many people become extremely adamant that you take them seriously.
What does that lead to?
Ironically...
It causes you to become less likely to be taken seriously.
Let’s break down the reality of it...
If you need to prove something...
What does that mean?
The reality of the need to prove something is that the evidence is not strong enough to support the claims...
If the evidence was strong enough...
People would not question it...
And you would not have anything to prove.
So...
The more time you spend trying to get people to take you so seriously...
The less convincing you become.
But there is actually a level further to this...
Which ends up setting you back even further.
See...
For you to truly be taken seriously...
You need evidence that is undeniable to support that you should...
But...
If you spend all of your time trying to prove you should be taken seriously...
Then you have no time to gain the evidence that you need.
By trying to be taken seriously...
Not only do you end up proving that you should not be taken seriously to others...
But you simultaneously are wasting so much time that could be utilized to obtain the evidence that would prove you deserve to be taken seriously.
So...
Why so serious?
Stop trying to prove it to others...
And go start getting evidence so no one doubts it.
Go find opportunities that demonstrate you deserve a seat at the table.
If you cannot find an opportunity...
Go make one.
There are so many resources and tools that are easily accessed in today’s world...
That if you take the time to apply yourself...
You can easily gain all of the evidence required so that no one will doubt your abilities.
You do not need to take time to get others to take you seriously...
You need to take time to get evidence so no one questions it in the first place.
There is even the ability to present yourself as you want in the best light possible in today’s world.
If you are better at writing...
There are platforms that highlight that.
Better at short form?
There are platforms for that too.
Would you prefer video?
You can choose long-form or short-form.
Here is what will actually make this even more powerful...
If you stop taking yourself so seriously with everything that you do.
The less seriously you take yourself...
The more authentic you become.
You are not a superhuman or god, and everyone already knows that.
I have met a lot of people over the years who have tried to use their positions, degrees, titles, and more to appear as something greater than human...
And I have met many of them who were absolute morons.
Stop trying to make yourself out to be something beyond what you are...
Just be human.
Make mistakes.
Laugh at yourself.
Dust yourself off and then move forward.
When you combine taking yourself less seriously with an unquestionable amount of evidence...
You actually attract others to you faster.
Other people want to have success...
They want to feel like they can also just be human...
That their flaws and failures do not have to define them in a world that is obsessed with a perverse and revolting concept of perfection.
When someone simply is their normal human self...
Able to navigate the challenges of the world...
With undeniable proof of their capabilities...
People want to know more.
So...
Stop taking yourself so seriously.
Stop trying to get others to take you seriously.
Instead, go get evidence...
Get so much good evidence...
That no one ever thinks about questioning you again.
To Your Sageship,
Cody
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