About this episode

Mark Walker discusses the concept of not trusting oneself and the negative biases that can influence our thoughts.

Send us Fan Mail A friend going back to school for counseling told me something this morning that's been rattling around my head today. Don't trust yourself. Sounds like the opposite of everything I usually talk about. But he's onto something. We all carry a blind spot, a bias that runs negative, and if we're not careful, fierce encouragement turns into fiercely trusting the worst voice in the room. Or even that subtle one that runs the script. I get into the tractor beam that pulls people ba...

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Host: Mark Walker

Topics covered

• self-trust
• counseling
• blind spots
• negative bias
• self-improvement

Keywords

• self-trust
• counseling
• blind spots
• negative bias
• self-improvement

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