Whatever you think someone else should give to you, you need to be able to give yourself first.
Jay ShettyRead
You can't be what you can't see. Expose yourself to more role models and diverse experience to broaden your perspectives and ideas.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of having role models and diverse experiences to expand one's horizons and possibilities.
Jay Shetty's quote highlights the notion that personal growth and aspirations are often shaped by what we can visualize and understand. When individuals are exposed to a variety of role models and experiences, they can see new possibilities for themselves, which can encourage them to pursue broader goals and ambitions, ultimately fostering a more enriched life and perspective.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
Whatever you think someone else should give to you, you need to be able to give yourself first.
Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential.
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.
I see my whole 20s as a massive experiment. So were my teens. I think the problem is that we're not encouraged to experiment; we're encouraged to decide and choose, be singular and focused. You can't be that until you experiment. You don't know what's going to work until you try it.
If we don't choose to intentionally and consciously slow down and stop being in a rush, your body and mind will force you to do it anyway.
When I became a monk, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made the best decision, because anyone who hadn't focused on building themselves up was the one losing out.
When I put on our U.S. kit, I do it for my family and for my country. But I understand now that I also do it for every single American girl out there who wants to see someone who looks like them - someone whose story reminds them of their own - when they watch their women's national team.
I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
If you think you aren't valid for whatever reason, let my existence and the way the world embraces my existence tell you that you are valid. You deserve to look, live, and walk through the world however you see fit. That's why I find it extremely important to be so out, so black, and so myself.
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.
Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!
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