Thursday, October 10, 2024

Negative Self Talk: Andrew Bryant

Stop feeding your inner dragons. Andrew Bryant on the podcast, Your Intended Message with host, George Torok. Listen to this conversation with Andrew Bryant about personal leadership here https://yourintendedmessage.podbean.com/e/self-leadership-andrew-bryant/ Watch the video of this with Andrew Bryant here https://youtu.be/-E8RtacKwEU?si=yHP15f0WYB1fyNsT I love the metaphor of dragons, and the mythical creatures, but we all have our own dragons, you know, whether that's a negative self talk, or a lack of self belief or self worth. And an interesting thing is that we feed our own dragons don't we, we we, we talk negatively about ourselves or other people. And those dragons get bigger and bigger and bigger, fatter, and fatter and fatter. And at some point in coaching and recognizing that in a narrative way, you got to just stop feeding that dragon, you got to put it on a die, you've got to stop this. And then the dragon gets smaller and smaller. But the trick is to never let the dragon go away completely. Because those dragons serve as a purpose that the negative self talk that the pessimism, it actually protects us from hubris. It protects us from doing really stupid things. I've got a good friendly relationship with my own dragons. My I know, I know, that, you know, these are some things that if I feed them, you know, will get me in a lot of trouble. Thankfully, I'm at an age where I've tamed those dragons and I have people around me that can hold me accountable.