Affirmation Addiction - When The Crowd Owns You

Family Feud is a game where you win by thinking like the crowd.

Family Feud rewards players for matching the most popular answers given by a survey of 100 people. So if the question is “Name something you do before bed,” and 60 people said “brush your teeth,” then saying that gets you a high score.

It doesn’t matter what’s factually correct or even personally true—it matters what most people said.

You're not rewarded for originality. You're rewarded for conformity.

Your job isn't to say what YOU think... it's to guess what MOST PEOPLE think.

Remind you of anything?

* Social media algorithms
* School systems
* Corporate culture
* Peer pressure
* Politicians chasing polls

That’s the game many of us are taught to play.
Match the mood. Mirror the majority. Fit in.
But there’s a trap:

Don’t fall into the validation trap of outsourcing your self-worth to the crowd.

When you give strangers the power to lift you up,
you also give them the power to crush you.

If your self worth can be inflated by the crowd,
it can be deflated by the criticism.

If getting something is going to make you happy,
then losing it will make you sad.

Reclaim your self-worth from the crowd—because the truth is, you were never supposed to EARN it from them in the first place.

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If we haven’t met yet…

I never considered myself good at change until I went from

Average shot → Army sniper

Home movies → National Geographic cameraman

Fumbling card tricks → Professional magician

Never swinging a hammer → Built a home

High school dropout → Published author

Business rookie → Sold a business

Stutterer → Motivational speaker

Turns out I know how to change and I know how to stand on stage & make audiences feel like they can do it too.

#change #leadership  #motivationalspeaker