Dr. Gabor Maté: Constantly Worrying What People Think of You? (THIS Simple Shift Will Help You Trust Yourself and Stop Seeking Approval)

At some point something has to happen for you that causes you to wonder, who am I really? And everything that I manifest and speak and do, is it designed to fit other people's expectations or does it line up with who I really am? I truly am so excited to be here tonight at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver with a dear friend, someone that I consider to be the utmost expert goat, the greatest of all time in its space. Like there is no one uh like Dr. Gabo Mate.

And Could you say more about that? We've been talking tonight about worrying about how we're perceived by others and how that blocks us from things in our life. Where does that come from? Why is it that we're so obsessed and addicted to what people think about us?

Well it's a great topic and I think in this culture it's um Fundamental one. There's a wonderful Catholic monk and mystic called Thomas Merton who talked about how we live in other people's minds. So when we're concerned about what other people think of us, how they see us, perceive us, judge us, love us, hate us, We're not living in in ourselves, we're living in other people's minds.

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