(5 of 8) Self-Limiting Beliefs: How to Find the Career Possibilities Your Brain Has Been Filtering Out | What Fits You
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There's a voice in your head that's been running for twenty-plus years, and it's been deciding what's possible for you before you've had a chance to consider it. "That's not realistic." "That seems unreasonable." "Someone like me doesn't do that." Most high performers have never noticed the filter is even there. They've just lived inside its conclusions.
In Day 5 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, we name the filter, get around it, and walk you through the one exercise that's surfaced more achievable career possibilities than any self-assessment tool we've used.
After almost 100,000 people through this course, here's what we know: the things you keep dismissing as "wildly unrealistic" are almost never unrealistic. They're just unfamiliar.
What you'll learn:
In Day 5 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, we name the filter, get around it, and walk you through the one exercise that's surfaced more achievable career possibilities than any self-assessment tool we've used.
After almost 100,000 people through this course, here's what we know: the things you keep dismissing as "wildly unrealistic" are almost never unrealistic. They're just unfamiliar.
What you'll learn:
- Why your brain has been ruling out the best career possibilities before you've had the chance to consider them
- The specific cognitive bias that runs harder the longer you've been a high performer
- The 3 Wildly Unrealistic Things exercise, how to do it, and why almost every answer is more achievable than it sounds
- What we found after collecting tens of thousands of responses to this exercise, and why it stopped us in our tracks
- How what you write down today becomes the foundation for the rest of this course
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- What Fits You - Day 4 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)