4 Ways You are Self-Sabotaging Your Learning Efforts

I recently stumbled upon a video of Jim Carrey giving a commencement address at the Maharishi University of Management. All students, including Carrey, at the school practice Transcendental Meditation. You can watch the B-Roll here or the full speech here. 

There were many gold nuggets in his address, however for this post about self-sabotaging your learning efforts, one stood out to me. He related the story of his father, who he says “could have been a great comedian,” but instead went down the safe road to be an accountant only to be laid off and lose his “safe” job.


Carrey’s message and one that powerfully hits home is - every one of us can undermine ourselves because we all are inclined to self-sabotage. There are two important questions we can ask ourselves when we find we are getting in our own way:  Why and how did we get here? Why and how are getting in our own way when we are simply seeking to achieve what matters most to us? 

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