Why Are You Ignoring Who You Need to Become? (& What To Do About It)

Overcome impostor syndrome by understanding why your brain treats your future self like a stranger 🧠 Learn shadow work integration & future self transformation tactics ✨🚀

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TIMESTAMP
0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - Chapter 1: "The Impostor Who's Actually You"
2:23 - Chapter 2: "Your Shadow Knows Better"
3:33 - Chapter 3: "The Identity Subscription You Never Signed Up For"
4:40 - Chapter 4: "Why Your Brain Treats Change Like a Threat"
5:54 - Chapter 5: "The Values You Think You Have (Spoiler: You Don't)"
7:20 - Chapter 6: "Your Problems Are Your Identity's Security Blanket"
8:33 - Chapter 7: "The Multiple Personalities You Call 'You'”
9:50 - Chapter 8: "Becoming Friends with Your Future Self”
10:59 - Chapter 9: "The Micro-Experiments That Build Your Future Self"
12:07 - Chapter 10: "When Relapse Is Actually Progress"

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS
1/ The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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2/ Atomic Habits by James Clear
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3/ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
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4/ Carl Jung-Based Shadow Work Journal and Workbook for Deep Healing
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5/ The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
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6/ Emotional Agility by Susan David
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7/ The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
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8/ Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols
https://amzn.to/487bk75

9/ Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
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10/ The Multiple Selves of the Self by D. W. Winnicott
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RESEARCH PAPERS
1/ Neuroscience of Self and Self-Regulation by Todd F. Heatherton (2011)
https://ssrlsig.org/wp-content/upload...
Reviews how the brain processes the concept of self and how future self is neurologically perceived similarly to others.

2/ Connecting the Dots Between Mindset and Impostor Phenomenon, via Fear of Failure and Goal Orientation, in Working Adults by Rebecca Noskeau et al.
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
This paper explores the relationship between growth mindset and impostor phenomenon.

3/ The Jungian Shadow: Concept, Implications, and Integration
https://www.thesap.org.uk/articles-on...
This resource explains the shadow self as described by Jung, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and integrating denied aspects of the personality for authentic growth.

4/ The Brain Is Adaptive Not Triune: How the Brain Responds to Threat and Change by Patrick R Steffen et al. (2022)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
Analyzes brain adaptability from an evolutionary perspective, showing why the brain treats unfamiliar change as a threat and how this impacts behavior.

5/ An Extension of the Witkiewitz and Marlatt Relapse Model: Relapse as Part of Recovery by Dorian Hunter-Ree et al. (2009)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
Develops the concept that relapse is a normal and informative part of recovery and behavior change.

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