Getting past limiting self-definitions
The way we define ourselves determines how well we manage challenge, frustration, and disappointment.
If I see myself as capable, strong, and accomplished, I will face challenge with confidence.
If I define myself as someone who has only experienced a long succession of failures or disappointments, any new challenges or setbacks that come along will be overwhelming.
Steve Jobs saw himself as a failure and unwanted by his biological parents when he learned that he was adopted.
That is, until he was told by his adoptive parents that he was the most important person in the world when they adopted him.
Like the flip of a switch, Jobs went from being unloved and unwanted to being valuable, worthy, and remarkable.
This ability to shift our thinking is in all of us.
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