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STOP 2 THINK · July 24 · 1 hr 14 min

Stand Up For Your Authenticity - Episode 30

Stand Up For Your Authenticity Recorded on the same Indianapolis visit as the last episode, this one brings the whole attachment versus authenticity thread to its fullest conclusion. It closes with a piece of advice from my late coach Raphael that has genuinely become one of the most important lines in this entire journey. I went deeper into my own school days than I ever had before, tracing a lifetime of feeling not enough all the way back to being singled out at five years old, and assessed again at ten. Ray helped me see that even a real, hard won achievement, like beating a future Olympian in judo, can be undone in a moment by someone else's disbelief, if you let it. In this episode: Attachment as something necessary for survival, authenticity as a later, deliberate choice My own school trauma, traced back to being singled out at five and assessed again at ten The runner I met in a shop, and why plateaus are a necessary, unglamorous stage of growth My judo story revisited, beating a future Olympian and still doubting myself afterwards Raphael's instruction, cross out the if in life, so that only legacy, le, remains Pull quote: "You can't outlearn your potential. Your potential is always a scope of expansion of self that you can't breach." That brings this stretch of Stop 2 Think to a close. If any of this has resonated with you, go back to Episode 1 and walk the whole journey with us, or reach out and let us know what stayed with you. Follow us here. Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/ Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/ Follow Ray on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/ Watch Hannah's Story: https://petecohen.com/hannah Visit Pete's website: https://petecohen.com/

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Stand Up For Your Authenticity

Recorded on the same Indianapolis visit as the last episode, this one brings the whole attachment versus authenticity thread to its fullest conclusion. It closes with a piece of advice from my late coach Raphael that has genuinely become one of the most important lines in this entire journey.

I went deeper into my own school days than I ever had before, tracing a lifetime of feeling not enough all the way back to being singled out at five years old, and assessed again at ten. Ray helped me see that even a real, hard won achievement, like beating a future Olympian in judo, can be undone in a moment by someone else's disbelief, if you let it.

In this episode:

  • Attachment as something necessary for survival, authenticity as a later, deliberate choice
  • My own school trauma, traced back to being singled out at five and assessed again at ten
  • The runner I met in a shop, and why plateaus are a necessary, unglamorous stage of growth
  • My judo story revisited, beating a future Olympian and still doubting myself afterwards
  • Raphael's instruction, cross out the if in life, so that only legacy, le, remains


Pull quote: "You can't outlearn your potential. Your potential is always a scope of expansion of self that you can't breach."

That brings this stretch of Stop 2 Think to a close. If any of this has resonated with you, go back to Episode 1 and walk the whole journey with us, or reach out and let us know what stayed with you.

Follow us here.

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/

Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/

Follow Ray on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/

Watch Hannah's Story: https://petecohen.com/hannah

Visit Pete's website: https://petecohen.com/


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