146. Overcoming Upper Limits and Self-Sabotage with Gay Hendricks
Have you ever felt like you are your own “worst enemy” or that you just can’t seem to get out of your own way personally or professionally? This may be what this week’s guest would refer to as an “upper limit” problem.
In this episode, we speak to Gay Hendricks on the topic of Overcoming Upper Limits and Self-Sabotage. Gay shares his own personal struggles, how he came to recognize patterns of self-sabotage, and some of the techniques he uses to help others break through sabotaging behaviors to achieve liberation in their daily lives.
Guest’s website: Home - Hendricks Institute
Guest’s books: Amazon.com: Gay Hendricks: books, biography, latest update
Quotes:
“An upper limit problem is our human tendency to sabotage ourselves, when we start doing better than our belief system will allow us to be.”
“Wonder, to me, is one of the greatest superpowers that human beings own and don't use very much.”
“The ‘genius zone’ is a crossing of two paths – what you most love to do and what will make the biggest contribution, that you have to make, to the world around you.”
TALK BIG QUESTIONS
Use these prompts to have the opposite of small talk in real life.
After listening to this week’s guest, do you think you’ve experienced upper limits or self-sabotage? Is there a clear pattern on how or when you’ve done this in the past?
What do you most love to do?
What do you think some of your biggest contributions to the world might be?
