MentorBox Podcast

Our brains are hardwired for story. When we are exposed to a compelling conflict with engaging characters, our minds become enraptured by the events at play. The science shows that we remember stories roughly 22 times more than non-story content. This means we must infuse this story-based content into each vertical of our personal brand.

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Fake it until you make it. Early in our careers, we’re told this expression countless times. It’s supposed to be an antidote to imposter syndrome, but is it actually effective? If you’re experiencing that feeling of not being worthy of your accomplishment, there’s something else you can do. Work harder.

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Traveling is scary. You pack your bag, hop an airplane, and have to find your way through a foreign country. But traveling is only scary because we’re so embedded in our routine of comfort. When you travel, those known variables of your day-to-day (where to eat, how to get from A to B, etc.) get ruptured by the spontaneity required for the adventure.

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We can’t let go of our smartphones. No matter where you go or who you look at, it seems everyone around you is glued to the device in their hands. While this may seem like society is shifting into technological addiction, the rising force of Generation Z says otherwise. While yes, they lean heavily on their devices, it is actually that exact behavior that has caused them to become particularly skilled at forming opinions and thus, a rising force for sociopolitical change.

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Rom-coms paint a specific picture of love. Happy couples skip through a city holding hands, free from the weight of jobs, worry, and stress. This reference point confuses more than it helps, as what we, in the real world, end up experiencing is something far different.

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We don’t like Wall Street. Financial institutions are heavily stigmatized in today’s world. Movies like The Wolf of Wall Street and current events like the financial crisis of 2008 leave us distrusting the economic powers that run our world. While this may feel like the appropriate response, that distrust fuels ignorance, as we reject the institutions on principle and don’t try to find the deeper truth and connection behind them.

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A full-time job no longer means 40 hours per week. Instead, it asks you to be committed to the company mission, available on Slack at all hours of the day. We, as a society, have accepted this shift because the companies we work for are no longer the soul-sucking corporations of the past. Today, more than ever before, companies must have a socially conscious backbone for employees to accept the greater working demands.

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Success means nothing if we’re unhappy. But this is hard to accept in a society so conditioned to believe in the merits of climbing the ranks. When we lock ourselves in our office, we turn off our ability to put positive energy into the world.

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People don’t read anymore. Instead, we listen to audiobooks on our commutes and watch Netflix at night. Traditionalists view this as problematic, that the written word must be visually read and silently digested. But the tides of the world are moving this way, and it’s our duty to adapt to them.

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Adversity is inevitable. But what you do with adversity is a choice. We have two options when something unfortunate happens to us. We can either sit and wallow in the misery, or we can transcend the circumstances by reframing our experience to be something positive.

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