# Lauren Weinstein - Don't Believe Everything You Think (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xdhmgp4IUL0/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCIAKENAF8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGH8gRSgsMA8=&rs=AOn4CLD_OM9mQflSMt8OeiCI1HTBVhvFNQ) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/32425319) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Lauren Weinstein]] **Full Title**:: Don't Believe Everything You Think **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdhmgp4IUL0) **Host**:: [[www.youtube.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2023-09-22]] **Created**:: [[2023-09-24]] ## Note Question: What was necessary for the author to design innovative products and experiences? Answer: The author had to trust their own voice, put themselves out there, and be willing to fail. Question: How do our beliefs affect our performance and actions? Answer: Our beliefs can either raise or lower our performance and affect what we see, how we act, and what occurs as a result. Question: What is one way to break the ropes that tie us down? Answer: One way to break the ropes that tie us down is to not believe everything we think. ## Highlights - This elephant has incredible strength. She can uproot a tree with her trunk alone. Yet she will remain in captivity, held by only a light rope. Despite her ability to easily break away, she doesn't even try. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hayag0jw2zywc5zg6pa0djhe)) ^599178377 - How do you break the ropes that tie you down? Don't believe everything you think. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hayagamgggg22s23qgwx7sh4)) ^599178388 - If you've ever felt not good enough, alone, unwanted, unloved, invisible, powerless, like you don't belong - these are your ropes. If you've ever felt you can't trust yourself, trust others, speak up, stand out, ask for help, let others in, be accepted as you are - these are your ropes. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hayarjkyvzmqthtcd3jfhbx8)) ^599178700 - In all of these cases, same people, same abilities, same tasks - different beliefs. And in each case, it was their belief that raised or lowered their performance. How you see yourself and your circumstances will affect what you see, how you act, and what occurs as a result. It's almost as if our beliefs place a virtual reality headset on us, ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hayayny9cwrdfsennqejm3jv)) ^599180268 - I had to design innovative products and experiences, or more accurately, pull on almost every single one of my ropes. I had to trust my own voice because when it comes to innovation, there is by definition no one to look to for the answers. I had to put myself out there because innovation doesn't come from playing it safe. And perhaps most importantly, I had to be willing to fail, to be willing to not be perfect. The best designs came only after multiple failed attempts. If I wanted to get it right, I first had to be willing to get it wrong. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01haybaza3h3wtxen09rn85cz4)) ^599181093 (**supports**:: [[Stephen Guise - 如何成为不完美主义者 (Highlights)]])