Jim Selman

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Right now, commitment may be your biggest enemy, but it's gonna be your best friend, because it is the single most powerful motivational mechanism in humankind.

The moment you consciously make a commitment to something, it brings forth your barriers to it, but it brings forth the possibilities that are in the relationship, or that...

Like if you make a commitment to writing poetry, or you make a commitment to a person on the wedding altar, or you make a commitment to fini-

You know, and I can...

You know, I can...

Have a dear friend, um, Jim Selman, who was in a 12-step program and, um, he had, uh...

By the time I met him, he had, like, 11 years of sobriety.

Right

... that, um, I explored with someone named Jim Selman called existential confidence, and it, one of the principles of existential confidence is it's not about knowing it at all.

But existential confidence is living so that your commitments determine your reality.

Like, reality does not determine your commitments.