Psyched with Dr. D: Self-Handicapping and How to Overcome Failure and Gain Confidence

We break it down throughout the entire episode towards the end of the episode. Dr D, as always, gives some great advice on how to get around it. And we give you a cool little hashtag thio, you know, use as a mantra for the rest of your life.

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Yes, that's enough. You're really like, just get better. Hashtag just get better.

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So toe help us just get better. Leave us a rating. A review on iTunes and you may win a free T shirt. Yes, all this and more. You know, a recording right now. Right now already recovered. So are you gonna psychoanalyze me after my shitty weekend? I do. I

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need thio. Actually, your city weekend let's hear about what happened

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was horrible. It was absolutely horrible from start to finish.

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Really? So you're going to hold on. Let me understand this. You went to Bahrain for a sport competition. You did one here and now You think that you're an expert, You should do 10 Every month. I

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never thought I was never said I was an expert. I did well on the one that was

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so you decided to sign up to all these other tournaments? Yeah. I mean why? No, I love it. I love to compete.

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It's what keeps me going. My job socks, eyes yourself. Highly of Boston. I have. You can't even understand English. That's why we're way. Because

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you and I, we have hit the fit list already in Arabic. So no one

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you know, a bunch of guys from work listen to our show, by the way. Wow, You didn't see the post today When

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I see any Post I had exams all day on. Then what was a Tony? I had students come to complain. This happens every time. Remember when you were a student? I tell student for 15 week. Please do a good job on your project. I've given them ample of time. And then I say, please don't wait till the last minute to come and ask me what you I can do to help you. I'm not a miracle worker. This always happens today. I had three or four, sir students that we were almost going Thio

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rehearse that you gave us that speech every semester, every semester. Same would say the same thing every semester.

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You know what? Save it doesn't work. So you know what I'm going to next? A mess that I will say Shit, I would say nothing because it does. It seems to me the people not listening to this is a final week. I get the students there either complaining about a process if the process doesn't work for them and there are getting a great suddenly now my process that I've been doing for 14 years, it's not good and it goes against policy. But if they were getting excellent, then you're a wonderful professor. I can wait. I take more of your class.

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That's how it always is.

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And then you get all these people coming for excuses that they haven't done the things that you've been telling them for 15 weeks to do it. And now that they're failing there, wondering What can I do? Please, I gotta graduate. I'm on probation. I'm on. What? I don't know. What? What can you do for them now? So yes, I'm on fire. So no, I haven't seen any instagram. I have done nothing but fight all day today. Seriously,

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