Quote · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
John Mackey: Not Sure You're on the Right Path In Your Career? (Use THIS Framework When You Feel Lost About What's Next)
Where this was said
The Gift of Being Fully Present
At 37:28 · chapter starts 35:45
Shetty asks how Mackey distinguishes between the discomfort that accompanies a true calling and the discomfort of being on the wrong path. The answer introduces a key player: the internal critic. This part of the ego constantly judges — others and, most damagingly, ourselves. It tells us we are unworthy of love because we are imperfect. It projects its judgments outward into the dream, generating a reality that mirrors our unhealed emotions. The result is a cycle: judgment creates painful circumstances, which seem to justify the judgment, keeping people stuck in what Mackey calls the victim role [1] — John Mackey "You'll forget. You'll go back and you'll start listening to the ego and the internal critic and you'll judge, but you'll forget. That's oka…" 36:53 . The way out is through the present moment — the only real thing. In this moment, you can choose again. You can choose love, forgiveness, kindness, presence. And if you forget — as you will — that's okay too, because that forgetting is already in the past. 'Be easy on yourself for forgetting,' Mackey says, because self-punishment simply gives the ego another tool to maintain control.
