Quote · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
How to Let Go & Start Over (4 Shifts That Will Change Your Life)
Where this was said
Develop Psychological Flexibility
At 16:58 · chapter starts 16:40
The episode pauses for a sponsored segment in German for WISO Steuer, a tax filing software. The ad leads with endorsements from multiple German consumer-testing and financial publications — Stiftung Warentest, Computerbild, Focus Money, Chip, and Finanztipp — before addressing the common objection that filing taxes is complicated. The resolution offered is simple: photograph your wage tax certificate and the software handles the rest. The call to action is a deadline-driven prompt to file by 31 July. The segment is brief, tonally upbeat, and clearly out of place for non-German listeners.
Psychological flexibility is the ability to stay present with discomfort while taking action aligned with your values, even when you feel uncertain or afraid.
Psychological flexibility is not about eliminating difficult emotions — it's about expanding your capacity to hold them while continuing to act in alignment with your future. You can be terrified and still move forward.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is believing every decision has to be forever — instead, treat the next chapter as an experiment, not a permanent verdict.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is believing every decision has to be permanent. The most successful people don't ask 'what if I choose wrong?' — they ask 'what can I learn regardless?'
