How To Become The Best Version Of You With Start With Yourself By Emma Grede

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Omar Zinhome dives into 'Start With Yourself' by Emma Grede, exploring how rewriting internal beliefs and emotional patterns can unlock pers

Key takeaways

• Limiting beliefs are 'bugs in your system' that can be rewritten to unlock new possibilities.
• Emotions like anger, fear, guilt, sadness, and joy are signals for growth, not obstacles to suppress.

Main topics

• Self-improvement and personal development
• Reprogramming limiting beliefs

Notable quotes

"These thoughts that are stopping you from succeeding... they're just system errors. They're just bugs in the system."

Conclusion

By challenging old mental scripts, embracing emotions as guides, and acc

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) Are you reaching your full potential? Are you doing your best with everything you got? I often ask myself that question, and that's what led me to read today's must-read book, Start With Yourself by Emma Greed. Now, I'm gonna talk a little bit more about who Emma Greed is, why this book is so important, but today I wanna share with you the five biggest takeaways that I got from reading this book, Start With Yourself by Emma Greed. I read this book on the beach between games when I was playing at the FIBA Masters basketball tournament over in Greece. And the reason why I really wanted to go deep in this episode about this book is because really at its core, this book is about how to change the scripts in your head, the old thoughts that often dictate your behavior. If you want to change what's happening in your life, you've got to change what you do. And you only change what you do when you change what's in your head, what you think about. So how do you do that? Well, I'm going to share with you exactly how. And other big takeaways, some real gems I got from this book. Now, I got to say that Emma's style and her whole way of speaking is not everybody's cup of tea. This book will challenge you. So let's jump into why and how you can get the most out of what she has delivered in this book. Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zinhome, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business. Speaker 1 (1:30) Hey, if this show has helped you in any way, it would be amazing if you dropped us a quick review on whatever app you're using right now to listen to this podcast. It helps me and my team bring you new episodes every week. And more importantly, more entrepreneurs will be able to discover the podcast so you can help someone else start their journey. So who is Emma Greed? Emma Greed is one of the most successful self-made... entrepreneurs. She's the co-founder and CEO of Good American. She is the founding partner of Skims. She's really like a serial brand hustler and builder. And what really resonated with me when it came to Emma's story is that she didn't come from very much. She grew up in a working class neighborhood raised by a single mom. She grew up in East London in a very rough neighborhood, and she's a high school dropout. So nothing was handed to her. And her book, is a New York Times bestseller, and she's become one of the most successful modern-day entrepreneurs. Now, she rubs people the wrong way. Her style is quite aggressive, and a lot of people feel like she is not really helping with hustle culture, and she's all about, like, you gotta work hard. I can understand why she says this, and I know this is kind of her mantra, because this is what she had to do to get out of her situation. She had to work hard. She had to defy the odds. She had to do extraordinary things to make sure that she can get out of... the ghetto and move into a better life. So I have a lot of empathy for her because, you know, I didn't grow up with a lot of money and I understand the merits of hard work. And it's hard to ignore that, especially when you have to do everything in your disposal to be successful, to get out of a situation. In the book, she shares how she did this. And part of it is her psychology. And this is what leads me to lesson number one I want to share with you from this book. And it's all about killing your old thoughts. This is really the spine of the book. If you just get this lesson, you're going to be winning. Emma talks about what she calls old thoughts, old scripts, old thinking, outdated ideas. And she says that, hey, these rules that I think that set my life, what's possible, what's not possible, can really change what's possible in my own life. What I can actually do, how much money I can make, how much I can move up in my career, what kind of personal life I can have, what kind of relationships can I have. It's all dictated on what I think is possible. So you need to change that way of thinking in order for you to start doing that. So how do you kind of kill those old thoughts, wherever they came from, whether your upbringing, your neighborhood, your family, whatever it might be, how do you change that when it's so cemented from day one since you were born? And here is really the key insight she shares, and I think this is a really good way to look at it. She says that these thoughts that are stopping you from succeeding, that are putting a ceiling on your success, They're just system errors. They're just bugs in the system. And you can rewrite your code and clean those bugs. It's not permanent. When I thought about that, I was like, wow, that is true. Like there are things that I didn't believe before in my life. And now I do believe in them or I think it's possible. So it's just a matter of rewriting the code. And as you start growing in business, in life, start achieving some of your goals, you start realizing that even the. the life that you are wishing for, you're going to have to rewrite that code because you're going to start raising the bar and moving into another territory and you have to like improve the code to do better things. So it's a good way to look at it. It's like, hey, how do I constantly check for bugs in my system and first remove the bugs, but improve the code? And the reason why this really hit home for me is, like I mentioned, you know, I grew up in an immigrant family. We didn't grow up with money. I inherited so many of old thoughts that my parents had and they tried their best. But this is what they gave me, you know, and I have to figure out if it's serving me or not. And a lot of us don't understand when you don't grow up with money, you have conflicting thoughts when it comes to money. Like I want more money because a lack of money causes a lot of pain. It causes a lot of fights in your family. It causes a lot of issues, heartache, disappointment. You break promises to people that you love. And the flip side is that, well, is that greedy if I want more money? So there's some stuff I have to reconcile in order for me to make more money, right? There's something that's stopping me from going past certain limits because of that code. It's also helpful to know that people have their own code. They have their own old thoughts, right? For example, when I left teaching to start a business, almost everyone treated it like I lost my mind. Like, you have a stable job, you're moving up in your career, you're a young chair of department, why would you leave this opportunity to start a business and you know nothing about business? Those reactions that people had, those were their old thoughts. That was their bugs in the system. I have to recognize the fact that, hey, They love me, they care about me, and they're just doing this because that's the code that they are running on. And throughout the last 20 years of my adult life, I had to consciously delete beliefs and never just accept what