How Hyperbole, Hinduism & the Right Words will help you Build your Dream
5/26/202624 min
I've been thinking a lot about the power of the words we tell ourselves. I got into the concept of creating a "hyperbole" for yourself, a goal so big and so aligned with your soul that it almost sounds crazy...and why that might be exactly the point.
I talk about my own hyperbole and why what we tell ourselves every single day might be the most important thing we're not paying enough attention to.
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First 90 secondsSumi Krishnan· Host0:00
Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Dream Life Club podcast, where we share insights and inspiration for creatives and entrepreneurs chasing a dream. This is Sumi, and if you don't know me, I built a 200-person company in DC and then decided to leave all that behind to follow my dream of being a pop music artist in LA. And today, I wanna talk to you about talking yourself into the life you want. It's gonna be an informal episode, but I think there's so much... Not I think, I know there is so much power in the words that we use and what we tell ourselves. In fact, I was just listening to Jay Henriques, who wrote the book Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion. Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion, which became a huge, um, top-selling book that d- talks... uses old principles of Aristotle's philosophy of rhetoric, which is the art of persuasion really. And honestly, when rhetoric, the concept of rhetoric was first developed, it was a way to solve disagreements and conflict without devolving into violence. And the power of words, the power of delivery, the power of how we say what we say and when we say it is what Aristotle talks so much about. And then Jay Henriques wrote a whole book on how to leverage that theory and those principles of rhetoric to self-persuasion, to basically talk yourself