﻿- Hey guys, my name's Ron White. I'm a two-time USA Memory Champion. In this video, I'm gonna talk
to you about how to eliminate self-doubt, how to eliminate doubt so you can accomplish your goals
so you can get better grades, so you can pass the test, so you can get the degree you want,
get the job you want, how to eliminate that self-doubt that holds you back. What's gonna
hold you back most in life is not real obstacles that you have to fight out there. The true real
obstacles that you're gonna have to fight in your life is your own self-doubt, is your own
not believing that you are worthy or that you are capable of something. That self-doubt is
what's gonna hold you back most in life. And in this video, I'm gonna talk to you about
how I handle self-doubt to develop unstoppable confidence to win the USA Memory Championship.
Now, I used this to win the USA Memory Championship but you can use this to win in life,
to win in your grades, to win in school, to win ever you want. Here's the scenario. It was 2009, I
was to trying to train to become the United States Memory Champion. And in the process of that,
I wanted to hire myself a coach. You've heard me refer to him on this channel before. TC Cummings,
he's a good friend of mine. He's a former United States Navy SEAL. One of the things that he really
worked with me on was overcoming self-doubt, overcoming "Ah, man, I'm not worthy "of winning
the USA Memory Championship." The first area is just believing in myself. He said, "Ron, get out a
journal." So I got out a journal. He said, "Let's go back to when you were 12 years old." He said,
"Think of something you did really great "when you were 12 years old. "Is there a memorable moment,
something you accomplished?" I said, "I think that year I was in a Spanish class "in seventh
grade and I won the award "for the best student in Spanish class." He's like, "Write that down."
I'm like, "Are you serious?" He's like, "Yeah, write that down." So I wrote that down.
He's like, "Okay, let's keep going, 13 or 14 years old. "What'd you do when you were 13 or 14 years
old?" I said, "Well, I took a job as a paper boy." He's like, "You took a job?" I'm like,
"Yeah." He said, "How many 14-year-olds take a job?" I'm like, "I don't know."
He said, "Write that down." I'm like, "Okay, I took a job as a paper boy." He said,
"Did you do anything else "for work for money back then?" I said, "Yeah, I mowed lawns." He said,
"You mowed lawns for money? "Write that down. "Not all kids when they're 13 or 14 are taking
jobs." I'm like, "Okay." So I wrote that down, "14, I took a job." He's like, "What happened
when you were a 15-year-old? "Can you remember anything back then?" I'm like, "Well, you know,
"I sold more newspapers than everybody "and I won this award for selling more newspapers." He said,
"Write that down." We went through every age of my life and we thought of some things that were
just so normal, I thought, like taking a job, right? Winning an award in a Spanish class,
getting a good grade on a test. Some of the things were more significant like I volunteered to join
the United States military, volunteered to serve after September 11th. We wrote that down and
everything that I could think of, from age 12 to maybe age 35 or 36, so a period of 20 years,
positive things that I had done, and I wrote down stuff like I went on TV and I memorized
a string of numbers on live television. We just went through and listed out all these-- No matter
how small they were or how big they were, and then I got this list, aI had this list like
this long, and I would I would read the list and I was like, "Who is this guy? "This is
a really cool guy. "I like this guy!" And I'm like, "Wait a minute. "This guy is me!"
What happens in life? Sometimes we think about the negatives about ourselves too much. And we
develop a negative self-image because it's so easy to think about the things that we're not good at.
Think about the things that we said wrong. Think about the things that we did wrong.
And we feed ourselves that all day long, "I did this wrong," "I said this wrong," "I did this
wrong." And we're constantly feeding-- It's easy to think of negative things about yourself. It's
more difficult to think of positive things. So we listed 'em all out. And then every day he
had me get up and read in my journal all the positive things that I had done in my life,
all the history of winning, all the history of success, all the positive things that I had done.
Why? It developed a mindset that, "Hey, I have a history of winning. "I have a history of success."
This USA Memory Championship is gonna be just one more bullet point on my-- And now it is. Now on
that journal, I write, "I was the 2009 USA Memory Champion. "I was the 2010 USA Memory Champion. "I
set the record for the fastest "to memorize a deck of cards." Those are things that I now
added to the list as a result of that positive self-belief. When I walked into the tournament,
the 2009 USA Memory Championship, I looked at the trophy, I walked over to that trophy and I said,
"You're going home with me." That wasn't cocky, it wasn't arrogant. I just really believed it. I
really believed because for the 90 days prior to the tournament, I had convinced to myself that I
have this history of winning. Winning is what I do. And this is just gonna be another win.
Another thing we did is every day, TC, we would have a goal. Every day, I would be up by 8:30
in the morning. I would make my bed every day. I would be training by 9:30 a.m. The 90 days before
the tournament I had a history of, "I just made I bed 90 times." Making my bed was a success.
I've made my bed 90 days in a row. That it's 90 goals that I have hit for the 90 days before the
tournament. I had a goal to be training every day by 9:30 a.m., 90 days before the tournament. Well,
the day of the tournament, I had been training by and 30 am every single day.
That was 90 more goals that I had hit. I had hit so many goals in preparation for this tournament,
little bitty, insignificant goals, making my bed every day, be training by 9:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m.
every day. And you think by themselves, they're not that much, but when you do it 90 days in a
row, now you have this history of I've made my bed every single day for 90 days. I've done pushups,
10 pushups a day, whatever. Every day for 90 days, I've been training every morning by 8:30 a.m.
And then you begin to look at it. The past 90 days I've done all this stuff and I've hit all these
goals. And then when I was 12 years old, I won the Spanish award. I had a paper route, I mowed lawns.
And then you begin believing, "Wow! "I've hit all these goals, "I've hit all these accomplishments.
"This is just gonna be one more goal." So here's what I suggest that you do. I suggest you get
yourself a journal. And I think you go back to when you're 12 years old, and you start thinking
of all the positive, successful things that you've done in your life no matter how small they are.
Maybe you just gave the right answer in class once, and you were proud of yourself for giving
the right answer. Write that down. Give yourselves little bitty small micro goals that you wanna do
10 pushups a day or something like that. Something so easy. But if you do it for 30 days in a row,
you're gonna have 30 goals that you hit. So that's the first thing that TC did. He helped me develop
unstoppable, unshakable confidence in myself, because he reminded me of all the goals that I'd
set in the past and hit, plus the current ones. So guys, this is how you overcome self-doubt. This is
how you begin to trust yourself, to do anything, to pass a test. If you're studying for a test,
remind yourself of all the times in your life when you've done well on a test, with all
the successes you've had. Remind yourself, if you like to read books, if you like to learn,
here's one thing. Look at this! Here's one thing you can write in your journal. "I watched Ron
White's YouTube video "on how to trust myself." That's something you can check off as a positive.
Why? Because not everybody does that. Not everybody goes on YouTube and finds videos on
how to be a better person. If you're watching this video, that's exactly what you're doing. So write
that down as a positive. You may think that's silly, that's not silly. Believe in yourself,
trust yourself. If you enjoyed this video and you wanna learn more about the mind and how
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