What Students and Young Adults Can Learn from You Are a Badass
The belief that you're "not the type of person" who gets the internship, the role, or the opportunity is usually an inherited limiting belief, not an accurate account of your actual capability.
The whole book, compressed
This edition works through 4 core lessons — take them one at a time, not all at once.
What's different for your conditions
Tap whichever ones sound like you. Nothing here is sent or saved — it's just for your own noticing.
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The core lessons, applied to you
Naming the limiting belief behind your hesitation
Your hesitation to apply for an opportunity that feels like a stretch is often rooted in an old, unexamined belief about not being "the type" who gets it, rather than a reasoned assessment of your actual qualifications.
Someone doesn't apply for a genuinely reachable opportunity, driven by an unexamined belief that people like them don't get opportunities like that, and never finds out whether the belief was even accurate.
Name one opportunity you've decided not to pursue, and ask honestly whether the decision is based on a reasoned assessment or an old belief about what's available to you.
How your self-belief shapes what you actually pursue
Someone who doesn't believe they're capable of a bigger opportunity tends to unconsciously avoid putting themselves forward for it, creating a self-fulfilling limitation before any actual rejection occurs.
Someone avoids applying to a reach opportunity entirely, so the opportunity is lost to self-selection rather than to any actual external rejection.
Name one opportunity you've ruled yourself out of before even trying, and apply or attempt it anyway this month.
Taking the bold step before you feel fully confident
Waiting to feel fully confident before applying, introducing yourself, or trying something new keeps most people stuck at this stage; confidence typically follows the action rather than preceding it.
Identify one bold step you've been delaying until you feel more confident, and take it this week regardless of how confident you feel.
Curating who surrounds you at this stage
The friends, mentors, and family you spend the most time with either reinforce your bold moves or quietly discourage them, and choosing that circle deliberately supports the person you're becoming.
Being realistic about genuine qualifications and pushing past an old limiting belief aren't opposites — the discipline is telling the two apart honestly rather than using "being realistic" to justify never trying.
Name one thing, honestly
Name one opportunity you've ruled yourself out of. Is that based on a reasoned assessment, or an old belief about what's available to people like you?
Good. Now look back at the "Try this" line under whichever lesson feels most connected to what you just wrote, and treat that as this week's actual assignment — not all 4 at once.
The practices from this edition
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Run this for seven days
Identify one bold step you've been delaying until you feel more confident, and take it this week regardless of how confident you feel.