From the course: Life Mastery: Achieving Happiness and Success
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Assertiveness basics
From the course: Life Mastery: Achieving Happiness and Success
Assertiveness basics
- So welcome to this section on assertiveness. It's really important if you're going to lead a really great life that you have to be assertive, you've got to stand up for yourself in your dealings with other people. So I've got three videos for you on assertiveness. The first one, this one, is about what it is but we're then going to look at how to do it and then we're going to look at an alternative to assertiveness but it's sort of related. So this first one is about what is assertiveness? And the heart of assertiveness, really, is believing that you're okay as a person, believing that you deserve to be yourself and that you've got a right to say what you think. You've got a right to have those opinions. I've already mentioned the idea of being yourself and that you can only diminish yourself if you're not being yourself so you gotta believe that you're okay, not that you're better than other people, but just that you're okay as a person. And you may think, well, that's obvious…
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