Stop Stealing from Your Own Story

How to Stop Sabotaging Your Self-Growth

Aman
3 min readJun 30, 2022

We teach people how to treat us by what we allow, tolerate, encourage, challenge and focus on.

Stop shrinking yourself to make others feel comfortable.

Stop trying to take up as little space as possible to minimize your greatness in a room of mediocrity.

Stop trying to meet people’s expectations of how you should engage, present yourself and be in the world.

The moment you stop caring what other people think about you, the moment you start living this life for yourself.

Stopping to care what others think about you does not mean you are disrespectful, rude or self-absorbed.

It simply means it does not matter if people do not like you for who you are.

It simply means that you will not tolerate disrespect from other people.

It simply means you will not apologize, undermine or minimize what you are good at because others are not as…

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Aman

I write about issues that are near and dear to my heart, with the hope that my stories, experiences, and struggles may empower others.