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cmos

normal american diet -> no meat, no dairy, no processed foods.

dumb phone -> dumber phone

4 hours TV nightly -> no tv

workaholic -> socialholic

self doubt -> awesomeness

technology lover and collector -> less is more

friendster -> nothing

Daily motto: "I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and it's a beautiful day"

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how does one go from self-doubt to awesomeness or little or no self doubt ? thanks.

don't know what worked for cmos but for me it was recognizing that most of my self doubts stemmed from irrational fears such as being uncomfortable/scared around meeting new people. I'm a bit of a workout junkie so I decided to apply principles from working out to my psychology- I would take an irrational fear or something that made me uncomfortable and do incremental "mini-workouts" until I became comfortable and the fear disappeared. For example meeting new people- I started using every chance I had to start conversations with people I didn't know. Say you're standing in line at Starbucks and see someone wearing shoes that you like say "Hey, cool shoes, where did you get them?"

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