be picky who you listen to. We’ll talk about this more in a later chapter, but if somebody’s words, plans, or advice make you want to hyperventilate, take a hard pass. Breathe. Remember who you are. Repeat. It could be this exhausting advice is appealing to your false self. That’s usually how it goes for me, anyway. The false self can never get enough. David Benner says, “Our calling is therefore the way of being that is both best for us and best for the world.”2 Be picky about who you listen to.

