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Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted

resource to help you become better every day. Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Welcome back. So yesterday we talked about how as humans, as hyper-social beings, being members of a tribe species,

that we have been hardwired to crave approval and be accepted.

And how in the modern world, this prima compulsion is keeping you stuck and causing you to miss out on many opportunities to progress

and live a sane, psychologically free and liberated life.

Now, after discovering, maybe much to your surprise, just how hooked into approval you are,

with that awareness and hopefully honest acknowledgement, now we can start to unhook you from

this DPD, dependent personality disorder.

There are nine practices to stop the approval horrors in your life.

You ready?

Here we go.

Number one, know thyself.

The first step to being able to practice self-approval, self-validation, is to know yourself.

What drives you?

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