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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · October 2, 2026 · 32m

4 Things Confident People Tell Themselves Every Day

Jay Shetty shares four transformative mantras to shift your inner voice and build confidence. Through a decades-old journal entry from his grandmother, the surprising origin of Post-it Notes, and a classic parable about presence, he illustrates how simple repeated words can pull you out of hopelessness, spark trust in yourself, and ground you in the moment. The episode ends with a practical challenge to choose one mantra and use it for a week to reshape your internal narrative.

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This Is a Chapter, Not the Whole Story00:06:24
Jay reflects on his grandmother’s journal entry where she wrote that her current suffering was only a chapter, not the entire book of her life, and he connects this to how hopelessness shrinks our view of the future.
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The Butterfly in Its Cocoon00:10:50
Jay uses the metaphor of a butterfly struggling out of its cocoon to illustrate that resistance and difficulty are essential for growth.

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