![]() ![]() It’s about self-awareness: “you have to get intimately in touch with you”. The way to become the person you were always meant to be is to listen to your inward voice, to connect with your “authentic self”–the real you. The way Doctor Phil solved his problems was by working from the inside out, and that’s what he tells his readers to do, too. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in”. ![]() “I ignored my self,” he writes, “and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. Instead, he was always trying to meet other people’s expectations. I knew there was something wrong with my life, but for those ten years, I avoided dealing with it.” What was the problem? Basically, Doctor Phil wasn’t being true to himself. He tells how unhappy he was during his early years in counseling: “I knew I wasn’t living the life I was meant to live. Phil’s latest book begins with a sort of conversion story. But for whatever reason, I decided it was time to do a Window on the World on America’s most famous psychologist, Dr. ![]() Or maybe it was the title of his latest book, the #1 bestseller Self Matters. Suddenly Doctor Phil was everywhere–chatting with Oprah, analyzing Larry King, and making a cameo on “Good Morning, America.” It could have been his no-nonsense style, the aggressive way that he told total strangers to get their act together. Or perhaps it was the way his face kept showing up on the sides of buses and on national television. ![]()
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