Comments on: Do You Need People to Support You?

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:25:41 +0000

A great post as usual.
I’ve been working on building my self-trust or what is called ‘I Can’, in addition to self-confidence.
your story is inspiring, and for a while instead of searching for self-development articles, I search for Scott H Young and by the way, my life was the one of those you changed.
Thanks.

By: Jutta

Jutta — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:17:52 +0000

Hi Scott! Guy, you are amazing. Here sits a 46 year old woman in Aussieland getting inspired by your stuff. I just finished a 6 1/2 year relationship because I want to follow my dreams instead of his. I can see so much of how we compromise for pay-offs and then pay the high price of leading a life what we don’t like, just surviving, instead of living an extraordinary one!!!! At the end of our little lifes we have to look only at OUR life and be responsible for that not for anybody elses. I did my highschool certificate in 2000 as a mature aged student as a single mum .. got an excellent score and wanted to study psychology. Well, then “HE” came along and all my plans diminished in nothing. Now, nearly 7 years later, I decided to be a life coach who empowers people to live an extraordinary life, a life which inspires and touches them. I did not get the support and encouragement from the man who supposedly loves me. He said ‘ring me when you’ve made it’… Guess what? I won’t!!!!
Everybody take care … and GO for it and believe in yourselves.
Love. Jutta

PS:Here a litte Maroi saying (my ex was from New Zealand):
TINO RANGATIRATANGA. It means:
Be proud of who you are / Be true to yourself / Be the best you can be / Be your Higher Self. …..

By: Jeane Goforth

Jeane Goforth — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:22:39 +0000

I had figured this out when I was your age, but lost it somehow when my first baby was born and I decided to be a stay-at-home mom. Now that my youngest has just graduated high school, I am rediscovering these truths as I reshape my life for it’s second half. What you don’t say is that it takes a certain inner strength to follow through. Recent experience has taught me that the majority of people don’t have that strength.
I am proud that I seem to have passed both the self-trust and strength on to my children. I plan to frame the program from graduation that lists the local community college as my son’s choice–despite scholarships to a couple of art schools. His choice to study auto mechanics so he can use cars as his artistic medium is just as valid as his classmates choosing Dartmouth and Rhodes. And is certainly a better choice than the herd of elephants headed for the University of Alabama because it is convenient.

By: Moe Khan

Moe Khan — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:32:59 +0000

Hey wow you have the light of posistivy which a lot of us are searching for! i want to be your friend!

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:13:15 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone!

By: D

Fri, 18 May 2007 07:59:26 +0000

Hi Scott,

Thank you for sharing your story it’s a big help to me and I too understand how it is to be . Individuals from my university have been back-biting me about my approach to education and even my attitude about life. I’ve always been true to myself and acted the way I felt was right but after several semesters the pressure was getting to me and I started to wonder if I am right. I always manage to rebound despite being brought down but somehow I couldnt get out of this one as quickly as I usually do. Slowly assuring myself that being myself is not wrong, I managed to rebound out of it and this also made a few of those within the back-biting bunch to change their mindset about conforming to a group (not that its always bad). They said that it tiring and frustrating trying to keep up with the “group-leader’s” expectations and actions and it annoyed them.

I found your site yesterday and been hooked to it since then where I find your point of view a very interesting one for someone your age. I too have a fond interest in self-development since my teens and several other areas but I have not come across someone with such in-depth knowledge about such topic. I am grateful that I found your site by chance and would like to thank you again for all the amazing entries I have read and will continue to read.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:58:17 +0000

Correction, I would have to write an auto-biography.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:57:11 +0000

Great post. If I were to explain how much I agree with you, I would have to write a novel.

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:03:53 +0000

C47,

Thanks for sharing your story. I’m glad you were able to turn it around. The point of the post was to emphasize that you will get a lot more support after you have proven yourself then before. Go figure.

By: C47

C47 — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:23:09 +0000

I totally understand where you’re coming from. I’m 19, skipped my junior year of high school, left behind everyone who said I was crazy (and who later said they wished they did what I did), and now I’m a college junior about to graduate at the end of next year in a program with a lot more focused and dedicated people (I’m not trying to put down all my high school classmates – I’m still good friends with a few).

But your post reminded me of how doing well in high school and being proactive was typically frowned upon or made fun of by peers – or at least the people I hung out with. “I was happy to receive apathy instead of borderline sarcastic snips from many of them.” So true. I’m glad I was able to escape that, and it seems that you have too.