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This episode explores how embracing superhuman traits can help us overcome barriers and enhance our self-awareness. Through engaging personal anecdotes, Dr. Wiggins emphasizes the importance of confidence, mental preparedness, and the willingness to learn from setbacks. 
• Understanding and cultivating superhuman traits 
• The dual nature of confidence: internal and external 
• Importance of mental preparedness for skill acquisition 
• Small wins as building blocks of success 
• Parenting perspectives on nurturing coachable traits 
• Challenging self-doubt and embracing limitations 
• Encouraging problem-solving skills 
• Reframing opportunities as moments for growth 
• Final thoughts on resilience and continuous self-improvement

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen
Z and Millennial Expert Podcast.
I am your host, my name is DrJason Wiggins and it is great to
be here, so thank you very muchfor listening.
Wherever you may be, this is aweekly broadcast that we usually
broadcast each and everySaturday, so look forward on

(00:25):
Saturdays and most cases.
So, again, thank you very muchfor joining us today and we have
a terrific show lined up foryou.
Today we're going to talk aboutthings that will kind of
transcend and reflect upon whatwe talked about in episode 165.

(00:46):
And that's overcoming barriersand overcoming, you know, the
opportunity when there's issueswith discipline, and really
promoting your self-awareness.
And so today we're going totalk about, you know, being able
to look at yourself and findingthat self-discovery, meaning

(01:11):
finding the view that you havethrough a lens that enables you
to create and enable yourself tosucceed, and that is starts
with viewing your life throughthe lens of a child.
So today we're going to talkabout what I consider superhero

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traits.
When we talk about superherotraits, we are talking about the
scope of everything that you doand when you really push
yourself and push back thebarriers and really demonstrate
confidence in your life.

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Superhero strength.
Our superhero traits do nothave anything to do with being
able to have unlimited strength,unlimited money, unlimited
resources.

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Take what you have andexpanding the ability to create
more for yourself, more for yourfamily, to be able to progress

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at work, to be able to succeedin new things.
One of the things that I havelearned in my first 50 years is
I don't know what I don't know,and I am okay with that, because
at the end, we are human, butwe have to push ourselves into
that super human trait.
And what is that exactly?
Well, it's a combination of alot of things and for us as
individuals, we all have thingsthat we do well and things we

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don't do well.
But superhuman traits for meare progressing on the things
you don't do well.
Why?
Because, as humans, what welook at is we want to see what
we do well and we want to expandon that.
We want to show and demonstratethat we're very good at this

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one thing, and everybody elsewill say, oh, you're so good at
this, you're so good at that,but what they don't realize is
something maybe you're not verygood at and you just continue to
work on that craft, and that iswhat I would consider a super

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human trait.
For example, today I woke upearly probably 5.30 in the
morning and I decided I wasgoing to go play basketball at
the local gym.
Again, the folks at the localgym they're probably in their
20s, maybe pushing 30-ish.

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And then there's me, the Gen X,at 50 years old, and I have
continued to try to shoot thebasketball better, improve my
skills, be a better teammate,not take every single shot.
It's about distributing theball, because I realized that my

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limitation is I'm not going tobe the top scorer on the team if
we want to win.
So what I would like to thinkas my limitation is my ability
to be a better basketball playerthan most of the players on the
court.

(05:01):
Today was a little bit of adifferent day.
During the first game we won, Itook I think it was one shot
and I made it, but I tried notto take the shot.
The second game, I took acouple shots and I think I made
one.
And then the third game game,because the way it works on the

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court is you play until you lose.
By the third game, I was at thethree-point line.
For those that know basketballyou score, you score three
points and I shot the ball.
It's a, it's a farther ball andso I shot it and made it,
because the guy like hey, goshoot it, shoot it.
And I'm like I'm thinkingthat's my limitation.

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I shot it three more times andmade four three-pointers during
the game and we won the game.
And, honestly, I was pushing mylimitations because I'm not
normally a scorer and I didn'teven shoot any three-pointers

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before we even started playingthe game.
Therefore, the likelihood of meshooting and scoring was quote
my superhuman trait for the day.
So that's just an example ofsomething I'm not generally very
good at.
I try to be somebody that justdistributes the ball, gets
rebounds and maybe scores onetime.

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So that was abnormal for me.
But the key part of that that Iwant to implore is I had to
have confidence in myself.
I had to have confidence in theshot.
I know that I'm not thegreatest shot, I'm not the
greatest dribbler, I'm not goingto be the one that shoots the

(06:54):
ball all the time, and Irealized that when I make a,
when I try to create a path tomake a shot, I've got to have
confidence, because when I don'tthink I'm going to make the
shot, generally, I don't makethe shot, and that is why I want
to think about all thelisteners out there as you
listen to this.

(07:15):
Think about what is somethingyou like to do but you're not
very good at it.
Maybe it's a work activity,it's something you enjoy doing
as a hobby, or something as aparent.
You realize I'm not thegreatest at doing this when it
comes to, you know, my kids ormy spouse, whatever it may be,

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but you take that one thing ifthat's something you really
think you need to work on, thenmake progress on it.
Show that the willingness thatyou're willing to learn new
things and that is another partof having a superhuman trait is
having the willingness to trynew things, to be able to say

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this is something regardless ofwhat age I am, I can get better,
I enjoy doing it, because ifyou don't enjoy doing it and
you're doing it because you haveto, then it's not going to be
something you're going to wantto progress for a long period of
time.

(08:23):
We've talked about New Year'sresolutions.
On our last episode.
We talked about those thatmaybe gave up after a certain
point and because why theydidn't enjoy it, and that is why
you have to find something thatyou enjoy, that you're going to
continue to progress at and bebetter.

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But how do you do that?
How do you train yourself to beable to understand your
limitations, understand that?
You have to have confidence inyourself.
Well, it's about preparing yourmental capabilities as well.

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It's about the willingness tounderstand.
As we talked earlier, you don'tknow what you don't know, so
that's why you have to continueto reevaluate what you do know,
progress and be able to find agood middle ground that will
help you succeed.

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So mental preparedness is thekey, and I get it and I get it.
Not everybody has the samemental capabilities, but
everybody has the ability tolearn new things and be able to
take those small wins duringthose new things to help you

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feel good about what you aredoing.
Feel good about what you aredoing.
Don't look at some task asoverwhelming or something you
want to do in life and you wantto be really, really good at.
But you're just starting.
You want to play an instrument.
Guess what you first have tolearn?
The chords you have to learn.

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You know how to play, how toeither strum or stroke the piano
keys or whatever it is you'renot going to be able to play
Beethoven or you're not going tobe able to play the drums you
know.
Like a famous, you know drumperson, you're going to have to
start from scratch.
And starting from scratch isdeveloping the mental
preparedness that I understandthat I don't have the
capabilities right now.
I'm going to take the smallwins, I'm going to prepare

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myself mentally and I'm going tohave confidence in what I'm
doing.
When I go back to the story ofplaying basketball, it's not
because I'm better than anybody,because, trust me, I'm probably
the worst player on the court,but on a given day I've got to

(11:01):
be able to have that confidenceto shoot the ball.
And what was interesting is myteammates.
They were like shoot the ball,and I was very hesitant and then
I shot it and made it.
My confidence got better andthat was the thing is they had
confidence in me.
So then I was able to haveconfidence in myself and that is

(11:22):
why Sometimes confidence issomething you need, triggered by
somebody else.
So believing in yourself willalso be helpful.
If somebody believes in you.
It's very similar to a parentnurturing their child having
that confidence, promoting theirwell-being, giving them the

(11:43):
platform to be able to succeedor fail.
And it was interesting.
Yesterday my son was at baseballpractice and it's his fifth
year in little league and it wasinteresting because the coaches
were there introducingthemselves, introducing the team
, and then they talked aboutwhat they valued within the

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teaching of the kids and theirnew skills.
And the coach had stated thathis team won the championship
last year but what he waslooking for in each player
during what they call a draft todetermine what players each
team wants.
He said I am looking for kidsthat are coachable.

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Maybe they're not the bestplayers, but they have the
ability to be able to improvetheir skills because they put
effort in it, they try, theyhustle, and I really appreciated
hearing that because he's goingto develop a program that will
give the child confidence, willhelp them develop a skill and

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ultimately help them be a betterplayer by the second half of
the season, when all the gamesdo count, and then they will try
to progress towards makinganother championship run.
And for me that reallyresonated.
So today, when I'm talking toyou about having confidence in
yourself, having confidence fromother people to you, that is a

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big part of being mentally aware, building that mental strength,
having those superhero traitswhere we can go beyond what our
limitations are.
We have so many limitationsDon't even get me started on
mine.
You know I always say thegreatest experience is your own,

(13:38):
so hence this podcast.
I've failed so many times inlife and I would have never
imagined that I would have aplatform to be able to talk
about these sort of things, tobe able to publish a book and to
do the things that I wanted todo and help others be able to do

(13:58):
the things they want to do.
And how did that all happen?
Because when I was a child, Ihad teachers believe in me
before I believed in myself.
I never thought I was capableof anything beyond just doing
the normal day-to-day task.
And now, as listeners of thispodcast, I can tell you you're

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already one step up from thenormal person.
Why?
Because you're about improvingyourself.
You're about looking at what isahead and determining what is
the best way that I can succeed.
What is the best way?
When opportunity knocks, how amI going to take that

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opportunity and run with it?
It's that fear versus thatflight method.
So, basically, do you runtowards the burning building
when you're scared or do you runaway from that burning building
when you're scared, and we'reall built differently.
We all had that differentmakeup that will differentiate

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what our actions would be, andthat is okay.
But as listeners of thispodcast, I can almost guarantee
that you are looking forsomething bigger and better, and
I hope to be able to continueto share this with you each and
every week.
As you listen and think about,when you're evaluating what you

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want to do next, you'repreparing yourself mentally,
you're finding alternatives to aproblem.
That is another superhero trait.
When there's a problem, what doyou do?
Do you just ask somebody elsehow to solve it, or do you try
to get to the root of theproblem, remove the barriers and

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then find the actions toimplement to solve the problem?
I'm going to bet that each andevery one of you are more likely
to remove the barriers, find asolution, implement to solve
that problem.
And that is a superhero traitBelieving in yourself,

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confidence, learning new things,realizing opportunities when
they are upon you.
I always like to say sometimesit's better to be lucky than
good.
Why?
Because when an opportunitycomes, sometimes it's luck, it
comes out of nowhere, but it'sthat opportunity that allows you

(16:42):
to determine what am I going todo?
Am I going to run away or am Igoing to stick around and fight
this battle till I win?
And that is what I believe eachand every one of you would do.
And then, when you have yourlimits, it's okay, we all do.

(17:03):
We have the ability to get pastthose limits and we do that by
taking one task at a time.
There's a statement out therehow do you eat an elephant?
I mean, how do you eat anelephant?
You can't eat an elephant, ofcourse not.
Well, eating an elephant issimple.
You eat the elephant one biteat a time.

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And that's the same thing witha challenge, a problem.
You take those small wins andthose wins will project you to
the ability to continue to moveforward, be successful and look
past the barriers.
That is the key part of life islook past the barriers, improve

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yourself, find the energygranted, yes, sometimes that is
the kryptonite of our superhuman trait superhero,
superhuman.
They're interchangeable, butthat is the key thing right
there.
Find the energy.
If you have that energy, youcan do all of these things.

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Don't let the lack of energy beour kryptonite.
Our kryptonite is somethingthat takes away our superhero
traits, and that's why I like touse the, uh, the.
They call it g b, d get bleepdone, gbd get bleep done.

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So it's important that, nomatter what you do, keep
progressing forward and you willbe successful.
And again, I appreciate each andevery one of you that have
listened.
We have 165 previous episodes,so if this is your first episode
, welcome.
I like to use personalexperience.

(18:59):
I like to talk about the family, because this is a day-to-day
normal life being a dad, being aspouse, and this is part of
growing up and being the bestperson we can be within our life
.
So I'm happy to share a littlebit about me, but I always want
to make sure it's about you.
That's why we do this podcast.

(19:19):
This is your motivational Gen Zand Millennial Expert Podcast.
Thank you, take care and Icannot wait to see you next week
.
Stay tuned, take care, bye, bye.
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