You Are Your Best and Worst Friend - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

our best friend or our worst friend. Either way, whether you're your best or worst friend is yourself because you spend the most time with yourself and you talk to yourself and listen to yourself more than anyone else in the world. And that's very very power empowering but also very very scary because how do I talk to myself? Do I talk to myself positively? You know, am I a good coach? Am I pushing myself in the right direction or am I, you know, too too too firm and just making me feel negative and bringing me down? That inner voice that speaks to you is is a very very powerful tool because if you build yourself then you make yourself stronger and better. If you break yourself, then you're only hurting yourself and making yourself weaker. And so we have to understand that the idea of falling into melancholy, depression, that is the real ultimate secret weapon of the Sahaba or also getting you angry, getting you angry, getting you frustrated, getting you annoyed. What he does is it's like a a boxer has the jab, but a boxer never knocks anybody out anyone out with that jab. You know, nobody ever became a champion of boxing because he was a good jabber. The jab is a setup for the knockout punch. And that's also what happens with the relationship between and our self is he gives you this this he sets you up. He gets you in the wrong mood and then boom goes for the knockout. The things we do when we're angry, when we're depressed, when we're annoyed, we would never do those things if we were, you know, in a better mood. So one of the weapons against this is our own attitude. The right attitude will change our life.