Your Self-Image Is Sabotaging Your Career Success

Published 2025-04-26 07-55

Summary

Discover how your self-image creates invisible barriers to success. Your subconscious filters what you see—sometimes missing what’s right in front of you. Learn to unlock your true potential.

The story

Ever notice how you can be looking for your phone while it’s literally in your hand? That’s your subconscious filtering what you actually perceive.

While researching Chapter 6 of “The Journey,” I found something that changed my perspective: most of us live with limitations we’ve unknowingly accepted about ourselves.

The reality? Everyone has unlimited potential. The barriers to your success aren’t external—they’re mainly self-imposed through your self-image.

Your three thought processes—conscious, subconscious, and creative subconscious—form this self-image. When you visualize success, you’re directly communicating with your subconscious, which drives most of your behavior.

Jung called this path to self-awareness “individuation”—not about becoming perfect, but integrating all parts of yourself, contradictions included. It’s natural but requires effort.

The most eye-opening insight? How selective our perception is. The famous “Invisible Gorilla” study shows that when focused on one task, we can completely miss obvious things happening right in front of us.

Understanding these subconscious mechanisms isn’t just interesting—it’s essential for unlocking your full potential by removing self-imposed limitations.

Want to discover your untapped capabilities? I dive deep into this in Chapter 6 of my book “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21.”

This post was inspired by Chapter 6 of my “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” book, at
https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey.

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Keywords: Visualization, self-image barriers, subconscious filters, potential unlocking