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The Ugly Truth About Being the Nice Guy - Dr. Robert Glover
· 24 min · Episode 563
Episode The Ugly Truth About Being the Nice Guy - Dr. Robert Glover
The Nice Guy and the jerk are doing the exact same thing. Same shame, different mask.
This is part one of a five-part week with Dr. Robert Glover, best-selling author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, and we start at the root. Glover argues nice guy syndrome has almost nothing to do with being polite. It comes from a belief formed before you could speak, that something is wrong with you, and it shows up as a set of hidden deals you make with the people around you: I'll do this for you, so you owe me that.
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IN THIS EPISODE:
- Why the nice guy and the jerk are driven by the same thing, and why your first boundaries make you swing into being a jerk
- The two types of nice guys: the "I'm so good" and the "I'm so bad"
- The night his wife read him a book about shame and told him it was him
- What shame actually is: an inaccurately internalized belief you formed before you had words
- The dessert he ate that he didn't want, and the door he held that wasn't kindness
- The three covert contracts, and how they quietly turn into resentment and rage
This is part 1 of 5. Coming this week: boundaries for men, decoding your wife's emotional statements, brotherhood and male isolation, and attracting the feminine as a married man.
Hear Glover's full conversation at frontrowdads.com/444. His book is No More Mr. Nice Guy.
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