How to Stop Caring What People Think | Earl Nightingale Wisdom

On a Monday in August 1807, Robert Fulton pushed his steamboat off a crowded New York wharf, and the people watching made sarcastic remarks. By his count, not thirty people in the city believed the boat would go a mile an hour. Then, a little way out, it stopped dead, with every eye on the river fixed on it. If you care what people think more than you'd like to admit, this program is for you. This lecture draws on Earl Nightingale's ideas about fearing being laughed at. It covers: what happened when Cornell students wore an embarrassing T-shirt into a room, and how many people actually noticed; why Copernicus held his life's work back for about thirty years; how Elizabeth Blackwell walked into a medical school where the students half thought her application was a joke; a study of strangers who liked each other more than either one guessed; Seneca's advice to be "content with few"; what Fulton did with every eye on that stopped boat. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Fulton folly 6:18 The embarrassing shirt 10:22 Thirty years in a drawer 14:54 Women or mummies 19:23 The liking gap 23:23 The voice in the car 27:27 Content with few 34:47 Fulton goes below Original script written and researched by Self-Discovery AI, drawing on Earl Nightingale's philosophy alongside research published after his lifetime. Narrated with an AI voice. It is not a recording of Earl Nightingale. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Earl Nightingale or his estate. Hear Earl Nightingale's original recordings: The Strangest Secret: https://amzn.to/4icEqE4 Lead the Field: https://amzn.to/3QymB6y Other books on this theme: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer: https://amzn.to/3XaO8yH How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: https://amzn.to/3XfyQIX As a Man Thinketh by James Allen: https://amzn.to/3QysUam As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. #earlnightingale #stopcaring #whatpeoplethink #fearofjudgment #motivation #mindset WORKS CITED Story, J. "Discourse Delivered before the Boston Mechanics' Institute" (1829). In Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story (1835), pp. 116-117. (Internet Archive) Fulton, R. Letter to Joel Barlow, August 1807. In C. D. Colden, The Life of Robert Fulton (1817), pp. 175-176. (Internet Archive) American Society of Mechanical Engineers. "Robert Fulton." Smithsonian Institution / U.S. Postal Service history: the steamboat New Orleans on the Mississippi, 1811-1812. Terhune, A. P. (1935). "The Price of a Laugh." The Elks Magazine; reprinted in The Cheerful Letter, 44(5). (Internet Archive) Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Savitsky, K. (2000). The spotlight effect in social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 211-222. Copernicus, N. (1543). Dedication to Pope Paul III, De revolutionibus. Trans. E. Rosen (Johns Hopkins, 1992). Lewis, C. T., & Short, C. A Latin Dictionary. "Explodo." Blackwell, E. (1895). Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women. (Project Gutenberg) National Library of Medicine. "Changing the Face of Medicine: Elizabeth Blackwell." Hobart and William Smith Colleges. "Elizabeth Blackwell." Boothby, E. J., Cooney, G., Sandstrom, G. M., & Clark, M. S. (2018). The liking gap in conversations. Psychological Science, 29(11), 1742-1756. Seneca. Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 7, "On Crowds." Trans. R. M. Gummere (Loeb, 1917). Pascal, B. Pensées, no. 147. Trans. W. F. Trotter. (Project Gutenberg) Mill, J. S. (1859). On Liberty, ch. III. (Project Gutenberg) Montaigne, M. de. "Of Solitude," Essays I.38. Trans. C. Cotton. (Project Gutenberg) The boy at the assembly, the man with the business plan, the woman who sings in her car and the other unnamed people are illustrations, not real people.