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When Self Doubt Takes Over, Trust Your Wings
When Self Doubt Takes Over, Trust Your Wings
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In this episode
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Self-doubt doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision. It often means you’re looking for certainty in the wrong place.
Self-doubt doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision. It often means you’re looking for certainty in the wrong place.
In this short episode of The Luca Savazzi Podcast, I share a simple image that changed how I think about self-doubt, confidence, and self-trust, and why learning to trust your response matters more than trusting outcomes.
In this short episode of The Luca Savazzi Podcast, I share a simple image that changed how I think about self-doubt, confidence, and self-trust, and why learning to trust your response matters more than trusting outcomes.
If you’ve been second-guessing yourself, questioning your abilities, or waiting for reassurance from the outside world, this conversation is for you.
We talk about:
Why self-doubt shows up after decisions
The difference between trusting outcomes and trusting yourself
How self-trust grows through response, not certainty
This isn’t about fixing yourself.It’s about owning your next step, even when things aren’t clear.
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“Self-trust isn’t believing that nothing will go wrong. It's trusting your ability to respond when it does.”
“Self-trust isn’t believing that nothing will go wrong. It's trusting your ability to respond when it does.”
Luca
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Key takeaways
Key takeaways
Self-doubt often comes from placing your trust in things outside your control.
The “branch” represents external validation, outcomes, other people’s opinions, comparisons, and circumstances.
When your confidence depends on external factors, uncertainty naturally creates doubt.
The “wings” represent your own ability to adapt, recover, learn, and make new choices.
Self-trust isn’t confidence that nothing will go wrong; it’s confidence that you’ll handle what does.
Resilience comes from trusting your ability to respond rather than trying to control every outcome.
Fear and self-doubt may never disappear completely, but they don’t have to determine your actions.
You don’t need certainty about the future—you need trust in yourself.
Every setback is an opportunity to use your wings instead of clinging to the branch.
Confidence grows from repeatedly proving to yourself that you can recover, adjust, and continue moving forward.
The goal isn’t to eliminate uncertainty but to become less dependent on external stability.
Real courage is choosing your next step even when self-doubt is present.
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Hey, it's Luca and welcome to the Luca Savati podcast. If you've made a decision recently and then started doubting it, questioning whether you're actually capable or feeling like you're behind, stay with me for a second because I heard something today that stayed with me. It wasn't something that I planned to record or something that I've been working on. And that's really why this is such a short episode, but when I heard it, I just knew I wanted to sit down and share this with you. So, here's what I heard. A bird sitting in a tree is never afraid of a branch breaking because its trust is not in the branch, but in its wings. And the more I thought about this, the more I realized how much this mirrors the way we deal with self-doubt. Because when we struggle with self-doubt, with impostor syndrome, with secondguessing choices we've already made, we're often doing the opposite. We're trusting the branch. And the branch is everything outside of us. It's other people's opinions. Its outcomes we can't control. Validation, comparison, social media. And when our trust sits there, self-doubt makes sense. As long as we keep asking the outside world to confirm us, to validate us, then self-doubt will always take over because branches break. People have opinions. There's all kinds of advice out there. Do this, do that. Life changes. When things don't go the way we imagined, then every crack starts feeding into that self-doubt. The bird doesn't panic when the branch breaks. It might fall for a second, but then it opens its wings and takes off again. Selfrust is not believing that nothing will go wrong. It's trusting in your ability to respond when it does, to think, to adjust, recover, to choose again and again. Because self-doubt may still show up, fear always does. And still you get to decide your next move. So when self-doubt takes over, trust in your big, beautiful wings to carry you forward. And if this landed and this short episode make you think of someone you care about and that might need this right now, please share it with them because it's always a pleasure to sit down and have these conversations with you and to know that they're reaching more and more people out there. So for now, I wish you courage and trust in your wings and I can't wait to see you in our next conversation.
When Self-Doubt Takes Over, Trust Your Wings
When Self-Doubt Takes Over, Trust Your Wings
Have you ever made a decision you felt good about, only to start doubting it a day later?
Maybe you questioned whether you were capable. Maybe you wondered if you made the right choice. Maybe you compared yourself to someone else and suddenly felt like you were behind.
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
I recently heard a simple sentence that stayed with me. I hadn’t planned to write about it or record an episode around it, but the more I thought about it, the more I realised how accurately it describes the way many of us experience self-doubt.
A bird sitting in a tree is never afraid of a branch breaking because its trust isn’t in the branch, but in its wings.
At first, it sounds like a beautiful quote.
But the more I sat with it, the more I realised it isn’t really about birds.
It’s about us.
The Branch We Keep Trusting
The Branch We Keep Trusting
When self-doubt shows up, we often start looking outside ourselves for reassurance.
We trust the branch.
The branch is everything we can’t fully control:
Other people’s opinions
Validation
Outcomes
Comparison
Social media
The approval we’re hoping to receive
As long as our confidence depends on those things, self-doubt makes perfect sense.
Branches break.
People disagree.
Plans change.
Life doesn’t always unfold the way we imagined.
Every time something outside of us shifts, it feels as if the ground beneath us disappears.
The Difference Between Confidence and Self-Trust
The Difference Between Confidence and Self-Trust
The bird isn’t confident because it knows the branch will never break.
It trusts something deeper.
It trusts its wings.
That’s how I’ve started thinking about self-trust.
Self-trust isn’t believing nothing will ever go wrong.
It’s trusting your ability to respond when it does.
To think.
To adjust.
To recover.
To choose again.
That doesn’t mean fear disappears.
Self-doubt may still show up.
Fear probably will too.
But neither of them has to make your decisions for you.
When Things Don’t Go as Planned
When Things Don’t Go as Planned
Life will surprise you.
Projects won’t always work out.
People won’t always understand you.
Sometimes you’ll make a decision that doesn’t lead where you expected.
That isn’t proof you can’t trust yourself.
It’s simply another opportunity to respond.
Every challenge asks the same question:
“What will you choose now?”
Not yesterday.
Not when you had more certainty.
Now.
Because that’s where self-trust is built.
Not through perfect decisions, but through your willingness to keep responding when life doesn’t go according to plan.
Trust Your Wings
Trust Your Wings
The next time you find yourself questioning a decision you’ve already made, pause for a moment.
Ask yourself:
Am I trusting the branch… or am I trusting my wings?
The outside world will always change.
Opinions will change.
Results will change.
Circumstances will change.
But every time you think, adapt, recover, and choose again, you strengthen something far more reliable than certainty.
You strengthen trust in yourself.
And that’s what carries you forward.
Not perfect circumstances.
Not guaranteed outcomes.
Your wings.
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