Make Yourself Proud Today | Dr. Hanan El Basha
With Dr. Hanan Basha
September 11, 2026video
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Dr. Hanan El Basha shares a powerful phrase she uses with her son: "Make yourself proud today." This simple message encourages an internal focus on self-worth and genuine effort, rather than external validation like grades. It's about cultivating a deep sense of personal satisfaction that naturally resonates outward.
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Dr. Hanan El Basha (00:00)
I started changing my language with our son.
Stefan (00:03)
Hmm.
Dr. Hanan El Basha (00:04)
And like,
when we used to go to school, I drop him off every morning at school. And as he's getting out of the car, I tell him, make yourself proud today. It's not about the grades. It's not, you know, just embedded that in him. And I know most of the, you know, kind of he dismisses me more and more every morning, but I
Stefan (00:24)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dr. Hanan El Basha (00:25)
know that being programmed into his subconscious, just to make himself proud. And I've explained it to him, even when he was much younger, he's 15 now.
And I think I started doing that when he was like seven or eight years old. Just saying that, I said, when you make yourself proud, when you know that you made yourself proud, by default, everyone else around you is proud.