{"id":18865,"date":"2024-12-24T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18865"},"modified":"2024-12-24T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:30:10","slug":"mel-robbins-and-the-let-them-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18865","title":{"rendered":"Mel Robbins and \u2018The Let Them Theory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Mel Robbins tells it, the concept for her new self-help book, \u201cThe Let Them Theory,\u201d came to her on the night of her son Oakley\u2019s junior prom. Overcome by the realization that her youngest child would soon be leaving her, Robbins coped by micromanaging the scene. She pressured Oakley to give his date a corsage. Fretted about the weather. Worried that the teenagers hadn\u2019t made a dinner reservation.<\/p>\n

Fed up, her daughter Kendall finally snapped: \u201cMom, if Oakley and his friends want to go to a taco bar for pre-prom, LET THEM,\u201d Robbins writes in the book. If they get hungry? Let them! Soaked? Let them! Let them, let them, let them.<\/p>\n

This mantra of radical acceptance<\/a> was instantly soothing to Robbins, who \u2014 by dint of her iron will and innate confidence \u2014 has emerged as one of social media\u2019s go-to motivational influencers (a term she loathes, incidentally). Robbins began repeating it whenever she felt stressed about other people\u2019s thoughts or actions. In May 2023, her minute-long video<\/a> about the term took off on social media; some of her followers even got \u201clet them\u201d tattoos.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet them\u201d is not the first time Robbins, 56, has spun a catch phrase into content gold. She shot to fame more than a decade ago with her \u201cfive-second rule,\u201d the idea that whenever you feel an impulse to act on a goal \u2014 whether something small, like getting out of bed when the alarm goes off, or big, like finally giving notice at work \u2014 you simply count down: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, then go! Do it. (The TEDx talk<\/a> in which Robbins debuted that particular hack has been watched more than 33 million times, and she turned it into her first best seller.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere is an obsession with being smart, I think, in the thought leadership space,\u201d Robbins said when we met in November at the loftlike headquarters of her media production company in Boston\u2019s seaport district. \u201cAnd I would rather be useful.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Robbins looks familiar, with her bright blond hair and signature dark-rimmed glasses, the algorithm may have sent you one of her pithy takes on life\u2019s problems \u2014 like how to stop trying to \u201cfix\u201d your parents, or her frequently memed exhortation against spending money on stupid \u2026 stuff<\/a>. Maybe you saw a recent video of her \u2014 clad in a sports bra and hot pink hair rollers \u2014 weeping about her recent sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, who declared \u201cThe Let Them Theory\u201d one of the best self-help books she has ever read.<\/p>\n

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As Mel Robbins tells it, the concept for her new self-help book, \u201cThe Let Them Theory,\u201d came to her on the night of her son Oakley\u2019s junior prom. Overcome by the realization that her youngest child would soon be leaving her, Robbins coped by micromanaging the scene. She pressured Oakley to give his date a corsage. Fretted about the weather. Worried that the teenagers hadn\u2019t made a dinner reservation.Fed up, her daughter Kendall finally snapped: \u201cMom, if Oakley and his friends want to go to a taco bar for pre-prom, LET THEM,\u201d Robbins writes in the book. If they get hungry? Let them! Soaked? Let them! Let them, let them, let them.This mantra of radical acceptance was instantly soothing to Robbins, who \u2014 by dint of her iron will and innate confidence \u2014 has emerged as one of social media\u2019s go-to motivational influencers (a term she loathes, incidentally). Robbins began repeating it whenever she felt stressed about other people\u2019s thoughts or actions. In May 2023, her minute-long video about the term took off on social media; some of her followers even got \u201clet them\u201d tattoos.\u201cLet them\u201d is not the first time Robbins, 56, has spun a catch phrase into content gold. She shot to fame more than a decade ago with her \u201cfive-second rule,\u201d the idea that whenever you feel an impulse to act on a goal \u2014 whether something small, like getting out of bed when the alarm goes off, or big, like finally giving notice at work \u2014 you simply count down: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, then go! Do it. (The TEDx talk in which Robbins debuted that particular hack has been watched more than 33 million times, and she turned it into her first best seller.)\u201cThere is an obsession with being smart, I think, in the thought leadership space,\u201d Robbins said when we met in November at the loftlike headquarters of her media production company in Boston\u2019s seaport district. \u201cAnd I would rather be useful.\u201dIf Robbins looks familiar, with her bright blond hair and signature dark-rimmed glasses, the algorithm may have sent you one of her pithy takes on life\u2019s problems \u2014 like how to stop trying to \u201cfix\u201d your parents, or her frequently memed exhortation against spending money on stupid \u2026 stuff. Maybe you saw a recent video of her \u2014 clad in a sports bra and hot pink hair rollers \u2014 weeping about her recent sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, who declared \u201cThe Let Them Theory\u201d one of the best self-help books she has ever read.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18867,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18868,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions\/18868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}