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Season 4 - Episode 9 - The lesson from Boiling water · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the garage.
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  It's freezing and dark, so we're in the garage again.
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  OK, so we're talking today about this old story.
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  It's been around so many times, so many different ways, but I
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  love it and I love to start off the year always hearing about
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  this. So if you've heard it, love it
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  again and dive into it with me. If you haven't heard it, oh,
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  it's a good one. OK, so there was this old, old
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  sage in a village, and one of his students came up to him and
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  said to him that the conditions of the world we're just so
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  horrible. He could not take it anymore.
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  He did not like it, and he just wanted to go off and he didn't
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  want to see people anymore. He just wanted to go live by
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  himself. So this sage said to him, I want
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  you to do an experiment for me. And he said, follow me to the
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  kitchen. And they walked into this little
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  kitchen and he lit a fire and he handed him a pot and some
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  carrots. And he said, I want you to go
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  out and I want you to figure out what happens to these carrots
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  when you put them in water. And he said, oh, they're going
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  to cook. He said, yes, I know, but do the
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  exercise. So he comes back and he says
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  puts the carrots in the boils the water, puts water in the
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  pot, boils the water and puts the carrots in.
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  And then he comes back to the sage who's sitting out under a
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  tree. And he said the carrots are
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  cooked. And he said, yes, but what's the
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  state of the carrot? And he said it's soft and mushy.
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  And he said yes, and how was it before the water?
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  And he said it was hard. And he said very good.
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  And he said, now let's redo the do another experiment.
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  And he said, OK, but I still want to leave.
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  And the sage said, I understand, but I want you to see something.
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  He said, OK. He said boil another pot of
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  water and the sage comes back and hands him an egg.
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  And he says, now do the same with the egg.
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  So he puts the egg in it boils. Sage is waiting out under the
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  tree. And the boy comes back and says,
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  OK, here is this. He says, now what's the
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  condition of the egg? He says, it's hard, he said.
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  Exactly. And he said, now he said, one
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  more experiment. And he hands them some tea
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  leaves. And he says, now boil another
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  pot of water. And he boils the other pot of
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  water. And while he's doing this, the
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  sage has set up cups and he's got the plate of carrots and
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  he's got the hard boiled egg in front of him and outcomes the
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  boy with the the pan of water. And he says, what happened?
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  And he said, well, the the tea leaves made tea.
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  And he said exactly. And so he strains it out and he
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  pours it into the cups. And he's this voice says, I'm so
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  confused. I don't understand what's going
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  on. And he said, what's the, what
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  was the state of the water when you finished cooking the
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  carrots? And he said it was water.
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  And he said, and what was the state of the water when you
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  finished cooking the egg? And he said, well, it's still
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  water. And he said, and both of those
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  items have changed significantly.
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  The carrots changed significantly and the the egg
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  changed significantly. And he said, yes, he said, but
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  what happened with the water with the tea leaves?
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  And he said, the tea leaves change the water.
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  And he said, exactly. And he sat there for a moment
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  and the boy said, I'm confused, but I think I understand what
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  you're saying. And the sage said, well, tell
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  me, what do you think I said? And I said, and he said, I think
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  you mean that the water is like the world.
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  The water is hard and boiling and it can, I can allow it to
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  make me soft and mushy. I can allow it to make me hard
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  or I could change the world like the tea leaves.
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  And he said, and that my son, is the lesson.
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  So the big point of this is we are always going to be under
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  conditions. Always, always, always be under
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  conditions, no matter what's happening.
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  It's around us and it's happening and we have to deal
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  with it and we have to decide if we're going to allow it to
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  change us into something wonderful or into something hard
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  or mushy put to the side. We have to make a decision.
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  We have to decide to be the tea leaves.
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  Really, that's what it is. We want to change the world.
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  If you're listening to this podcast, my sneaking suspicion
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  is that you want to go out and change at least your world and
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  probably the world of others around you.
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  Because isn't that the whole purpose of why we're here?
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  To lift each other up, to help each other to do these things?
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  It's why I do this podcast every day because honestly, I don't
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  make one penny off this podcast, but I just do it because I love
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  it. To be able to know I'm sending
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  out good vibes into the world every single day for four years
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  now going into the 4th year. And that just makes my heart
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  happy. So I know I can do a better job
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  in my day when I do this. So I like to be the tea leaves.
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  So my friends, I hope you enjoy some tea today because I know I
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  will be and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day, bye.