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Question Driven Living 7: Slow Down Sunday · Dr. Derek H. Suite MD - The SuiteSpot

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Well, greetings and welcome Welcome to Slow Down Sunday.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: You made it through the entire week.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: I am so proud of you for getting through this entire week of asking questions.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: We challenged ourselves this week to live a question-driven life, to be more curious Instead of getting defensive.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: This week, we asked more questions, we became more curious Instead of just rushing to answers.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: We slowed down to ask ourselves questions.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: And today, on Slow Down Sunday, it's the perfect time to ask ourselves have we really slowed down?
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Are we really moving slowly, or do we need to take a pause, like really hit pause on the chaos and just let yourself be for a few minutes?
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't have to tell you we live in a world that's obsessed with speed, faster results, quicker decisions, instant answers.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: I work in sports and high entertainment and that's a very fast moving world.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: But what if I told you that slowing down isn't just about taking a break.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: It's about creating space to ask the right questions.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: I'm Dr Derek Sweet, board-certified psychiatrist.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: I specialize in sports psychiatry and high performance.
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: And yes, today we're talking about living a question-driven life.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Think about it when you're rushing from one thing to the next, do you ever stop to ask yourself why am I doing this?
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: What do I really need right now?
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: What matters most today?
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: You see, living a question-driven life means embracing this kind of rugged curiosity, not just about the world, but about yourself, about ourselves.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: And that curiosity, my friend, is what gives you the permission to slow down and care for yourself.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: And today is Slow Down Sunday and I'm challenging you to slow down.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you something.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: I've noticed something powerful in my own life.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: When I slow down to ask deeper questions of myself, my creative writing projects literally transform.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Ideas that were stuck suddenly begin to flow again.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Once I've given myself the permission to slow down, characters reveal themselves in ways that I've given myself the permission to slow down.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Characters reveal themselves in ways that I've never experienced, and my writing just gets better.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: The moment I stop forcing the process and I create a space, I create silence and I create stillness for curiosity, my creativity, my problem solving abilities.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: They flourish activity, my problem-solving abilities.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: They flourish, and what seems like wasted time actually becomes the most powerful and productive part of my creative process.
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: And this is true for any sport and any field in business, anything that you're doing, if you can pull back and you can find stillness and you can find silence and you can find a moment to surrender and just let your subconscious mind explore, integrating, collate things.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: You'll be shocked at what happens.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: You get almost divine, extraterrestrial whatever you want to call it information, and your process is amplified.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: I love how Psalms 4610 puts it be still and know, be still and know that I am God, and know, be still and know that I am God.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: It's not just a call to be quiet in your body, it's an invitation to quiet your soul as well, to listen deeply and to trust in something greater than the noise around us.
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: And then there's this Buddhist wisdom right, silence is an empty space.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: Space is the home of the awakened mind.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: You see, stillness isn't just about absence, it's presence as well.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: It's where clarity begins.
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: When we slow down and embrace stillness, we are actually creating room for reflection, room for asking questions, the kinds of questions that can guide us towards meaning and purpose.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: You've got to try it.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: You've got to isolate yourself, even if it's one minute or two minutes.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Just experience what I'm talking about, this notion of stillness.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: I work with some athletes who are masters at this.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: I work with high performers in entertainment who are brilliant at it, and it's available to all of us, each and every one of us, has this idea in us of being able to slow down, but we don't do it because we're competing against the phone, the television, fear of missing out, fomo.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: Everything is after us, it's after our attention.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: So today, on this Slow Down Sunday, I challenge you, my friend, don't rush past your life.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: Take time to reflect on five questions I'm going to ask you right now.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: Remember, this is the question-driven life.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: You're not looking for answers, you just want to sit with the question In your meditative time.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: Today, I want you to answer this question.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Well, not answer, just ask this question.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: What truly matters to me right now?
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: What am I grateful for in this very moment?
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: Where am I feeling resistance or tension in my life, and why?
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: What do I need to let go of to feel more peace?
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: How can I align my actions with the things I value most, and what do I really want?
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: What do I really want?
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: What do I really want?
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: In silence, in stillness, in surrender, in space?
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: I want you to live with the question, move with the question, spend time with the question, walk around with the question.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: Spend time with the question.
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: Walk around with the question what do I really want?
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: What am I grateful for right now?
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: Where am I feeling this block?
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: And when you run into the answer, it'll be so apparent to you because you don't have to aggressively search for these answers.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: They will come to you.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: So I challenge you Creative breakthroughs are waiting for you, and you can find them in the space of silence and stillness.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Okay now, this is Dr Derek Sweet.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: We are at the very end of our week-long journey together on living a question-driven life.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: I pray and hope that you found this entire series useful.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I've heard from a number of you that this has been game-changing for you and I'm really glad about that.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing you for Making Moves Monday tomorrow, and if you want to talk to me, you can always catch me on LinkedIn or Twitter.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: You can always catch me on instagram and I'm certainly on threads.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: I'm on youtube as well.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Take care you.