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345. How to See What Others Miss - The Hidden Value You're Walking Past · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 1: That's impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: your co-host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across at a
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  Speaker 2: man who wasn't born in a hospital. He was forged
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  Speaker 2: in the heart of a Hawaiian volcano and handed directly
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  Speaker 2: to the Navy. That's right, friends, the former Navy SEAL,
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  Speaker 2: Garrett Unklebach, a man whose first baby picture was just
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  Speaker 2: a plume of smoke.
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  Speaker 1: I am. So we just went to Hawaii and it
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. Inspired this. Thank you. Thank you, Lord, for
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get to take my wife to Hawaii
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  Speaker 1: for our 10 year wedding anniversary. But we got a
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay and I kept listening to the song. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even going to try to pronounce his last name because
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  Speaker 1: I'll butcher it, but Israel, the Hawaiian guy who sings
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Everybody knows that song. Well, there's
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  Speaker 1: another song of his that I hadn't heard because we
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  Speaker 1: were listening to a bunch of his music about Maui,
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  Speaker 1: the Hawaiian superman.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no way.
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  Speaker 1: I'd never heard this song before. But the lyrics are,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, slightly cheesy, but I loved it. It says,
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  Speaker 1: before there was Clark Kent, there was a Hawaiian Superman.
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  Speaker 1: It's a song about Maui. Well, I got to check
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  Speaker 1: this out now. That sounds like a deep cut. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. He unfortunately died. He was a very large man.
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  Speaker 1: He did. Like morbidly overweight, unfortunately. So those songs are
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  Speaker 1: from the 80s and 90s. So it was a song
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  Speaker 1: about Maui back then. Obviously Maui was a thing before,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Disney made a movie about it, but it
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  Speaker 1: was just a great song. Oh, I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: to check that out.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, G. That's some additional work. All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to dive into how to see value today.
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  Speaker 2: Before we do, I just have to do a quick public,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm going to say apology because I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I fell short. So to a woman who
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what her name is that I met
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  Speaker 2: in the Atlanta airport. I hope you're listening to this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very sorry that I was not more engaging with, And,
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  Speaker 2: and ready to meet somebody. I feel so bad. Like genuinely,
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  Speaker 2: I love meeting podcast listeners by and large. When I
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  Speaker 2: meet podcast listeners, it's at Mighty Men. Cause we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that come from all over, really
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  Speaker 2: all over the country at this point that come to
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  Speaker 2: Mighty Men. And we always look forward to that. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm like ready for that. And I'll be honest, I
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  Speaker 2: have not been recognized in public. This is the second
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  Speaker 2: time ever that that's happened. And I was in the
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta airport, did not expect it. I was in full
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  Speaker 2: mission mode because I needed to get my family to
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  Speaker 2: my sister's house fast because I had to get to
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  Speaker 2: work and we'd had our travel plans all screwed up.
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  Speaker 2: And this sweet woman was like, are you Nick? And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I was so caught off guard.
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  Speaker 2: And she's like, oh, we love the podcast. We were
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  Speaker 2: just talking about it. And I was like, oh, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, Hey, it's really nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 2: And I just walked off, man. So I, I, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I, I failed completely.
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  Speaker 1: That is, that is a fail for you for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And that is very much, I may have rubbed off
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  Speaker 1: on you too much. That's like, you're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: great at that stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I literally was like, I was like, you're not part
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  Speaker 2: of the mission. So anyways, I didn't even get her name.
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  Speaker 2: I like, even my wife was like, my, my kids
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  Speaker 2: were like, dad, that wasn't very cool. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to say, because if your kids are telling
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  Speaker 2: you that you were bad. Uh, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and say, so ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: I reach out to the podcast. Nick is sorry. And
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  Speaker 1: he would like to make it up to you by
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  Speaker 1: sending you merch or something else.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: Actually I will.
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  Speaker 2: If you, if you send it out to me and
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  Speaker 2: tell me what, uh, and tell me what t-shirt I
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  Speaker 2: was wearing in the airport. Uh, I will, uh, just
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  Speaker 2: so I know it's you, I will make sure to
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  Speaker 2: send it to you. And if you don't remember, I'll
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  Speaker 2: still send it to you. Okay. So G today's today's
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  Speaker 2: is how to see value. Now this is following on
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  Speaker 2: from the price payers episode that we released on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: which you won't know this because you don't listen to
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  Speaker 2: any of this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but I have had so much.
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  Speaker 2: Positive feedback about that episode, which I always appreciate, um,
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  Speaker 2: because that was a big shift for me. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things you said on that episode was you
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  Speaker 2: said that price payers, um, they, they know what matters, right?
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  Speaker 2: The very first thing you said is price payers decide
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  Speaker 2: what is worth it. Now, what I've realized and what
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  Speaker 2: I pointed out on that episode is so many of
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  Speaker 2: us are terrible at knowing what actually matters and we're
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  Speaker 2: terrible at seeing value. So we want to, you even
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  Speaker 2: said on the, on the episode, first time it's ever happened,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, we need to do a tools and tactics
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  Speaker 2: about that. So here we are, the follow-up episode is
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  Speaker 2: how to see value.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't just a, you know, a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: topics that we cover here are, I would say are
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  Speaker 1: specific to people who want to be great, people who
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  Speaker 1: want to be everything God created them to be. And
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  Speaker 1: we give you some narrow, at times, narrow lanes of like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: here's what you got to do. You need to focus
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  Speaker 1: on these things. This specific thing, I'm, it's honest, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I say this sometimes about these episodes, but after 300 episodes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how we didn't get to this one.
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  Speaker 1: but I'm really glad we're doing this one today because
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  Speaker 1: this is not just something that is a kingdom thing.
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  Speaker 1: This is, you know, share this to your friends who
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  Speaker 1: maybe don't think all the same ways that we think
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast and say, hey, maybe you should listen
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  Speaker 1: to these guys because this is everywhere. Major organizations fail
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  Speaker 1: to see value. You know why people hire people with
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  Speaker 1: college degrees or people or companies, nice companies, they hire
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  Speaker 1: the big tech companies. You know why they hire from Stanford?
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  Speaker 1: Because they can't assess talent. They go, oh, well, you're
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  Speaker 1: good enough for Stanford. You must be good enough for me.
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  Speaker 1: Our head of software here at Union, Adam, incredible software engineer,
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  Speaker 1: we were having this conversation one time and I was
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  Speaker 1: challenging him to think differently about the way that he
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  Speaker 1: assesses talent because Adam's brilliant. And I said, Adam, if
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  Speaker 1: I put five software engineers in front of you and
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  Speaker 1: you can't ask them about their background and I don't
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  Speaker 1: show you their resume, can you tell me which one
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  Speaker 1: is the best software engineer? He goes, oh yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 1: I go, then why do you look at it? Why
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  Speaker 1: does the resume matter? The reason that people, that resumes
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  Speaker 1: even exist is because people say, well, I guess if
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  Speaker 1: you did that, then you must be able to do this.
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  Speaker 1: People are unable to correlate. They're unable to understand where
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  Speaker 1: value comes from. The government does this. Big organizations do this.
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  Speaker 1: We fail to see value. We don't know what value
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  Speaker 1: actually is. And this happens, think about when you go shopping.
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  Speaker 1: Based upon what the price of the product is, you
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  Speaker 1: know this, Nick, as a marketer. Based upon how you
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  Speaker 1: price a product, it makes people think differently about what
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  Speaker 1: the product is. They're not able to look at, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: look at the quality of the material. Where did you
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  Speaker 1: source your ingredients from? They don't know how to do
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  Speaker 1: the cogs on a product and understand its real value.
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  Speaker 1: The price tells them what the value is. And so
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  Speaker 1: I say all this to say, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this. People have got to understand that. how to
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  Speaker 1: see value. We're going to give this to you in
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  Speaker 1: a kingdom context related to the impossible life, but this
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  Speaker 1: is a win and an unlock for life if you
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  Speaker 1: can understand what's valuable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And we have actually talked about how to see opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: but we've never talked about how to see value, which
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  Speaker 2: is why I really like this.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of opportunities, this is similar to the famous quote
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  Speaker 1: that I love. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
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  Speaker 1: so most people don't recognize them. It's a famous quote.
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  Speaker 1: And really, some of that's related to what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today and how to see value. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to, if you are allergic to work, you can't
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  Speaker 1: see opportunities, right? Because of a filter that you have
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  Speaker 1: of I'm lazy, you miss opportunities. And so what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to do today is remove some of
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  Speaker 1: those filters that help you from seeing great value.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I want to point out, when you say I'm lazy,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think a lot of people would consider what
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  Speaker 2: you're calling lazy laziness, truthfully.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm being serious.
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  Speaker 2: We're I think the definition of lazy, I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people take it to an extreme and just
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  Speaker 2: think that that's you laying around on the couch. But
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  Speaker 2: you came from an environment in the SEAL teams where
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  Speaker 2: it's like, if you weren't absolutely putting out everything you had,
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  Speaker 2: like you guys got hammered for holding back if you
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  Speaker 2: were saving a little in the tank. They wanted you
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  Speaker 2: to go 100% all the time.
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  Speaker 1: We live in a society today that makes things so easy.
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  Speaker 1: Entitlement has become the norm and people don't realize it.
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  Speaker 1: If you back up in human history a few hundred
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  Speaker 1: years ago, to entitlement, no one ever planted seed in
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  Speaker 1: the ground, watered it, and cried to their neighbor of like,
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  Speaker 1: the land is so mean to me. It's really unfair. No,
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  Speaker 1: they said effort does not equal outcome, right? So they
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  Speaker 1: worked until they produced the result. And so a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people today, the reason you're saying this is that
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  Speaker 1: I consider some people lazy is because they work to
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  Speaker 1: the degree that they think they are owed a reward.
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  Speaker 1: They don't work to what produces a result. Right. They're
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  Speaker 1: looking for the bare minimum. All right, G.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you said this when we were preparing, that there's
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  Speaker 2: a difference between seeing the direct value of something and
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  Speaker 2: seeing what something could be. And I think that that's,
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  Speaker 2: to the point you made about pricing, I think most people,
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  Speaker 2: and you're right, a lot of people will slap a
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  Speaker 2: premium price tag on it just because it's part of
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  Speaker 2: the marketing story and they know that people don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to see value. And so that's even what it
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  Speaker 2: actually is. I think it's really rare that that somebody
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  Speaker 2: can actually see what something can be. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you do this with land and that's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more understood, but the example you gave about talent, I
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  Speaker 2: think that that's where, when you understand who Jesus chose
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  Speaker 2: as his disciples, you understand the greatness of God because
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  Speaker 2: there was nothing special about those guys. Like not only
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  Speaker 2: was there nothing special, he chose like a hated person
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  Speaker 2: in Matthew, a tax collector. Like imagine you're in a
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  Speaker 2: captive land and the guy who's friends with your captors
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  Speaker 2: and is like paying them off and taking money from you.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus goes, yeah, that'll be one of my disciples.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be like, screw that guy. I hate that guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's taking money from us and giving it to the
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  Speaker 2: people that are torturing us and like taking over our life.
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  Speaker 2: And that's who Jesus chose. So you want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about seeing what something could be like, praise God he does.
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  Speaker 2: Cause I wouldn't be on this podcast. None of us
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  Speaker 2: would be redeemed and saved the way we are. If
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't for Jesus, who can call the things that
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  Speaker 2: be not as though they were.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. Well, and like you said, you know, related
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  Speaker 1: to land, land can, you can put a price on
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  Speaker 1: a piece of dirt, but someone who sees what something
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  Speaker 1: could be, you know, a developer takes a million dollar
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  Speaker 1: piece of property and turns it into an $ 8 million
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  Speaker 1: piece of property and He looks at that property and says,
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  Speaker 1: if I do this to it and I plat it
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  Speaker 1: and I prepare it for the market and I do
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  Speaker 1: all of these things, what was a million dollar piece
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  Speaker 1: of dirt is actually worth this. He sees future value.
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  Speaker 1: He sees what it could be. Most people, because they're
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  Speaker 1: not able to do that, someone has to tell them,
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  Speaker 1: here's what the price of this is. And people understand
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  Speaker 1: at least the price or the value of money. And
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  Speaker 1: so all they can see is here's what the actual
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  Speaker 1: cost of something is. But they don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: look at a relationship. They don't know how to look
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  Speaker 1: at an opportunity. They don't know how to look at
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  Speaker 1: another person and say, what is the value here? And
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  Speaker 1: one of the impediments to that is being able to
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  Speaker 1: see what something could be. One of the value adds
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  Speaker 1: that I give to a lot of people that I
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  Speaker 1: get the, and I only do one-on-one coaching part-time because
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  Speaker 1: I really just don't have a lot of time for it.
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  Speaker 1: But the limited time that I do get to do it,
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  Speaker 1: I love doing it. Because one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I help many of the guys that I get to
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  Speaker 1: work with see is I see in them what they
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  Speaker 1: could be. I see potential for them. I see potential
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  Speaker 1: for their business. And that's one of the things you
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  Speaker 1: want someone who's a mentor in your life to help
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  Speaker 1: you do is lid lift. I see what their business
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  Speaker 1: could become. I see what this person could become. And
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  Speaker 1: I see greater value in them. You've got to be
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  Speaker 1: able to see the value of what something could be. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to miss so many other things. Or it's
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  Speaker 1: just the simple phrase of don't judge a book by
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  Speaker 1: its cover. Until you've really understood what an item is,
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  Speaker 1: you've not fully understood its value.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I just, I want to highlight something you
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  Speaker 2: said there. I feel like I'm always highlighting things. But
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  Speaker 2: selfishness robs you in every way. One of the first
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  Speaker 2: things you said was you said, if you're thinking transactionally,
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking about what it costs you. And I think
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  Speaker 2: you're very good at looking at people and assessing them.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're proving that now at a very high level
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  Speaker 2: with what you're doing in business. But I've watched you
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  Speaker 2: do this for a long time, just with Mighty Men
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  Speaker 2: in our own experiences and some of the things that
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  Speaker 2: you saw in me before I saw them. And so
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  Speaker 2: I think it's an amazing thing because the more I
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  Speaker 2: go on, the more I just realized like selfishness is
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  Speaker 2: such a disgusting thing that robs you at every single realm. And,
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  Speaker 2: and gee, I want to, I want to go with
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  Speaker 2: where this starts, but you said this. And so I
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  Speaker 2: want you to stay on the podcast. When you said this,
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  Speaker 2: I remember I was just like, dude, that is so good.
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  Speaker 2: It was also like six in the morning. So I
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  Speaker 2: think I, you know, my brain was still coming to
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  Speaker 2: terms with functioning in English, but yeah, I mean, where,
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  Speaker 2: where this starts, geez. So let's like, where do you
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  Speaker 2: start to see value? Like, how do you start to
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  Speaker 2: begin to see value?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, as we always do, and this is where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Nick just started asking me the question as
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  Speaker 1: we prepared for this, and I just thought about it
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  Speaker 1: as I normally do. And when there's not an immediate
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  Speaker 1: answer in my brain, the first place that I go
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  Speaker 1: looking is what does God say? And, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: those of you who don't follow the Lord as hard
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  Speaker 1: as we do, you're missing it, by the way. But
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who don't follow the Lord as
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  Speaker 1: hard as we do, you can look in other places.
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  Speaker 1: But what I have found is that this is where
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  Speaker 1: all truth comes from. And so one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I look at is where does our, like, where does
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  Speaker 1: our value come from? Well, our value comes from God.
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  Speaker 1: And you could see this in, you know, you could
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  Speaker 1: miss this because we've talked a lot about identity. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you ask someone who's a Christian who
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really understand identity, you know, you ask them about
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  Speaker 1: their identity. They'll say, well, my identity is in Christ. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what does that mean? And I actually know what that
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  Speaker 1: means is you just know that's the right answer. what
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  Speaker 1: I would say is it relates to our value. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you do have to understand that God is the one
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  Speaker 1: who gives value to us. God is the creator of value.
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  Speaker 1: God is the one who has made it all. So
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  Speaker 1: the ability to see value in other things, it starts
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  Speaker 1: with being able to see value in yourself. Let me
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  Speaker 1: give you an example. Because if you don't really know
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  Speaker 1: what the thing is, you won't value it. If you
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: don't know anything about football, if you're born on some
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: island in the middle of the Pacific, and I show
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: you Tom Brady's jersey, you don't know what it's worth
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: because you don't know who Tom Brady is. But if
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: you knew who Tom Brady is, you would know what
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: the value of that item is. You've got to realize
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: that God's created us to give value to things, to
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: God made us to work, God made us to build
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: and develop things. And so until I realize why God
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: made me and what God put me on the earth
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: to do, I'll look at things just as the way
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: they are. I won't look at things as the way
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: they could be. God put Adam in the garden. He said,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: what are you going to do about that? Work it
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: and keep it. Make it better. Build it. Improve on it.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: See the value of what it could be. And so
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying here is that the ability to see
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: value in anything else, it starts with the ability to
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: see value in ourselves. When I look at opportunities, when
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: I look at people, when I look at anything that
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I'm potentially investing into, I look at what happens when
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I'm involved with this. I see my value and it
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: helps me see the value in that thing. Let's look
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: at this from the flip side. If you are wildly depressed,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: upset about your life, you're in a dark place, what
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: do you start to do? You see value in nothing.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: When you see no value in yourself, you also see
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: no value in other things. If you see yourself of
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: great value, you think what, I love the way Pastor
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Keith said it, this is both a positive and a negative,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: wherever you go, there you are. You know what I think?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: You could call this arrogant or conceited, but I think
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: those of you listening to the show won't take it
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: this way. But I see a lot of value in myself.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And everywhere I go, I think I bring value to
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: those places. And I make things better because I'm there.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: And so I see value in people. I see value
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: in opportunities because I say, what could this be when
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I'm involved in it? Yeah, I think to say the opposite, G.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Because I think for how a lot of people do
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: is they're looking for like a quick payday or an
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: easy payday. They're not really realizing how much they're downselling
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: themselves when you say that. Because when you know what
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: you bring, you really do feel like you can go
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: into anything and change and bring impact. And when you
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: said this, first of all, I could relate so much, unfortunately,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: to the depression comment about how you don't see any
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: value in yourself.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Because that's how I felt.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: But I mean, Psalms 139.14 is so perfect for exactly
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: what you said. I praise you for I'm fearfully and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: wonderfully made. wonderful are your works my soul knows it
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: very well david is literally saying like all your i'm
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: fearfully and wonderfully made and all your works are wonderful
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: so he's like recognizing the value he has because god
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: bestowed it on him and this is something i was
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: thinking about recently i think so often when we think
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: of value we think in terms of usefulness right we
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: think in terms of utility like oh well you know
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: i can sell this much for you in marketing just
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: using myself here like i can do this for you
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: in marketing and this is honestly how it works if
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: i'm generating millions of dollars for a company, my rates
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: are going to be healthy and it's going to end
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: up being a small percentage of what they actually make.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And that's how we think. Now, when we get to God,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: we still kind of go like, oh, what's my purpose?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I got to be useful to God. And we think
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: of it in utility and we have to realize there
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: is nothing you can do for God. Why did he
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: make you? You're about as useful to God as a
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: newborn baby is to us as human beings. it's actually
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: a newborn baby actually makes your life harder, right? It
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: doesn't actually add anything. You got to clean up after it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: You got to, you could say that you could say
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the same for us, for God.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that, well, we are, we're, we're newborn babies that
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: never grow up. Like, you know, it's like, you know,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: no one ever had kids going like, you know what,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: one day they're going to be 12 and they'll be
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: able to empty my dishwasher and then it'll all pay off.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But that's how we approach God. And we don't realize
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: that God's the one who determines what's value. Like you said,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: and we're loved because God loves us. We're created because
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: God loves us. Nothing can be earned. It can't be diminished.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: You can't increase something that you never did anything to earn,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: just like you can't diminish it. And so often we
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: approach God in that way. And when you realize that,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: it's like, okay, now beware when you're talking down about somebody.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: If you've ever looked at somebody and I'll just hold
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: my hand and say, I'm guilty. I'm like, man, that
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: person is useless.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: You may not see their value, but God's the one
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: who bestows all value. Like you really need to like
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: check about what you're saying, because that is a massive filter. Um,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: there's a great scripture G when I'm talking about how
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: we don't actually bring anything to God and you may
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: be like, okay, that sounds cool, Nick, but where does
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: it say that?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you asked. It's Psalms 59.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: It's Psalms 50 verses nine through 13 says, I will
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: not accept a bull from your house or goats from
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: your folds for every beast of the forest is mine.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: The cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: birds of the hills and all that moves in the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: field is mine. If I were hungry, I would not
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: tell you for the world and its fullness are mine.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: blood of goats? God's basically going like, what can you
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: do for me? Because we get hung up on the sacrifices.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Like I gave, you know, back then I gave him
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: a bull. Now it's like, well, I tied my money. Really?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: That's like, if I go to Elon Musk and buy
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: him a $ 50 steak, he's going to be like, wow.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: No, it's when your kids buy you a Father's Day
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: gift with your own money. Right. Yeah, for sure.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So again, we're just talking about how to like, this
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: is the beginning of the conversation of trying to help
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Explain it, help you understand, how do I see value? Well, okay,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the beginning of that is, if you don't see any
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: value in yourself, you're not gonna see value in anything else.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And then number two here is you have to understand
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: who is the source of value? Who's the author of
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: all value? God is the one who determines what's valuable, okay?
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And so God created, he made us in his image.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: That's how you know what you're worth. You're worth quite
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a bit. God made you in his image. So then
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: what did God do with Adam and Eve? Put Adam
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in the garden and he said, Adam, work it and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: keep it. That wasn't. forced labor, right? That wasn't like, hey,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I want you to stand here and just smash big
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: rocks into little rocks. He said, take care of this thing,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: make it better, improve it, add your valuable, add value. Okay.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: So the third piece here of how to see value. It's,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you got, you got to see it in yourself first.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You got to understand where value comes from, but then
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that also turns into organizational, uh, organizational ability and creativity.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Cause that's what Adam did with the garden. He didn't say, Adam,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you know, just watch the grass grow and then cut
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: it back. It was more than that. Work it and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: keep it. Do something with this. Make it into more.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: If God wanted to make a garden that it was like,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: this is perfect. The garden's made in my image. You
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: can't make it any better. God could have done that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: He didn't do that. He gave Adam the opportunity to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: learn how to add value, right? So it's these three things.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You got to be able to see it in yourself
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: before you can see it in other places. And then
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: when you understand that God is the author of value,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and then you realize why he made you, and what
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: those abilities are, the ability to create, the ability to build,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to organize and structure things, then you realize, okay, I'm
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: here to add value. Now I can see what this
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: thing is really worth. I see what it could be.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's so incredible that in the course
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: of history, this literally dawned on me today, because I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: think because we started this early this morning, over and
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: over again, God steps in, makes something, and then just goes,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: all right, let's see what you're going to do with it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: He did it with Adam in the garden. He did
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it with Moses and the Israelites with the old covenant.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And then Jesus literally comes to the earth, establishes a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: new covenant, gets his forgiveness of sins and goes, okay,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: go off and make disciples. And like, when you realize
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that that pattern of God's going to give you something
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and it's yours to bring value to, that's what you're
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: saying about how you see value. Because now you start
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to realize every single thing you have has been given
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to you, right? There's not one thing that we've received
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: that hasn't been given to us. And the hallmark of
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a good steward is that you increase, that you bring increase,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that you bring growth.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And so when you start looking at it like.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: That, it's like, oh man, now my whole life, I'm
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: looking around and going like, okay, there's value in everything.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Am I increasing my family? Am I increasing my marriage?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Am I increasing the clients that I work with? I'm
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: just speaking for myself. Am I increasing my physical health? Gee,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: am I increasing, I'm looking at every single area that
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I'm around. I'm like, how do I bring value into
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: every single thing that I do? It's a completely different
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: way of living, man. But there's some things.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: That help you. Like we talked about, you talked about
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: those three things. Yeah, that's the big pieces. That's the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: big pieces. Like you got to understand that this is
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: how you see value. Okay, see it in yourself. Know
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that God made you in his image, that he's the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: author of value. And then, okay, so I got to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: add value, right? I'm going to add value through some
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: organization creativity, but this is kind of a simple understanding.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Let me be more specific of how you can add
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: value because that's really what value is. is it's making
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: something better. It's expanding the kingdom of God. Again, if
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you don't think you're worth anything, remember what we said
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: at the beginning, if you don't think you're worth anything,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you look at everything else and you don't think it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: really worth anything. When you realize who you are, I'm
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: here to make things better. You see great value in something.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: And so here's the ways that you can add value
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and really the structures that you have to see value
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: in something else. So the first one, is knowledge. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I'll talk more spiritually and specifically about this in a second.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: But again, the Tom Brady example is a great example
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of how knowledge shows you the value. If you don't
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: know who Tom Brady is, Tom Brady's jersey is a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: mechanic's rag to you. But when you understand who Tom
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Brady is, now that I have this knowledge, I go,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: oh man, this is really worth something. When you have
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the knowledge of why people are successful, when you have
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the knowledge of temperaments, when you have the knowledge of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of skill set development in a person, then you can
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: look at somebody and say, I know what makes someone successful.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: It's not about where you came from. I know why
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you'll succeed. And you can choose talent. It's Moneyball, right?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: They got the data. They got knowledge that nobody else had.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And they said, we see value that nobody else sees.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Right. I mean, that's the first thing you guys did
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: on all your missions, right? You made sure you had intel.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: You didn't go in blind. And I think we underestimate
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: how valuable knowledge is because we live in the information age.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: there's a difference between reading something on a screen and
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: actually having true, like working knowledge of it. And we're
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: talking about, I would say Logos knowledge here when we
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: talk about this, if you're a New Testament scholar.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: All right, G, what else? That's knowledge of a specific industry.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And I would say, I would tell you also, you
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: can take it or leave it on this one. I'll
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: just keep telling you it works and you can try
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it or not. But when you understand who God is
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and you understand the way that his kingdom works, this
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is a knowledge base. that transfers to every single domain, right?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: When you understand him, how, how am I able to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: take scripture and apply it to all these other areas, right?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Why don't you get to know him first and you'll
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: see for yourself. But the second piece is when you
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: begin to build on knowledge or what you do with
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: knowledge is that's wisdom and pattern recognition. Okay. So it's
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: not just having the information, but it's knowing what, what
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to do with something when, you know, that's looking at
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the piece of dirt and you have the, you can
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: have the market data on here's what it's worth. You
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: could have the market data on, you know, here's what
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you could do with it, but then you have to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: know how to use it and apply it. And that's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: really what wisdom is. It's the simple application of knowledge.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And that's also pattern recognition. Wisdom is what allows you
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to see something where, I mean, this is every parable
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: that I've referenced in the New Testament where Jesus says
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven is like this. He's saying, if
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you can understand this little thing, you'll understand all these
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: other things. That's called pattern recognition. And when you understand wisdom,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: when you understand pattern recognition, you don't have to say,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: this looks exactly like what I've seen before. You can
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: look at something and say, this is similar to what
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I've seen before. This works the way other things have
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: worked before. I may have never encountered this item, but
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: because it's like this, I already know how it works.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: How valuable is it to walk into places you've never
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: been and already know what's going to happen? That's the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: value of wisdom and pattern recognition. It's not the ability
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to predict the future, but you can get really really
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: close to, I may not know exactly what's going to happen,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: but I have a really good idea of what's going
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to happen. Yeah.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: And if you're wondering how to grow in wisdom, I'm
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: glad you asked. Read the proverb of the day. There's
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: 31 chapters of Proverbs. Some months have 31. And then
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: also from Proverbs, walk with the wise and become wise.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Like when you get around wise people, it's amazing how
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that rubs off on you. Just like if you hang
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: out with angry people or small minded people, it's going
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: to rub off on you. I mean, that's a simple
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: way to grow in wisdom is just getting around other
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: wise people So we got knowledge, we got wisdom.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: What else we got? Building on knowledge and wisdom is vision. Okay.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: My vision statement, feel free to take this one, use
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: it wherever you want to use it. Wouldn't it be
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: great if, you know, I was just, I just had
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the army in our factory here at Union and I
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: might have used that phrase. Wouldn't it be great if,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and I started to explain to them, here's how the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: industrial base could be stronger. Here's how it could be better.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Here's how we can answer what the Pentagon's core question is.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I said, wouldn't it be great if, and I described
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a world for them that's way better than the one
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: we're currently living in. I see the value in how
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: we could take a bunch of busted old assets and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: make them super powerful, how we can stop losing to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: our adversaries. And it started with a simple phrase of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great if, and it's vision. I see
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: what it could be. You've got to be able to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: imagine a world that doesn't exist yet. This is creativity,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: but it's also based upon knowledge and pattern recognition, right?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I'm able to pattern recognize from some other softwares and technologies.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I'm able to pattern recognize from history. I'm able to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: pattern recognize from Pentagon signals. And I'm able to say,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I already know this is going to be the future.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you about it. And we'd like to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: be the ones who take you there.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Now, I want to just encourage people as well. The
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: ultimate visionary is God. What I will tell you, man,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: any intelligent pattern that I've got in my life is
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: either something that I've learned from other people or that
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: God's revealed to me in his word. you know, I
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: have a high degree of confidence in a lot of
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: things that I'm doing right now. Not because I'm like,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I know the future or because I'm so great, but
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: because when you get into the word of God and
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: you get to know your father and you walk with God,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, man, things will jump off the pages
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and stuff just starts making sense to you. And you're like, Oh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: of course it's what you said earlier about like, when
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: you know the author of value, you begin to see value.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: And man, I just, I want to encourage everybody. If
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: you're going like, well, I'm not a very visionary person
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and I don't know about all this stuff. get in
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: the word, seek, seek God. I promise you, I can't
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: like give you the one, two, three step process of
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: do it for three months and this will happen. But
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: what I can tell you is you'll start reading and
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  Speaker 2: stuff will just make sense. It's how the Holy spirit works.
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  Speaker 2: And when that happens, pay attention because you're getting trained
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  Speaker 2: in what God's voice sounds like. So I just want
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  Speaker 2: to encourage people there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, these are the things that help you see it.
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  Speaker 1: So knowledge, wisdom, vision. When you have, when you have knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's jersey. Okay. I see more value. When I
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  Speaker 1: have wisdom and pattern recognition, I see how things are
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  Speaker 1: going to work. I see value where some people it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's a, it's a stock, right? People that all this
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  Speaker 1: thing is worthless. Look at the price. Well, if you
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  Speaker 1: understand the markets, you go, I know where this is going.
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  Speaker 1: I see value vision. I have the ability to see future,
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  Speaker 1: to create something, to turn a piece of wood, to
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  Speaker 1: turn a dirt, to turn dirt, to turn industry or
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  Speaker 1: a business into something that's better. And here's the last thing.
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  Speaker 1: This is when you have this, right? When you have
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  Speaker 1: these things, it helps you see value. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: great one. The knowledge, the wisdom, vision, they all turn
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  Speaker 1: into this, which is agency. Agency is looking at a
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  Speaker 1: situation and say, well, you know what? Everywhere I go,
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  Speaker 1: there I am. This is better because I'm here. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of looking at a situation or an item or a
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  Speaker 1: person or whatever it is, instead of saying, is this valuable?
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  Speaker 1: You begin to ask, what is it valuable when I'm here?
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  Speaker 1: Could I make this more valuable? What could it be
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  Speaker 1: if I get involved in it? And if you ever
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  Speaker 1: want to have great things of value, you want to
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  Speaker 1: build great things of value, they're not going to fall
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  Speaker 1: on your head. If you want to build a great business,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to sell great product, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to work with great people, if you want to hire
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  Speaker 1: great talent, if you want to acquire value, and you should,
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  Speaker 1: you should want to build, you should want to use
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  Speaker 1: the resources that God has given you and do something
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  Speaker 1: with it. What did the one talent servant do? He says, master,
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  Speaker 1: I was afraid. I knew you to be a hard
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  Speaker 1: man here. Take what's yours. He was a coward and
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  Speaker 1: he was afraid to do the work, right? But what
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  Speaker 1: did the other talents or what did the other servants do?
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  Speaker 1: they multiply their talents. You're called to multiply. You should
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  Speaker 1: want to multiply. And when you have this understanding of
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  Speaker 1: value and you have the knowledge, when you have the wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: when you have a vision for what's possible in your
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  Speaker 1: specific lane, the hill that God's given you to govern,
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  Speaker 1: to add value in, this turns into agency. And you say,
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  Speaker 1: look how valuable this could be because of the knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: because of the wisdom, because of the vision I have,
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  Speaker 1: I can turn this into more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that, man. Now, real quick to you,
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  Speaker 2: because we wouldn't be the impossible life if we didn't
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  Speaker 2: do this. I want to give you two things that
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  Speaker 2: keep you from seeing value. And because we touched on
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  Speaker 2: being lazy and what you just gave about agency. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think many people would say that if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have agency, you're lazy, but that's exactly what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: What keeps you from seeing value is number one, pain tolerance.
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  Speaker 2: If you spend all your time running away from pain,
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  Speaker 2: you're never going to know the value of anything because
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  Speaker 2: guess what? It's not going to feel good to work
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  Speaker 2: hard all the time. You're going to be sick. You're
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  Speaker 2: not going to feel like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be confusing. It's going to be frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: People are going to treat you wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be harder than you think.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you're a constant person that's running from pain,
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  Speaker 2: you'll never see the value because, and these two go together,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be price focused. And that's what you said at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning when people think transactionally. So many, I think
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  Speaker 2: this is a hallmark of a poverty mindset is you're
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  Speaker 2: only focused on the price that's paid There's a great
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  Speaker 2: quote from Oscar Wilde that says, a cynic knows the
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  Speaker 2: price of everything and the value of nothing. But I
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  Speaker 2: hope you guys are realizing we're called to be those
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  Speaker 2: who know God, who understand that we're valuable, who understand
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  Speaker 2: what he values. And as we grow closer to him,
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  Speaker 2: we start to value what he values. And we understand
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  Speaker 2: that he's put us on this earth to make an impact,
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  Speaker 2: to make a change, that everywhere we go, we bring
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  Speaker 2: the value of the kingdom of God into that room.
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  Speaker 2: And through knowledge, through wisdom, through vision, and through an
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  Speaker 2: understanding that we are there to make the change, we
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  Speaker 2: make everything more valuable.
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  Speaker 1: So go do it.
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