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Season 3 - Episode 268 - Edgar Allen Poe wisdom · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today I have a quote from Edgar Allan Poe that I love because it
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  kind of fits me in a very interesting way.
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  Hence a podcast in a chicken coop.
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  He said there is no beauty without some strangeness.
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  Boy, is that not true. I can't even tell you how happy
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  that makes me because I was never the normal kid.
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  I was the strange kid. I did not fit in well.
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  I had weird curiosities of science fiction and loved to
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  obsessively read and always wanted to be doing art and
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  making things and projects and I didn't care what my hands were
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  doing. It was just, if I, if I could
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  get into a project, it would make me happy.
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  And that did not fit in with the people I was surrounded by.
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  Not my family, but my, the, the kids I went to school with and
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  the majority of them. I was just different.
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  And obviously I shoot a podcast in a chicken coop.
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  My love of animals in the way that I do, that's not normal for
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  most girls. They like animals, but they
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  don't want to, you know, raise chickens and have farms and love
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  to obsess on learning about vegetables and want to grow when
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  you're 10121415 years old. It was a very interesting time
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  in my life and I had I, I remember I had a boyfriend in
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  high school and I would, his father was always into woodwork
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  and I would go to their house and I wouldn't hang out with my
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  boyfriend and his friends. I would go sit on the stairs to
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  the basement and talk to his dad while his dad was woodworking.
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  And I used to like, love to watch how he was doing it.
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  And he was fascinated that I would rather be there watching
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  him than hanging out with the guys who had just been playing
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  video games. And I, I can't explain it, but I
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  can tell you that I knew I was different, but it always wasn't
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  a good thing because it at least to me then it wasn't a good
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  thing because I couldn't be happy if I was just trying to
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  force myself to fit in. And because I was denying my
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  nature, my true nature. And my true nature is to be
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  different. And I'm OK with that now, but it
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  took years of practice with that.
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  And this is one of those quotes that really gave me a huge
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  amount of peace and faith in that, the fact that I am strange
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  and I'm OK with that. I can be different and I'm OK
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  with that. I do things very differently and
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  I'm OK with that. And that's what I want you guys
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  to hear today, is that being different, being strange, being
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  peculiar is not a curse to you. If you feel that way about
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  yourself, it's a gift. It means you have not been
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  cultivated into the the set of drones that are out there doing
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  the same thing, looking like everybody else, doing the same
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  things. If it makes you happy and it
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  truly is you, great. That is what the point is.
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  But if you are strange, peculiar, different, odd, that's
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  OK. It is more than OK because
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  you're not meant to fit in. We're not all meant to be the
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  same. And when we recognize we're not
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  all meant to be the same, all of a sudden there is a very
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  different power in US. And it's a it's the power of
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  peace. We accept ourselves, we feel
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  good about ourselves, and we are able to actually navigate life
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  better when we recognize that about ourselves.
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  So today the thought on this is embracing your peculiar self,
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  embracing the things that about you.
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  You know, if you don't like to go and hang out there, there are
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  certain things. I mean, I don't, I do not like
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  to go hang out with large groups of people and drink alcohol and
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  complain about things. You will never see me do that in
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  a million years. I don't enjoy it.
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  I haven't forever. It just, it just doesn't, it
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  doesn't click for me. So when people invite me to go
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  out, I'm always extremely cautious about where that is
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  what we're doing. It just doesn't work for me.
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  I don't want to put energy into it and it's OK.
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  It's OK if you find that you are more interested in doing your
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  introverted activities and those make you truly happy, then so be
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  it. That's who you are and it's OK.
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  That's the work your soul is doing right now and you embrace
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  it. You start to fulfill the work of
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  your soul and that feels really good my friends, it feels really
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  good. So hug yourself, give yourself a
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  little bit of love on this and remember there is no beauty
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  without some strangeness and we add that beauty to the world
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  with our strangeness. OK my friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.