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Don’t Waste Your Life: Force Yourself to Take Action and Win · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We've all heard the sound of a clock. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever stopped to think about what it means. There are
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  Speaker 1: two fixed points in your life, birth and death, and
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  Speaker 1: what happens in between that's under your control. It's the
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  Speaker 1: only thing under your control.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't important how long you live. What's important is
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  Speaker 2: how you live. If you're at a crossroads in your
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  Speaker 2: life and there's something that you really want to do
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  Speaker 2: but don't, something that you keep putting off because you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do it someday, please notice the road to
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  Speaker 2: someday leads to a place called nowhere. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: risk everything, You've got to put it all on the line.
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  Speaker 3: Life is a fight for territory, and once you start
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  Speaker 3: fighting for what you want, which you don't want, will
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  Speaker 3: automatically take over.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's a fight.
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  Speaker 3: It's a challengeing life every day, and what we have
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  Speaker 3: to do is embrace it. What we have to do
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  Speaker 3: is see it as a project to be worked talking
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  Speaker 3: of I've read something once that I live by said
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  Speaker 3: in life, you will always be faced with a series
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  Speaker 3: of God ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.
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  Speaker 5: Your life is your life, and you have the right
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  Speaker 5: to live it the best way you can. You must
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  Speaker 5: discipline yourself and take full control and responsibility for the
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  Speaker 5: outcome or whatever it is that you are seeking at
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  Speaker 5: this moment.
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  Speaker 4: Time is the greatest enemy. You're thinking as infidelity, the
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  Speaker 4: greatest enemy. You're thinking of it as finances.
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  Speaker 6: You're thinking of it as in laws, you're thinking of
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  Speaker 6: as differences. No, no, no, it is time.
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  Speaker 5: So many people in the world take life for granted
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  Speaker 5: instead of realizing.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 5: You have to take the opportunity to live at the
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  Speaker 5: best way you know how.
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  Speaker 7: It's been said that time is free, but it's priceless.
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  Speaker 7: You can't own it, but you can use it. You
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  Speaker 7: can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've
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  Speaker 7: lost it, you can never get it back.
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  Speaker 6: The price you will pay, the suffering you will go
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  Speaker 6: through to make your dream come true, is incredibly small,
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  Speaker 6: infinitely smaller than the price you will pay if you
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  Speaker 6: never do.
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  Speaker 4: You'll pay that one the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 8: And so ask yourself what you're willing to risk, what's
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  Speaker 8: the price you're willing to pay?
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  Speaker 9: And every day eighty six four hundred dollars is put
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  Speaker 9: into it, and at the end of the day the
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  Speaker 9: account represses and all the money is gone. Now tell
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  Speaker 9: me what would you do. You gotta take out every dollar.
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  Speaker 9: You're gonna spend it while you can. You're gonna use it,
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  Speaker 9: use it all up, and don't leave anything in there.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 9: Well, guess what we get eighty six four hundred seconds
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  Speaker 9: every day. So I want you to do the exact
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  Speaker 9: same thing. Use the time so at the end of
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  Speaker 9: the day you don't feel like you've wasted a second.
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  Speaker 6: We only have so much real estate in our minds
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  Speaker 6: and our hearts. We only have so much bandwidth and
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  Speaker 6: our mental capacity. And the more distractions, the more delusions,
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  Speaker 6: the more negativity that we allow to take up real
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  Speaker 6: estate in our hearts and in our minds, the less
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  Speaker 6: energy we have to fulfill the call to fulfill destiny,
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  Speaker 6: to manifest the idea. Everything that you think about, that
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  Speaker 6: you meditate, or everything that has to your attention has to.
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  Speaker 10: Be worth your time because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 10: identity and values drive behavior. So if you want to
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  Speaker 10: make a change, you have to change your vision of
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  Speaker 10: who you are. You have to begin telling yourself a
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  Speaker 10: different narrative, and the narrative you tell yourself about yourself
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  Speaker 10: is everything.
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  Speaker 4: It ain't going nowhere.
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  Speaker 6: But if you go after the fight, if you approach
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  Speaker 6: the challenge, you have a better chance to win it.
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  Speaker 9: Just the fight of your life.
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  Speaker 4: Are you hearing me?
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  Speaker 11: This the fight of your life?
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  Speaker 12: Since we cannot change the circumstances, but we can change ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: We can change what we do.
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  Speaker 12: When you're trying to avoid the pain, when you're trying
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  Speaker 12: to avoid the struggle, when you're trying to avoid the
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  Speaker 12: hard things in life, you are actively choosing to be average.
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  Speaker 12: You are actively choosing to be mediocre, and you are
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  Speaker 12: actively choosing to move further away from what you want
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  Speaker 12: in life.
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  Speaker 6: Still, now it's time to navigate and do an appraisal
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  Speaker 6: of everything that's in our life, everything and everybody in
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  Speaker 6: our life.
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  Speaker 11: Never forget what comes easy won't last, and the things
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  Speaker 11: that last the longest never come easy. And that's the
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  Speaker 11: the sact reason why the harder you work for something,
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  Speaker 11: the greater you feel when.
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  Speaker 4: You achieve it.
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  Speaker 6: Time to do an appraisal and ask them this question,
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  Speaker 6: are you worth my time? If you're not, it's time
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  Speaker 6: to unbug.
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  Speaker 4: Time to unbug, time to.
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  Speaker 11: Umbug, keep pushing, keep grinding, keep going, because that's when
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  Speaker 11: it really counts. When you reach that point that most
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  Speaker 11: others would stop, that's when you keep going and engage
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  Speaker 11: in positive self talk, just like the little engine that
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  Speaker 11: could tell yourself over and over again, I know I can't,
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  Speaker 11: I know I will, I know I can, I know
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  Speaker 11: I will. It's not over until I succeed.
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  Speaker 13: It is time for you to push harder than you've
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  Speaker 13: ever pushed in your life. It is time for you
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  Speaker 13: to work as hard as you can. I want you
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  Speaker 13: to take a look in the mirror.
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  Speaker 12: The image in the mirror that is not who you are.
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  Speaker 4: You are greater than the image in a mirror.
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  Speaker 13: You walk, you push, you do whatever it takes. You
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  Speaker 13: keep working hard, You dig deep, you find a way,
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  Speaker 13: You make a way.
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  Speaker 4: The great paradox.
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  Speaker 8: There is an interesting and important paradox in life that
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  Speaker 8: you need to be aware of. It is that, if
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  Speaker 8: you are an intelligent person, you do everything possible to
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  Speaker 8: organize your life in such a way that you minimize
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  Speaker 8: and avoid adversity and disappointment. This is a sensible and
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  Speaker 8: rational thing to do. All intelligent people following the path
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  Speaker 8: of least resistance to achieve their goals do everything possible
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  Speaker 8: to minimize the number of difficulties and obstacles that they
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  Speaker 8: will face in their day day activities. Disappointment is inevitable,
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  Speaker 8: yet in spite of our best efforts, disappointments and adversity
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  Speaker 8: are normal and natural on a avoidable.
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  Speaker 4: Parts of life.
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  Speaker 8: Benjamin Franklin said that the only things that are inevitable
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  Speaker 8: are death and taxes, But every bit of experience shows
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  Speaker 8: that disappointment is also inevitable. No matter how well you
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  Speaker 8: organize yourself and your activities, you will experience countless disappointments, setbacks, obstacles,
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  Speaker 8: and adversity over the course of your life. And the
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  Speaker 8: higher and more challenging the goals that you set for yourself,
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  Speaker 8: the more disappointment and adversity you will experience. This is
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  Speaker 8: the paradox. It is impossible for us to evolve and
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  Speaker 8: grow and develop to our full potentials except to the
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  Speaker 8: degree to which we face adversity and learn from it.
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  Speaker 8: All of the great lessons of life come as the
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  Speaker 8: result of setbacks and temporary defeats which we.
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  Speaker 4: Have done our utmost to avoid.
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  Speaker 8: Adversity therefore comes unbidden in spite of our best efforts,
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  Speaker 8: and yet without it, we cannot grow into the kind
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  Speaker 8: of people who are capable of skill, ailing the heights,
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  Speaker 8: and achieving great goals. Adversity is what tests us. Throughout history,
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  Speaker 8: great thinkers have reflected on this paradox and have concluded
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  Speaker 8: that adversity is the test that you must pass on
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  Speaker 8: the path to accomplishing anything worthwhile. Herodotus, the Greek philosopher, said,
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  Speaker 8: adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities
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  Speaker 8: of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence.
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  Speaker 8: The very best qualities of strength, courage, character, and persistence
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  Speaker 8: are brought out in you when you face your greatest
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  Speaker 8: challenges and you respond to them positively and constructively. Everyone
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  Speaker 8: faces difficulties every step of the way. The difference between
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  Speaker 8: the high achiever and the low achiever is simply that
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  Speaker 8: the high achiever utilizes adversity and struggles for growth, while
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  Speaker 8: the low achiever allows difficulties and adversity to overwhelm him
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  Speaker 8: or her and leave him or her discouraged and dejected.
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  Speaker 8: We all have goals that we want to achieve in
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  Speaker 8: our lives. These goals may include learning a new language,
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  Speaker 8: eating healthier and losing weight, becoming a better parent, saving
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  Speaker 8: more money, and so on. It can be easy to
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  Speaker 8: assume that the gap between where you are now and
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  Speaker 8: where you want to be in the future is caused
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  Speaker 8: by a lack of knowledge. This is why we buy
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  Speaker 8: courses on how to start a business, or how to
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  Speaker 8: lose weight fast, or how to learn a new language
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  Speaker 8: in three months. We assume that if we knew about
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  Speaker 8: a better strategy, then we would get better results. We
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  Speaker 8: believe that a new result requires new knowledge. What I'm
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  Speaker 8: starting to realize, however, is that new knowledge does not
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  Speaker 8: necessarily drive new results. In fact, learning something new can
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  Speaker 8: actually be a waste of time if your goal is
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  Speaker 8: to make progress and not simply gain additional knowledge. It
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  Speaker 8: all comes down to the difference between learning and practicing.
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  Speaker 8: When we practice something, we are involved in the deliberate
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  Speaker 8: repetition of a process with the intention of reaching a
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  Speaker 8: specific goal. The words deliberate and intention are key here
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  Speaker 8: because they define the difference between actively practicing something and
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  Speaker 8: passively learning it. Learning something new and practicing something new
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  Speaker 8: may seem very similar, but these two methods can have
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  Speaker 8: profoundly different results. Eer some additional ways to think about
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  Speaker 8: the difference. Let's say your goal is to get stronger
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  Speaker 8: and more fit. You can research the best instructions on
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  Speaker 8: bench press technique, but the only way to build strength
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  Speaker 8: is to practice lifting weight. Let's say your goal is
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  Speaker 8: to grow your startup. You can learn about the best
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  Speaker 8: way to make a sales pitch, but the only way
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  Speaker 8: to actually land customers is to practice making sales calls.
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  Speaker 8: Let's say your goal is to write a book. You
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  Speaker 8: can talk to a best selling author about writing, but
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  Speaker 8: the only way to become a better writer is to
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  Speaker 8: practice publishing consistently. Passive learning creates knowledge, Active practice creates skill.
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  Speaker 8: Passive learning can be a crutch that supports in action.
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  Speaker 8: In many cases, learning is actually a way to avoid
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  Speaker 8: taking action on the goals and interests that we say
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  Speaker 8: are important to us. For example, let's say you want
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  Speaker 8: to learn foreign language. Reading a book on how to
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  Speaker 8: learn a foreign language quickly allows you to feel like
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  Speaker 8: you're making progress. Hey, I'm figuring out the best way
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  Speaker 8: to do this. Of course, you're not actually practicing the
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  Speaker 8: action that would deliver your desired outcome speaking the foreign language.
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  Speaker 8: In situations like this one, we often claim that we
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  Speaker 8: are preparing or researching the best method, But these rationalizations
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  Speaker 8: allow us to feel like we are moving forward when
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  Speaker 8: we are merely spinning our wheels. We make the mistake
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  Speaker 8: of being in motion rather than taking action. Learning is
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  Speaker 8: valuable until it becomes a form of procrastination. Practice is learning,
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  Speaker 8: but learning is not practice. Passive learning is not a
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  Speaker 8: form of practice because although you gain new knowledge, you
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  Speaker 8: are not discovering how to.
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  Speaker 4: Apply that knowledge.
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  Speaker 8: Active practice, meanwhile, is one of the greatest forms of learning,
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  Speaker 8: because the mistakes you make while practicing reveal important insights.
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  Speaker 8: Even more important, practice is the only way to make
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  Speaker 8: a meaningful contribution with your knowledge. You can watch an
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  Speaker 8: online course about how to build a business or read
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  Speaker 8: an article about a terrible disaster in a developer nation,
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  Speaker 8: but that knowledge is unproductive unless you actually launch.
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  Speaker 4: Your business or donate to those in need.
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  Speaker 8: Learning by itself can be valuable for you, but if
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  Speaker 8: you want to be valuable to others, then you have
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  Speaker 8: to express your knowledge in some way. Practice focuses your
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  Speaker 8: energy on the process. Progress is a natural result of
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  Speaker 8: staying focused on the process of doing anything. The state
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  Speaker 8: of your life right now is a result of the
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  Speaker 8: habits and beliefs that you have been practicing each day.
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  Speaker 8: When you realize this and begin to direct your focus
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  Speaker 8: to a practicing better habits day in and day out.
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  Speaker 8: Continual progress will be the logical outcome. It is not
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  Speaker 8: the things we learn, nor the dreams we envision that
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  Speaker 8: determines our results, but rather the habits that we practice
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  Speaker 8: each day. Fall in love with boredom, and focus your
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  Speaker 8: energy on the process, not the product. The bottom line
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  Speaker 8: is passive learning useless. Of course not In many cases,
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  Speaker 8: learning for the sake of learning can be a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 8: Not to mention that soaking up new information can help
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  Speaker 8: you make more informed decisions when you do decide to
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  Speaker 8: take action. That said, the main point of this article
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  Speaker 8: is that learning by itself does not lead to progress.
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  Speaker 8: We often hide behind information and use learning as an
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  Speaker 8: excuse to delay the more difficult and more important choice
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  Speaker 8: of actually doing something. Spend less time passively learning and
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  Speaker 8: more time actively practicing. Stop thinking and start doing