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Season 4 - Episode 92 - The Emperor‘s new clothes · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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a mastermindset coach, creative strategist and also happen to be
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a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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come out here every day to record a podcast to.
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Teach distinctions. Possibilities, new ways of
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thinking and just bring some joy into the world.
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So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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So how many of you remember the children's book The Emperors New
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Clothes? Well, we think it's a children's
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book. Let me back up and say there's a
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book, an old book, Hans Christian Anderson, The
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Emperor's New Clothes, and it's a folk tale.
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So folk tales were not necessarily intended for
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children. They were intended for
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everybody. At the at the time, people
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didn't just read children's books or you know, it was always
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about the tales, bigger, bigger stories, things to really kind
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of help us grow as humans because they were very, very
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powerful stories that were being handed down.
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But anyway, back to this. So the, the tale of this comes
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back to the fact that this emperor, cause again, the
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emperor's new clothes was extremely vain and he was
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obsessed with wearing the best, finest clothes throughout the
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the land and that anyone could possibly find.
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And he hired these weavers that came in, but they were very
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deceptive weavers. They knew who this person was,
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and they knew that he was like, you know, going to just put them
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through all kinds of stuff and, you know, make their lives
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miserable. But they were very cunning.
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And essentially they promised to make him the most amazing suits,
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the so special that they would be invisible to anyone who was
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stupid or not necessarily good in their position, unworthy.
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So the emperor, you know, obviously this sounded great to
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him, and he didn't want to appear foolish.
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He pretended to see the clothes because he didn't want to, you
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know, say I can't see the clothes because then he would be
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proven to be stupid and unworthy of his position.
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So he didn't want to tell them, OK, yes, he's naked.
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And his ministers were just as afraid to see, to appear
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incompetent. So they pretended to see the
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clothes because, again, the weavers basically said, well,
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anyone who can't see them is stupid or, you know, they should
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not be in their position. So this lie grew and grew.
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And when the emperor went parading through town wearing
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invisible clothes, he was completely naked.
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He's in front of the townspeople.
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He's walking down the street, you know, buck naked.
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And everyone doesn't want to say, oh, my gosh, he's naked.
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Because then they're stupid and they don't know what's going to
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happen to them because we all know.
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Everyone's constantly worried about what's going to happen to
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them because that's a primary question we all ask What does it
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mean to me? And so here he goes walking down
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the street. And then there's only one
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interruption in this when a child who doesn't know any
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better, doesn't have the fear, doesn't have any aspect of that
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in in in his little head says, but he isn't wearing anything at
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all. It shocked and the the innocence
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of the child breaks the illusion.
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And the Emperor, though he was embarrassed though he was, you
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know, clearly he knew what was going on.
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He was naked because he knew he was naked, continues to walk.
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Too stubborn to admit his mistake, he just kept on going
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and everyone else continued the same way.
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Now this, this whole story is so rich with so many things because
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it deals with the power of how we deceive ourselves even when
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we know better, because no one's going to say that that person
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didn't know that they were naked.
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And of course they knew that they were naked.
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And when you, when you start thinking about it, the how, when
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we get into that collective thinking, how a hive of
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collective thinking can screw us up because everyone is saying
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the same thing, even though they're feeling something
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different externally. They don't want to break the
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strength of the crowd. And then you go even deeper into
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this and you say, wow, it takes the the the courage of a child
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who doesn't know they should be afraid yet to actually speak the
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truth. They, he, this child was able to
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see it with his own eyes and just speak the truth.
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And how much we've gone away from that as our as our own
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person, as we are, as we grow up.
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So we armor ourselves with these invisible robes to help us, if
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you will be based on the parable of the story, he's got no robe
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but you. We put these robes on to protect
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ourselves and say, Oh yeah, I agree, even though we don't.
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And underneath that keeps us trapped in anxiousness because
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we know the truth. We get exhausted of telling
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lies. We're afraid to tell the truth.
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And it's all about how this is hiding our real strength of who
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we are. Transformation truly begins when
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we figure out what's not real. What are we hiding?
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What are we putting under that robe, that cloak that we put
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over ourselves to protect ourselves?
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Because that's when the shifts happen.
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When we're honest, when we can look at it all and say, you know
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what? I'm going to be completely
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honest with myself. I'm going to listen to the
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little whispers that my soul and my heart are sending me, and I'm
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going to do something different for myself.
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All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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hope you don't see any naked emperors walking around.