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Season 3 - Episode 45 - Hermes the Greek god of 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
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  coop. We're talking about questions
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  today and you know how much I love questions because we talk
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  about questions a lot and how they drive direction and really
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  help us in moving ourselves towards what we are looking for
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  or they actually move us towards what we don't want to because
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  we're just asking crappy questions.
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  And that is the point of figuring out well, OK, what kind
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  of questions am I asking yourself.
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  But as I was getting ready for the podcast today, I was reading
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  a little book about Hermes, the Greek God of wisdom, and he was
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  supposed to be like the master of the masters.
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  He was a astrologer. He was an alchemist.
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  He was known for his hermetic philosophical findings.
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  He wrote tons of stuff about it. If you look him up, you can find
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  a boatload. And it's really when you read
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  it, it is very practical. It is very, very moving because
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  he also didn't believe that in having spirituality tied with
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  religion, which I find fascinating.
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  And he had really big ideas. And when you think about when he
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  lived, I mean, he was considered a Greek God.
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  So think about how long ago that was.
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  In any event, one of the the greatest points of talking about
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  this is when you're asking yourself questions that are
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  driving you in a certain direction, you're expected to
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  find that direction. So the whole theory is you're
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  you're a microcosm in your own head like nobody else is in
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  there but you. Regardless of if we try to
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  believe that we have other people in there with us, we
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  don't. We have what we have and we are
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  maybe let people get in our heads when we say, oh, you let
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  them get in your head. Or we let people do that by
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  implanting putting a seed in there that causes us to
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  fertilize it and let it grow. They can drop a seed, but it
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  doesn't have to grow. Now you know how much I love
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  using that metaphor because it if the seed is not planted in
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  the right environment, it will not grow.
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  In other words, if I plant a cactus in really moist soil
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  that's filled with organic matter, it's not going to grow
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  because it's not its ideal environment.
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  It needs the sandy like run through.
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  It can't can't hold water. It just wants to have this arid
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  soil. And when you plant a cactus seed
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  in it, it thrives. But when you plant like an oak
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  seed in it, it's never going to go.
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  It's just not going to happen. So think about this because
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  someone can plant a seed in your head by asking you a question
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  and it could drive you crazy in a good way or a bad way.
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  It can put you on in a position where you're defensive or you're
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  moving yourself into a more curious space maybe.
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  And curiosity was also, as you heard me say, considered a
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  superpower and he considered curiosity to be one of the
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  greatest assets that we have. Because you can want.
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  Your mind can wander and take you to any place.
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  Now go back to someone planting a seed in our heads.
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  Now more than ever in the world, we allow this to happen very
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  quickly. We allow people to come in and
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  plant seeds and have us feel something specific based on a
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  seed that they have planted. This is where it gets really
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  tricky, my friends, because we don't have to fertilize that
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  seed. We don't have to pay attention
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  to the original thought that we had with that whatever they
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  said, whatever their question was.
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  Now, many years ago I had somebody who implanted a
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  question in my head and I let it fester and I let it grow.
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  And that particular thing was so driving to me because it really
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  pissed me off. I had somebody make a comment to
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  me. I'm not going to share the name
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  because it's a well known person made a comment to me about money
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  and how did it feel to not have the money to do the thing I
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  wanted to do. And it pissed me off because I
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  was like, why? Why don't I have the money?
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  So I went down a Y Rd. which you've heard me before.
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  So then I started kicking my own ass Now did it make me have
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  drive? Yes, it made me have drive, but
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  it made me have drive in the wrong, in the wrong way, in the
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  wrong place. Meaning it it was it was making
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  me grind only. Yeah, I was always a hard worker
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  and it was making me work hard, but it was making me work from
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  desperation, not inspiration. I wasn't using the seed in the
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  right way. Instead, I could have taken that
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  question at that time and I could have said OK, what else
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  could he mean by this? What else could he mean?
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  Could it be meaning that I need to sharpen my skills and I need
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  to be better at something else? Couldn't mean that I need to
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  look at my direction of how I'm doing what I'm doing.
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  Could it mean that I need to incorporate other avenues of
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  getting money? Now we're talking, going back
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  almost 20 years. But that question was such an
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  irritant to me, and I've often thought it was one of the rudest
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  things that someone has ever said to me.
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  And it was. But did it shape me?
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  Yes. Did it add value to me?
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  Yes. But the only way it did that
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  ultimately was through me taking it through a process from
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  beginning to end. I had to take it through the
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  whole process. I had to figure that out, and I
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  had to go from where it was, grinding where it was annoying,
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  where it was frustrating, and taking it all the way over to
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  wait. I can think about this
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  differently. So I'm going to ask you guys to
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  think about those questions. I'm going to ask you to think of
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  asking better questions, and I'm going to ask you to think about,
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  OK, am I feeding these seeds the right way or do I need to stop
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  feeding those seeds and plant some new ones?
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  OK, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.