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Courage in Small Decisions (S5) S7:E3 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hey guys, good evening.
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It is John C.
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Morley here, serial entrepreneur.
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All right, so the thing is, we've been
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talking about a very important topic this week.
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We always talk about important topics.
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You know that, right, guys?
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So by the way, today is Monday, February
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9, 2026, all finished with Flow Follies.
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It's been a very long, let's say, the
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last two weeks, really the last week, and
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then the show was Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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So just kind of getting back on track
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with things.
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So we're talking about something very interesting, and
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that concept that we've been talking about for
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basically the entire week, we kicked off on
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Saturday, if you guys remember what that topic
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is.
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I'm sure you guys remember what the topic
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is.
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What was the topic?
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You remember?
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Sure.
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The topic this week we kicked off is
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from fear to forward, choosing light, clarity, and
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momentum.
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Yes, guys.
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So without any further ado, I'm going to
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go ahead and officially kick this show off.
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All right, everyone.
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This is Inspirations to Your Life.
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It's series five, means we're on the air
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our fifth year.
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We've been on the air four solid years,
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and we're on our ninth day in the
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fifth year.
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Episode, yes, I cannot believe we are on
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our seventh show in episode three.
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From fear to forward courage, in small decisions,
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the thing that we're going to be talking
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about today is a really important thing.
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We talk about clarity, clarity, light, and momentum.
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This episode focuses on how small intentional acts
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of courage create momentum in your life and
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other people's lives.
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So I think that's a very, very important
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thing to understand is how that all works.
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So this episode is focused on the internal
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intentional acts of courage, creating momentum, and not
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just dramatically, but also the fearless moves that
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we all make, but quiet decisions made before
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confidence shows up.
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By the way, this is day three.
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This is Monday, and it's all about courage
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and small decisions.
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Hey, that's what this is about today, the
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granular topic.
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And number one, guys, is a really good
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one.
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You know what that is?
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That is why small acts of courage compounds
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faster than rare big bravery.
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That's a very important thing to understand.
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I think when we talk about that moment,
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okay, we think about small courage, how it
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can compound faster and how it can bring
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bravery, but sometimes people don't get it because
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what's happening is they are jumping all around,
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like they're not focusing, right?
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They're not in the moment.
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That's probably the most important thing that I
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can tell each and every one of you.
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Number two, guys, number two is the power
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of a 10-second brave decision.
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10 seconds of courage can change an entire
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day.
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Now, 10 seconds might be all you need
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to fire somebody or to give somebody a
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compliment, but that 10 seconds is going to
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bring in bravery in your life and a
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lot of other people's lives.
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But 10 seconds is not a long time,
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but it's important to use the 10-second
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rule to do what it is that you
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want.
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And you have to be intentional with everything
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you do, guys, because if you're not intentional,
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you know what happens?
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Well, you just keep going back in this
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great big circle, a circle that goes around
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and around and around and around and around.
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And that's a very big problem for a
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lot of people.
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I've got to tell you this.
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A lot of people have a problem with
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things going around and around.
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Number three, how micro courage builds momentum.
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Tiny brave actions create forward motion, all right?
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That's important.
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And forward motion is something that we need
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in our life.
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And what we have to realize is the
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forward of something, the forward of a book,
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the forward of a movie, the forward of
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any type of story, right?
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The forward of a Broadway play.
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The forward is kind of the synopsis, but
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it's also an introduction that gets us into
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the main meat of the play, of the
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show, of the music.
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Even our songs have forwards, right?
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We sometimes call them refrains.
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So number four, why waiting for confidence keeps
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you stuck?
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Confidence follows action, not the other way around.
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Confidence follows action day in and day out.
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And that's important to understand.
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And so when we think about that, okay,
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acting before fear now finishes its sentence, move
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before fear completes the story.
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Fear, guys, is nothing more than false evidence
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appearing real.
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I'm going to tell you that right up
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front, not to scare you, but to let
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you know that that is the truth, guys.
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Fear is false evidence appearing real.
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And I think that's a very important thing.
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And I do want to encourage you guys,
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if you are watching us live, you can
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actually chat with us by going to our
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show that's live.
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And we have the ability to take chat
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So that's basically Instagram, that's Facebook, that's LinkedIn,
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it's even YouTube.
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And if you do that, we will see
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your comments and we'll respond, all right?
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Number five, number five is acting before fear
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finishes its sentences, before, before.
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So move before fear completes the story.
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That is number five, guys.
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I think sometimes we don't go anywhere.
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You know why?
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Because we're afraid of what the story is
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going to bring us.
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Yeah, we're afraid.
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And we don't know what to say or
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even what to do.
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I mean, I think that's a very important
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thing.
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So act before fear finishes its sentence.
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Move before fear completes the story.
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Number six, guys, courage without drama.
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Real courage is calm and it's very, very
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quiet.
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You know, I've said before, and we had
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this topic last week about the loudness.
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So loudness does not get the worm.
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I'm going to be honest, it does not
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get the worm.
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And so I say that to you because
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you might get people's attention for a short
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period of time, but you know what happens?
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You don't retain their attention.
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Nope.
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Because they start realizing that you're all full
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of it and that nobody really wants to
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follow you, except maybe you see you yell
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something like, fire, don't ever do that.
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And then people look at you and they,
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you know what, you keep doing that.
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People still respond because they know the word
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fire.
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They don't know if this is actually true.
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It's kind of like, you know, the little
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story about the boy who cried wolf.
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But you know what?
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If somebody keeps calling fire, I'm still going
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to go, even if I'm annoyed and they
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kept playing games.
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I'm still going to think it's a fire
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because I never know the time I don't
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respond could be the time that my life
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gets in danger, all right?
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Number seven, guys, choosing progress over perfection.
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Progress beats perfect every single time in your
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life.
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Progress beats perfect every single time.
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I would rather make a certain percentage of
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progress than be perfect tomorrow.
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Because when I make progress, I can keep
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growing from progress and I can become, what's
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that ladies and gentlemen?
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A better version of myself and help you
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become a better version of yourself.
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Number eight, guys, why bravery?
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Yes, why bravery?
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I think this is an important one.
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So why is bravery?
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Yeah, that's what I was about to tell
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you.
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So why bravery is a very important one.
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And so when we think about bravery, I
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want to just think about that for just
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a second because this is something that a
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lot of people miss.
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So I don't want to just rush into
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this.
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But I say to you, you know, when
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we understand these things and we understand what
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bravery means and we understand what it doesn't
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mean, it allows us to take certain types
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of jumps in our life.
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And I think that's a very important thing
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for a lot of people to recognize and
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to realize, right?
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Bravery, it's a skill.
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But it also takes some mental and emotional
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fortitude to be able to act with bravery.
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And that's a very, very important thing, guys.
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Very important thing.
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Because when we know about something, we act,
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then we can move forward, right?
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That's a very, very important thing to think
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about.
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So courage without drama, guys, is real courage.
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It's calm and it's quiet.
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And choosing progress over perfection, like I said,
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progress beats perfection every time.
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But again, why bravery is so often quiet
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is most brave moments, they happen internally in
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our mind, in our body.
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And we're just like, oh, that doesn't really
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matter.
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But it really does matter.
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It matters more than you actually think it
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does.
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And I think that's a very important thing
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for us to discuss today is the internal
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bravery that happens in those quiet moments.
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Not the big gigantic things that happen, but
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the small little things, which actually compound into
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big things later on.
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Number nine, how daily courage compounds.
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Daily courage stacks into identity.
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Number 10, the myth that courage feels good.
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Courage often feels uncomfortable at first.
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Number 11, doing the things while your hands
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shake.
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You don't wait for it to be calm.
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You move with the shake.
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Some people have had the shaking, guess what?
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The shake goes away.
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The shake goes away.
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I think that's a very important thing to
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understand is that when you start realizing that
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this is a short-term thing, the shake
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does not stay with you.
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People are like, oh my gosh, I don't
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want to move because I'm shaking.
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You can actually develop better, let's say balancing
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skills, like keeping yourself steady, I'll call it.
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Number 12, guys, why courage grows through action.
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Action trains courage.
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So when we take action, we keep doing
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this back and forth and back and forth,
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you know what happens?
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We become pretty amazed at what's going on
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in our life.
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And that amazement, guys, is something that a
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lot of people don't quite understand.
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So when I say these things to you,
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I say them because they fit a certain,
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let's say a certain property.
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And that property is that when we go
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and take the action, whether it's a 10
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second action or something else, we actually build
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our courage muscle.
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So our courage is nothing more than a
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muscle.
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And that muscle gets stronger every time that
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we execute courage.
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I think that's a very important thing to
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understand and to realize.
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That's a very important thing.
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Number 13, small risks, big self-trust.
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Each risk strengthens self-trust again and again
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and again.
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And that's something that a lot of people
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don't really understand, but it does.
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It's a cyclic thing in a positive way.
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If we do it negatively, then it's gonna
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affect us negatively.
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Number 14, how courage rewires fear and repeated
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courage retrains fear.
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So the reason sometimes people don't do something
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is because of the way fear has rewired
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their brain.
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And it's rewired their brain in such a
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way to say, you know what, I can't
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do this.
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But what I try to train people is,
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look, even though you're kind of fearing something,
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I say, you know what, you're not fearing
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it.
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You're just excited.
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And it's excitement.
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And I try to get them confused on
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that.
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And they're like, oh, you're right, I'm just
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excited.
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And then I kind of let that feeling
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push in.
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They're like, oh, wow, yeah, I'm just excited.
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And it gets them like, oh, I'm just
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excited.
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Yeah, it's just a new way of feeling
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excitement.
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And then guess what happens?
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The excitement starts to fade.
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So one thing to have excitement feel, fade.
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But if you have nervousness, it's hard to
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get nervousness to fade, but you can get
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excitement to fade easier than you can get
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nervousness to fade.
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I think that's an important thing.
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Maybe it's a new relationship.
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Maybe it's a new boss or whatever it
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is.
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Number 15, why confidence follows action.
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Movement creates belief every single time, hands down.
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Courage in conversations, speaking honestly, is everyday bravery,
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number 16.
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And bravery, guys, believe it or not, is
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a very key point to things that happen
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in your life and my life and those
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you care so much about.
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Number 17, speaking up without over-explaining.
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Clarity doesn't need justification.
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It doesn't need re-justification.
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It needs to be said correctly the first
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time so it hits home, all right?
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That's a very important thing.
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When you say courage the right way, you
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know what happens?
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You get empowered, you build courage.
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And each time you do it, it compounds
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just like money in the bank.
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It compounds.
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And I think that's a very important thing
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to understand.
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And these are things that a lot of
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people just don't seem to get.
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I think what happens is a lot of
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people just don't understand why something is going
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a certain way.
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And then they don't really think about changing.
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Remember I said that when you can measure
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something, you can change it.
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If you can't measure it, you can definitely
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not affect to change it positively or negatively.
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Number 18, choosing honesty over comfort.
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Truth builds long-term safety.
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It does.
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Truth builds safety.
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It's that's hands down.
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When we know the truth, we're safe.
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I'll give you an example.
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I'm a good driver.
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People want to drive with me, pick them
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up, take them home.
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When they know I'm a good driver and
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that's truth and that's something they've seen time
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and time out in my record, they feel
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comfortable driving with me.
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Number 19, understand courage, guys, as a skill.
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And the courage improves with practice every single
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time, not just one time, but every single
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time.
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So courage as a skill improves with practice,
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but you can't just do one and say,
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oh my gosh, it's not working.
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What am I going to do?
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Number 20, guys, number 20, why bravery doesn't
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need witness.
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Bravery counts even when no one sees it,
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no one else is watching.
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And I've said to you guys, one of
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the most important things is to do the
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right thing even when no one else is
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watching.
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When no one else is watching because you
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know what it does, it shapes your character
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and in shaping your character, it builds who
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you are, which part of building you are,
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guess what that is?
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That is courage, guys.
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That is courage.
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And so understanding that, even because no one
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saw it, it doesn't mean that it wasn't
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good.
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It doesn't mean that it was the wrong
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thing.
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Each time that you practice courage, you become
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a little wiser.
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You develop something that allows you to move
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forward.
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Maybe we're stuck.
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Courage allows you to push forward.
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Sometimes we just need a little tiny ounce
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of courage.
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We don't need a lot.
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We need a little bit.
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And if we have that little bit, we
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can move forward very easily.
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Number 21, guys, 21.
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How courage shortens recovery time.
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Brave people bounce back faster.
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That's another one of those weird ones, right?
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Because you wouldn't think that brave people bounce
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back faster, but I'm here to tell you
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that brave people bounce back faster.
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It's because if they falter, they can get
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back up.
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It goes through the very popular phrase.
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It doesn't matter how many times you fall
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down, you get down in a situation.
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What matters is how many times you get
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up.
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So if I fell 10 times, I got
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to get up 10 times.
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If I fell 10, I only get up
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nine.
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That's a problem.
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So it matters how many times you get
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up.
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It's got to equal how many times you
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fell.
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All right, that's a very, very important one.
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Number 22, taking steps without full clarity.
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Movement creates clarity.
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And if we don't have that, movement kind
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of stops.
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It gets stifled.
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We've seen this before.
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Maybe it either stops or it goes backward.
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It goes in a negative direction, right?
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So people say to me, John, if we're
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not moving, that's fine.
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Right, as long as you're not drifting backwards.
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A lot of times you can drift backwards
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and that could be a big problem.
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And each time you drift backwards, it's a
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big issue.
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We talked about something very interesting, which was
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a potentiometer of the focus rate.
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That if we keep turning, keep turning, keep
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turning, keep turning, keep turning, right?
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And as long as we stay, we use
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the analogy of power to our attitude.
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If the power stays on, I'm good.
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So if my attitude stayed good, that's equal
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to our power being on, right?
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So if the power stays on, I keep
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doing a little bit, little bit, little bit
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each day, eventually I reach my goal.
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But if I keep doing a little bit,
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little bit each day, but then I lose
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my attitude, well, the setting got lost.
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And we call that volatile, non-volatile.
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So volatile means that if the power is
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lost, you lose, basically you're setting your memory,
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your information.
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Non-volatile means that that information is not
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lost, such as things like hard disks, SSD,
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M.2. I know this is the technical
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show, but I did wanna just bring that
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in, okay?
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Number 23, why courage is choosing movement.
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Stillness feeds fear and movement feeds growth.
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And I think that's another important one to
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think about, all right, a very important one
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to think about.
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And it's not like you're gonna come up
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with this answer, guys, tomorrow.
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I'm gonna be quite honest with you.
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It's gonna be something that you're gonna see
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over time.
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And as you see this over time, you're
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like, oh, wait a minute, I actually had
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an epiphany.
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I had a moment and that moment says
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to me, all right, John, I suddenly get
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it now.
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I know what I'm doing, okay?
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That's important to know.
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Number 24, daily courage rituals.
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Small daily brave acts change behavior.
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I remember, let me tell you one of
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mine.
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I remember, oh, my parents owned a dry
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clean plant and I had gotten the license.
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They called it Black Seal.
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My dad got one, I got one.
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And somebody that who had the Black Seal,
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my dad or myself had to be on
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premise or pretty close to premise, like every
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time the business was open.
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So if the boiler was operating, one of
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us needed to be there like all the
21:35
time.
21:38
And very interesting thing.
21:40
Is that when we think about that, there
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was something called a blow down procedure for
21:45
the boiler.
21:46
Now, without getting too technical.
21:48
Every night, we basically shut the, you know,
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we would shut the boiler down.
21:54
Okay, there was a switch, we'd shut the
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boiler down.
21:57
And once we shut the boiler down, there
22:01
was some other things we had to do.
22:02
First thing we had to do is we
22:03
had to take BC compound, put it into
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one, in one of the tanks.
22:08
The other thing we had to do, I
22:09
still remember to this day, we had to
22:11
go in the back of the boiler in
22:12
the corner and there was like a water
22:13
thing.
22:14
We had to turn that knock like a
22:15
little cock.
22:16
We had to turn that thing.
22:17
And when we turned that thing, first thing
22:19
we do is we came over to the
22:20
site glass in the far left of the
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boiler.
22:23
And what we do is we would take
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the, I would make sure the boiler was,
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if I remember right, had to be right
22:28
around 10 to 15, nothing higher than 10
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or 15.
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You want to blow the boiler down.
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Okay, you want a little bit of pressure
22:34
in it, but you didn't want it too
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high.
22:36
So we would take the handle very gently
22:38
and pull it down very slowly and let
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the water just go right out.
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Okay, get all out, turn it back up.
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Do it again.
22:44
Maybe do it one, two, maybe do it
22:45
three times.
22:46
Then I come in the back of the
22:47
boiler and there's a line that's closed.
22:51
And what I would do is I would
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open that line.
22:53
Okay.
22:53
And what it would do is it would
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actually shoot in the cold water.
22:59
So basically we had one thing we turned
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on.
23:01
All right.
23:02
And then once we turned the main water
23:03
on, that would get the water in the
23:04
system.
23:05
And then when we opened that valve, the
23:07
cold water would be coming in.
23:08
So again, that's what we didn't want to
23:09
be any more higher in the pressure than
23:13
like 15.
23:14
I think 20 was the max.
23:15
We did around 15.
23:17
And so that had to be done every
23:19
single day.
23:20
But I got to tell you, the very
23:21
first time that we did this, it was
23:24
very fearful because I'm like, oh my gosh,
23:27
it's going to blow up.
23:28
After I got the class, it was still
23:30
fearful.
23:30
But after I did it enough times, I
23:33
started realizing that it's going to be okay.
23:36
I remember when I had some friends there
23:38
and even some family were like, oh, can
23:40
I show you something?
23:40
Could you watch this?
23:41
And I was just having them, like I
23:43
was kind of showing them how I do
23:44
this.
23:46
First of all, I was showing them, like
23:48
it was kind of neat what I'm doing.
23:49
But really the reason I was showing them
23:50
is that I was kind of scared.
23:51
So I was just trying to get somebody
23:53
else that would kind of like, you know,
23:54
watch.
23:55
And so that's kind of what I was
23:56
doing.
23:56
And so, but that act of courage got
24:00
me to understand that blowing down the boiler
24:01
every night is a very important thing because
24:04
that keeps the boiler from basically corroding out.
24:08
And if it gets corroded out, the boiler
24:10
won't run.
24:11
Number 25, how courage reshapes identity.
24:16
You become what you think about and you
24:18
become what you do repetitively every single day.
24:21
Your actions become who you are.
24:24
Those actions take you from one place to
24:27
a completely other place.
24:29
And that's an important thing to realize.
24:35
Number 26, the bravery of consistency showing up
24:38
daily is courageous.
24:40
Maybe it's for your schools.
24:41
Maybe it's for a relationship.
24:42
Maybe it's facing somebody in your class who's
24:45
being a bully.
24:46
Being consistent, being brave all the time stands
24:50
up for something.
24:51
And other people start to realize, well, you
24:52
know, he's not just doing this once.
24:53
This is who he is.
24:54
So we can't like mess around with him,
24:56
right?
24:56
Because this is the new John or this
24:59
is the new whatever.
25:00
And they were not going to put up
25:02
with that.
25:02
And I think that's important to know that
25:04
they didn't want to be thrown under the
25:06
bus because now you're going to stand up
25:08
for yourself.
25:09
When you're younger, a lot of times you're
25:10
like, oh, you know, I don't really care.
25:12
And then you're letting people indirectly walk on
25:16
you.
25:16
And that is a very, very big, big
25:18
problem.
25:19
So the bravery of consistency showing up daily
25:21
is courageous.
25:22
And it is not just something we have
25:26
to do.
25:27
It's something we should do because if we
25:28
don't do it, we're going to get walked
25:30
on.
25:31
And we're people and we want to be
25:32
treated with respect.
25:33
Number 27, why courage builds self-respect?
25:36
Each brave act earns self-respect.
25:39
Blowing down the boiler every day, earn self
25:41
-respect.
25:42
Coming in to open the store.
25:43
I remember when I was only in like,
25:45
I think it was fifth or sixth grade,
25:46
I was opening the store.
25:49
And I remember the courage coming in the
25:52
morning and I was coming in with cash.
25:55
And I remember that.
25:57
And I also remember another time being in
25:58
the store and sometimes there could be some,
26:02
let's say some slight disagreements between the pressers.
26:07
Well, there was an issue where one, there
26:11
was a couple of pressers that were on
26:13
salary and there were a couple of the
26:14
pressers that were what we call, they got
26:16
paid by the piece.
26:16
So without getting too complicated, the piece was
26:21
the hanger.
26:21
So let's say if they did a dress,
26:24
so then they would put two together and
26:25
that would count as two, okay?
26:29
But one time, this one presser grabbed some
26:32
hangers, but he grabbed them in the wrong
26:33
side.
26:34
It was an honest mistake.
26:37
The one gentleman junior, I call him a
26:38
gentleman, he switched to knife blade, almost went
26:41
to this other gentleman, Sam's throat.
26:42
I was like, oh my gosh.
26:45
So miscommunication can cause very disastrous things, not
26:52
just like I didn't understand and I have
26:54
to redo something.
26:56
It can cause some people, they're that crazy
27:00
to react to harming or hurting somebody, taking
27:04
their life.
27:05
So that's not the norm, but communication is
27:08
very viable, right?
27:09
So that's a very important thing.
27:10
Number 28, guys, moving forward despite uncertainty.
27:15
Courage doesn't wait for certainty.
27:16
So if you're gonna wait for it, you
27:20
might as well just keep waiting your whole
27:21
life because it's never gonna show up.
27:22
There's never the perfect time to do it.
27:26
The time to do it is now, right?
27:28
That's important.
27:30
Number 29, courage and restraint.
27:32
Sometimes courage is not reacting like, oh my
27:34
gosh, what do I do?
27:36
Do it anyway.
27:38
Number 30, choosing action over avoidance.
27:42
Action dissolves avoidance.
27:44
And you know, guys, courage is not about
27:47
fearlessness.
27:48
It's about choosing movement anyway.
27:51
Sure, you might be afraid of something.
27:53
Do it anyway.
27:55
Small decisions done bravely create big momentum.
27:58
I remember being fearful of getting blood drawn.
28:01
I remember during the COVID time, you know,
28:04
getting the shot.
28:04
I just didn't like shots.
28:05
I was kind of fearful of that, but
28:06
I did it anyway.
28:07
And even the blood drawing did that.
28:10
And it actually wasn't so bad.
28:14
In fact, the only thing that happened with
28:15
the COVID thing, which was kind of interesting,
28:17
is that I was just saying to myself,
28:19
you know, it's gonna hurt.
28:19
Whatever it's gonna be, it's gonna hurt.
28:20
And I got the shot.
28:21
I was like, it actually, it hurt.
28:24
But I lived.
28:25
And I was like, they shoved it way
28:27
too hard.
28:28
I complained.
28:29
The next time I went for the second
28:30
round, they did it properly.
28:32
Well, they had a truck driver give me
28:34
the shot.
28:34
And that was probably a very big problem.
28:37
So as I said, small decisions done bravely
28:40
create big momentum.
28:41
And momentum is how fear loses its control.
28:45
So what are you waiting for, guys?
28:46
Start creating momentum and fear will get left
28:50
in the dust.
28:50
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29:04
I'm John C.
29:04
Morley, serial entrepreneur.
29:05
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