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Season 4 - Episode 239 - The learning curve · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  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.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop talking about learning new
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  things. So Full disclosure, I'm in the
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  midst of throwing myself into learning all about video,
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  whether it's shooting it, whether it's trying to make it
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  better, whether it's scripting it, whether it's editing it.
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  I've made a commitment to myself over the last month that I'm
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  really going to learn it. So I understand what the
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  capabilities are. Now, anyone who follows me
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  regularly knows I'm obsessed with photos.
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  And I'm, you know, I, I have a camera with me all the time in
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  the phone. But I also have a very
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  sophisticated Canon system and I use that system to take pictures
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  of close up things mostly. I do have a very big lens that
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  lets me photograph things like birds and far away and whatnot.
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  But most of my stuff that I really love, love, love to
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  shoot. I love shooting birds.
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  Don't get me wrong. I mean photographs, not shooting
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  birds, so to speak, but I love photographing them.
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  But I with the big lens. But I have a special place in my
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  heart for macro photography. And this this came about many,
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  many years ago when I got one of my first cameras, which was a
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  Polaroid. My dad got me one of those
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  Polaroids that shoot out the the piece of film that's already the
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  photo. And I was probably like 8 years
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  old and I was burning through that film because if you
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  remember way back when, you probably even still now that you
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  only get so many pieces of it. And I was constantly burning
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  through that film trying to get pictures of things that were
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  close up. And you just can't really do it
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  with that format, but I would try incessantly.
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  So one of the first things I did when I got into art school was
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  to make sure that I had a camera that had a lens that I could
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  photograph things close up. And even still, it wasn't macro
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  enough. So I, I got, as I got older and
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  I could afford better equipment, I was like, OK, I'm going to get
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  100mm macro lens and I'm going to start noticing everything
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  around me. So I think I'm pretty good at
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  it, right? Like I do, I think I'm pretty
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  good at what I do with it. But then there are times when I
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  shock myself with what I notice because I slow down and I gear
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  down and I have to really think about it.
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  Like I have to say to myself, it's time to gear down.
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  And that's what I did the other day when I started photographing
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  the the water garden and getting really close up on things, just
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  noticing every little piece of it.
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  Then I started thinking to myself, OK, so I want to know
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  how to film those things because guess what?
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  When you go to film something like that, it's a very different
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  world. And this is how the whole thing
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  came about, about me learning filming and editing and all this
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  stuff. Because I really want to be able
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  to take my skills over to a video level as well as a
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  photography level. But I know nothing about it.
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  And let's face it, I run a full time business.
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  I'm a mom to a 16 year old boy. And I mean that.
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  I'm still responsible for my daughter's out on her own, but
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  but yet I'm still doing things with her and her family.
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  I mean, I am busy all the time. I've got a lot of clients very
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  grateful for that. Would never say anything
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  negative about that because there's nothing negative to say.
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  I love every one of them. If you're a client and you're
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  listening, please know you're loved and cared for in any way
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  that I can. I think I demonstrate that all
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  the time to all of you. But in any event, I have to try
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  to find like, quote UN quote, find the time to put this in.
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  So I go, I'm discussing this with my coach and we talk about
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  how I don't believe in like, you know, quote UN quote finding
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  time. I slot the time.
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  So it's I'm going to get up really early and I'm going to
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  Start learning this editing and I'm going to start doing certain
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  things with it. Well, here's the issue.
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  I'm very good at setting timers when I'm writing to learn
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  things. I can go and I'll write for 30
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  minutes and I'll get up and walk away.
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  But when I'm in the middle of learning visual things like
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  editing or filming or trying to understand how to make something
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  better from that aspect, boy am IA little bit different.
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  I find it excruciatingly hard to just stop and get up and walk
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  away and switch gears. Now I've known forever that I
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  don't switch gears. Well, when I'm in the middle of
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  doing something, I just want to keep doing it.
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  And then I have to have her either a break with food or I
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  have to have a break with sleep. That kind of says, OK, now we're
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  going to go do something else. Otherwise, my brain is all
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  bought into whatever we're doing.
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  But this, this is like so creative to me.
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  And learning is so much fun to me, especially when it's stuff
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  like this that I just get hunkered down.
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  So the reason I'm telling you all of this is because I have to
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  shift my approach right now in order to get it done.
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  Otherwise, I have to pull like a series of all nighters in order
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  to learn it. Even at a basic level.
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  I've got to break it up. I've got to break it up.
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  So I recognize this and I'm saying to myself, OK, this is
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  such a good confession to make about how I'm going to be
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  forcing myself to change my approach with this.
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  And I'm going to be doing it in chunks.
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  And we're going to see how this goes.
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  We're going to see how patient I can be finally have my energy
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  back after being sick. I mean, six, 5 1/2 weeks of
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  being off kilter and not having your full energy sucks.
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  And I feel for people who go through that more often than I
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  do. It's not fun, but I finally have
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  it back. So we're going to be working on
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  that. We're going to be working on
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  some other filming and putting it all together.
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  But learning this is a big learning curve and I'm changing
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  my approach. So when you are in the need of
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  doing something different, be open to changing your approach,
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  my friends, because it can make all the difference and dive into
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  it. It's going to change you for the
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  better. OK my friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.