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Irving Berlin - Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com. Welcome to The Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Irving Berlin, the legendary composer who wrote
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  White Christmas, God Bless America and hundreds of other
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  American classics. He once said life is 10% what
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  you make it and 90% how you take it, 10% what you make it, 90%
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  how you take it. That ratio is important.
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  Berlin's not saying what happens to you doesn't matter.
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  That's the 10% it matters. But the 90% that's entirely up
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  to you. That's your response, your
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  interpretation, your attitude toward what happened.
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  Most people have this backwards. They think life is 90%
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  circumstances and maybe 10% attitude.
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  They believe their happiness depends almost entirely on
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  external events. But Berlin lived through
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  poverty, prejudice, and personal tragedy.
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  He knew better. He knew that what happens to you
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  is far less important than how you respond to what happens.
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  Two people can experience the same set back.
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  One person sees it as the end, the other sees it as
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  redirection. Same event.
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  There's the 10% but the different response.
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  That's the 90%. Completely different outcome.
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  If you get rejected from a job, you can take it as I'm not good
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  enough or that wasn't the right fit.
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  It's the same rejection, just a different interpretation and a
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  different future. If you face a challenge, you can
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  take it as that is impossible, or you could say this is
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  interesting. Same challenge, different
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  attitude, and there will be a different result.
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  Berlin showing us where our power actually lives, not in
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  controlling what happens, that's only 10%, but in controlling how
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  we respond, that's 90%. So here's the question, what's
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  happening right now that you're letting control your attitude?
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  Remember, that's only the 10% and you get 90%.
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  That's where your power is. How are you going to take it?
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  That's it for today. I'm annually Gibbons signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.
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  Yeah.