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Vincent van Gogh - "If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot 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 Vincent van Gogh, one of the most influential painters
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  in history, who once said, if you hear a voice within you say
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  you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will
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  be silenced. Van Gogh isn't saying ignore the
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  voice. He's not saying think positive
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  thoughts until it goes away. He's saying do the exact thing
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  the voice says you can't do, and the doing itself will silence
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  it. And here's why that works.
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  That voice isn't giving you information.
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  It's giving you fear disguised as truth.
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  You cannot paint. Sounds like a fact, like the
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  voice knows something about your abilities, but it doesn't.
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  It's just trying to keep you safe, keep you from failing, and
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  keep you from being embarrassed. And the only way to prove it
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  wrong is to do the thing anyways.
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  When you paint, when you actually put brush to canvas
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  despite the voice, one of two things will happen.
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  Either you discover that you can paint and the voice was lying,
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  or you paint badly, survive it, and realize the voice was wrong
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  about that being a catastrophe. Either way, the voice loses
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  power because it's been tested against reality and found
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  wanting. The voice only has power when
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  you listen to it, when you let it stop you without checking if
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  it's telling the truth. Van Gogh heard that voice
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  constantly. He struggled with doubt, with
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  mental illness and criticism. The voice told him he couldn't
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  paint, that his work was worthless, that he should give
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  up. And he painted anyway, thousands
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  of paintings. And now, long after his death,
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  his work is celebrated worldwide.
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  Voice was wrong, and it took painting to prove it.
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  Van Gogh was right that doing silence is the voice, not the
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  other way around. So here's the question.
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  What voice is telling you that you can't do something?
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  And what would happen if you did it anyway?
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  Because that voice isn't giving you facts, it's giving you fear,
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  and the only way to silence it is to test it against reality.
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  And by all means, do the thing and watch the voice disappear.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, 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.