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Season 3 - Episode 62 - Be the most curious person you know! · 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 coop.
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  So today we are talking about being curious and the power of
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  being curious in the sense that if you focus your attention on
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  being the most curious person you can be, how it shifts your
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  life. So curiosity to me is a
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  superpower. People will often, you know,
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  wonder about what their gifts are and if they have any gifts,
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  and that often comes up where I don't know what my gifts are.
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  Well, there are some really basic gifts that we all have,
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  but we radically underuse. And curiosity is to me, an
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  absolute superpower, and one of the ones that I think is so
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  intrinsically underused and shamefully so because it is a
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  true and just a gift from have and above.
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  Because it is something that is so built into us as human
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  beings, but we shut it down because we think, well, I don't
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  want people to think I'm nosy if I ask questions or I don't want
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  to seem stupid. That's the one that typically we
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  hear, you know, I want to seem asking questions because I don't
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  want to seem stupid. Well boy, that's the one that
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  kills me because I will say this, it is absolutely a state
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  of robbing yourself when you go to that place.
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  Because how in God's name are we supposed to learn anything if
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  we're not curious and asking questions and putting ourselves
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  out there and being super curious?
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  When I was little, I was even more curious than I am now, and
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  I think I'm hyper curious now, obviously because of what I do.
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  I ask people questions all day long and try to help them figure
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  things out for themselves. But when I was little, I was an
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  absolute obsessive reader. I was constantly curious about
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  things and I asked lots of questions and I talked a lot and
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  I had lots of ideas and I would throw things out and ask
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  teachers. And I spent a lot of time in
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  trouble for that trait. My middle school years, 6th, 7th
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  and 8th grade, were not my happiest years of my life, and
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  in fact, they were probably like most of us, some of the most
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  miserable years of my life. And there were a series of
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  teachers at that point in time that really tried to.
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  One particular one really tried to break me of the habit of
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  asking questions and talking and being curious and constantly
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  telling me that I needed to be quiet.
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  I needed to just listen, sit there and conform.
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  That was a word he would use. Just conform.
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  Would you please just conform? And it was very, very difficult
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  for me. My parents, you know, they did
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  the best they could with what they had.
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  But I was a very good student. I had very good grades.
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  So they couldn't understand when I would complain, well, you're
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  getting good grades. So the evidence on that side was
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  don't worry about her, she's fine.
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  But internally for me it created a a place of anxiety.
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  It created a place where I questioned myself constantly
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  because I couldn't believe that in some way, shape or form that
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  I was in a spot where I couldn't ask questions and I was
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  constantly, like I said, in trouble.
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  So much that I spent a good portion of 6th, 7th and 8th
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  grade with my desk facing a wall at the back of the room and
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  having to work all by myself way at the back of the room.
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  I also had to spend hours writing dictionary for asking
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  questions or talking, and it was an arduous process.
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  But here's the and the reason I'm telling you the story
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  because I didn't give up and I was so like, OK, I'm just not
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  I'm not changing this I because it was the burning desire inside
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  of me to be curious. And at the time when I was
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  little, there were no and when I was in 6th, 7th and 8th grade,
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  there was no Internet to go to. At that point in time.
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  It was just starting off, but we certainly didn't have it.
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  And it was not something that I had the privilege of having a,
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  you know, access to. I was on my own with this, and
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  it was old school books, reading things, learning about them, and
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  of course asking questions. And I just never, ever, ever
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  gave up on that fact that I was going to shift that part of
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  myself because I knew inside. Somehow, someway, I knew inside
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  that it was OK to do this. I don't know how.
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  I can't explain to you how I knew it, but I always said
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  someday I'm going to make sure everybody knows that being this
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  curious and being this way is not something that's, you know,
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  a detriment to who you are as a person.
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  It's actually a superpower, and it's a gift.
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  Because of that curiosity, because of my intense
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  questioning, because of the way that I allowed myself to
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  progress through this process, I ended up working for some of the
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  coolest people in the world and them complimenting me on the
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  fact that I had a different way of thinking.
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  And it was all because of that root of me never giving up the
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  ability to be curious and to just pour into it.
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  Why is this important to you? Because I know somebody out
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  there listening has been told the same things that I've been
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  told. I know somebody out there
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  listening is curious and doesn't want to disrupt the the car, if
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  you will, and ask questions and put themselves out there.
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  And I'm just telling you that. Don't give up on your
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  superpower. Be the person that learns.
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  Be an avid learner. Ask questions.
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  Look for those pieces that you can plug into yourself that make
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  you feel like wow, I learned something today everyday.
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  Make it a goal to be curious and learn something new everyday.
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  Pour into this piece of yourself and you will start to see how
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  much more in world you are appreciated and called upon.
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  Because most people walk around completely disconnected.
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  As we know, watching TikTok completely checked out and not
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  it's connecting with anybody and learning anything.
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  So if you do yourself this favor, you will be a standout
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  and that's why you're here, right?
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  You're showing up here because you want to figure out how to be
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  a standout or curiosity is a way to do it.
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  So I hope you have an incredibly blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow.