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Season 2 - Episode 347 - How to gain profound insight · 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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  Do you have any idea how to gain profound insight in a situation?
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  So this is a coaching trick that I want to teach you all today.
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  And how you gain profound insight is by really listening
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  and asking yourself to stay in a very curious state of mind and
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  to be present 1000% or as much as you can be present.
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  Because I always measure how how can humans really judge their
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  presence? But I'm going to say as much as
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  you can be present, be present and see what you can learn from
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  being in that place of curiosity.
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  Now when you start to have a conversation with somebody or
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  you start to look at situations out there and you're you're
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  trying to take things in, like, you know, you're just trying to
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  say something is terrible, something is awful.
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  We don't know. There's a lot of awful things
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  going on in the world. If we choose to really study
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  them, we can find out a lot of insight about those things.
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  And sometimes what we have to do is give ourselves the gift of
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  saying, I'm going to ask the good questions right now.
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  Because if I ask good questions, there's a very good possibility
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  that I'm going to learn things and I'm going to get some
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  insight into things. And rarely, rarely are things
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  just about what they seem to be. Rarely are they that they're
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  much more complex. And we like to believe it's
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  simple. We try to simplify things, but
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  that doesn't always work. You can't simplify things.
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  And even when you think you know stuff, you probably don't know
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  stuff. So you have to recognize that
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  profound insight comes from curiosity.
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  Profound insight comes from deeply listening.
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  Profound insight comes from study.
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  You cannot just randomly say I'm going to look something up, read
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  one paragraph, and be an expert on it.
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  And you also can't do that with people.
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  You can't assume that you're going to know everything about a
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  person in that moment. You're not ever going to know
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  absolutely everything about somebody, because people really
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  don't share all the things that are there.
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  And when they do share everything, often times we say,
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  well, that person's crazy, that person's nutty.
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  And that's not going to work. We we, we clear is know who's
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  going to share with you when you think they're crazy.
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  Nobody. Nobody's going to share with you
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  when you think they're crazy. So the most important aspect
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  that you can give as a gift to basically yourself and to
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  anybody else is to recognize that there is a gift.
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  In the profound listening piece, there is a gift in asking the
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  questions. There's a gift in giving
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  somebody the time and the space to be themselves and be able to
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  share what their deepest thoughts are.
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  And then you're going to have the profound insight.
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  Now, if it's a subject you're studying, you're not necessarily
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  talking to people about it. You're just studying it.
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  You're taking it out of books. It tends to be that you know you
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  have to. In order to gain profound
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  insight, you have to read different types of books.
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  You can't really read just one side of things.
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  So you know you you must look at all different points of view.
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  And we as a culture are losing our ability to have profound
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  insight because we shelter ourselves in our in the position
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  that we take up and then we stay in that position and then we
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  look for information that will support our argument, support
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  our beliefs. But that's not the way to
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  actually be able to gain profound insight.
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  All that is, is giving yourself the ability to understand that
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  you are right. And that's not necessarily
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  profound insight, is it? You know, because you might not
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  be right. But you certainly can argue the
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  point for it, because you've been studying how to prove your
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  point. But when you really want
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  insight, when you want to really know something, you have to look
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  at it from multiple sides. And at this time in our world,
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  there is nothing more important than looking at things from
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  different points of view, because not every point of view
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  is an absolute correct, not every point.
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  And sometimes there will be anecdotal situations that show
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  up and sometimes there will be more than anecdotal situations
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  that show up. But you absolutely can do
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  yourself the favor. Lift your intelligence, lift
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  your ability to be able to learn and influence by recognizing
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  that in order to have that, that level of profound insight into
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  something, you must look at all sides and you must ask curious
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  questions. And you must be able to talk to
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  different people, read different books, take in all these
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  different levels of it, ask and listen and really put yourself
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  in a position of neutrality. And then you will find out some
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  magical things, my friends. All right, I will see you all
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  tomorrow. And I hope you have a blessed
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  day. Bye.