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Season 4 - Episode 17 - The tests are not always accurate · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. Today we are talking about
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  people and their behavior and us coming to quick judgement on it.
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  So often times I get asked about, you know, how do how do
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  you assess someone so quickly and how can you figure out
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  what's happening? Well, for me, my whole world
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  revolves around emotions and reactions.
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  So mindset is built up of many different parts of this and
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  understanding emotion and which emotion is present is really
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  important. And you can in the moment read
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  people and what's going on. But oftentimes, especially in
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  the work environment, we are given things like personality
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  tests. You know, I had a client who
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  just recently had to take three different tests to get a job.
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  And I mean, this is insane when you start thinking about the,
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  the company is looking for certainty.
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  Like, let's face it, the company is looking for certainty.
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  So they're going to give three different types of tests to see
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  if they can catch the person. Because here's what we know
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  about these tests. While they are effective in
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  certain areas, they are not conclusive.
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  Nothing is conclusive when it comes to human beings and their
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  emotional reactions. Yes, we can figure out threads.
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  Let me be very clear. There may be a thread of things,
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  but change the conditions and the responses there.
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  So what got me really focused on this was, one, my poor client
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  who had to take 3 tests. And two, there's this little
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  phrase that we always use around here talking about, you know,
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  the challenges when your reality runs into your ideology, that's
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  when you're going to have something show up.
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  And boy, isn't that true. Because I am the person who
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  loves all the animals. I don't like to kill anything in
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  the house. I will catch a spider in a jar,
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  put them outside, you know, just always attempting to take that
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  very humane, very spiritual approach to it.
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  And then we have this situation with the chickens where these we
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  have a currently we have a hawk that is gigantic bigger than my
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  smallest dog. And this hawk is coming through
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  like it's a Chick-fil-A Dr. thru attempting to get my girls.
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  Now here's what's really great. My Roosters are on it.
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  They're paying attention. I also bribe all all the crows
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  in the neighborhood to come here and hang out by giving them
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  peanuts, and crows don't like Hawks at all so they will go
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  crazy when they're in the neighborhood.
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  You can tell immediately when there's a hawk around because
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  the crows start screaming as soon as they see it.
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  So yesterday afternoon, this gigantic crow, for the third day
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  in a row, makes an attempt to get one of the chickens.
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  We can hear the crows go off almost instantaneously.
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  The Roosters are freaking out trying to protect the hens.
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  And then you hear the screaming because a hen gets hit.
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  Now, she didn't die, which was wonderful.
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  However, in that moment I change my complete focus and I am no
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  longer the person that doesn't want to kill anything.
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  I want the hawk gone because it's attempting to take my
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  chickens. I open the door to my studio.
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  I scream to Beaufort go, Beaufort go and he takes off
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  running and figures out where the hawk is sitting in the tree
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  and puts his like jumps up onto the tree.
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  Obviously can't climb it, but he's got his feet on the tree
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  barking and the hawk takes off. So the story, moral of the story
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  is chicken is fine. However, we're still sitting
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  here with this belief system that's like in conflict with the
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  reality. And often times this is the
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  case. So when somebody says, you know,
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  how do you do this? How do you test somebody?
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  How do you go through all of this process and know you've got
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  a good person, or I'm being judged for something, or you're
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  judging people in the world very quickly on something?
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  It's very situational, my friends.
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  You have to realize there are multiple, multiple things
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  happening at the same time, which is what makes emotions so
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  tricky. So when you're passing a quick
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  judgment, you've got to be really careful about it because
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  nine times out of 10, that is not the best thing to do.
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  It's observational and I am always certain to tell my
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  clients that while I can give you information about this
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  emotion showing up in this situation, you change the
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  parameters of the situation and everything changes again.
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  So very, very important for everybody to hear when you are
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  working with someone, when you are dealing with someone, no,
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  you are dealing with certain conditions.
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  Now we can look at people and say, oh, this is her or his or
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  their mood overall, this is what they're doing overall, and we
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  would probably be correct 80% of the time, but there's always
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  that factor. So the unknown factor has to be
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  thought of as much as possible because that's how you make sure
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  you're not being judgy for no reason.
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  So hopefully that's helpful. And remember, same thing with
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  you. Don't judge yourself so much
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  because conditions change and we've got to be aware of it.
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  So if we're aware, we can always ride it.
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  But that's the thing, be aware and then you get to choose.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.