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Season 4 - Episode 49 - The power of an Earworms! · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  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. OK, how many of you have heard
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  of the theory of an ear worm? You know, we all have heard them
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  in the in the out in the real world.
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  But when you really think of what is an ear worm, well,
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  basically an ear worm is a song that gets stuck in your head and
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  obviously through hearing and it stays with you and you can't get
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  it out. And I apologize for the fact
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  that I'm going to even mention the words Baby Shark, but we all
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  know that song over years is the most annoying song.
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  But babies love it. And we all say Oh my gosh, I
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  don't even understand why. Why does the baby love it so
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  much? And we've had other songs that
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  get stuck in our head. There was a whole Seinfeld
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  episode about a song being stuck in in George's head and how
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  Jerry kept telling him it was going to make him insane and how
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  this happens to us. Well, you have to realize there
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  is a plan in that. And part of that plan when they
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  create an ear worm is repetition, repetition,
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  repetition. Why repetition?
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  Because the brain learns and remembers through repetition.
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  That's why there's always a chorus in a song.
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  So when we why do we love music as human beings, why are we so
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  drawn to it? Because of the repetition.
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  And there's an art to repetition.
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  There's an art to making it happen, which is why music is so
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  important to all of us because the, the melody, the, the, the
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  pace, the tone, all of it matters.
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  And a big, huge part of it is repetition.
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  So let's stop and pause for a second here and think about
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  this. If an ear worm can start because
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  of a song, you know, like when you get back to baby shark God,
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  that song, we all know, it gets in there instant.
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  It's catchy, it has a phrase, a hook.
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  We we get pulled into it and then it and it runs.
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  Every great writer who writes music understands this and they
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  look for it. They make it into their music
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  because they want you to remember their music, even if
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  you can just remember the chorus.
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  So why is that important to us? Well, when you recognize that
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  the brain learns through repetition.
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  When you recognize that the brain loves repetition, that's
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  why we are creatures of habit. We all know it.
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  We all say we have our habits. It's why if you paid attention
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  and you brush your teeth in the morning, you always start on the
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  same side. When you get in the shower, you
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  wash the same way. You wash your body in the same
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  patterns. When you put socks on, you put
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  them on the same way. When you get dressed, you get
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  dressed the same way. We have patterns and remember
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  the old phrase, I got up on the wrong side of the bed?
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  Well, that's because we have a habit of where we get up and if
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  we have something throws us off, we have a bad morning or
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  something throws us out of our pattern.
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  That's when we start to go awry. Now, all of this, including the
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  earworm, is so important to us because when we are talking to
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  ourselves, we are repeating. Most of the time we are
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  repeating the wrong things. And if we can remember to ask
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  ourselves the very important distinct question of am I giving
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  myself the right information right now, or am I repeating the
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  wrong things? Am I repeating the things I
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  don't want to repeat to myself? Super important question.
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  Because if we're saying to ourselves, oh, I'm just dumb,
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  nothing's going to work. I don't understand why this
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  didn't work and we just keep looping.
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  We're not going to get anywhere. We're going to have the same
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  problems over and over and over again because we are in that
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  loop that the ear worm creates and we're building it for
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  ourselves. So we've become our own internal
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  ear worm and we have to stop it, which is why breaking the
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  phrases is so important, which is why rhyming is so important.
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  So if you have mantras or you have affirmations that you've
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  made for yourself and you know, we've talked about these many
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  times over the years together, but it does help if you create
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  rhyming ones. It does help if you have a
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  phrase that's why in the in the bus book and who's driving your
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  bus, there's that phrase that says stop, reflect, choose,
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  redirect. It rhymes.
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  It rhymes for a reason. That was an actual planned thing
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  that it rhymed easier to remember earworm, earworm,
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  earworm. So create your own earworms in
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  your own patterns and you're going to start to see a
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  distinction. And this was, this is really
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  funny because I will tell you I do not.
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  I've written children's books that rhyme and I love rhyming.
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  I obsessed with Doctor Seuss, but guess what?
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  I don't have mantras that rhyme. And I was going through some old
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  stuff, listening to the power of Auto suggestion by an old French
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  author. And Emil Cote, I think it's how
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  you say his last name. I probably butchered it, but in
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  any event, and and was this is where this got all prompted from
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  auto suggestion. And I had this random thought
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  about, I wonder why none of it rhymes because that would be so
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  much better. And then I started doing some
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  research and ran into a bunch of stuff again about the power of
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  the ear worm. And I was like, OK, I need to go
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  rewrite mine some of them and I want to make them rhyme.
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  So here's an assignment if you would care to indulge me.
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  Go look at your mantras and see how you can make them rhyme.
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  Even if you get just one phrase that like feels like you can
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  make it rhyme and create your own ear worm.
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  See how it goes because I'm going to be doing the same thing
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  this week. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.