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Eleanor Roosevelt - You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed to kick start
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  your day in a positive way. I'm your host Anna McGivern for
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  August 16th. Today is National Roller Coaster
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  Day. What better metaphor is there
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  for life than the roller coaster?
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  The anticipation as you climb that first hill, The stomach
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  dropping plunge, the unexpected turns, the exhilarating loops,
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  and somehow by the end of the ride, you're laughing and ready
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  to go again. Each year on August 16th, people
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  flock to amusement parks for thrills, screams, and to
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  celebrate these magnificent machines of controlled chaos.
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  But roller coasters are more than just entertainment.
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  They're engineering marvels and they've been giving people the
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  safe experience of danger for over 150 years.
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  The first roller coaster in the United States was built at Coney
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  Island in 1884, and since then these gravity powered adventures
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  have evolved into incredible feats of engineering.
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  Today's roller coasters can launch you from zero to 120 mph
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  in seconds. That's 193 kilometers per hour,
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  flip you upside down multiple times, and somehow deliver you
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  safely back to the station with nothing but an adrenaline rush
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  and a huge grin. But here's what's beautiful
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  about roller coasters. They teach us something
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  important about fear, trust, and the joy that can come from
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  surrendering control. Which brings us to today's quote
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  from Eleanor Roosevelt, who once said you gain strength, courage,
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  and confidence by every experience in which you really
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  stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt understood
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  something that every roller coaster rider learns.
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  Facing fear doesn't just help you survive the scary thing, it
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  actually makes you stronger for the next challenge.
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  Think about your very first roller coaster ride.
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  You probably spent the entire wait in line terrified, maybe
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  reconsidering your decision with every step forward.
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  Your heart was pounding before you even got on, but somewhere
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  between that first terrifying drop and the final brake run,
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  something magical happened. You realized you could handle
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  it. You could face the fear and come
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  out on the other side, not just intact, but exhilarated.
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  That's exactly what Roosevelt was talking about.
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  Every time we choose to face something that scares us,
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  whether it's a roller coaster, a job interview, a difficult
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  conversation, a major life change, we're building our
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  capacity for courage. We're proving to ourselves that
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  we're stronger and braver than we think.
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  Roller coasters are perfect training grounds for life
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  because they offer controlled fear.
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  The engineers have done all the calculations, the safety systems
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  are all in place and millions of people have ridden before you.
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  The fear is real but the danger is minimal.
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  It's like a practice round for bigger, scarier challenges.
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  It would be cool if I could say that I used to be scared of
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  roller coasters and my kids finally convinced me to try 1
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  and I faced the fear and now I love roller coasters.
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  That would be a good story, but it isn't true.
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  I don't remember ever being scared of roller coasters.
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  I love them. The big old wooden ones, the
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  modern high speed looping ones. I love it.
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  I love the thrill of the perceived danger with the risk
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  engineered out. But as I get older, some of the
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  rides I used to love are a little less appealing.
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  But they're roller coasters. Still awesome.
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  So today, in honor of National Roller Coaster Day, think about
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  Eleanor Roosevelt's wisdom. What fear have you been avoiding
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  that might actually make you stronger if you faced it?
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  What roller coaster in your life are you standing in line for but
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  afraid to board? Remember, courage isn't the
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  absence of fear, it's feeling the fear and choosing to move
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  forward anyway. Sometimes the best way to build
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  confidence is to strap yourself in and enjoy the ride.
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  That's going to do it for today. May your fears become your
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  adventures, your challenges become your victories, and your
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  life be as thrilling as the best roller coaster.
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  I'm Anna McGivern signing up for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.