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How to control loss entry points  Sat (S5) S20:E1 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hello there everyone, it is John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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When you're ready for it, okay.
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All right.
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This master topic is focused on something very
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interesting, and that is how people adjust when
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life shifts.
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Do you adjust or do you like kind
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of buckle with it, right?
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And the episode focus for today, it's a
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Series 5, Show 20, episode number one, how
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attention overload shapes modern performance.
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Yes.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, a
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passionate lifelong learner, very grateful to be a
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published author.
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And I'm here with you here to share
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some amazing insights with you guys.
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So welcome everyone to the Inspirations for Your
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Life show.
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It is so great to have everyone here.
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Today I'm exploring something that is affecting every
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single person on this earth, operating in a
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digital fast moving environment that is.
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Attention overload.
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I know that could be hard.
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Not burnout today, not motivation, not mindset, attention.
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Because you see attention is the first system
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that breaks before performance, before decision making, and
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before execution ever fails.
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When attention fractures, everything, well, kind of goes
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downhill from there.
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It becomes unstable.
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You don't notice it immediately.
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It starts subtle and a missed detail, a
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slower decision, a small delay in focus, but
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over time it compounds into inconsistent output and
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reduced clarity.
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And this episode is all about understanding the
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process clearly and practically.
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Are you ready for that guys?
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All right.
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So how attention breaks down.
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Attention does not collapse instantly.
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It fragments.
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It splits across inputs, notifications, tasks, conversations, and
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the internal thoughts competing at the same time
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for your valuable energy.
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And when this all happens, the brain begins
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prioritizing reaction over direction.
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Here is what that looks like in real
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life.
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Attention splits across multiple inputs, reducing clarity.
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Decision speed slows under constant interruption.
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Priorities lose structure under competing demands.
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Tasks begin stacking without completion.
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Cognitive switching increases mental load.
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External input overrides internal planning.
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Focus shifts from direction to reaction.
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And work becomes fragmented across multiple threads.
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And so that's important to realize.
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And I think that can help us, again,
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to become a lot better in who we
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are and, you know, what we're doing in
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life.
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But I think sometimes it can get lost,
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right?
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Things can get unpredictable.
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Consistency starts to fall off.
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What is important here is not the individual
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symptom.
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It's not the symptom, guys.
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It's an ongoing thing of what's happening in
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our life.
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It is the pattern.
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When attention is divided, performance becomes reactive instead
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of intentional.
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And that's the shift, guys.
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Most people will never, ever notice until the
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output starts to decline or go downhill.
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And I think about that for a moment.
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You're going to say to myself, John, you
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know, that doesn't happen to me.
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It does.
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You're just not admitting it.
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You're with me.
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You don't have to hide it from anybody.
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OK, you're alone here tonight.
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The modern input, guys.
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The problem.
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We're not dealing with a lack of ability.
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We're all very smart.
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We're dealing with excessive input volume, overload.
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Every device, platform, and notification is competing for
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your valuable cognitive space.
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And the brain does not scale attention infinitely.
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Sorry, it's not like a processor that can
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infinitely or almost infinitely run processes.
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It reallocates it.
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So instead of deep focus, you get shallow
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switching.
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Instead of structured thinking, you get fragmented processing.
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Instead of completion, you get partial execution.
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And over time, this becomes the default operating
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mode that we're like, oh my gosh, I'm
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so tired.
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Work boundaries begin dissolving.
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Information overload reduces clarity.
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Planning cycles break under pressure.
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Tasks and the completion slow significantly.
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And mental processing becomes overload for us.
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Context switching becomes automatic.
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And work direction becomes unclear, foggy.
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Decision accuracy begins to decline.
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Operational control weakens.
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Workflow becomes externally driven.
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is not failure.
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Let me say that again.
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This is not failure.
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This is not failure.
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This is what happens when we get an
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information overload.
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It's our overload behavior.
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And I think that's important to recognize, is
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that when we get that overload, we don't
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need to be nasty.
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We don't need to be rude.
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We need to stop taking information in.
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We need to take a breath.
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We need to take a break.
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What people misread in life.
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OK.
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Most people misinterpret this as a lack of
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discipline.
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It is not.
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It is system saturation.
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When input exceeds processing capacity, performance becomes unstable.
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Even for highly capable individuals, we get into
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a very severe bottleneck.
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That is why intelligent people still struggle with
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consistency in high input environments.
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The issue is not the effort that they're
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going to put in.
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It is the load distribution.
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When everything demands attention at the same consecutive
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time, nothing receives processing depth.
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And therefore, nothing has enough energy to even
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complete.
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And that creates this whole chain of reaction,
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folks.
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Slower decisions, reduced clarity, incomplete execution, increased fatigue,
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lower confidence in output.
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And it's not because your ability changed.
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No, guys.
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Nothing to do with your ability.
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It's because the attention architecture collapsed under the
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stress overload of information.
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And you might say, well, I'm pretty smart.
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I can remember everything.
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And I bet you can.
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But there is a time it takes from
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when you put something in to the brain
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and it becomes permanent till it starts to
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say, OK, I get it.
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It's committed.
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It's one thing to understand.
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But it's another thing to understand so well
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that now becomes part of your memory on
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recall.
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That happens when we can put ourselves into
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the situation.
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Recovery begins, ladies and gentlemen, with restriction.
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With restriction.
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Recovery does not start with doing more.
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Most people say, oh, you know what?
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I got to work harder.
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Why do you want to work harder?
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It's just going to cause you more trouble,
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more challenges.
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What you really want to do is work.
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You ready, ladies and gentlemen?
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Smarter, not harder.
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Recovery does not start with doing more.
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Let me say that again.
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Recovery does not start with us doing more.
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It starts with reducing input pressure.
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When attention is protected, clarity returns naturally, not
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instantly.
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But predictably.
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The brain does not need motivation to recover
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focus.
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No, it needs space.
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Space to process.
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Space to think.
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Space to complete.
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And once that starts to happen, decision speed
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improves.
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Task completion, well, returns to stabilization mode.
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Focus becomes more consistent.
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Execution becomes more structured.
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Oh, guys, and here is the big kicker
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if you didn't know it.
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Output now becomes more predictable, more reliable, consistent.
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And the system begins returning to, well, the
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expected baseline of performance.
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That's pretty crazy, but it's the truth.
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Practical alignment.
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Here's what actually restores performance.
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Are you ready, guys?
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It's not theory.
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Structure.
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Single task execution, not multitasking.
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Reduced switching.
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Controlled input environments.
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That means you don't have a million different
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choices or parameters you have to be within.
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Clear priority sequencing.
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I think that's another very important one.
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When you reduce simultaneous input load, you increase
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cognitive depth per task.
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So if you're going to switch from one
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to another, that's OK.
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But you need to finish one task before
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you move to the other.
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I think a lot of us feel that
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if we could just do multiple things at
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the same time, we're going to be better.
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No, we're going to actually make more mistakes
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because our brain is still on task one
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and we're on task four.
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And it could be still making mistakes because
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it's not cognitive enough to understand the change.
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We're changing so quickly.
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And that is where performance actually returns.
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We'll call it our benchmark, guys.
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Because you see, clarity is not created.
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It is restored.
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It is restored.
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And so I think that's an important thing
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to acknowledge, that it gets to that mode.
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You've probably been in a class before or
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been in an environment before, maybe it was
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at work or what have you.
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And you're like, OK, enough.
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Enough is like too much information.
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I've had that in college, where the professor
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keeps talking.
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He doesn't realize we have not fully understood
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enough of part one.
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And you see, the part one is important
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because part two requires you to know part
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one.
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Part three requires you to know parts one
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and part two.
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And then you can build on part three.
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Part four requires you to know parts one,
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parts two, parts three, and then you can
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build successfully on part four.
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You can't build something on a structure that's
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unstable.
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Can't do it, guys.
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You have to first make an association with
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something you already know.
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Once you know something, you can build upon
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it.
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You can build upon it.
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And when I say you can build upon
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it, you build in a way that's going
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to help.
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And I can tell you that's a very
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important thing.
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It comes to an awareness.
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And I think awareness trips a lot of
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people up.
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They think that what we knew yesterday is
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the same today.
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But when you have awareness, you get deeper
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insights to something like, wait a minute.
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I never thought of it like that.
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I never realized it would work like that.
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You've been doing it all this time, and
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suddenly you had this, I'll call it an
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epiphany moment.
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An epiphany moment.
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I think that's a very important thing to
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realize, that you had an epiphany moment.
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An epiphany moment is when what you originally
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believed is now different than that predisposition.
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It also can mean something else.
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It can mean that you finally are able
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to associate the concepts to things outside of
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what's just in the book, outside of what's
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just being talked about.
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So if I teach you a method about,
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let's say, meditation.
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And you meditate in the book, but now
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if you meditate a certain way, then I
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know that you will eventually see it differently.
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Why?
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Oh, it's simple.
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It's because all the data that you have
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been gathering, and that's from things you see,
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hear, touch, taste, smell.
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Even the proprioception of your body, where you
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are with different parts of your body, start
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to give you data.
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And that data says to you, OK, I
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get this now, but this doesn't line up.
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This data doesn't match who I am.
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The data doesn't match.
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And the reason it doesn't match is you're
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now seeing that what somebody else told you
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was true is no longer true anymore.
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Once one of your ideals is challenged, it's
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like the whole belief structure just collapses.
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If you're on a stool, and the stool
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requires four legs for it to keep you
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stable, like the chair I'm in right now.
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If one of those legs falls off the
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chair, you're on the ground.
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A wise mentor once told me there's three
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important things to a three-legged stool.
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Stool.
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Desire, belief, and expectancy.
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This is a stool that's a three-legged
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stool.
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And you can have three-legged stools.
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Desire, belief, and expectancy.
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So if the desire is gone, the stool
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falls.
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If the belief disappears, the stool falls.
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If the expectancy dwindles, the stool falls.
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You might say, well, John, well, what if
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one was stronger?
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Doesn't matter.
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Because once you lose a support in one
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direction, there's no way to get support back
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in that direction again.
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There's just no way to do it.
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And people that are trying to do it
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over and over again are saying, wow, this
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is interesting, right?
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But they don't realize the potential.
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They don't realize the potential.
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The potential that life can be different.
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But that life is only different when you
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change your beliefs.
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When what you think about is now being
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rethought again.
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And that can be something, I think, that
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a lot of people are afraid to share.
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Because they're taught that this is the way
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it has to believe.
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You have to believe, for example, the sky
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is blue.
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It is.
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But you have to believe that.
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The minute you don't believe the sky is
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blue, then everything else they're doing just falls
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out.
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I think a lot of people are taught
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rules.
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But they don't necessarily believe the rules.
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They do them because they think they have
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to.
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But they've never decided, is this a rule
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that we need to pay attention to?
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Or is this a rule that I'm being
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told to follow?
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And not about you, but rules that you
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are given that you don't understand.
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Not because you don't want to follow them,
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but I always like to know, why was
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this rule made?
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Not challenging.
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I just want to know, why was it
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made?
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Why was it made?
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And you might be saying, John, it's pretty
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interesting.
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But interesting and agreement are two different things.
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If we can understand that, then our whole
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life can be shifted into, I'm going to
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say, a perspective.
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A perspective that many people will not bother
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to think about.
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Not because they can't, but because their belief
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is changing.
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Their belief is changing.
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That's important, guys.
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That's important.
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I think that's hard for a lot of
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people to understand.
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I think it's that way because they're thinking
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something has to be some way.
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And once you know that you can change
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something, your life becomes magical.
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Your life becomes magical.
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And when I say magical, I say that
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in a way that helps you to understand
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that you're not locked into a room.
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You're not restrained in a black box.
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You have potential.
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You have possibilities.
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But when control gets lost, people are like,
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I don't know if I can do this.
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Forget I don't know if I can do
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this.
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You get all these feelings of frustration.
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And entry points that we're talking about tonight
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are understanding if we can know, let's say
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there's a pool.
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And let's say there's a leak in that
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pool, hypothetically.
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If we know how to prevent the leak
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where they are, we can definitely save things
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if we know how to prevent that leak.
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We have to know where the leak is.
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We have to know where it is.
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And I think that's a very important thing
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for a lot of people to recognize.
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We have to know that we can change.
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We have to know that we can change.
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I think that's the hardest thing for most
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people is to realize a change is possible.
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But knowing where your weak points are, knowing
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where, let's say, your weekends are.
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You suddenly can say, you know what?
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I need to change this.
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The reason I need to change this is
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because I want to have a better life.
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I want to not push or pull.
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I want to allow things to just flow
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into my life without much effort.
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Now, in the beginning, this can't happen.
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But when you start to build a flow,
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a pathway of it, guess what happens?
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The flow starts.
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Does anybody know how to start the water
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flow in a well?
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So how do you, let's say, start the
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water flow in a new well that you
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dug?
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How do you start it?
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Well, starting the water flow in a new
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well, first of all, you have to clean
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it.
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You have to basically do a lot of
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drilling to get the sediment up.
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You have to install a pump, submersible, obviously,
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for the deep, and then a jet for
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the shallow, and sealing the casing to prevent
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any contamination.
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So you have submersible for the deep end,
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and you have a jet, basically, for the
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shallow.
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And you seal the casing to prevent the
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contamination.
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And the well must be drilled below the
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water table, at which the point gravity causes
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water to fill the hole.
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I think a lot of people think you
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just start a well easily.
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You don't.
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Wells can last for many, many years, but
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they're also maintenance.
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But once you put the time and the
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money in to have a good well, that
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well's gonna last you many, many years.
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Many, many years.
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Many years.
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So my point here tonight is that everyone
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has weak points.
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We have to find out what they are,
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and we have to augment them with other
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resources so those weak points can get filled,
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like the hole in our pool or in
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our pipes.
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Attention, ladies and gentlemen, is not just a
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mental function.
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This is what I want you to understand.
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It is the operating system behind every decision
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you make, every decision you make.
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When it fragments, everything downstream becomes unstable.
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When it stabilizes, everything downstream improves basically automatically.
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This is why attention is not just important.
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You know what it is, guys?
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It's foundational.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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You've been watching or listening to Inspirations for
27:16
Your Life.
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And you know, guys, I want you to
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know that the show here has helped to
27:25
inspire you to become better than what you
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are right now.
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Remember, guys, performance does not begin with action.
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It begins with what you allow into your
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attention.
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And if we can know what you allow
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into your attention, then our life can be
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pretty amazing, could be, well, pretty remarkable if
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you ask me.
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But we have to understand that.
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We have to know this is a process
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and we know that we get better every
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single time, guys.
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Every single time we continue to get better.
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I think that's probably the most important thing
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I can tell you is that we get
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better all the time.
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Yeah, we get better all the time.
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So that's a very important thing to realize
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that we actually get better all the time.
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And when you think about these things and
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we think about where things are going, you're
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gonna say to me, oh my gosh, this
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And I'm gonna catch you guys real soon.
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Take care, everyone.
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Be well.
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And remember, you can control those weak points
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and make them even better and augment the
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challenges.