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Season 5 - Episode 58 - 40% of our world comes through our eyes · 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.
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  And also. Happened.
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  To be. A farmer.
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here every day to
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  record a podcast to teach distinctions, possibilities, new
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  ways of thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. Here's a little statistic for
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  you that I find absolutely fascinating.
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  Neuroscience tells us that we obviously we all know we
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  interpret the world through our eyes.
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  But neuroscience says that 40% of what we think we see comes
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  from our eyes. The rest of it is made-up of
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  patterns that we have learned over time and have taken into
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  memory. So think about this.
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  If that's true, then the situations we're seeing and
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  experiencing are are mostly interpretations.
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  Now, I don't know about those statistics and I don't know how
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  accurate they are, but when you hear it and you know it comes
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  from a science based organizational way of doing
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  things, it puts you back and it makes you stop and think, OK,
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  can I believe my lying eyes? And I love that phrase.
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  Like it's like my lying eyes are telling me this.
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  And why is this so important to us?
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  Well, one, we have to make sure that we're checking in with
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  ourselves to regularly stay calm enough to say, let me see what
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  did I really see? Pause, interpret the
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  information, and then come up with our list of what else could
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  it be? That's where this powerful
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  question comes in. Like what else could it be?
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  Because when we do that, then we, we, we, we recognize that
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  we've got this opportunity to give ourselves the spectrum of
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  what it could be and really see a spectrum of what it could be.
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  I, I just, I do this constantly with my clients where we'll have
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  conversations about OK. That's what you saw.
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  OK, great. Yeah, that that could be it, but
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  it could also be this, or it could be this or it could be
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  this. It could be this.
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  And then they pause, and they. Go wow, I didn't think of those
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  other ones, right? That's exactly what this is
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  talking about. So we have to stop and pause and
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  take that that that part of the world in and twist ourselves
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  sometimes into a pause, because sometimes it's hard when you see
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  something, you want to react, you want to be impulsive, you
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  want to see it, but you have to make sure that, quote UN quote,
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  your lying eyes are actually giving you true information or
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  as true as we can be. Because again, especially when
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  we're dealing with other humans, we don't always have a very
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  clear understanding that they don't see things the way we do.
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  No matter what, everyone's interpreting it different.
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  Like I always wonder, does this color show up the same to this
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  person as it does to me? Does this feel the same way as
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  to me as it does to this person? And we're all just doing our
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  best to interpret, but we're like in our little silos in our
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  head and our bodies trying to interpret.
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  So it's very, it's very challenging as a human to be
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  able to do that with other people.
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  Now, the second part of this that's so insane to me is this
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  is what makes it so easy to be manipulated.
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  Like really think about this for a second.
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  If this is true and you are experiencing something different
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  than someone else and they are better at presenting their
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  argument than you, you are being manipulated and you're being,
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  you know, pulled down an alleyway that says hey, question
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  yourself and really look and say, hey, I, I, I really believe
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  this is what my interpretation was.
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  This other person or these other people or advertisers,
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  especially advertisers can completely manipulate us as
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  human beings. We can get pulled in, see what
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  we want to see, and then get pulled into what they see.
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  So why are we so easily manipulated?
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  Well, it's because we really haven't hunkered down into what
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  stuff means to us before we react to it.
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  And we have to know what that is.
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  So I, I absolutely will say I have become over the years
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  slower in processing when I'm making decisions for myself.
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  That's why like no joke, I actually have about 80 tabs open
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  on my browser, on my computer, because I might think I want
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  something and I will let it sit in the cart or I will keep going
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  back to the tabs and have, you know, processing time to decide
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  if I want to do it. Now, I'm not like that all the
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  time. I've become better at processing
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  so that I don't make those mistakes of impulse and buy
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  something that sucks or buy into somebody's doctrine or just say,
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  Oh yeah, that's fantastic immediately.
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  Now. Am I still quick to make
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  decisions? Yes.
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  I I, I am very quick to make decisions that are necessary in
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  the moment. What I'm not quick to do is be
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  manipulated anymore, and that's because I'm willing to pause.
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  So when you recognize that only 40% comes through your eyes, you
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  have to stop and pause and say, how am I processing this?
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  Is this just memory? Is this the patterns?
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  What am I doing? And am I being manipulated?
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  Because that will save you a lot of trouble.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.