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Dan Sullivan - "Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by that great news Podcast link is in the show notes.
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  Today's quote comes from Dan Sullivan, Co founder of
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  Strategic Coach, the world's leading entrepreneurial coaching
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  program, an author of more than 50 books and a man who has spent
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  five decades helping people understand how their thinking
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  shapes the reality they experience.
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  He once said your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear
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  what your brain is looking for. Here's a question.
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  Have you ever decided to buy a particular car, say a red Honda,
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  and suddenly that specific car seems to be everywhere.
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  Every parking lot, every intersection, every street you
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  drive down? Here's the thing.
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  They were always there. You just couldn't see them
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  because your brain had no reason to flag them as relevant until
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  it was relevant to you. And that's not a coincidence.
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  That's your reticular activating system, the neurological filter
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  your brain uses to decide what information from the
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  overwhelming flood of sensory input around you actually
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  reaches your conscious awareness.
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  And here's the critical insight it filters based on what you've
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  decided matters and what you've told it to look for.
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  Dan Sullivan's quote is pointing at something with enormous
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  implications for how you live your life.
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  Your brain is not a passive receiver.
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  It's an active filter, and what it filters for is determined by
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  what you programmed it to look for through your beliefs, your
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  expectations, your fears, and your focus.
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  If you wake up every morning expecting the day to be
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  difficult, your brain will find the evidence.
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  Every small frustration will be flagged.
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  Every set back will feel confirming, not because the day
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  is objectively harder, but because your filter is tuned to
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  difficult. If you begin a new project with
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  a clear and specific goal, your brain immediately begins
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  scanning your environment for the people, ideas, and
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  opportunities that are relevant to that goal, and they start
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  appearing almost like magic. But they were always there.
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  Sullivan describes a client who wrote down exactly what he
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  needed for a new venture, and within the same week, the
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  precise person he needed walked into a conversation completely
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  unprompted. Once you define what you're
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  looking for, you begin finding it everywhere.
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  The profound implication is this.
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  What you consistently focus on, expect, and believe becomes the
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  instruction set for your brain's filter.
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  Change the instructions. And you don't just change your
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  outlook, you change what you literally perceive to be
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  available to you in the world. When I started this podcast, I
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  was convinced it would be difficult to keep finding new
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  quotes. But then all of a sudden I
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  noticed quotes everywhere. In books I was reading on
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  billboards and podcasts and YouTube videos and on social
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  media. And then also because of the
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  algorithm, I started getting fed even more quotes in my social
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  feeds. There isn't a day that I don't
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  see several potential quotes I can use in the show.
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  So here's the question. What has your brain been
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  programmed to look for right now?
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  Because I guarantee it's finding it right now, today, in every
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  interaction and every moment your filter is running.
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  The question isn't whether your brain is looking for something.
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  The question is whether you chose what it's looking for or
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  whether it was chosen for you by habit, fear, or by default.
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  You can reprogram the filter deliberately, intentionally,
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  starting today. What you look for is what you'll
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  find. Choose your own adventure.
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  This episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast.
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  Find it. We're all great podcasts are
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  found, but I've made it very easy for you by leaving a link
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  Why would you listen? Because good news should be
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  heard. That's going to do it.
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  For today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.