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Season 3 - Episode 140 - Are you willing to take on new knowledge? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about the curse of knowledge.
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  The curse of knowledge, if you've never heard of it,
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  basically boils down to one simple fact.
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  Sometimes when you have a vast amount of knowledge, even a
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  decent amount of knowledge, you become, let's say, arrogant with
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  that knowledge and you think you know everything or you are
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  unwilling to take on new information.
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  And you know, the definition of intelligence is really to be
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  able to take on more information.
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  But when you have this curse of knowledge, so to speak, you you
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  get stuck in what you know and you stay in what you know.
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  And you don't try to grow what you know or move what you know
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  into a a a wider space, so to speak.
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  So how does this affect you? Well, in my opinion, you have to
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  always stay curious. If you don't stay curious,
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  you're screwed. It boils down to that you have
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  to stay curious. You have to continue to ask
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  questions. You have to continue to be that
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  person that says I am going to fundamentally continue to learn
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  my entire life. Because if I don't, apparently
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  Celine agrees with that. She's very loud right now.
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  If you don't continue to learn, then what do you have?
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  You have just that scope that you're stuck in your in your own
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  little vortex, and that is not going to help you get anywhere.
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  I can promise you that. Because you'll just stay stuck
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  in a, in a sense a fixed mindset, because that's really
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  the definition between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
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  A growth mindset says I'm going to continue to learn, be
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  curious, I'm going to continue to grow, and I'm going to
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  continue to expand my knowledge base and move on.
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  When a fixed mindset is in place, there's none of that.
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  Basically it says I know what I know and I'm going to stick to
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  what I know and I'm not going to expand and I'm not going to
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  grow. And honestly, if I was to ask
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  any of you if you would like to have a fixed mindset or a growth
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  mindset, 90% of you are going to say, Oh no, I want the growth
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  mindset. Maybe even 100% of you will say
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  I want the growth mindset. Well, one, because it sounds
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  sexier, right? And two, because it is because
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  you always want to be growing and expanding because that's the
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  human condition. We want to do that for
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  ourselves. So this other factor that comes
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  in here, this crazy other factor that says, well, sometimes the
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  smarter you get, the stupider you get is is so prevalent in
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  this world right now. It's everywhere.
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  Because people believe that, oh, they're right and they are stuck
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  on what they are right about and they're void of curiosity.
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  They're void of trying to learn more and see more.
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  And that is called the curse of knowledge.
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  My friends, you have to stop and and say to yourself, wait a
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  minute, I'm stuck in my own paradigm here.
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  And I have to say this happens to all of us, myself included.
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  You guys hear me say that often because I want you to know it
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  happens to me too. And you can't just get stuck in
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  it. Whether it's something silly
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  like you think you know something about a plant, like
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  I'll be growing something like, Oh no, it's not the way it's
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  supposed to go. But I'm stuck in what I know as
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  opposed to be like, oh, wait a second, that's could be
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  something different. I have to look at this.
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  I have to take on new knowledge. I have to go ask questions.
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  I have to be curious. And then all of a sudden I find
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  out things that I didn't know and you just, you just have to
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  be willing again for the curiosity factor and you can't
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  stay in that place of saying, Oh no, I'm going to stay in this
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  curse of knowledge factor. So the biggest, most important
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  thing that you can do to help yourself out with this is to
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  train the curiosity factor. So often times people will say,
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  well, how do I get rid of something?
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  And I say, well, you know, it's not about just getting rid of
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  something, it's about making another muscle bigger.
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  Because once you make the other muscle bigger, it's a heck of a
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  lot easier to notice it, recognize it and move through it
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  when it does show up. Because again, just like certain
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  emotions on our bus, we can't eliminate them.
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  You're never going to eliminate the the the curse of knowledge.
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  It's just there. But you can build Curiosity way
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  high so that it takes over. And that's what we're talking
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  about. We want curiosity to be built up
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  so it takes over and we don't have these conditions, so to
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  speak. So, great ways to build your
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  Curiosity Reading. Reading is a huge, huge thing.
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  And I'm not talking about reading the news.
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  Stop reading the news. Read other things that fill your
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  mind. Cross pollinate.
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  If you are like let's say you're a knitter or you're a needle
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  pointer or you're a seamstress and you love to do all that kind
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  of stuff with fabrics and yarns and all of that, you could cross
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  pollinate your skills over to painting.
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  If you're a painter you could cross pollinates from using
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  watercolors up to using oils which is a completely different
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  thing. You could start doing stained
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  glass. If you're someone that's a
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  flower arranger, you could start baking.
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  You see you can cross pollinate and get curious.
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  You can start to change. I have someone who loves to bake
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  right now and she just found out that one of her cousins is
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  gluten free and or has celiacs and she now has to be gluten
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  free. So she has completely changed
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  her baking and she's trying to do everything gluten free so she
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  can help out and send recipes to her cousin and send her
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  surprises. So she's cross pollinating, but
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  instead of being just frustrated like she was in the beginning
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  saying all these recipes suck, she's like, OK, I've got to get
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  curious about how to make these better.
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  I've got to try something different and that's the winning
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  factor. So for me, I love to cross
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  pollinate all these skills because I love to do a lot of
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  things. And just like the chickens,
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  people will say, oh, you know, it seems like you spoil your
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  chickens. Well, part of that is based
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  around the fact that everything I read in the beginning when I I
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  was super, super curious. Again, I hadn't done chicken
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  since I was a kid. I read everything that I could
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  get my hands on, all different types of books.
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  And one of the main factors for chickens is if they have a
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  really strong diet and if they have a really clean environment,
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  they will thrive in different ways and you won't have all
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  these other little problems that a lot of chickens have.
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  So I made it a point to take that knowledge on.
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  And that would have been something I did not know based
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  on what's out there readily. And I was able to create a
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  different environment. And I don't have these things,
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  knock on wood, you know, I don't have these things.
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  But I'm just telling you. And this goes across the board
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  for all kinds of things. So watch out for your curse of
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  knowledge, my friends. Make sure you're aware of what
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  you're doing with it and make sure you do a great job putting
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  it in check. All right, I will see you all
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  tomorrow. And I hope you have a blessed
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  day. Bye I.