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BATTLE OF MINDS – Win the War for Your Thoughts · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Man survives by the guidance of his distinctive form of consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: by the guidance of his conceptual faculty. This is the
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  Speaker 1: first fact about man's nature that must be understood. His
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  Speaker 1: emotional capacity is man's automatic barometer of what is for
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  Speaker 1: him or against him within the context.
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  Speaker 2: Of his knowledge and values.
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  Speaker 1: According to the values he selects, he makes the motivational
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  Speaker 1: power of his emotions work in the service of his
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  Speaker 1: life or against it. When an organism ceases to perform
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  Speaker 1: the actions necessary to maintain its structural integrity, it dies.
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  Speaker 1: For all living entities, action is a necessity of survival. Biologically,
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  Speaker 1: inactivity is death. The action that an organism must perform
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  Speaker 1: is both internal and external. In the choice to focus
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  Speaker 1: or not to focus, to think or not to think,
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  Speaker 1: to activate the conceptual level of his consciousness or to
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  Speaker 1: suspend it, and in this choice alone is man psychologically free.
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  Speaker 1: Man must focus his mind, He must set it to
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  Speaker 1: the task of active integration. To focus is to move
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  Speaker 1: from a lower level of awareness to a higher level,
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  Speaker 1: to move from relative mental passivity to purposeful mental activity.
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  Speaker 1: The decision to focus and to think one's made does
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  Speaker 1: not continue to direct a man's mind unceasingly thereafter, with
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  Speaker 1: no further effort required. Just as the state of full
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  Speaker 1: consciousness must be initiated volitionally, so it must be maintained volitionally.
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  Speaker 1: Man must continue to monitor and regulate his own mental activity.
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  Speaker 1: Man's life and well being depend upon his maintaining a
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  Speaker 1: proper cognitive contact with reality, and this requires a full
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  Speaker 1: mental focus maintained as a way of life. As a
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  Speaker 1: way of being, it means that one must know what
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  Speaker 1: one's mind is doing. The more consistently a man maintains
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  Speaker 1: a policy of being in full mental focus, of thinking,
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  Speaker 1: of judging the facts of real that confront him, of
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  Speaker 1: knowing what he is doing and why, the easier and
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  Speaker 1: more seemingly natural the process becomes. It is too clear
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  Speaker 1: to him that reality is not, and can never be,
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  Speaker 1: his enemy, that he has nothing to gain from self
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  Speaker 1: inflicted blindness and everything to lose. This does not mean
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  Speaker 1: that for such a man the policy of rationality becomes automatic.
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  Speaker 1: It will always remain volitional. Free will in the why
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  Speaker 1: this meaning of the term is the doctrine that man
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  Speaker 1: is capable of performing actions which are not determined by
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  Speaker 1: forces outside his control. Man's free will consists of a
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  Speaker 1: single basic choice to focus or not to focus, to
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  Speaker 1: think or not to think. A man is free to
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  Speaker 1: think or not to think. But he is not free
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  Speaker 1: to escape the fact that if he fails to think,
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  Speaker 1: if he characteristically evades facing any facts or issues which
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  Speaker 1: he finds unpleasant, he will set in motion a complex
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  Speaker 1: chain of destructive psychological consequences. Free will does not mean
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  Speaker 1: arbitrary omnipotent power, unlimited power over the workings of one's
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  Speaker 1: own mind. The content of man's emotions is the product
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  Speaker 1: of his rational faculty. His emotions are a derivative and
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  Speaker 1: a consequence which cannot be understood without reference to the
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  Speaker 1: conceptual power of his consciousness. He cannot escape the necessity
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  Speaker 1: of selecting values and making value judgments. A man's values
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  Speaker 1: are the product of the thinking he has done or
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  Speaker 1: has failed to do. Values can be a manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: rationality and mental health, or of irrationality and neurosis. They
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  Speaker 1: can grow out of self confidence and benevolence, or out
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  Speaker 1: of self doubt and fear. They can be motivated by
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  Speaker 1: the desire to achieve happiness or by the desire to
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  Speaker 1: minimize pain. They can be borne out of the desire
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  Speaker 1: to use one's mind or the desire to escape it.
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  Speaker 1: A man regards a falling bomb as bad for him
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  Speaker 1: because he is aware of his own mortality. If he
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  Speaker 1: were physically indestructible, he would have praise the bomb's significance Differently.
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  Speaker 1: One's conscious or subconscious view of one's own person, whether
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  Speaker 1: one appraises one's self correctly or not, is implicit in
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  Speaker 1: one's value judgments. The degree of a man's self confidence
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  Speaker 1: or a lack of it, and the extent to which
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  Speaker 1: he regards yards the universe as open or closed to
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  Speaker 1: his understanding and action, These will necessarily affect the goals
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  Speaker 1: he will set for himself. Whether a man's emotional mechanism
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  Speaker 1: brings him happiness or suffering depends on it's programming. It
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  Speaker 1: depends on the validity and consistency of his values. His
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  Speaker 1: emotional apparatus is a machine. Man is its driver. Man
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  Speaker 1: must discover.
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  Speaker 2: The actions his life requires.
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  Speaker 1: If a man is to avoid repression, he must be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to face any thought and any emotion and consider
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  Speaker 1: them rationally, secure in the conviction that he will not
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  Speaker 1: act without knowing what he is doing. Ignorance is not bliss,
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  Speaker 1: not in any area of man's life, and certainly not
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  Speaker 1: with regard to the contents of his own mind. Repressed
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  Speaker 1: material does not cease to exist. It is merely driven
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  Speaker 1: underground to affect a man in ways he does not know,
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  Speaker 1: causing reactions he is helpless to account for, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: exploding into neurotic sinsymptoms. Repression devastates more than a man's emotions.
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  Speaker 1: Rational awareness is not the cold hand that kills, It
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  Speaker 1: is the power that liberates. There is no value judgment
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  Speaker 1: more important to man, no factor more decisive in his
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  Speaker 1: psychological development and motivation than the estimate he passes on himself.
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  Speaker 1: It is involved in his every emotional response. The nature
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  Speaker 1: of his self evaluation has profound effects on a man's
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  Speaker 1: thinking processes, emotions, desires, values, and goals. It is the
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  Speaker 1: single most significant key to his behavior. Man controls his
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  Speaker 1: mind's activity and growth by the goals he sets, by
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  Speaker 1: the assignments he gives to his consciousness. If he holds
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  Speaker 1: to the will to understand, he thereby activates a process
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  Speaker 1: of growth and development which continually raises his mind's power.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that he fears to perform some action is
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  Speaker 1: not proof that he should avoid performing it. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that he desires to perform some action is not proof
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  Speaker 1: that he should perform it. Emotions are not adequate guides
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  Speaker 1: to action. All awareness is necessarily selective. Particular moment, there
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  Speaker 1: is far more in the world around him than a
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  Speaker 1: man could possibly focus on. Thus he must choose to
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  Speaker 1: aim his attention in a given direction to the exclusion
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  Speaker 1: of others. Man is a self programmer to an extent
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  Speaker 1: immeasurably greater than any other living species. He has the
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  Speaker 1: ability to retain, integrate, and automatize knowledge. As a man develops,
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  Speaker 1: the quantity of programmed data in his brain grows immeasurably,
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  Speaker 1: expanding the range and efficacy of his mind. Cognitions, evaluations,
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  Speaker 1: physical skills all are programmed and automatized in the course
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  Speaker 1: of normal human development. It is this programming, retained on
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  Speaker 1: a subconscious level, that makes possible man's continued intellectual growth.
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  Speaker 1: When a man's mind is an active focus, the goal
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  Speaker 1: or purpose he is set determines what material will be
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  Speaker 1: fed to him from the subconscious. Anxiety is still a
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  Speaker 1: sign of life, of conflict and struggle, and therefore of
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  Speaker 1: possible victory.