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Season 3 - Episode 226 -A dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp one · 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 mastermindset
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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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  You can hear Rufus in there with his new crow going off.
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  Anyway, today we are talking about the saying that is a dull
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  knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife.
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  Now, I've heard this thing 1000 times in the kitchen because my
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  husband cooks and he constantly, you know, is working with knives
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  and constantly making sure they're sharp and telling me
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  they don't go in the dishwasher and things like that because a
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  dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife.
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  And we all, I think we all, you know, listen to these little
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  phrases in our lives, but we don't ever, you know, actually
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  dig in and say, OK, what does this mean?
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  Well, in the case of a knife, it actually means that the dull
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  knife can slip because it's not going through something like if
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  you're cutting a tomato, it slips off of it and then it can
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  get your fingers. So that makes it more dangerous.
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  Now, when you think about this as a metaphor, it's actually
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  brilliant because we think to ourselves, OK, well, I, I know
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  enough, you know, in my head now I know enough of whatever enough
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  might be coming from, whether it's the knowledge of what you
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  do in life, whether it's, you know, about a certain subject,
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  whatever it we, we believe, we have, you know, hit the
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  crescendo and we don't have to go and know anymore.
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  But the truth is, when you sharpen your skills, always not.
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  There's another little phrase. We're surrounded by them as
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  humans. But when we think about it, OK,
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  sharpen your skills, you're actually getting yourself into a
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  much better place as far as being able to do your job
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  better. And it's safer.
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  It's that back to that metaphor for the knife.
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  You know, it's safer when you have a sharper knife.
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  It's it's complete contrast to what you think it would be like.
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  You know, a duller knife would be safer for me.
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  I couldn't cut myself. But actually you could cut
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  yourself quicker. And it's actually a date more
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  dangerous cut because it's a blunter cut.
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  Anyway, you get the point. And when you think about this in
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  terms of being a human and you say, okay, I need to sharpen my
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  skills. I need to be able to go out
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  there and remember that if I'm dull, I'm more dangerous, okay,
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  You start to think in terms of where does this show up and how
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  do I fix it? And for me, it's always about
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  learning more and more and more and more and more pouring in and
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  just every day making sure that there's something small that I'm
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  learning. Whether it's about the chickens,
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  whether it's about neuro linguistic programming,
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  cognitive behavioral therapy, painting, clay growing stuff, it
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  doesn't matter. It's all about the learning
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  process and it's all about cross pollinating skills.
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  The problem we have in society though, is we get in this vein
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  of it's, you know, we're A1 path.
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  We should just be on one path and that one path is what we
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  should stick to. And often that one path becomes
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  boring. So we stop learning because
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  we're just like, I don't know. But if you can cultivate this
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  belief that the when you're dull, you're more dangerous and
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  you start to think in terms of I've got to constantly be
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  pouring in and learning whether it's about myself, whether it's
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  about what I do, whether it's things that I can cross
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  pollinate with, it doesn't matter.
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  It makes me better. It makes me more excited, it
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  gives me more oomph in my life. And that's what I'm talking
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  about. It's like finding that oomph.
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  So that's why it's so important to remember and when you set
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  yourself up in a day, how you're going to, you know, set your day
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  up so that every day you can learn a little something.
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  It's so important. Now, at the beginning of the
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  year, I had talked about an app called Headway.
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  And Headway is just like Cliff Notes for adults and it gives
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  you the ability to read books very quickly and then decide if
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  you want to buy the book and read the whole book.
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  For me, I think those, whether you use summary headway, there's
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  a bunch of them out there. I've used a bunch of them and I
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  can tell you it is such a great thing because when I pick one
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  and I read it, often times I can say right away, this isn't going
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  to take me past this little, you know, blip the summary, Cliff
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  notes. But I would say out of every 12
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  to 14 of them I read, I'm probably going to buy two books.
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  It just to give you a kind of a ratio.
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  And they always are able to add in different things for me.
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  Like they they just give me different skill sets.
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  So things that I wouldn't thought I ever wanted to read
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  about, I end up reading about because the Cliff note pulled me
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  in. The Cliff note made me think
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  about it in a different way. And then sure enough, there's
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  always a little tiny crumb that I can take with me into
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  something else that I'm doing. So this is about pushing you and
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  sharpening your skills today. So maybe even just go get a
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  Headway out. And again, I don't get any paid
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  any money from Headway. So this is not a promotion for
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  Headway, but or summary or any of them grab one, start doing
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  that because I'll tell you, it really does make a tremendous
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  difference when you start adding that value in.
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  OK, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.