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Season 3 - Episode 330 - Carl Sagan’s Wisdom · 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 very noisy chicken coop.
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  I am not sure what has got these girls all worked up, but they
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  are all chattering like crazy right now.
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  So Carl Sagan, we've all heard of him, we all understand this
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  man was brilliant. And he is very, very famous for
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  talking about how curiosity was such a powerful tool.
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  But he made this really great quote or he was talking, it was
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  during a talk and he was saying how he loved to talk to
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  kindergarteners and 1st grade kids because they were always
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  enthusiasts. They always had the most energy.
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  They showed up with deep questions and they would ask,
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  you know, write things about like, you know, why is the moon
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  round and you know, what is the birthday of the earth and all
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  this stuff? What makes grass green?
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  How do stars stay in the sky? And it was just always
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  fascinating to him how the kids would come up with these really,
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  really big questions, which any of you are regular followers
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  know. I was always put in the corner
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  for asking these kinds of questions in school because I
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  was taking them off topic as I heard so many times.
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  However, my, I never, you know, wanted to put aside my
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  curiosity. Now, he's also goes on in this
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  talk to say, you know, it's very sad to him that when by the time
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  you get to 12th grade, by the time you get to college, people
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  have become incurious, that there is something terribly
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  wrong and something awful has happened because they lose it
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  somewhere between kindergarten and college.
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  They lose their level of curiosity.
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  And you have to work to remain curious.
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  And I think that this is such a powerful point for him to make
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  and a powerful point for us to consider.
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  Because if you are not being curious, if you are not working
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  consistently on your curiosity, then you are settling for being
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  incurious, which is something that I can't comprehend.
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  I don't even, I truly cannot even comprehend what it's like
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  to be incurious because for me, it's just a natural part of who
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  I am. And it drives every single day.
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  It drives. You know, I just did an update
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  on my iPhone and they're all new features in the new version of
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  the update. And I was like, so curious about
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  it. I said I just have to sit here
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  and mess around with it for 30 minutes, not because of anything
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  other than my curiosity about what more can it do?
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  What more can it do? And boy, I learned that you can
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  record phone calls now right from the phone call screen.
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  So if I come on with a client, and often they have said to me,
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  God, I wish we recorded these calls so I could go back and
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  listen to them. Well, lo and behold, guess what?
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  I can do that now for them. But by just touching the little
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  wavelength up in the left corner, who knew that that was
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  even there? They don't tell you that in the
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  updates, but until you start messing around with it or you go
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  on and you look at the tech review somewhere on YouTube, you
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  can figure out what did they put in there, which is a valuable
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  thing. Again, curiosity driven.
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  But when you go back and you consider what Mr. Sagan said and
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  you consider how much you've lost your curiosity, now is the
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  time to say how can I cultivate that and start to bring it back
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  to life? What are the things?
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  Am I in curious or am I curious and how often do you use that
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  word in your daily life? Do you actually say I'm curious?
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  Now I have a tendency to use that word a lot.
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  That is one of my favorite words to use and I actually love using
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  it because it makes me feel like I'm on point when I'm saying I'm
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  curious and I say it to clients all the time.
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  I I will try giving my chickens different food to say, hey, I'm
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  curious, what are you guys going to eat?
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  Do you like this? Do you not like this?
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  And sometimes they look at me and gave them a bunch of carrots
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  the other day and they looked at me like I was it's insane for
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  giving them carrots until one brave one packed it and then the
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  rest of them were still like, no, this is not happening.
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  But I was curious and and playing that role of being
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  curious is really powerful. So as ask yourself, when's the
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  last time I said the word curious about myself?
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  I'm curious when's the last time you said to another human?
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  I'm curious, when's the last time you said?
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  I'm going to do 5 curious things today to find out more.
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  I'm going to just walk in a bookstore and I'm going to go,
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  this is one of my favorite things to do.
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  Go to a bookstore and just go to different book categories and
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  pull off a book. The first one that the cover is
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  like intriguing to you and just look at it.
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  And now, granted, you may come home with a lot of books and I'm
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  a big fan of books, but it, it, it makes you also consider all
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  different things. Trying new foods.
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  When's the last time you tried a new food?
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  Like actually went and said, OK, I'm going to go try a different
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  food. I'm going to go try something
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  completely different that I have never tried or something maybe
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  that you didn't like before. And now you're going to retry it
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  again. It's very important, my friends.
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  And again, this is the month that we are getting into that
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  phase. So I want you to build your
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  curiosity before anything else. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.