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We don't know what we don't know. · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today I would like to give us a little reminder about the fact
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  that we don't know everything. I know a lot of us seem to have
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  this sense of well. I'm very certain and we love to
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  use that word about generalities in life and other people and
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  what we believe about them and how we see them.
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  And oh, I'm certain this person is this way or oh, I know for
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  sure that a Toda unfortunately, often we are wrong.
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  Ang and I think it's an important reminder that I wanted
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  to give everybody today that you don't always know about other
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  people and what they're thinking and how they feel and what's
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  going on behind the scenes, and, good, bad or indifferent.
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  I'm not talking about just the - I could be talking about the
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  positive to, you don't know the positive things and you don't
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  know the negative things. Unfortunately for US unless we
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  decide to share our absolute true feelings with people, they
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  Often don't know what's going on and we make assumptions based on
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  other people's actions and those assumptions become a reality for
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  us. We say, oh no, that's how it is
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  and we stand strong, we will often die on that hill.
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  So to speak where? No no, I am certain that.
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  That is the case when it is not the case.
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  And this goes back to we're not broken being this way.
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  This is just how human beings are.
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  We will Get into a place and we will start something and we will
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  say no, I'm absolutely certain of this.
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  Just like you've heard me use the example before of the Earth
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  is flat. And you know, other people
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  discovered that the Earth was not flat and then everyone had
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  to die from it. Or if you go back to the witch
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  trials, you know, here are people using herbs and growing
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  things and finding ways to heal things and all of a sudden, you
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  know, people are saying oh well she's a witch, therefore, that's
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  bad. Therefore.
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  He must die and killing them on the steak and burning them and
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  it it is amazing to me. How even though we have gone
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  from that in the physical, we have not gone from that.
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  In the mental part of it, where we still are that rigid.
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  We still get into those places where we insist, we absolutely
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  insist we know and today is a reminder for everyone, even
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  within yourself to say, I am Not always that right about myself.
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  I am not always that. Right?
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  About others. I am not always aware of
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  everything. Therefore you don't know what
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  you don't know. So language is important and
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  especially in this process of rebuilding might you know,
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  rewiring your brain so to speak. You have to stop and pause and
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  say well this is the conclusion I've come to based on the
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  information I have but I don't know what, I don't know.
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  So that is a fluid conclusion. Things can shift.
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  And when you start telling yourself things like that and
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  you start focusing on the fact that you don't know what you
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  don't know. Life becomes a little bit easier
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  and we become a little bit softer and we become a little
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  bit more tolerant. And we become a little bit, not
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  just of ourselves, but of others, we become a little bit
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  more connected in our humanness, if you will to others.
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  So, today is just a beginning of understanding this process
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  because it's not easy, and I'm going to start layering it out
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  there because we get to hunker down in our convictions.
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  We Eve, we know something and we don't want to let it go, but you
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  start to break those things down.
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  By asking better, questions of yourself asking better questions
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  of others and not confrontational questions, just
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  real informational questions. You know, the last night I was
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  having a discussion with a friend of mine about the quality
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  of questions and he said, you know, most people ask yes or no
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  questions and I said yeah they do because it's easy but and you
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  have to pay attention to the other person when you go Oh,
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  that deep with them. So, if you're asking a question,
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  you know, think of it instead of, like, just like when we were
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  in school, we had yes and no questions.
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  And then we had the paragraphs, you want to ask the questions
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  that are the paragraph So that you can understand where the
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  other person is coming from. And you want to do that with
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  yourself too, and that helps you develop the, we don't know what,
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  we don't know. It helps us develop a different
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  level of understanding. It helps us develop a piece of,
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  you know, ourselves that We were like, wow, okay, if I'm really
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  honest with myself. And I answer this question, I'll
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  know something. So I think something different.
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  I think it's incredibly important to focus on this.
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  So today go out. Remember you don't know what you
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  don't know, and certainly don't know everything.
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  And at that point, it's a beautiful wide opening.
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  Two possibilities when you ask better questions and you
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  recognize, I don't know what, I don't know.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow.