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Inner Safety & Emotional Strength (S5) S7:E2 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hey guys, it is John C.
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Morley here, serial entrepreneur.
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I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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and kick this show off.
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Today is February 8th, 2026.
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Hopefully your team won in the Super Bowl.
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I won't get too into that, but it
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was an interesting Super Bowl.
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Anyway, so again, welcome.
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It's great to have you here with me.
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This is part of the master topic.
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We're on series five, which means we're in
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the fifth year.
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We've been on the air over four years.
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Series seven, episode number two, From Fear to
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Forward, Inner Safety and Emotional Strength.
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Yeah, that's what we're about here.
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So welcome to Inspirations for Your Life.
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Like I said, I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur and engineer, marketing specialist, video
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producer, podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student,
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and a passionate lifelong learner.
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This week's master topic theme, it's simple.
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It's basically very powerful, From Fear to Being
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Forward.
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Not by forcing confidence, but by pretending fear
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doesn't exist, but by building something stronger than
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fear and what it elicits, inner safety.
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Because when you feel safe inside, you don't
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rush, you don't spiral, you don't give your
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power away.
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Today is all about emotional strength, the kind
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that steadies you, the kind that carries you
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forward, even when conditions, well, let's face it,
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guys, they may not be perfect.
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There may never be a perfect time.
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So yeah, I think that's an important thing
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to understand.
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A lot of people don't, and it causes
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people to derail, okay?
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Yeah.
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So our first thing I want to go
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over is what inner safety really is about.
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Inner safety is not comfort, guys.
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It's not avoidance.
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It's not staying small.
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Inner safety is the ability to remain grounded
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while life applies pressure, okay?
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It's knowing you can feel discomfort without falling
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apart.
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It's trusting yourself to handle what comes next.
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It's staying present instead of panicking.
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You see, most people think confidence comes first.
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Spoiler alert, it doesn't.
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And some people are like, oh, wait, I
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got to get the confidence first, then I
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can do what I want to do.
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Well, sure, you could actually do that, but
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that's not going to help you.
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It's not going to help you because of
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the premise that I'm talking about, guys, and
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the premises that you have to know who
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you are.
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And I think those are important things.
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A lot of people think that you can
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just do something and then, bam, it happens.
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But there's planning that has to go on
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behind the scenes.
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I think that's a really important thing right
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there.
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So safety, guys, comes first.
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Confidence grows from safety.
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Let me say that again.
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Safety has to come first.
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And then confidence grows from our safety.
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When your nervous system feels supported, your mind
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clears up.
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Your decisions become sharper.
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Your reactions, well, they slow.
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See, that's real pure strength.
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And it's not being in a reactive mindset.
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It's being in a proactive mindset.
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And I think that's something, again, that a
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lot of people, oh, I'm just going to
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say this, that they don't really get, okay?
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Yeah, people just don't seem to get what
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that is, all right?
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And so maybe you're going to say to
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me, John, I don't quite understand.
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I don't quite understand it.
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But in time, you're going to appreciate it
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more.
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You're going to appreciate it more.
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And that moreness is going to hopefully propel
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you to a completely new level, all right?
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A very, very new level.
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And again, it's not something you just click
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your fingers and bam, it happens.
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It does not work like that, folks.
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I'm sorry to tell you.
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That's not how it works.
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The way it works is pretty interesting.
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And that is understanding emotional safety.
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So why emotional safety fuels confidence?
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Let's dive into that section, okay?
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And tonight, we don't have as many points,
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but we have bigger subtopics that encompass more.
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So why emotional safety fuels confidence?
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Confidence without safety, it's brittle, right?
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It's like having a very thin piece of
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paper.
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Without the proper backing, it's just going to
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kind of fall apart.
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It cracks under stress.
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But, okay, confidence built on inner safety is
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durable, sustainable.
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When you feel safe, you don't chase for
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validation.
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You don't look for it.
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You don't over-explain things.
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You don't freeze under pressure.
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So I had an interesting thing today.
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I was with somebody.
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And they kind of, I won't say they
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were rude to me, but I will say
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they were disappointing.
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You know, I always expect people to be
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nice and that.
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But then when their world kind of goes,
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let's say, south, then if you're not helping
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them, suddenly, well, they don't have time to
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talk to you, which I think is really,
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really bad.
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So you don't freeze under pressure, okay?
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That's the most important thing.
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You don't freeze under pressure.
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And a lot of people do.
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You respond instead of reacting.
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So responding, okay, and being proactive rather than
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retroactive, that's what makes a very, very huge
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difference, okay?
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You respond instead of reacting.
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I've said before, even with planning for, you
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know, so there's no fire, you know, it's
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better to be proactive than reactive.
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Reactive is quicker, and a lot of times
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we miss things.
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Approval becomes optional.
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Reassurance becomes internal.
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And the fear, well, it loses leverage.
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Unfortunately, guys, it loses leverage.
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And this is why I want to tell
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you that calm people often outperform the loud
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ones.
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Now, you might say, well, gee, John, you
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know, they're getting more attention.
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Yeah, they're getting more attention, but they're also
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causing more problems.
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They are causing more problems.
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And that's an issue for a lot of
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people, right?
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It's an issue for a lot of people.
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And maybe you're going to say to me,
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John, well, that doesn't happen to me, okay?
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I think sometimes we want a result, but
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then when the result doesn't happen, we think
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we can just re-engineer it.
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But that's not how it works.
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We can't make somebody do what we want.
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We have to understand what their motives are,
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all right?
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Because when we get somebody to see something
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from another point of view, that's not changing
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their view like in a rough way.
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That's saying, hey, I'm on this side of
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the fence, and there's been no water on
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this side.
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This side has plenty of water.
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I need some water here.
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My grass is going to die.
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You get my point.
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They're not distracted by the emotional noise, which
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happens day in and day out.
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They are regulated, they are focused, and they
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are grounded, folks.
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They are grounded all the time, not just
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like for five minutes, and then like, oh,
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you know, I don't need to do this
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anymore.
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Yes, you do.
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You need to do this all the time.
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I think that's a very important thing.
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So section three here, doing this by section
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stay instead of bullet points, building trust with
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yourself is so fundamental.
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I was speaking to somebody before.
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It was actually via a text.
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And you know, I always keep the people
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I speak with, I keep that confidential.
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But it was somebody that was talking, was
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just a fan, and they responded back to
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me with, you know, patience grasshopper.
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And I wanted to put this, because this
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is very apropos, you know, it's like things
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happen, and they happen for a reason, okay?
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Does anybody know where the phrase came from?
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Does anybody know where the phrase came from?
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You know, patience grasshopper.
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Does anybody know where that came from?
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Where do you think that came from?
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So it's been around for a while, okay?
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It's been around for quite a while.
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So you've heard the phrase, I'm sure.
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But the quote and its origins are pretty
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important.
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Although patience and young grasshopper came around 1984
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from the Karate Kid, it's not where the
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common said phrase actually originated from, although we
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know it from Karate Kid.
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The phrase actually comes from a television show
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called Kung Fu.
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And the lead character, Kawai Chang Kane, played
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by David Carradine, often thought back to his
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early years training as a Shaolin, a monk
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in Asia.
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During this training, his blind Chinese master would
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say, patience, young grasshopper, to him.
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And the sentence was first uttered when the
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ignorant Kanan asked his blind master how he
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could function without eyesight.
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Po asked Kane to close his eyes and
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describe what he could hear.
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After he described the water flowing and birds
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chirping nearby, Kane asked if he could not
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hear his own heartbeat or the grasshopper at
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his feet.
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And this is where the endearing name grasshopper
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originates.
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Master Po used to call his student grasshopper,
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signifying patience as an important and ideal skill
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for a martial artist.
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It was mostly used as a term of
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affection, letting Kawai know that he was much
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less experienced than Master Po.
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What does patience, young grasshopper really mean?
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Okay, in the source material, grasshopper, quote unquote,
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it's used by a wise elder to describe
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a naive, inexperienced, or unskilled person.
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Generally, grasshoppers are constantly jumping from one point
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to the next without very, let's say, much
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going into their thoughts, acting in an impulsive
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and irrational way.
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The master may be slower, but he's wiser
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and understands what is important to him because
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he is more aware of his surroundings.
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The younger student is still jumping about, not
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thinking about his next move, which is very
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negative in martial arts.
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You have to always be thinking about the
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next move.
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On the other hand, patience is considered one
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of the most powerful martial arts practices and
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key skill to learn in life.
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In fact, patience in martial arts is considered
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an antidote to anger because being angry with
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someone can stop you from focusing on your
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true desires and can lead to you losing
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what you're fighting for.
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Thus, patience is a discipline that needs us
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to understand.
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It has to be learned, especially by young
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people who tend to prefer knee-jerk reactions.
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So altogether, this phrase, patience, young grasshopper, Master
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Po is essentially telling Kane to have patience
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and pay attention to the smaller things around
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him.
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It's used in other media, quotes, memes.
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The phrase also appeared in a few other
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TV shows over the years, most notably, Patience,
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Young Grasshopper, was also featured in the 1985
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movie, Karate Kid, which included Mr. Miyagi teaching
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David LaRusso about karate.
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In nearly all circumstances, the phrase is used
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when an elder is trying to teach a
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younger person or student something.
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It has also evolved into the phrase, the
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grasshopper becomes the master.
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So patience, you must have, my young Padawan,
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is another version of this phrase, which is
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commonly misattributed to Yoda in Star Wars.
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Yes, the franchise.
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It's not actually said by any character, guys,
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but it could easily fit into the themes
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of the franchise.
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Now, you'll see patience, young grasshopper, used in
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lots of different ways and contexts, from training
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your dog to planting flowers in your garden.
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You'll also see lots of guides and articles
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with the phrase in the title or in
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its content.
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Yes, patience, young grasshopper, and its meaning has
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evolved as language often does.
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One such usage of the phrase is commonly
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seen among younger generation in relation to IT
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and tech.
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It's used when a person, let's say, is
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given a problem and is testing someone to
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a breaking point.
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This is because lots of people in tech
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are young and eager, but often miss key
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points at the start of their careers because
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they're trying to jump ahead too early.
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For example, let's say, so there are different
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letters than the levels of the OSI model.
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I'm not going to get into that today,
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but there's one level called the physical layer.
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And so many people start the application or
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a higher layer, and they forget that 99
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% of all issues are physical.
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So the physical layer are things like cabling,
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okay?
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Are things connected correctly?
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Is there, you know, is something wrong on
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that level?
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So that's the most important thing.
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Is there something wrong at that level?
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Is it a cabling level?
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Is it a connection?
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Is the device even present, okay?
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So what does it mean if someone says
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this phrase to you?
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So if someone says, patient, young grasshopper, to
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you, is it good or bad?
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Well, the context is everything.
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As it said earlier, patient, young grasshopper, is
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often said to someone who is rushing through
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something and not thinking straight, like the source
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material we heard.
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It is usually said by someone who is
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more respected, older, or in a position of
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power.
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Sometimes it is said in an ancient mimicking
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character from one of the other materials.
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If you're a young apprentice in training, someone
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above you in the work chain may call
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you a grasshopper.
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It's probably in affection, but you may see
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it as patronizing and see it as an
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elder trying to remind you that they know
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more than you.
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Don't lose heart on it, okay?
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They're trying to help you.
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I think that is the most important thing
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to realize of the true meaning of the
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phrase is simple, yet it is very deep.
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So somebody says that it probably means that
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you're hopping around an awful lot, all right?
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So I just wanted to share that.
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So inner safety is built through self-trust
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and patient, young grasshopper is a very good
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way to understand that.
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Every time you keep a promise to yourself,
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trust grows a little more.
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Every time you regulate instead of react, trust
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grows a little more.
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Every time you choose presence over panic, trust
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grows again.
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Now, self-trust isn't about being perfect, okay?
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It's about being consistent, okay?
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When you trust yourself, you don't need external
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permission to move forward.
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You already know you'll handle what comes next.
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That's emotional strength.
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And in the next major part here, calm
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as a form of strength is very key.
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Calm is not passive, calm is powerful.
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Calm is the ability to stay clear when
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others rush.
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Calm is leadership, okay?
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Under pressure, basically.
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Calm is confidence without an ego.
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The strongest people in the room are rarely
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the loudest people in the room.
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They're the steadiest people.
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We've talked about this before.
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A lot of people think that if they
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get your attention by yelling or screaming, yeah,
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they're going to get your attention, but how
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long are they going to hold it for?
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Not very long.
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Calm and steady wins the race.
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Calm allows you to see options, read situations,
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make better choices.
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See, that's why calm is a competitive advantage
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that a lot of people miss.
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Our next major block is number five, is
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self-soothing under pressure.
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One of the most overlooked skills, guys, today
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is self-soothing.
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So self-soothing doesn't mean avoiding problems.
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Nope, doesn't mean that.
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It means regulating your internal state so problems
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don't control you.
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I'm going to give you an example.
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The other night I was at Flow Follies
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and we were finishing up.
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It was actually our very first night.
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It was actually Friday night, okay?
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Just a few days ago.
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And that was February 6th.
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So our show started at 7 o'clock,
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actually 7 o'clock, it was a little
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late, but we usually start at seven.
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And so I'd got there a few hours
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earlier because call time was like two hours
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before.
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Got all dressed, everything was fine.
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And I remember that night I had owned,
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there was this one lady I had, they
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were collecting money for like a card for
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a couple of people that were helping us.
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One was a choreographer, there was a second
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choreographer.
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So they were collecting money.
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So I said, you know what?
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I am going to get money out of
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my wallet, put it in my jeans, and
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I'm going to get another, another, so I'm
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going to take some money for that.
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I'm also going to take some money to
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buy one of my staff members a ticket,
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which incidentally he couldn't make because the snow
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wasn't shoveled and it was just a complete
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disaster.
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But anyway, what happened, which is very interesting,
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is that I had taken that money out.
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So I did buy the ticket, that was
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number one.
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And I had taken the other money to
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give this lady.
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But there was another part that I owed
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because I thought it was going to be
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like one amount, but it was like double
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because they raised it for whatever reason.
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So anyway, I was there and again, I
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went back to my dressing room and then
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the night came.
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You know what happened?
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My wallet wasn't in my bag.
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And so I kept trying to go through
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my head and I was like, where is
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it?
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I kept walking through my steps and the
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show ended, it was like about 9.30.
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So when I stayed a little bit longer
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trying to look for my wallet and the
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producer actually helped me as well.
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And we didn't find it.
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Now, a lot of people would have been
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like freaking out like you would imagine.
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I said, well, I have my protection service
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monitoring, so I'm not worried.
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And I hadn't gotten any alerts about my
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credit cards being used or anything.
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But they were having a cast party and
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she said, well, if you need money, I
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can loan you.
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I said, well, I have Apple Pay.
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So if they take it, I can pay
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the bill with my iPhone.
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Okay.
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Now, most people would have freaked the heck
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out.
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I didn't.
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I came home, did a little bit of
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brainstorming and I still, ladies and gentlemen, I
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still didn't have it.
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So I said, you know what?
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When I go in there, I'm gonna go
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in there early the next day, which was
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Saturday.
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I went in at three o'clock.
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And I got there and I said, first
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thing I'm gonna do is I am going
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to figure out what cameras I was near
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because they had cameras there, right?
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And then I was gonna go find the
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janitor.
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And I did.
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And I said, Jimmy, sir, I was hoping
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you could help me if you could pull
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up the feed for cameras, such and such
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and such and such.
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I would appreciate it because I lost my
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wallet.
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I don't know how it left my bag.
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It just, it's not there.
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And he's like, oh, you lost your wallet?
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I said, yes.
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He goes, Browns.
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I said, yes.
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He says, I have your wallet.
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And I said, oh, thank you very much.
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And so I didn't let that lost wallet
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control me.
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I knew that it was gonna come back.
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It wasn't back, let's say Saturday.
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I would have had it by the end
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of Sunday.
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But I checked, I went around.
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I said, there's just no way that I
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moved it.
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I didn't put it anywhere.
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So what we found out is that they
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were cleaning.
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And when they were cleaning, they knocked over
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my bag in the dressing area and somebody
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kicked my wallet.
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It was on the floor or whatever.
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And that's why I never saw it.
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That's why every time I walked around, it
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was nowhere near where I was because somebody
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had kicked it.
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But my point is that you can't get
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all stressed out.
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You can't let the problem control you.
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I also use the Neville Goddard, they call
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it the SAS, SATS technique.
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And the SAS technique, believe it or not
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guys, is a very, very SATS, okay?
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And it's called state akin to sleep.
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And I did it.
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And I said, I know that I'm gonna
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find it.
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And the fact that they did this to
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me, I said to myself, I gotta do
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something nice for them.
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So I'm actually gonna buy them a pizza
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one day this week.
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So that's important to realize.
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Don't let your problems own you.
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What stress hits your ability to ground yourself,
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it determines your outcome.
24:02
So don't let that happen.
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Remember the breathing.
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Remember the pausing, slowing your response.
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These are not small skills guys, even though
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they seem like it.
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They're power skills.
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Because whoever controls their nervous system controls the
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decisions, which affects the reality, which affects their
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dreams and their success.
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Section six, how inner safety unlocks creativity.
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So creativity doesn't thrive in fear.
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It thrives in safety.
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When your system is constantly bracing your mind
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and narrowing it, your thinking contracts, kind of
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like your people contracts in your eye.
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When there is basically, when there's plenty of
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light, it contracts.
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When it's dark, it opens, expands.
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So this whole thing about being safe in
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your mind, it expands when you feel safe.
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So ideas connect, solutions appear, innovations flow when
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you don't become so stressed about a situation.
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All right, inner safety creates the mental space
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and space creates possibility guys.
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Section seven, stability in unstable environments.
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We don't live in stable times, unfortunately.
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That's reality.
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Things can happen, like a wallet could go
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missing.
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But I knew in that venue that probably
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somebody wasn't gonna steal it.
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But stability doesn't have to come from the
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outside.
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It can come from within us.
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When your internal state, let's say changes, you
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can become harder to shake, harder to derail,
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harder to quote unquote manipulate.
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And that's what I like to call emotional
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resilience.
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And then section eight, grounding changes decisions.
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Grounded people decide differently.
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They don't rush, they don't catastrophize things.
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They don't assume the worst case scenario.
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They pause, they assess, they choose, intentionalize.
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Grounding turns emotional reactions into thoughtful responses.
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And responses shape outcomes every day.
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Number nine, safety is not weakness.
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Let's clear this up right off the bat.
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Safety is not weakness.
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Safety is readiness.
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When you feel safe, you can take risks.
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You can speak up, you can move forward.
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Fear keeps you small.
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Safety expands capacity.
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Let's remember that.
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And that's the difference, guys.
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Section 10, emotional regulation as a power skill.
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In today's world, emotional regulation is leadership.
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It's the ability to stay composed, to stay
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present, to stay effective, to stay in the
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moment.
26:42
When others spiral, regulate people rise.
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Now, a lot of other people could have
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spiraled as, oh my gosh, the rest of
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my life.
26:48
I'm like, okay, so the wallet got lost.
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And it's going to turn up.
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It will turn up no matter what happens.
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It definitely will turn up.
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And I can tell you that that's a
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very, that's a very, very important thing.
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And I will tell you, this is something
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that you definitely can, you know, rise upon.
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You can understand that.
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Don't let that thing happen.
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Like, I'll give you an example.
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One time something fell, right?
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A glass broke.
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Okay, glass broke.
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Great, let's move on.
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Let's not let it spiral a whole day.
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Okay, that's important too.
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Because what happens, you keep compounding, then you're,
27:24
oh, I gotta look for something else wrong.
27:25
And you keep doing that.
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And, you know, your body will do whatever
27:29
you tell it.
27:30
So if you look for bad things, they're
27:31
going to keep looking for the bad things.
27:32
If you're looking for good things, you have
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to look for good things.
27:34
So the skill compounds, guys, over time, in
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relationships, in business, and in life, and is
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one of the most valuable, priceless assets you
27:43
can build in your life.
27:44
Section 11, inner peace and performance are key.
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Peace doesn't slow you down.
27:50
It sharpens you.
27:51
When your mind isn't cluttered with fear, performance
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improves, guys.
27:54
Focus deepens, energy stabilizes.
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That's important, guys.
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And inner peace is not escape, it's efficiency.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm John C.
28:04
Morley, serial entrepreneur.
28:05
Be sure to check out BelieveMeAchieve.com for
28:07
more of my amazing, inspiring creations.
28:09
And remember, when something goes wrong, the next
28:13
thing's gonna be right.
28:14
Think it, and it will be.
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Take care, everyone.
28:16
Be well.
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you