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Well, Hey everybody,
Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again, welcome my
friends to the daily podcast.

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Really enjoying the opportunity to
spend some time with you guys each day.

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I know you all listen at different times.

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I know you don't always get to
every episode, but you never know

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when the good Lord, the cosmos.

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However you conceptualize things is
just going to bring you an idea, a,

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a thought, an inspiration, a quote.

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That's just going to affect
your day in some positive way.

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It's a great joy to do it.

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It, uh, Often the site of care and
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Not only is hopefully a blessing to many
of you guys, but also just a great chance

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for me to keep embedding the learning that
I'm undertaking on this journey of life.

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There's still so much to learn.

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We are such deeply mysterious.

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Creatures living in the mysterious cosmos.

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And, uh, there were just so many
opportunities before us, so much potential

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that we have, and hopefully each day, just
to sharing this time with you, we get a

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chance to explore some of that together.

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Specifically, if you've got a
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there was an episode I did.

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Uh, about a week ago on toxic people.

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And it just took off, it had like,
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listens compared to the episodes that
surround that at some deeply convinced

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that listener generated content.

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Is the way to go.

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So if you find that there is something
in your life that's holding you back,

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there's an issue, a challenge, a problem.

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It could be work-related relationships,
health, and fitness mindset,

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anything that's holding you back.

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Send me an email today, Jonathan,
at Jonathan doyle.co, because

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those questions, excuse me.

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That I get from you guys really
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So please make sure you subscribed,
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for what you want to hear about.

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And make sure you go and check out the
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are links in there to get free access to
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You can find it, how to book me to speak.

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If you're have a leadership role in, uh,
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churches, education, setting schools.

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Wherever you have a leadership role.

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Let me know if you would like me to come
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and put together a great presentation.

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That's going to help move
everybody forward now.

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I said about a week ago.

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It didn't episode.

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That said, what if God is on your
side and a, that fits into today's

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episode because I had this kind of
God on my side experience, we've been

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on a little break for about a week.

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And by in Queensland.

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And I love books.

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I'm a voracious reader, one of the
great tragedies of this season of life.

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Not that there's many of them
really, but one of the tragedies or.

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How about something that's
just mildly inconvenient.

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Let's just downgrade it to that.

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Uh, in this season of life is I didn't
get to read often as much as I want it to.

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When a pre COVID, I was traveling so
much, especially flying in and out of

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the U S you know, every, uh, sort of few
weeks I got to do tons of great readings.

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So that's a, it's a real pity, but.

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So I am a, I'm a bibliophile.

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I'm somebody that loves to read.

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I've always been, you know, for.

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Uh, for decades now, I just had
such an interesting business books.

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Personal development biographies.

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And so we're up on the coast and
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or three bookshops that I went to.

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And I'll be really honest with you.

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I was just, I was kind of.

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What's the word, not nonplussed.

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I was kind of underwhelmed.

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That's what I was looking for underwhelmed
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You know, at the moment in terms
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Spirituality self-help stuff.

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It's it's it seems to me, and this is
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It's very kind of utilitarian.

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It takes the view that the purpose
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Maximize efficiency and
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And it treats many of its sort of
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Uh, sort of like some sort of
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and then we will find happiness.

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I guess what I'm saying is a lot
of, it seems to be missing depth.

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So hence my story.

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Uh, Karen and I had a rare
chance to get a break.

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Uh, kids are still pretty young as
you know, and we Karen's parents

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offered to take the kids for the
evening and we escaped to have dinner

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and, uh, And it was a, it was great.

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And the, unfortunately the
weather it was, was a bit off.

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So we were driving around and trying
to find somewhere to go for dinner.

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And as we do some times, here's,
here's me teaching people how to

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be decisive and full of action.

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And we're indecisive trying
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driving around and driving around.

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And at one point we turned a
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notice a secondhand bookstore.

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It was closed.

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I just noticed where it was.

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And so a couple of days
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And I said to guys that, Hey,
let's go check out this bookstore.

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And.

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Sure enough.

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We ended up at the bookstore and it's,
I love old secondhand bookstores, and

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I've found that a sort of business,
personal development section.

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And I found this really fascinating book
and I'm just going to, I've got it here

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in front of me, and I'm just looking
at the, um, The first published thing.

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It should be interesting when
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Let me see.

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Um, first published.

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In 1992.

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As my first year out of high school.

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1992.

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So friends that is 30 years ago.

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My gosh.

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And it's, um, it's a fascinating book.

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It's called thick face, black
heart thick face, black heart.

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From a Taiwanese Chinese
lady called chin Ning.

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True.

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And she a fascinating lady,
you know, really amazing story.

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Uh, her parents with, uh, she was with her
parents when they literally got the last.

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Commercial flight out of mainland China.

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Um, during the, uh, you know, when
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People were escaping to
Taiwan to escape, um, mail.

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And they were literally
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And, um, so she had this amazing life, you
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up so poor, obviously fleeing the country.

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Then she built a life in,
in the U S in business.

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And, um, she became a real genius at
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understand the, sort of the, the
Asian mindset around business.

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So that's her story, but.

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This book thick face black heart was
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out to me and it costs me $4, 95, $4 95.

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And most of the other stuff
that you find these days in.

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Airports, you know,
you're paying 30, $40 for.

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What can often be a bit of fluff.

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So this book has been really fascinating.

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It's got depth to it.

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It comes from, uh, an intelligent person.

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Who's lived a lot of
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And, um, yeah, I just want to encourage
everybody that, um, you know, pay

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attention to what you're reading like
this, some, a lot of fluff around these

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days and, and, you know, often the, um,
The more challenging texts, you know,

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stuff that I mentioned at the moment,
I just bought her a new translation

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of Marcus Aurelius has meditations.

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Um, I'm a big fan of, uh, Alfred
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You have to do the work.

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You have to actually put the time in
and read them and understand them.

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But, um, listen, what I want to do today.

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Is a, I'm a big, uh,
underline or highlight or so.

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All through this book, I've just
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And there was a section I
want to share with you today.

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Which is the purpose of today's episode,
which is going a little bit deeper

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into this concept of fear of success.

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Self-sabotaged which I talk about quite
frequently, regular listeners will

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know that it comes up and I want to.

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Uh, share this quote
with you from chin Ning.

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True.

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And from her book here, but,
uh, let's just riff on fear

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of success at the moment.

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Now we all get fear of failure, right?

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Like we all objectively understand
why a fear of failure is a thing.

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We all understand that we want to have.

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You know, some level of success in
life, you want to achieve certain

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things and it is reasonable to
fear failures in it because we're

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worried that we'll be ostracized.

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We'll be embarrassed.

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Will please seen as
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So fear of failure on.

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You know, on a pretty objective level
makes some kind of sense, right?

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And then I can obviously drive a
lot of anxiety where afraid to,

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you know, that we're going to fail.

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So that's I get that.

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I kind of understand why fear of,
you know, Well, public speaking is

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a real fear for many people, right?

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Because there's that genuine sense
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And make an absolute fool of myself.

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So.

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But for your success is a stranger beast.

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It is sort of one of the
unicorns of personal development.

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Why would any of us.

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FIA success.

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I mean, how is that possible?

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And then, you know, of course
we understand this phenomenon of

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self-sabotage of people getting to
a particular place and then blowing

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their lives up spectacularly.

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What would drive that?

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Obviously it's a semi-conscious
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Um, that's we want to talk about today.

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Because chin Nene chew.

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It gives us a really good
insight here in this.

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So let me read it to you.

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She says this.

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Most of the things we think
we want come at the price of

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leaving behind our familiar life
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Every time we accomplished
something and move ahead.

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We have to exchange the
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For uncertainty.

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And unfamiliarity.

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Even though most people think
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They are simply going through the motions.

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And I'm going to read that to
you again in a sec, I think

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there's a lot of depth in that.

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And as I say, that's
why I liked this book.

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Um, She's drawing our attention
to the most obvious truth.

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That we are bio physiologically.

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And in terms of evolutionary
psychology, we are hardwired adapted to

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belonging, to certainty, to stability
and predictability as a species.

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We have done really well using.

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Leveraging a few great realities.

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Cooperation is one of them.

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That's one of the things that's seen.

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Our species absolutely thrive.

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Uh, and also.

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Things like this sort of, uh, the
social cohesion and this desire

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to stay alive, this desire to,
to not take unnecessary risks.

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I've said on recent podcasts that we
admire risk-takers we admire explorers

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and people that do amazing things, but to
be honest, in terms of evolutionary, uh,

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psychology and, uh, and evolution itself,
these are often the people that got eaten.

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They were the ones that wanted
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and got eaten by a bear.

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So as a species, we actually evolved
to sit around the campfire with our

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backs, to the fire, looking out into
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So you can see how this desire for
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a very big part of the human story.

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And once we begin to venture
into unknown territory, we

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simultaneously make the decision.

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For our lives, our experiences,
our relationships to be different.

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Let's do some really obvious examples.

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If you're a heavy drug addict,
there is a highly, like a

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high likelihood that you are.

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Of course, what surrounded
by white for it.

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Other heavy drug users.

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Right?

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It's.

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It's an enabling process.

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Uh, we often find that.

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You know, people with all
sorts of particular focuses and

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interests in life tend to group
themselves around other people.

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Elite athletes tend to be around
other elite athletes as a species.

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Again, we're adapted for this.

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So, what tends to happen is if we
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immediately face the risk of ostracizing,
some of the people in our lives.

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And, um, people think, well,
does it have to be that way?

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I don't know the answer to
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way that is our lives change.

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As we try different things and
experience different things

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and desire different things.

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Some of our relationships and our
experience of life and our relationship

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with ourselves can begin to shift.

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So what are most people do?

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Well, as she says here in the last
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think they are trying to succeed,

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They are simply going through the motions.

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I think if you ask most people,
if you say, Hey, did, would

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you like to succeed in life?

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I mean, who is rationally going to
say, hell no, I want to fail badly.

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I want to just lose everything.

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Everybody.

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I think most rational people would argue
that they want to improve their lives.

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They want to grow.

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They want to succeed.

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They want to change.

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So why don't they.

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You know, to be blunt.

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Why does so many people
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You know, I often talk about
the metaphorical couch of life.

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Why does so many people settle?

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What differentiates people
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That is, uh, you know, it's
one of the great mysteries.

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Isn't it?

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Let me do this quote
with you one more time.

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We'll just unpack a little bit more here.

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She goes.

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Most of the things we think we want.

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I come at the price of leaving
behind our familiar life.

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And venturing into the unknown.

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Every time we accomplished something
and move ahead, we have to exchange

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the known conditions of our life.

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For uncertainty and unfamiliarity.

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Even though most people think
they are trying to succeed.

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They are simply going through the motions.

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You know, I think I mentioned recently
that I've been teaching my eldest daughter

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world history, and recently we've looked
at the D uh, the journeys of Vesco to

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Garma Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand,
Magellan, and Magellan, of course.

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Is the, uh, the great Explorer, the first
person to circumnavigate the globe though.

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He didn't actually pull it off.

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Many of you will go.

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What, Magellan's the guy that
circumnavigated the world.

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What kind of, he.

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He left Spain and, uh, headed
through pasture Boulter and out

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into the ocean and, um, got around
the horn and blah, blah, blah.

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But eventually he got to the
Philippines and was killed.

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So had his captain and, uh, the rest of
his crew managed to get back to Italy, but

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he didn't, uh, he didn't actually make it.

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But, you know, I think about these people.

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When you look at the journey
that they would have made and the

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boats that they were doing it in.

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And the vast distances.

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You know, it was Magellan that named
the Pacific, the Pacific, it comes from,

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you know, Uh, patchy, meaning peaceful.

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So they, it was a peaceful ocean and
it was calm when they crossed it.

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I've flown that ocean so many times.

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I'm flying Sydney to
Dallas that many times.

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And you just get a sense of
the scale involved and modern

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getting at he was, can you imagine
what that would have been like?

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To leave behind the relative comforts
of European civilization at that time

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to head into this vast unknown, I mean,

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And then I looked at who was
I looking at the other day?

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You know, Marco polo that a tedious kind
of 25 year Trek all the way from Venice

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to, uh, to the Imperial courts in China.

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And just the leaving behind and the
decision to step out into something,

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not knowing what's going to happen.

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My point here is that.

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The men and women who tend to do
interesting, remarkable, important things

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in life tend to be men and women who are
prepared to leave behind the familiar.

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Who are prepared to take risks now
as OSA, lets you know, there's a

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question of degree here, right?

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So we're not all called to, you know,
chart new courses through the stars.

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But sometimes, you know, The success
that we want in a marriage or

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parenting or work or career or health.

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Comes from the same dynamic.

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It comes from going, the realization
that you've lived a certain way.

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For a long time, but you're no
longer prepared to stay there.

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So, this is what I call it.

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We're.

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When I think about this
episode, I thought.

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How do I move this from being
abstract to being concrete?

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How do I give you?

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Some actual things to do or to
think about in terms of, you know,

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experiencing more success in your life.

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Look, the first things
I'd say to everybody is.

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You want to have some clarity, always
teach that you need to have some

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clarity about what success actually.

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Looks like for you and no judgment, right?

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Like for some people, success could
be, you know, the, the big success

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that the chasing could be, you know,
losing 10 pounds and getting fit.

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For some people that could be to
become president of the United nations.

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Um, it doesn't matter.

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It's it's, I mean, I'm not going to
critique people's desires in terms of

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growth and development and, and goals.

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But the first thing you
needed is some clarity.

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The next thing I'd suggest is.

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I was really thinking deeply
that what, what is the energy

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source that will move you from.

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The drudgery of the day to
day or the results that you've

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been getting for too long.

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And what it is that you actually
want, what is that mechanism?

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And it's what I've been calling, I think
for a few years, divine dissatisfaction.

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You've got to get what I call
a divine dissatisfaction,

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which is a kind of spiritual
dissatisfaction with where you are.

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Uh, nagging sense that there is
more in life for you, a nagging

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sense that you could contribute
more experience, more, have more.

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You know, in life said, you've got
to look for that dissatisfaction.

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If you don't have that.

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If you don't have some kind of
gnawing sense that things couldn't

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should be a little bit different.

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Then you are unlikely to
make significant change.

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And the last point I wanted to
make today, Was to also draw your

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attention to the truth, to the truth.

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I think the truth.

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That growth.

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Is.

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Essential.

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It's an essential aspect
of the cosmic order.

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Everything is moving in the cosmos, right?

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Nothing stationary where you say, you
might say, well, what about mountains?

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Mountains don't go anywhere.

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Of course they do.

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You know, like I live in Australia,
it's a very old, stable, relatively

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flat geological continent
that once had huge mountains.

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So mountains are being ground down to dust
and that dust is moving into the oceans or

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being blown to other parts of the world.

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And eventually.

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We're going to get a supernova and
the planet won't exist and everything

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that constitutes this planet will be
sucked into a black hole, probably.

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So nothing is stationary.

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Nothing.

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Things are always moving.

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And I just think that the.

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Where I'm beginning to move.

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My thinking is that we are called
into this great cosmic mystery.

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Of growth and movement.

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And as recently somebody said,
well, what about just learning to

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be still in meditation and being
in gratitude for what you do have?

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Absolutely.

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These are not mutually exclusive.

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So I'll move in and out of,
you know, today I went and, um,

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When had a long, 35 minute deep
meditation session, prayer session.

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So I spend time every day in
deep stillness and contemplation.

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But the rest of the time I'm
moving, I'm trying to do things

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and trying to make stuff happen.

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So.

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Friends.

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Do not be afraid of success.

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Uh, you know, success will mean
that things will change for you.

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Some things you will have to leave behind
some things you'll need to let go of.

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A couple of weeks ago, in an episode, we
talked about, you know, Stephen Covey's

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quote that, um, you know, the reason you,
if you want different things in your life,

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you're gonna have to do different things.

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You have to become a different person.

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We see this in cinema all the time.

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You know, the hero's journey,
Joseph Campbell's hero archetype.

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Right.

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Where we see the Luke Skywalker's,
who come from one place don't

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really know their identity.

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They get swept up.

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In into an adventure that, that
takes them away from all of the

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stability and transforms them and
changes them into who they really are.

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So maybe it's not about a case of sort
of radically becoming a different person.

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Maybe it's a case of becoming radically,
who we actually are in the first place.

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I'm convinced at the moment that
there is just so much potential,

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so much capacity in every single
one of us so much to contribute.

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And this fear of success.

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Rob's the world of all that is in you.

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So do not be afraid of change to not
be afraid of growth, run towards it.

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I run towards at my friends because.

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You don't want to get to the
end of this journey and realize

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that the music dies with you.

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You don't want to get to the
end of the journey and realize

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that you stayed safe too long.

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You stayed comfortable too long.

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You didn't try things for too long.

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One day, the music stops.

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All right, everybody.

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That's it do not be afraid of success.

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Thank you to chin.

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Children.

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Oh, my gosh, chin.

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chew in a memorize that chin being true.

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True from her book thick face black heart.

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If you can find a copy, I think
there are copies on Amazon.

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It's definitely worth checking out.

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I really liked it.

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Uh, God bless you everybody.

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Please make sure you have subscribed.

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Book me to speak.

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The links are all here in the show notes.

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Um, grab yourself some free access
to my book, bridging the gap of God.

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Bless, should be encouraged to
get out there amongst it today.

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Take some small step.

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Never leave the scene of a decision
without taking action go get them

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friends my name is jonathan doyle this
has been the daily podcast and you

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and i are going to talk again tomorrow