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Speaker 1: Good a Groovers.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever think about why you think the way

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Speaker 2: you think, where your thinking comes from, how much of

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Speaker 2: your thinking is actually yours?

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Speaker 1: You know that saying? What is the saying?

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Speaker 2: Is it like we become or we are the average

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Speaker 2: of the five people we spend the most time with.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because there's not there's no real science to that,

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Speaker 2: but there's some science that supports the idea very strongly,

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Speaker 2: of course, that we kind of adopt the thinking or

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Speaker 2: are heavily influenced by the thinking and behaving and beliefs

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Speaker 2: and values and habits and lifestyle of people that we

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Speaker 2: live with or hang out with, or socialize with, or

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Speaker 2: know or trust or respect or look up to. So

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Speaker 2: very much there is a social influence that impacts how

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Speaker 2: we are. Social influence is powerful. We are at the

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Speaker 2: very least influenced by the beliefs and behaviors and habits

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Speaker 2: and thinking standards values of the people around us. So

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Speaker 2: it's good to be mindful of this because sometimes we

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Speaker 2: think where we are thinking critically when we're not really

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Speaker 2: thinking critically or objectively or independently, where thinking through the

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Speaker 2: filter of our programming without even being aware of the

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Speaker 2: programming so we're starting with and by the way, this

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Speaker 2: is everyone, this is me too. So this is not

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Speaker 2: something we're going to fix or solve or resolve on

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Speaker 2: today's show. We're just talking about it as we always do.

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Speaker 2: But I think the beginning of the beginning of being

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Speaker 2: able to think critically and clearly and independently of the

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Speaker 2: programming and the influencers, and the church and the sinner

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Speaker 2: and the culture and the habit and the environment, the

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Speaker 2: and people and factors that influence how you and I

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Speaker 2: think the beginning is to go, well, fuck my thinking.

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Speaker 2: We probably don't have to say the well fuck, but

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Speaker 2: you could probably just start after that is really really impacted, influenced,

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Speaker 2: if not in some ways almost determined by who I

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Speaker 2: pay attention to, who I listen to, who I trust,

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Speaker 2: who I think is right, because invariably we kind of

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Speaker 2: often adopt and adapt the thinking of others because we

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Speaker 2: we think they're right, and we kind of want to

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Speaker 2: be like them. So how better could we be like

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Speaker 2: them than kind of adapt and adopt their thinking and

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Speaker 2: their behaviors. Right, we look up to people. We think

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Speaker 2: are good people. And of course, and this includes me,

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Speaker 2: this is all of us. We are influenced somewhere between

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Speaker 2: a little bit and a great big bit in terms

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Speaker 2: of how we then do life. We do life, so

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Speaker 2: we very often can, in a social way and an

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Speaker 2: experiential way and a practical way, become a version of

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Speaker 2: someone else. And I guess that begs the question, is

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Speaker 2: that terrible? My instinctive feeling is like, yes, that's fucking terrible.

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Speaker 1: But I guess it.

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Speaker 2: Depends on the outcome, doesn't it. If you kind of

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Speaker 2: mum does ABC and D, and then you go, fuck,

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Speaker 2: I'm doing all of that, and I'm and mum's pretty

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Speaker 2: functional and operational and happy, and so are you?

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Speaker 1: Then who am I to go? Then you should stop that.

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Speaker 2: But I think there's something to be said, definitely something

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Speaker 2: because which of course has metacognition thinking about thinking, but

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Speaker 2: so much of so much of our life where we're

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Speaker 2: just plowing through days, situations, conversations and counters, interactions, experiences

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Speaker 2: whether or not how we're thinking in this moment is

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Speaker 2: actually serving us or sabotaging us.

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Speaker 1: Is the way that I.

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Speaker 2: Think in this moment, helping or hindering this conversation, this

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Speaker 2: problem solving session, this conflict resolution session, this meeting, this

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Speaker 2: thing that I'm in the middle of with another person

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Speaker 2: And if we're really brave and honest, sometimes the way

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Speaker 1: Not everyone.

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Speaker 2: We can't listen everyone, but listen to the people that

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Speaker 2: like consider what they're saying, Like with this podcast, don't

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Speaker 2: may like me or think I mildly interesting. Perhaps consider

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying and then think about whether or not

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Speaker 2: it's worth opening the door on the thoughts and ideas

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Speaker 2: and advice that I might present over the next thirty

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Speaker 2: So look like he's a really fundamental question. Does my

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Speaker 2: Is the contents of my mind? Are the contents of

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Speaker 2: self sabotaging. I am wasting potential and time and energy.

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Speaker 2: I am obsessing about shit that I can't change, certain

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Speaker 2: I just think like this because Dad thinks like this,

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Speaker 2: or that dude that I love thinks like this, or

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Speaker 1: That I respect. I didn't actually choose this myself.

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Speaker 2: This is just an an emotional contagion. This is social osmosis,

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Speaker 2: where I've been around certain people who think and feel

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Speaker 2: to you, if the byproduct of that is positive, probably

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Speaker 1: But there is.

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Speaker 2: Definitely something to be said for becoming aware of your

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Speaker 1: Is it working?

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Speaker 2: So back to the original question or statement, is that

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Speaker 2: generally I think generally somewhat true. You will see things

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Speaker 2: That's not literally true. And also, of course some people

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Speaker 2: and values matter. Some people are really are naturally I

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Speaker 2: I think even though I in my life have many

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Speaker 2: But eventually, even within the context of that group or

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Speaker 2: and to belong to this group, you can't have other beliefs.

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Speaker 2: You have to have these beliefs. You can't think unless

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Speaker 2: only can you not think for yourself unless we're happy

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Speaker 2: pushing back and questioning. Here's the fucking kicker, the truth

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Speaker 2: There are so many groups which basically are cults. They

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Speaker 2: Does that to say all groups are bad?

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Speaker 2: There are some great groups. There are some great groups.

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Speaker 2: we operate in love as much as we can. But

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Speaker 1: So, in other words, if it's the right kind of group.

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Speaker 2: Now, I know I've spoken about this many times when

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Speaker 2: important to revisit again. And why Because because we've all

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Speaker 1: As to how we.

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Speaker 2: people say, Oh, that's not me. Oh gyms aren't me?

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Speaker 2: You know, I couldn't. That's not a me thing. I'm

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Speaker 2: just not I'm not saying go to the gym. I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying anything in particular, but I'm saying, expose yourself

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Speaker 2: to new experiences, new places, new people, new cultures, new information,

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Speaker 2: new books, maybe even new podcasts. Who knows, like different ideas,

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Speaker 2: different insights, different research. Like I'm changing my mind or

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Speaker 2: at least modifying my thinking about things almost every day.

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Speaker 2: If not unlearning, I'm just adding to my learning where

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking I didn't.

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Speaker 1: How am I just hearing this now? I'm one hundred

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Speaker 1: years old. How the fuck am I just finding this

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Speaker 1: out now? But I'm glad I did all right? Team

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Speaker 1: I may be waffling.

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Speaker 2: So I want you to think about your thinking and

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Speaker 2: whether or not you're thinking, is actually you're thinking, or

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Speaker 2: someone else's thinking that you're just thinking with me