Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. It is Eric from the one you feed
Speaker 1: back with another mini episode. This week's mini episode will
Speaker 1: be called Knowledge Versus Action. So I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm always scheduling interviews and preparing for interviews, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking the other day about how the same we
Speaker 1: we seem to cover the same ground a lot in interviews,
Speaker 1: and I sometimes think I need to break some new ground,
Speaker 1: or I gotta get get somebody on who will say
Speaker 1: something completely different. And then what I realize is that
Speaker 1: the reason we cover the same ground is that a
Speaker 1: the steps to living a better life there aren't there
Speaker 1: aren't that many of them. There's not that many different things,
Speaker 1: and that there's a huge gap between us knowing something
Speaker 1: and us actually doing it or being able to do it.
Speaker 1: So I think there's value in hearing these things. Certainly
Speaker 1: for me, I know there's value and hearing these things
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, because they don't tend
Speaker 1: to stick the first time for me. One of our
Speaker 1: earlier guests, Kevin Griffin, said, it's not that we don't know,
Speaker 1: but the problem isn't what people believe, but how we
Speaker 1: actually live. Many people have good values and beliefs that
Speaker 1: they aren't able to live by. Certainly for myself, I
Speaker 1: think that is true. I talked on the show about
Speaker 1: going on autopilot a lot, and it's really easy each
Speaker 1: for time to just slip by. And it's a matter
Speaker 1: of being aware of some of these very fundamental concepts,
Speaker 1: but being able to put them into action on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis. And so that's really the value of doing
Speaker 1: the show for me, and listening to other type shows
Speaker 1: and reading is to keep those things front of mind
Speaker 1: and allow me to translate that knowledge into action. Uh.
Speaker 1: The German poet Gerta said thinking is easy, acting is difficult,
Speaker 1: and to put one's thoughts into action is the most
Speaker 1: difficult thing in the world. Makes me think about one
Speaker 1: of our guests, Todd Henry, who when I asked him,
Speaker 1: what was one tip he would give people that they
Speaker 1: would take away, It's that he basically said he would
Speaker 1: spend an equal amount of time processing what he reads
Speaker 1: that he does reading it. So I think for most
Speaker 1: of us is it's almost at least for me if
Speaker 1: I'm not conscious of it, it's is consuming, consuming, consuming,
Speaker 1: and maybe five percent is thinking about it really putting
Speaker 1: it into action in my life and understanding it. It's
Speaker 1: easy to fall into the delusion that there is some
Speaker 1: thing out there that we just haven't heard yet, that
Speaker 1: when we hear it, it will make all the difference
Speaker 1: and it will make these massive breakthroughs in our lives.
Speaker 1: And the truth is almost always that it is the
Speaker 1: consistent application of things that we already know over and
Speaker 1: over that leads to the real transformation and breakthroughs. So
Speaker 1: I think it's a matter of just spending more time
Speaker 1: internalizing what we read, hearing the same messages over and
Speaker 1: over again with a real biased action. Hopefully that's helpful
Speaker 1: to you. We will have another interview out on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and thanks as always for listening and we'll talk again soon.
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