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Welcome to Mini-Sode Monday.
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Hope your weekend was amazingly refreshing.
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Happy to be here with you, kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that ll make you more magnetic and effective.
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Now, a few days ago, one of our older neighbors here in the neighborhood got an iPod from his grandson for his birthday, and he wanted to put some old-time radio shows on it and some music from back in the day.
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And naturally, as the quote-unquote youngsters around here, Jen and I went to help.
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He didn t understand how something so small like an iPod could hold so many pieces of music and media.
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He had a concept in his head of storage as a manifestation of physical space to hold data and it just didn t align with what he knew about physical storage and how things can fit into other things.
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In other words, how the heck can all these songs squeeze into this little iPod Nano?
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And on the way home, Jen and I had a little chuckle about how people just don t get technology sometimes, and it s cute, and we re totally gonna be that way when we re older, and blah, blah, blah.
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But of course, this got me thinking, as I often do, and it all goes back to programming.
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His programming was causing him to make certain assumptions about how things work, and he just couldn t shake it.
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If you don t believe me, hand a three-year-old an iPad and he ll learn it in a few minutes.
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Then, hand that iPad to his grandmother and prepare yourself for 15-plus phone calls over the next two weeks.
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It s our programming that puts ideas in our head before our conscious mind can intercept them.
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And we do this all the time, not just with technology, but with people, too.
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We have judgments pop into our head, good and bad, accurate, inaccurate, all the time.
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Our programming is what causes us to mistake these assumptions for facts instead of just what they are, which are basically opinions formed by our subconscious mind that we seldom actually test for accuracy or for validity.
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So instead of thinking critically about people, problems, or situations, we become my older neighbor who will simply never understand how we fit all the music into the tiny little box.
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This week, whenever you catch yourself making an assumption about something or someone, put it to the test.
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Is the guy at the deli with all the tattoos really a scary person?
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Is the movie theater ticket clerk really just an aloof teenager?
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Did someone snub you on purpose or are they maybe distracted with their own issues going on today?
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Once we start testing our assumptions, we start to see the matrix of our own programming and that of others, giving us the power to rewire ourselves and make some much needed changes.
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If you want to learn how to start the rewiring process step by step, check out theartofcharm.com slash challenge.
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We ll give you weekly missions to step out of your comfort zone, test your assumptions, and start to see people and situations for what they really are, not just how you first assume them to be.
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You can also sign up for the challenge by texting charmed, that s C-H-A-R-M-E-D, to 33444, and get rockin  there.
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Hey everybody, Producer Jason here with your AOC Coming Attractions.
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This week we re talking to retired U.S.
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Navy SEAL Jocko Willink.
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Jocko and Jordan discuss owning absolutely everything in your world, discipline, intensity, leadership, and a little bit of violence.
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We re also talking to TED speaker and blogger Tim Urban from Wait But Why to discuss procrastination and the many types thereof, why it works, and how to fix it.
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And of course, as always, Fan Mail Friday.
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Make sure you subscribe to the show so you don t miss a single episode.
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Thanks for listening to the Art of Charm.
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Get more confidence, relationship skills, life hacks, and more at theartofcharmpodcast.com.