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Why People Stay Stuck and The Region Beta Paradox
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Apr 28, 2025
Welcome to Adaptable | Behavior Explained! This episode goes over why people stay stuck, featuring the Region Beta Paradox with Patrick O’Horo. We explore how sometimes being “just okay” can actually prevent growth and change. The Region Beta Paradox explains why mild discomfort can keep us in place longer than intense pain—and how recognizing this can motivate real transformation. I'm Kelly O'Horo, Attachment based EMDR Therapist, EMDRIA Consultant, and Advanced Trainer. I'm a mom of 5, Nonna of 5, wife, and a healer. I have the honor of spending my workdays walking along side people while they brave their healing journeys. I try to live with the generous assumption that we're all doing the best we can with what we know. Therapists are teachers for the "life stuff" and "emotional vocabulary" that may not have been learned due to gaps in our care givers capabilities. In the last 15 years I've learned that people are freaking amazing, resilient, and inspiring. Most importantly, we are hardwired for connection and for healing! I hope to bring an authentic, compassionate, and unpolished approach while we explore a variety of topics such as parenting, marriage, relationships, dating, trauma, attachment, adoption, depression, addiction, anxiety, and love! There's a why for all behaviors and an explanation that makes perfect sense as emotion is at the root of it all. -- Links -- https://linktr.ee/kellyohorolpc https://youtu.be/rLnARKekvgo https://www.emdria.org/find-an-emdr-therapist/
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hi everyone I'm Kelly O'Horo and this is
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Adaptable Behavior Explained hi there
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thank you so much for joining us on
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Adaptable today i'm Kelly O'Horo your
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host and I'm a licensed professional
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counselor i'm especially excited to have
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with us here today my guest Patrick
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O'Horo he is a licensed associate
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counselor and a trauma specialist as
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well as my husband and my personal hero
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so Patrick thank you so much for being
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here today it's always a pleasure we are
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going to discuss a topic that is very
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near and dear to my husband's heart it
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is from an article called the peculiar
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longevity of things not so bad and the
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purpose of our conversation today is to
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help you understand why you might get
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stuck in certain patterns or areas of
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your life and a little bit about the
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reason that happens and so Patrick go
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ahead and introduce yourself to me today
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or to our guests and talk a little bit
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about what we're going to discuss sure
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well thanks for having me i've been in
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the technology space for a long long
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time counseling is not my primary job
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it's a side gig and I'm always thinking
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of things from a systems perspective and
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as I went through my own interpersonal
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work and then decided I wanted to be a
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counselor a lot of my learnings had to
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do with humans and society as a system
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that same kind of lens and sometime in
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grad school I came across this paper
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that defined something called the region
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beta paradox this peculiar longevity of
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things not so bad it was written by
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Gilbert at all like 20 years ago
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and it's a pretty short paper but what
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it really talks about is our what what I
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interpreted is our resistance to change
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and I love it because for me every time
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I look at a problem or a person I almost
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see them like a clock i'm trying to
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figure out the gears and the springs
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inside that make them do what they do
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and that was really illuminating to me
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and it's kind of like the Matrix code
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for me once you see it you can't unsee
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it and so now I just see it kind of
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everywhere and I know I get some grief
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from you because I'll be like region
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beta paradox region beta paradox right
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everywhere we go there's like moments
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where you see something and I have
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teased you a little bit because I
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realize that you see it everywhere but
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explain to our viewers what this premise
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is about so the premise is that there's
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a misnomer around how we think things
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will affect us and how they actually
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affect us in the long term and in the
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short term and so the premise of the
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paper is that if you were to ask
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somebody hey something really really bad
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would you know somebody would treat you
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really bad what would your response be
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we'll answer that and we'll predict that
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the effects would be bad and they would
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last a long time and it should really be
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avoided right like you if you offended
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me it's going to affect me for a long
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time but if you only offend me a little
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bit these small transgressions we tend
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to get over and I almost think of it now
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as death by a thousand cuts and that's
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where I I live I think what resonated
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with the paper so much is just that the
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title the peculiar longevity of things
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not so bad right and so now I see and
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all throughout our life this region beta
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paradoxes they plotted out through
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assessments of people and how they react
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to what they would consider a
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transgression against them really proves
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that what you know we think bad things
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are to be avoided and what the science
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shows us is that bad things stimulate
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action yeah we can't grow without
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discomfort and a lot of times we
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internally strive to remain comfortable
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right and so that internal psychological
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thinking or paradigm is that if it's not
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so bad I'll just kind of let it go i'll
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let it alone and then I have these
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moments over and over and over again
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that something bothers me or is annoying
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or frustrating but the idea of the
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distress that would be required to
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change it feels too overwhelming so I
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just avoid it yeah the example one of
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the examples they use in the paper as
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they plot it out if you just think
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simply and not with problems is that if
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if I decide everything within a mile I'm
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just going to walk to because it's not
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worth the trouble of getting out my bike
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and you know cuffing my pants and do all
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this stuff but then everything beyond a
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mile I'll ride a bike because I've have
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this threshold for discomfort or action
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I'm actually limiting how fast I can get
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to everywhere within a mile right and
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you know really kind of pushing up
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against that boundary so when we apply
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it to other things in our life whether
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it's our our interpersonal you know our
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coping mechanisms that we have and these
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defense responses like cognitive
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dissonance right how am I making a
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decision about action and a lot of times
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it's super unconscious so we can think
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about you know cohabitating being in a
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bad relationship that's just not too bad
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right or being in a job that isn't a job
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where I'm thriving and that I'm really
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you know fulfilled and have a lot of
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purpose but it's just not too bad pays
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the bills you don't mind going your boss
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is all right your co-workers are okay
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and the stuff that you do every day
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doesn't suck that bad and a lot of times
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we have
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this shared friend and we'll go do these
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amazing experiences and and you look at
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him and you're like "Hey what did you
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think of that?" And he go he says "Well
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that didn't suck." And that's just as
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you know exactly who I'm talking to and
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it's like that's the that's a lens that
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we all kind of look at in a lot of ways
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and so yes we might imagine the a job or
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a career or a lifestyle that we really
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really want but then subconsciously we
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start stacking up the difficulty and the
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discomfort against us right and so I
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think of it you know anybody that's
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tuned into your show you know if we take
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trauma out of it if we think about how
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our brains work right this is my
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prefrontal cortex and this is my lyic
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system this is my you know judges safety
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and danger and so in a calm state you
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know on a 0 to 10 I'm thinking you know
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right dreaming about the future that I
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want and contemplating existence and all
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these things rest digest and then you
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know as my safety starts to be
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compromised you know I get about halfway
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I like to look at it as my eyes my
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senses are straight out like oo what's
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that right so I start getting some
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information that things might be might
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need something right and then when my
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lid fully flips I'm in action i'm in
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freeze flight or flight so if we take
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trauma out of it and we just say how
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does this mechanism work in how we take
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action in our everyday lives it's kind
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of the same thing and I see the region
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beta paradox as being the spring that
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automatically keeps that lid down it's
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trying to keep us from blowing up our
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lives because if we're constantly
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reacting if we're constantly reacting to
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things then we can't develop complex
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tribal systems and societies and do and
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and achieve long-term goals right we're
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a squirrel we get distracted by the next
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thing or whatever so it seems to me like
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there's this mechanism that keeps us
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going on the status quo on the path and
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it's this resistance to action and it's
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only when our system goes whoa that was
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really really bad that I go into it
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doesn't have to be traumatic fight or
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flight but I go I'm going to do
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something about it so a common scenario
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would be uh you know I'm in the job that
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I don't really like uh I'm languishing
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i'm burnt out it's not fulfilling to me
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it's just a grind i can't wait to not do
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it every day
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but I need it it's my financial
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stability it's maybe the connection I
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have to people the the market you know
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the the job market isn't good the
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economy is not whatever the things are
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that keep that you know my lid down and
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keep me doing the status quo death by a
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thousand cuts and then there's a layoff
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right or I'm fired for some right and
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then I'm like oh no I would have
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predicted that would have been the worst
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possible outcome that I lost the job but
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then I lose the job and I'm forced into
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action so now I actually find a job that
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aligns with you know that's fulfilling
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that gives me purpose or you get to
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learn something new you get to create
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new relationships you now like your boss
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a little bit better and you didn't
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realize it was so bad in the alternate
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position and so you didn't bother to
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change the to change your circumstances
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until it got so bad and you had no
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choice and you were forced to change it
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yeah and I think the realization is the
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key piece right this is an unconscious
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bias this isn't the calculus that our
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prefrontal cortexes use this is that am
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I safe am I stable how do I maintain the
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status quo as opposed to just this
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really reactionary and do I want to look
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for a new job and have to go through the
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anxiety of interviewing and upset my
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schedule and have to prove myself to my
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new co-workers and my boss and I'm
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already liked well enough over here and
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so then I'd have to start all over again
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and all of that distress that would be
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part of you know exploring a new
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opportunity would be so overwhelming or
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overwhelming enough that I just go nah
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I'm not going to bother with that and I
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see it everywhere you were talking about
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this earlier here i have this bum
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shoulder i've had this shoulder injury
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for quite a while like I I can't really
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get my arm super high and it's this
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nagging discomfort but I'm you know in
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my mind I say "Oh surgery it's I'm going
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to be laid up for x number of months and
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oh summer's coming and I'll put that off
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or you know it's going to be a very
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painful recovery or whatever that is."
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So I'm stacking the deck against action
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right and I'm supporting inaction but
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what's happened is that I have this
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really annoying persistent injury that's
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going on for much longer than if I had
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have said "Ow that hurts." And gone to
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the doctor and got the scans and done
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the physical therapy right so now I'm
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having to wait till it's bad enough and
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I'm like "Uhoh honey I might need some
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help shaving my head." Right it's become
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it's become bad enough that I now need
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to do something about it and I think
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that really kind of summarizes this
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thing is that we just sit there and we
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just we tolerate we tolerate we tolerate
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well and you talked about the example of
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being in a job but even if you're in a
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position of leadership or a position of
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choosing who's working for you whether
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it's a cleaning lady or an employee or
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your your yard person or even going to
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let's say you're going to a specific um
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coffee shop and they they have something
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that keeps going wrong when I was
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thinking about it when we were chatting
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about this for the for the show I had an
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employee a while back that was okay she
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got the job done she was nice enough to
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our clients she was not so bad she was
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not so bad yeah but there were things
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that she did that weren't up to my
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satisfaction and she tended to have
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persistent personal crises and it would
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pull her out of doing a good job and we
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might have that happen for a day or a
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half a day or whatever else and during
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those times you know I liked her as a
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person and so I had compassion for her
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personal experiences that were you know
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regular crisis and at the same time I
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suffered the loss of the the employee
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that I really wanted during those times
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and thinking about putting a job out on
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Indeed and going through the interview
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process and blocking my calendar for
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however many hours I needed to to find
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somebody new and then you know the pain
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of retraining a person all of those
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things just sounded horrible and then an
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experience happened where you know she
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did something that really from an
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ethical perspective left me no choice
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but I had to let her go and it was awful
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i mean you remember we were on vacation
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and we were supposed to be able to have
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our time off and because I had to let
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her go immediately because of what she
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had done it was like I don't have a
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choice i have to take these three days
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of our vacation and I have to now find a
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new person we can't run our business
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without someone answering the phones and
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it was so frustrating and then what we
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ended up finding was like such an
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awesome person to help us and had I done
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that sooner it would have been you know
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in our best interest but I think to your
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point the the steps that it would have
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taken to make that happen were so
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frustrating and so and and the way that
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we stack up what that change would be
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right how long would it take to onboard
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find somebody and then onboard somebody
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and so what comes to my mind in that
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situation is this old idiom the devil we
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know is better than the devil we don't
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and so we tend to do that in so many
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situations where and because of our
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defense mechanisms like cognitive
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dissonance like you in our different
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coping mechanisms when we suffer
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this discomfort but it doesn't cross the
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threshold of too bad right then our
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defense mechanisms kick in and we start
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to rationalize it or we start you know
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to resolve that cognitive dissonance and
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in a way we do that is when we stack up
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the blocks and we put more cushion
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between the action boundary until we're
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forced into action so you know two
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points on that you and I owe each other
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a vacation still that happened and
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second like looking at that in so many
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facets of our life right so not just as
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the employer you know in my main job
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I've been in technology and specifically
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productivity so looking at uh you know
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for 30 years so it's looking at what's
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the relationship between humans and
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technology and the workplace and you
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know over the last you know 15 years or
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so it's been very fascinating in looking
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at multigenerational workforces you know
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we have five generations in the same
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workforce all having different habits
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and styles so starting to think from a
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systems perspective you know how do we
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adjust right and how do we adapt and
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evolve as people and then technolog is
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changing covid was a huge gamecher when
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it came to how people worked and how
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they did their value proposition for
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where and how they worked and so we
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watched large organizations have to to
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change that we think about hybrid work
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or remote work and the the value
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proposition that people have and what
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they do and where they're too bad enough
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threshold actually lies so to me it's
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really fascinating you know Microsoft's
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done a lot of work called the work labs
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where we look at what that value
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proposition is for people and when we
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start looking at the data around things
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like thriving versus languishing burnout
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presenteeism which is I'm showing up to
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work but I'm bringing 80% of myself
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right for a while it was called this
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quiet quitting where I'm only there like
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50% but I'm in the seat or absenteeism
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lots of sick days lots of you know I
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didn't show up kind of like the employee
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experience you were talking about and so
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when we start to look at what are the
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things that are driving that I see
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region beta paradox i see both an
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employee and an employer who's you know
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the employee is saying the gig is good
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enough it's not bad enough to warrant a
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change and the employer it's good enough
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it's not worth you know disrupting my
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culture or training leadership or having
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new goals and outcomes outlined or
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engaging people or getting new employees
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or training those employees so we sit in
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this purgatory of not bad enough in so
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many aspects of our life and now I'm
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just kind of like Rainman like region
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beta a paradox it's everywhere it's
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everywhere right so I think we have a
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pretty good idea about what this concept
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is and I am sure you know as a listener
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you're thinking about all the areas you
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know whether you're cohabitating with a
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person who's okay or your roommates's
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all right enough or anything that might
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be status quo and not wanting to go
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through the internal distress or the
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overwhelm or the anxiety of making those
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changes so let's talk now about how do
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we get past that what do we do so that
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we can change things in our lives that
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aren't so bad but you know we'd like to
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see it different whether I'm working
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with you know Fortune 500 corporate
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customers on productivity and culture
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and technology or whether I'm talking to
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a client in my counseling office I think
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the first step to anything is making it
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conscious right right understanding that
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there's something there that that we all
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have this spring it's not this isn't
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pathology ology right it's not a result
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of trauma the trauma might affect how
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loose or tight that spring is that makes
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sense but but this it's just there it's
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like how do I handle discomfort and when
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do I go into action and so bringing
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awareness to it and making it conscious
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means that those unconscious defense
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mechanisms that we have to rationalize
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to reason to resolve cognitive
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dissonance then those become conscious
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as well we can't just blindly and
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unconsciously walk through life and
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expect things to change unless we don't
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take action if nothing changes nothing
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changes one of my favorite quotes is La
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Zoo if if I'll probably say it wrong but
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this is basically you're likely to end
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up where you're heading if you don't
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change direction right and so bringing
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that to awareness and saying why am I in
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the job or the relationship or the house
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or the situation I am in and not just
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pushing off action how can I take any
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action to build a better life and I
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think that's something you know we've
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done a previous episode on our
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agreements and our relationship about
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how we go through life and long-term
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planning right in long-term planning
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that just means I'm having iterative
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steps of action that I'm willing to take
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and a lot of us get stuck in this
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analysis paralysis where we sit there
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and go I can't take any action you know
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James Clear talks about this in Atomic
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Habits a lot is this planning before the
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action and we can stay in the spot and
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we can commiserate around how bad things
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are we can rationalize how not so bad
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they are we can talk about preparing to
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take action and until we cross that
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threshold of discomfort to actually move
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into action nothing changes and so
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bringing that to awareness is step one
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dr becky talked about it on that episode
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on her Good Inside podcast do you
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remember we were talking about it and
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she talked about you know if there's a
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fear of moving forward and the the
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action plans are too many and you think
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about the steps that need to be taken
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and you think about let's say there's
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seven steps and you aren't making any
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moves forward we we talked about and she
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talked about in that episode then the
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first step was too big yeah i the way I
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recall it was a teacher or something
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told her that it's like if you're
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finding yourself in procrastination or
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in action it's because the first step's
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too big so cut it in half make it
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smaller and if it's still then make it
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smaller make it smaller make it smaller
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and so I think philosophically that
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makes sense because I have a clearly
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stated goal and I want to do that but
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with the region beta paradox we're
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saying by default my stated goal is
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status quo right right so it's almost
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the opposite of that of you know how do
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I stretch that spring a little bit and
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even just to recognize my own
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propensities to want to stay the course
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and tolerate i can think of an example
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that I think a lot of people would
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relate to you know my closet is the bane
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of my existence it is so overwhelming it
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is so stressful i've got too many
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clothes for the given space i struggle
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with determining if I should let
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something go i've got some scarcity
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stuff in my history related to like what
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if I don't have it again or what if I
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need this tank top again and when I
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think about the discomfort I feel every
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single time I walk into my closet it's
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so frustrating but then when I think
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about having to give up a whole day to
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clean my closet that sounds terrible and
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so I think about you know the Dr becky
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analogy that she talked about and so now
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when I look at my closet I feel like I
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can take a bite i know that it's a
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problem I want to deal with and so
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instead of thinking I need to do my
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whole closet I go I can handle the tank
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tops and I can go through just the tank
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tops i can move enough so I can close
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the door well it's not that bad but I'm
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just saying you know I I can't think
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about doing it with my whole closet and
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then I have to try everything on and
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then I have to deal with like shame if
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something's too tight or it doesn't fit
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or whatever when it's an easy situation
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or an easy question like there like a
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shirt is pilly that's easy enough for me
20:05
to put in the donation pile but if it
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kind of fits or I liked it once or I
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remember going somewhere in it and I
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liked the experience it it becomes
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overwhelming to me so I think trimming
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down that first step is a good example
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about I might recognize there's an issue
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that I want to change and the overwhelm
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of doing my whole closet seems like too
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much and so then I'm frustrated every
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time I go to get dressed take a small
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step i think that's the other piece that
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we want to talk about is just taking a
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small step starting somewhere i think we
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can all relate to that what I'm seeing
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in my mind as we talk about it region
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beta paradox right is what we're talking
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about is moving the threshold of
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discomfort sure and that's almost you
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almost just illustrated the
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unconscious reaction to staying
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underneath that threshold mhm so you
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know I can go in my closet and I see
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stuff on my floor and as long as I can
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safely step over and navigate it without
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putting a footprint in my favorite what
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right then then I can I can go okay it's
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fine it's fine it's fine because the big
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thing of cleaning the closet is
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overwhelming and what I've heard you
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describe is well chunk up the progress
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so that I can do the littlest amount of
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action as possible without having to
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cross the threshold m and what I would
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challenge you to consider is think of a
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time that for whatever reason maybe we
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were moving and you had no choice but to
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go into the closet and then you went
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into the closet and you cleaned it right
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how good did you feel after you took
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that big step so so the the piece to
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take away from this is what does it take
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to take action to cross the threshold
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because we believe going over that
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threshold causes pain and discomfort and
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uncertainty and we avoid it and so we
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avoid it it's a riskmanagement strategy
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and we avoid it so we either do kind of
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what you just described which is we
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lower the threshold we take smaller
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bites we do everything in our
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unconscious power to stay on this side
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of the threshold because we believe
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crossing the threshold is is too hard
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it's not worth it it's going to my
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closet isn't bad enough if it's
22:18
organized enough and that that
22:20
discomfort will last a long time but the
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inverse is true what what the peculiar
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longevity of things not so bad tells us
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what this region beta paradox is is
22:30
we're actually prolonging the discomfort
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by staying on the on this side of the as
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you're talking about it i'm imagining
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giving up part of my weekend and just
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doing it and then thinking about how
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good I feel that it's just been handled
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and every time I go to get dressed I'm
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proud of myself which motivates future
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behavior i'm excited about it and and
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that's great because you're to you're
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tapped into your dopamineergic system
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and and you can imagine having done that
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enough that you know I know I will that
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were hard that I know what it feels like
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but so many people that get stuck in the
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region beta zone and they don't cross
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that comfort that threshold of
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discomfort until it's too bad i think
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they build up more associations with
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avoiding things that are too bad i would
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they don't always redo their calculus
23:16
and go "Oh wait a minute that wasn't so
23:18
bad." Right and life doesn't meet us on
23:20
our terms so then when something happens
23:22
that is out of our control that forces
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us to move forward we then can go you
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know I even though it was terrible that
23:28
I got fired from my job I'm really glad
23:30
that it happened because it forced me to
23:33
you know to stretch a little bit and to
23:35
face those discomforts ultimately
23:36
improving the quality of my life
23:38
eventually and knowing you know so I
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think the couple of lessons are
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one bringing it to awareness right
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everything that we do we improve when we
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can bring our subconscious unconscious
23:50
to consciousness and noticing be in
23:53
relationship with it we notice you know
23:55
the second thing is asking ourselves why
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am I resisting change is that rational
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is my spring wound too tight where I'm
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going to suffer death by a thousand cuts
24:07
because you know what am I afraid of and
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then bringing that into consciousness as
24:11
well and having that kind of plan to to
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move through it yeah well I so
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appreciate you coming on this show today
24:19
to discuss this one of your favorite
24:22
topics and hopefully this becomes a good
24:24
resource for future clients that we can
24:27
refer them to understand when we see it
24:29
with our clients and hopefully you as
24:31
the listener are resonating with some of
24:34
these ideas and are maybe feeling a
24:36
little bit motivated to make some bigger
24:38
changes perhaps without the universe
24:41
forcing you to do so so that you can
24:43
really live to your fullest fruition and
24:46
live your best life and not have uh
24:48
something out of your control require
24:50
you to do so and if you're not motivated
24:52
to action think about it right stay
24:55
stuck if nothing changes nothing changes
24:57
so Patrick thank you so much for being
25:00
here with me today i always enjoy our
25:02
conversations and appreciate your time
25:04
and your passion to look into new
25:06
concepts and your willingness to be the
25:08
maven on these sorts of topics i really
25:10
appreciate it so thank you pleasure
25:12
thanks for having me yes thank you so
25:14
much for tuning in today to Adaptable we
25:16
hope this inspires you to make some
25:17
changes in your life and if not if
25:20
you're thinking of someone that this
25:21
reminds you of please feel free to share
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this episode to help them maybe bump
25:26
them through to making some changes to
25:28
improve their lives but until we meet
25:30
again don't forget to lead with love
25:32
it'll never steer you wrong
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