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Hey everybody.

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This is the host of the NJ podcast.

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This is wisdom words, Wednesdays.

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This is part of the everyday series where we share insights and inspiration

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based off a wisdom principle that will add value to your life.

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The better decisions you make, the better, the quality your life will be.

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That is why we need wisdom.

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Now more than.

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And this episode today, we're going to talk about apply wisdom to your

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thinking, apply wisdom to your thinking.

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Human beings have a distinct advantage over the rest of the animal kingdom.

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Think about it for a moment.

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We are not the first.

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We are not the strongest and sometimes we're not the most organized, but how is

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it that we are able to rise to the upper echelons, where we're able to dominate.

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And in some cases, subdue and survive amongst animals that are

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much stronger and faster than we are.

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The answer lies.

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The capacity of our brains and the use of our minds and for us to able

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to apply wisdom to how we think.

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Our brain is about 25% of our body mass in comparison to chimpanzees and apes.

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It is only 8%.

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And this organ that we call our brain consumes a lot of energy.

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That is why we were able to communicate and put together

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complex words and sentences.

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Yeah.

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Diaz and communicate to each other.

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Who what, when, where, why and how that allowed us to build empires and to

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build kingdoms and to build businesses and to build families, we were able

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to apply wisdom to our thinking.

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That is a distinct advantage that we have today.

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As part of the human race, there are some people who make sure that they

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enhance their brain capacity, the capacity to make difficult and complex

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decisions, the capacity to deal with them, emotionally tense situations.

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And these are the people that we now know as high performers, why they

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are able to apply wisdom to your.

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The best bankers, the best traders, the best business people apply wisdom to their

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thinking when they are conducting a deals.

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That is the difference between the haves and the have-nots because they they're

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able to use the resources of their minds.

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As there is in the societies today, a sickness, some people call it a sickness.

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The, where people fall into the trap of not wanting to think if

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I've ever seen people who fall into the trap of not wanting to do.

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They'll go off of any piece of information that is fed to them.

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They won't critically analyze per tap air, break it apart and understand different

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perspectives and other people's points of views and be siloed in their thinking.

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And they don't want to think you will tell them anything, they'll run with it.

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And they will accept that as fact.

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And that is very dangerous because it will stop us from reaching the

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highest potential of thinking.

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And that is a travesty because we were given this amazing tool called

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the mind and the brain for us to apply with them, to our thinking.

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Don't fall into the trap of not wanting to think don't be a person.

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Who doesn't have an argument.

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Don't be the person that is always emotive when they are, they have been challenged.

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Don't be the person that raises their voice and does not raise the level of

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their internet and their arguments.

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I saw a post once an Instagram post.

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Once that said, when you get into an argument, don't raise

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the level of your voice.

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Raise the level of.

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Of your intellect raise the level of your argument and I'll, we'll

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share some ways that you can apply wisdom to your thinking.

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So you can avoid being parts of people who fall into the trap of

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not wanting to think one way is to protect yourself and your time.

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There is a saying that you should give with discussing.

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Give with discretion.

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Time is a very important, valuable and irredeemable resource.

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At times.

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If somebody waste your time for the first time, don't allow

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them to do so for a second.

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You need to learn, to give with discretion because human beings as canning as you

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are, and as clever as we are, we are also shoot in the sense that we will waste your

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time and carry on with our lives without you as if we didn't waste your time.

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And you need to apply wisdom to your thinking, to protect your time to say,

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I'm only going to give with discretion because you will never be able to get.

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Uh, two hours backwards that someone was, have you ever been, uh, had a two

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hour meeting or two hour conversation?

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And at the end of that conversation, you ask yourself 20, what did I achieve here?

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Right.

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You and that's because somebody wasted your time.

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And one of the biggest pains that you will ever go through in

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life is to crave a conversation with someone that is no longer.

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One of the biggest pains you'll ever go through is to crave a conversation

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with somebody that is no longer here.

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It could be your mother or your father or someone.

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You looked up to a sibling, a best friend, and they are no longer alive.

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And that pain is amplified because, you know, That you wasted the precious

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time that you had with them, with somebody else who didn't matter as

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much or doing something else that didn't matter as much as that person.

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Now, I encourage you to learn, to give with discretion.

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If somebody says to you, Hey, I would like X amount of your time.

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Let's go to this place.

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I started questioning, why are we going there?

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What are we going to be doing?

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Who is going to be there?

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It's not that I don't trust you.

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I just want to know.

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Is it going to be worthy of my time?

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And if it's not moving you towards a worthy, ideal, or

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not part of a well-deserved break, say to them, I apologize.

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I'm not going to do go there.

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And more importantly, you need to give with discretion, especially to

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yourself because the greatest enemy that you'll ever fight is the enemy inside.

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That is the enemy.

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That is you.

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If there was no devil, I would be.

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Of myself, learn to give with discretion, apply wisdom to your

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thinking, by giving with discretion.

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Another way that you can apply wisdom to your thinking when somebody presents

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information to you that you're not sure of, even if you're sure of it,

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ask the question, how do you know.

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How do you know that and watch them squirm for awhile if they don't

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know what they're talking about?

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How do you know that?

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Remember we said that people can fall into the trap of not wanting to think.

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So they may be presenting information to you.

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That's not a verified, they haven't thought through and they want

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you to accept it as gospel, ask the question, how do you know.

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Somebody comes to you with a piece of gossip or they say that

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person, doesn't like, you ask the question, how do you know that?

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Where's it fats where's information.

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Where's the data.

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Where's the screenshots.

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Where's the evidence.

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How do you know that if they say that that companies are with while

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investing in, ask the question, wow.

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Do you know that.

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If somebody says to you, appeal gives you a piece of information

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to say that person's a bad person, or you shouldn't do that.

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Ask the question.

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How do you know that?

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And it has nothing to do.

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Whether you trust the person's integrity or nuts, there are times that we can

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miss certain pieces of information and we ask how do you know that it

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will force other person to present their well thought through arguing.

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And if they don't have an augment, then they must go back

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and verify the information.

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I was listening to a podcast where they were talking about

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the Kennedy family, John F.

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Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.

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Um, there was a culture that around the dinner table,

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they would sit down and talk.

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There was sit down and debate.

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I'm not sure, a hundred percent sure if it's the Kennedy family or

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it's Kenneth, uh, John F Kennedy's, uh, media family, or if it was his

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children, but part of the Kennedy family, what they would do every single.

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Dinner time, they would make it a point to debate each other.

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Why is cocaine good or bad?

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Why is gun control good or bad?

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And that forces them to think through their arguments so that they have

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a good answer to the question.

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How do you.

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As to go, nothing to do.

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If you trust a person, if someone says to you, you get here's the facts

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and you say, how do you know that?

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And they'll be like, what?

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But do you not?

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Trust me?

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It's not about not trusting you.

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I just want to make sure that what I run with is factually substantiated.

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All right.

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So apply wisdom to your thinking about asking how do you know that

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another way that you can apply wisdom to thinking is to don't rush.

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Take the time to.

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And process.

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There may be times we need to make quick and fast decisions.

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I get that in situations where you don't have to make split second

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decisions, take the time to breathe.

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Let it simmer so that you can make the right decision, because think about it.

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If you make a hasty decision, you will lose money on a trade.

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You will lose money on the stock.

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You will make their own business decision and a year from now,

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you're no longer in business.

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You may swerve off the road and you may get into a car accident.

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You may say something, then you, next thing you're out of a job

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or you out of a relationship.

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Take.

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I think and process.

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And if you're a person that likes thinking, you've got many personality

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types, if you are a thinker and don't let anyone pressurize you and say, I need to

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take time to think there was a finance coach who said that before you make a

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purchase, ask yourself, do I need this?

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And take 24 hours to think through whether you need it or not.

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And if you need it in 24 hours from now, then that's fine.

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Take time to think and process apply wisdom to your thinking by

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not rushing, take time to think and process and make better decisions.

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Another way that you can apply wisdom to your thinking is to

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follow the words of Deming.

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He said in God, we trust all others.

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Bring data in God.

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We trust all others must bring.

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What does that mean?

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It means that outside of God, the higher power, any other information and words

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and facts and school of thought that come from anybody else, your immediate family,

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extended family, good friends or not.

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So good friends.

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We're calling.

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They must bring data to you because without data and information and verified

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fats, you are nothing more than a person with an unfair fight opinion.

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And there's nothing worse than a person with an iron very fight opinion.

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Why?

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Because remember we said at the beginning of the show, There is a culture that

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exists where people don't want to think.

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And that is called borrowed intellect.

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I heard this from a colleague.

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I got, it said people don't want to think they will be.

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They strive off of, they thrive off of borrowed.

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I said, what is that?

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There can be people who are more knowledgeable while learn it

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well versed in a particular area.

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And because we made our points of thing for ourselves, because not

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because we don't want to, or not, because we don't want to think for

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ourselves, but we are too lazy to think.

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And then you always ran to the same person over and over again, using their.

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You learn to think for yourself.

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And also when people come to you and say, I read this at this place, or I

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heard this opinion from this person say to them in God, we trust all others

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bring data because without data and verify facts and information, you're

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nothing more than a person with an opinion and opinion is just that.

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And the.

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I hope that you enjoy this episode of wisdom words, Wednesdays, where we talked

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about apply wisdom to your thinking.

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Let's go through what we talked about.

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People can fall into the trap of not wanting to think.

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And this is a travesty given the mind that we were given that allows us to

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be the human race that we are today.

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And then one let's apply.

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Wasn't your thinking is to give with discretion.

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Don't do things or waste your time, unless it is a part of your worthy ideal.

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And when somebody.

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Presents information to you ask them, how do you know that?

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And then you can see if they're thought through that.

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If arguments don't rush, take time to think and process, and remember

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the words of Deming where wise words in God, we trust all others.

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Bring it.

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about apply wisdom to your thinking.

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