In this episode, we discuss the importance of continuously searching for the right answers for our lives. When you get new information on how to live, it will change you and how you live life.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about how when we change ourselves, so do the answers. I’ve said this before and I will probably say this again, we are not born with all the answers and the more information that you get, the more you will change as a person, and if you change as a person, so will the answers that you have in the future.
I try to read a bunch of different things so I get a good perspective on the world because I don’t want to create a Pavlov’s hammer issue where all problems look like a nail because the only tool that I have is a hammer. I recently read Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rynd over the summer and that was a brutal book to read. I don’t even understand how people can like it because the writing is so bad. The book does make some good points about how we can be self-sufficient and businesses are not bad, but the writing was not that good. There are literally pages of the book where there are no paragraphs and it was super hard to read for me.
I wanted to read this book because it’s a book that the republican party seems to like a lot. I know that former speaker of the House Paul Ryan made it a pre-requisite to read Atlas Shrugged if they wanted to join his office. I wasn’t really familiar with the book so I decided to see why people would enjoy. I think it’s more confirmation bias than actually being a good book because there are probably not a lot of books that take the same tone as Ann Rynd. Know that I read the book and come across someone who had read the book, I can have a decent conversation with them, plus it gave me more ideas on how to think. I’m always looking for the truth and trying to see what will create the greatest good for humankind.
I also don’t believe the world is binary where there is always a right or wrong answer. I believe there are formulas, and the answer depends on the variables used in the computation of that formula. So if my variables don’t change, then the answer that I derive won’t change either and that might not answer that I need. So to ensure that my confidence rating is the highest it can be, I need to make sure I’m sure different ideas in my decision-making process.
This is a lot of work though, to study socialism, capitalism, communism, and everything else but if you read the right books, then you can get caught up pretty quickly. One area that I would like to know more about is the different religions. I find it fascinating that we have a bunch of different religions in the world. Each religion follows its own principles but how did those religions become to be. It’s all apart of my journey of learning and I’m not a very religious person, to begin with. I do follow the Stoic philosophy pretty well even though I don’t follow it completely but I think it’s a great place to start if standard religion doesn’t fit your lifestyle.
I’ve changed a lot as a person once I started learning about Stoicism and how my mind is really in control of my success and failure as a person. Learning this helped me out a lot as a person and I’m trying to see what else is out there that I can learn that can help my life out as well. The answers truly do change when you change as a person. Plus I don’t want to feel like I’ve been lying to myself so if there is a better answer out there then I want to find it.
Plus I don’t want to blame someone else when I’m truly the problem. If I have kids I’m blaming video games and television for their poor behavior, but I’m the one allowing that behavior, then who is truly to blame? Plus I don’t think television and video games are the gateway drug to bad behavior and was listening to this pretty interesting podcast on how people go to screen time to fill in deficiencies in other parts of their lives. So learning helped me formed that argument but I would definitely need to back it up in a more formal setting but at least I can say that that argument for video games and violence is not a very solid answer. Just because you believe something is true doesn’t make it true, no matter how bad you want it to be true.
I love self-development so much because it really does help you live your best life. I was so shy back in the day and through self-development and changing myself, I was able to change the answers about myself. Now I’m more confident and I just more happy in general. Anytime I’m feeling anxious or upset, I try to figure out how to solve it instead of just dealing with it. Dealing with something is like carrying around a heavy rock. It serves no purpose, it’s just going to make you tired and slow you down. So learn the right things that will allow you to drop the rock so that you can start living your life.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it when we change ourselves, so do the answers. Most likely you don’t have all the answers right now, so make sure that learning about new things is part of your daily routine. It can just be 15 minutes, otherwise, we can fall into the trap of Pavlov’s hammer. It would be pretty egotistical of ourselves to think we have the right answer for all 7 billion people on this planet. To learn more answers that will help change yourself. Plus when you to start challenging your beliefs, this will also expand your potential in life. Before I started this self-development journey, I thought I could accomplish a fraction of what I know I can accomplish know. The world needs more people to solve the problems of today and tomorrow and that will only come if people change themselves and find better answers on how to live.
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