RADIO SHOW/AUDIO PODCAST
Solutions...with Courtney Anderson! (SwCA)
Episode 008 -
Originally aired 12/30/2013 12:00 PM -
MYTH WARRIORS! series -
"I can't go on!"
In the MYTH WARRIORS™ series we are targeting ideas to begin to assess whether they are credible or not. We are warriors fighting to establish clarity between what is accurate and what is simply a myth (or falsehood) in life. We are deploying our highest level critical thinking skills in this series to fight to ensure that we are not taken advantage of or exploited by information disparities. We don both defensive protective gear and offensive weaponry to thrust forward, testing and examining content to discern if it should be defeated and discarded (as a lie) or retained and utilized in our lives in our mission to surpass our goals.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela
This is not a series for the weak minded or fearful as we will leave no stone unturned in our quest to ensure that we are not exploited, not ignored and used as pawns by powerful people. Our education (formal and informal) is our most powerful weapon to equalize our opportunities for success (on our own terms).
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote that "It’s more important to outthink your enemy than outfight him."
In this series we are sharpening our skills of inquiry and we are harnessing our resources to do everything in our power to outthink our enemy (which is ignorance, exploitation, etc., used by other people to take advantage of us).
Quote from Alice Walker: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Our minds are nimble, we are eager to learn and we understand that we do have power. The power to think, analyze, strategize and execute our plans!
A few years ago I gave a keynote speech (great one by the way!) and afterwards a man in the audience snarled at me, "I bet when you go home at night, you kick your dog!" I interpreted his point to be that I was a fraud with my uplifting motivational keynote speech and that he knew that behind closed doors I was really bitter and violent. He believed that the emperor had no clothes and he was going to expose me as a fraud to everyone.
It was interesting as I also have had feedback that I am "too mean" and "tell it like it is." So, the idea that I am a false peddler of fake optimism was interesting and rather refreshing. Author Kurt Vonnegut stated, "“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” I encourage you to read his work if you have not (knowledge is power). His best known work is Slaughterhouse-Five but my personal favorite is Cat's Cradle. I was fortunate enough to have attended a lecture that Vonnegut gave at the University of Texas at Austin (my alma mater) years ago. Digression.
We always have an ability to go on. It is always a choice. Let's discuss this myth.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela
This is not a series for the weak minded or fearful as we will leave no stone unturned in our quest to ensure that we are not exploited, not ignored and used as pawns by powerful people. Our education (formal and informal) is our most powerful weapon to equalize our opportunities for success (on our own terms).
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote that "It’s more important to outthink your enemy than outfight him."
In this series we are sharpening our skills of inquiry and we are harnessing our resources to do everything in our power to outthink our enemy (which is ignorance, exploitation, etc., used by other people to take advantage of us).
Quote from Alice Walker: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Our minds are nimble, we are eager to learn and we understand that we do have power. The power to think, analyze, strategize and execute our plans!
A few years ago I gave a keynote speech (great one by the way!) and afterwards a man in the audience snarled at me, "I bet when you go home at night, you kick your dog!" I interpreted his point to be that I was a fraud with my uplifting motivational keynote speech and that he knew that behind closed doors I was really bitter and violent. He believed that the emperor had no clothes and he was going to expose me as a fraud to everyone.
It was interesting as I also have had feedback that I am "too mean" and "tell it like it is." So, the idea that I am a false peddler of fake optimism was interesting and rather refreshing. Author Kurt Vonnegut stated, "“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” I encourage you to read his work if you have not (knowledge is power). His best known work is Slaughterhouse-Five but my personal favorite is Cat's Cradle. I was fortunate enough to have attended a lecture that Vonnegut gave at the University of Texas at Austin (my alma mater) years ago. Digression.
We always have an ability to go on. It is always a choice. Let's discuss this myth.