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Three Types of Education

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Episode 688 - Three Types of Education. #knowTroy #education #learningstyles #DWUpodcast
Learning comes at three levels:  
We know what we know
I know I need to pay bills, provide for my family, go to work, etc.
We know that we don’t know
I know that I don’t know how to fly a plane or make a movie – which is something I will be doing in my future.
We don’t know what we don’t know
These are the things we are blind to.
“The unconscious parts of the mind are most of the mind,” David Brooks writes in his book, The Social Animal, “[They have] a processing capacity 200,000 times greater than the conscious mind.” Tragically, this interior domain remains largely terra incognita, a vast unexplored territory full of resources and potentials we haven’t begun to tame or to tap.
According to Brooks, this results in people overestimating their ability to understand why they are making certain decisions. They make up stories to explain their own actions even when they have no clue about what is happening inside.
Sound familiar to the two sides of an argument that we have today. If we can all admit that we don’t know what we don’t know, we can start to look at facts to any argument with the purpose to understand instead of fighting about it.

Book Review: The Mamba Mentality

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Episode 687 - Book Review: The Mamba Mentality
As I’ve said before, I’m no fan of Kobe Bryant the basketball player. I am, however, a fan of Kobe the man. Kobe was a man with purpose. He was intentional with everything he did.  In his book, The Mamba Mentality, he summed it up as: To be able to constantly try to be the best version of yourself. It’s a constant quest to try and be better today than you were yesterday. 
He wrote,
Listen to your body and warm up with a purpose; starting close to the goal then moving out as you feel yourself getting warmed up. When you ask a dumb question, you are risking embarrassment at the time and not in the future.
I like how the book was essentially a picture book with tidbits of information from those who had impacted his life over the years. He quoted Muhammad Ali as saying, “you have to work hard in the dark to shine bright in the light.”

Book Review: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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Episode 686 - Book Review: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
This is the second time I’ve read the book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie and still it is in the top five of my reading of the first fifty books in 2021.  The power of your mind, and mindset, is helpless when it comes to the power of worry. When you worry, you will impact so much more than you know.  Dale summarizes this in his book perfectly: Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
Dale cites Dean Hawkes of Columbia University who said, “half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.”
I like his quote from Norman Vincent Peale: You are not what you think you are. What you think, you are.
“So what are you supposed to do about strife, Troy” some of you may ask. You can be concerned about things, just don’t worry about those things.
            Concern: realizing what the problems are and calmly taking steps to address them
            Worry: going around in maddening futile circles

Book Review: I Give You Authority

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Episode 685 - Book Review: I Give You Authority
            This is the second time I’ve read the book, I Give You Authority by Charles Kraft, it was the number one book I read last year, completely changed my life. It is a religious book that describes our authority over the spiritual realm. Some of you think this is a religious podcast, it is not; you host is religious. The podcast is not.
In the book, Charles Kraft writes, Jesus’ intimacy with the Father enabled Him both to maintain His authority and to get God’s instructions for what the Father wanted Him to do each day.
The devil doesn’t want us to discover who we are in Christ. If we are unsure of who we are in Christ, we are powerless against the devil’s control.
Consider how often Jesus prayed, a lot right?
Consider how many people were healed from Jesus, a lot right?
Now consider this: Jesus never prayed for healing. He didn’t ask God to heal people because He had already been given the authority. He spoke, demons flee, and people were healed.
So many times, Hollywood portrays defeating demonization through saying the right words in the form of a formula. Charles Kraft writes, the power is in your relationship with Jesus and understanding the authority He has given you.

Book Review: Content Strategy at Work

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Episode 684 - Book Review: Content Strategy at Work
The next three books reviewed over the next three days are ones that I’ve read already. This is the second time I’ve read the book, Content Strategy at Work by Margot Bloomstein. Since I’m a professional storyteller, the title I use for myself is “audience engagement expert.” Once I know who your audience is, and what you are trying to do, I can help you craft your messaging in the form of a story.
What Margot does so well in this book, is the structure a consultant like me needs to establish when working with clients. If you are in any type of content creation or content strategy profession, you MUST read this book. Capital MUST.
Margot writes of the importance of having a message architecture before producing content. A message architecture is a hierarchy of communication goals that appear in order of priority.  Content needs to be appropriate, current, relevant, and accurate.
Your content needs to be (read checklist)
Goals are met when you have a PLAN with the right PEOPLE completing the PROCESS. These are the Three Ps. 

Book Review: Someday is not a day of the week

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Episode 683 - Book Review: Someday is Not a Day of the Week
On Saturday, I completed my fiftieth book read this year.  My totals are now:
Why do I bring this up? Simple. If you look at my life, some will say I’m a loser. I’m currently unemployed, haven’t paid most of my credit cards since being laid off, not a homeowner, and turn 51 years of age this November.  So, what does touting your reading totals have to do with any of that? Great question. What it has to do with that is most people struggle to finish four books in a year.  I’ve heard the critics, it’s impossible to read that many books or you aren’t retaining information, I like to read one book a month, so I get more out of it. Noise. All of it is noise.  It’s hard to dedicate time to reading and nothing good comes from easy. I read books that make me a better human or professional and I do it at an aggressive clip.
The second reason I share my findings is because I want you to look at me as an example of yes you can read more. If Troy can do it, I surely can is the phrase I would love to hear more people say.
Ok, enough of the disclaimer, here are the top five books read of the first fifty books in 2021.
5. Someday is not a day in the week4. Content Strategy3. I give you authority2. How to Stop worrying and start living1. The mamba mentality

Ten Steps to Combat Long-Term Stress

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Episode 681 - Ten Steps to Combat Long-Term Stress
All week we’ve been talking about stress from the book, 10-Step Stress Solution by Neil Shah. It was the 48th book I’ve read this year and I gave it an A for the value it brought to my understanding stress.
I would encourage you to purchase it or borrow it from the library.

Stress is the Side-Effect

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Episode 681 - Stress is the Side-Effect
Stress isn’t a feeling or emotion. When stressed, people admit to feeling overwhelmed, anxious, angry, panicky, frustrated, and confused however, stress is a side-effect of the physiological changes going on. It’s not the feeling.
The reason we sigh after stress isn’t because we are relieved; it’s because we are literally gasping for breath. When we are stressed, we go into fight or flight mode right, well, when we are relaxed, listen to what happens in contrast to being stressed. 

Three Stages of Stress

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Episode 680 - Three Stages of Stress
Continuing the series on stress for the week based on the book, 10-Step Stress Solution by Neil Shah. Here are the three stages of stress:
The Alarm Stage – unexpected stresser occurs
Resistance Stage – I’m not addressing it and body copes with stresser event
Exhaustion Stage – physically, emotionally, mentally spent

Signs You Are Stressed

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Episode 679 - Signs You Are Stressed
Continuing the series on stress for the week based on the book, 10-Step Stress Solution by Neil Shah.  Yesterday we talked about “stressers” and the impact it has on your brain. Today, I’d like to point out signs you are stressed.
Are you accident prone?
Are you argumentative and a little snappy?
Do you work late or often with no breaks?
Do you have poor judgement or are indecisive?
and more