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Have you noticed that your boss is a visionary, that whenever he is in
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meetings or he or she's in meetings, and they're always talking about
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the future of an industry, and maybe you might find it very difficult
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to get them aware of the tactics of the projects or the ideas you want
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to have, because they're thinking so far out.
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Or on the flip side, do you want to be a member of that executive team
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in your company, but you need, you realize that that requires you to
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become more visionary.
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So if you are having these, any of these situations and in this video,
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what I want to share with you is how you can become more visionary.
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Now I get it.
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You might realize, and you might be working with some coworkers that
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you might feel like, well, they're born like that.
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It seems like they're naturally visionary, but I'm naturally non
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visionary.
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And yes, I understand some people have like natural inclination
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towards thinking like a visionary or thinking in the future tense.
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However, becoming a visionary, the skills of visionary thinking can be
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trained.
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We're not all born with it.
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Just like we're not all born great communicators.
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We're not all born natural leaders or natural naturally able to see
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the future of an industry.
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But these are skillsets that can be trained.
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Even if you feel that you don't, you're not born with that natural
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inclination.
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So that's good news.
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So in this video, I want to share with you three key pillars.
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You want to develop this leadership skills.
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You want to develop the visionary qualities.
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And these are three pillars that the moment you are able to develop
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these three key pillars that you will develop your visionary
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qualities, the visionary traits that you see in your colleagues in
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your higher ups.
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So I'm going to go through these three pillars in turn in the video.
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And at the end of the video, you're going to have a blueprint on where
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to focus on what to work on step-by-step to develop these three
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pillars so that you can become a visionary.
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So let's go for a walk and talk about this.
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So three pillars, when you develop these pillars in turn, that you
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will be able to notice yourself having visionary qualities that are
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observable.
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Pillar number one is insight it's insight.
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What does insight mean?
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We hear this a lot, but I want to give you a clear distinction on what
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insight really means.
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Having insight, insight itself is a deep understanding that when you
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have that level of understanding, you can turn your learnings into new
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wisdom that can be applied across disciplines to create a clear
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outcome.
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That is insight.
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It is very different from knowledge.
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Insight does not equal knowledge.
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Hopefully knowledge turns into insight, but not always.
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And here's why, because we've been programmed at a very young age to
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learn, to read, to take courses, to take classes we've been taught to
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read in any of those educational contexts.
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To read to memorize certain things, to memorize facts and figures and
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information, and therefore to regurgitate them on the exam or to
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regurgitate them when we need them the most.
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That's how we've been taught to learn.
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And as a result of these learning, these teachings on how to learn, we
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therefore developed this vernacular of when we read new things or to
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learn what we're reading, we tend to criticize it.
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We tend to criticize it as either right or wrong, either relevant or
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irrelevant and so on.
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And so when we progressively take on that capability of learning or
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that mindset of learning that prevents us from developing deeper
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insights, because here's the progression, we learn and that's what
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we're doing.
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We're accumulating knowledge.
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But knowledge does not mean insight.
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We have to, first of all, assimilate that knowledge into an
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understanding and from a deep understanding, we can synthesize new
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wisdom.
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That is insight.
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So in order to do that, it requires a different way of learning
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different way of reading.
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When we read, instead of trying to read to memorize and therefore
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regurgitate or recall what we've learned, this is now learning to
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create new mental models, new understandings, and cognitive
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understandings of the world around us, in the area that we are reading
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and with the intention of creating insight.
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So if you're somebody who's listening to this and you recognize the
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importance of insight, and you recognize this in your bosses, your
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higher ups as well, that they have deep insights in areas of expertise
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and their areas of knowledge as well.
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And you might notice that visionaries, those people who have visionary
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qualities.
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You're going to notice that when you spend time with them, that they
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very quickly develop insights in new areas as well, not necessarily
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their key area of expertise, but they very quickly develop new
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insights.
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And that really is a particular modality of learning.
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So if you're somebody who wants to develop this skill.
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How do I develop deep understanding insights in new domains and in my
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current domain as well.
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If that's what you are committed to developing for yourself in this
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year, and next year, then I invite you to book a call with me and work
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with me.
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Every single week I coach and I mentor a group of clients on how to
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develop insights, how to have that learning, how to have critical
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thinking, how to be able to articulate the insights as well in a way
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that your higher ups can understand, right?
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So below this video, in the description below this video, the first
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link is a link to apply for become accepted into my coaching.
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And this just literally when you apply, it's literally the first step
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is just to have a conversation with either myself or a member of our
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team, just to see if it's the right fit for you.
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And if we can help you with what you're looking for.
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And so if you are the right fit, then you're going to join this elite
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group of community from all walks of life, different industries as
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well, that where we are working on becoming visionaries, working on
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how do we develop these critical thinking and communicate the value
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that we have to bring.
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So only if you're serious about creating this outcome for you and your
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career path, so that you can step up into higher levels of leadership,
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if that is you then book a call and I look forward to working with you
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on the inside.
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Pillar number two, imagination, right?
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Pillar number one is insight, pillar number two is imagination.
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What is imagination?
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We've been told as children to develop our imaginations.
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And as adults we've been told that children have very vivid
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imaginations.
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So I want to give you a distinction around imagination as well.
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When it comes to imagination it simply means to picture oneself.
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And that's exactly what it means.
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If you look at the Latin, the word imagination comes from a Latin word
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imaginati, which simply means to imagine oneself and imagination is
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really the mind's, one of the mind's greatest superpowers is our
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ability to imagine it is one of our mind's greatest superpowers.
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And if you look at the visionaries around you, it could be on your
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executive team or the higher ups that you're working with.
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If you look at these visionaries, you're going to notice that they
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have an, an ability to picture things in their minds before it exists
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inside this world.
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If you look at everything around you, right, I'm surrounded by houses,
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right?
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I'm sitting on a bench right now, right?
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I got in a car to get here, everything that we have access to in our
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lives, everything that we own, all of these things that are in our
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physical world, our surroundings that we can touch, we can feel, we
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can see all of these things existed in someone else's mind before it
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existed in your hands.
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Even the house that you live in on your block that existed in the
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architect's mind before it existed on the street and the street
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corner.
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So this is the mind's greatest superpower imagination.
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And one of the biggest blockers to our imagination is that we've been
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so caught up in the doing we've been so caught up, being busy, doing
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our task, checking up our to-do lists, doing that what we're told,
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doing what we think we're supposed to do, doing what we think we
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should do or ought to do or need to do.
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And so on.
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We've been so caught up in that, and that's one of the biggest
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blockers of our imagination is that we feel that we need to do, we
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need to perform.
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We need to do and do and do.
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So when it comes to developing this pillar, it's important to take a
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step back and ask yourself certain key questions, for example, what
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would happen if, what would happen if, what might be the outcome if.
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So, being the first step of imagination is daring to ask the question
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what if, because imagination means going back to what I shared
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earlier, it is picturing something in your mind, picture in oneself or
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picture something in your mind before it exists in the real world.
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In order to do that, it is an if question, a question of if.
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The imagination allows us to explore a different future, explore a
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different direction, explore what is possible, right?
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So that is the first step into becoming into becoming imaginative,
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because that really is the key for visionaries.
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The second pillar for visionaries is to have an imagination and a lot
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of visionaries that you're going to work with have such vivid
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imaginations.
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And that's what allows them to create things that don't yet exist to
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create product ideas, to create process ideas, to create whole new
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companies and whole new market ideas as well, and market offerings as
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a result of that and improved versions of the future as well.
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Right?
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So that is the second pillar, is imagination.
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So what did we cover so far?
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Three pillars to develop so that you can develop your visionary
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capabilities.
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First pillar was insight.
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Second pillar was imagination.
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And the third pillar is intuition.
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Intuition.
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So what is our intuition?
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There's a lot of misinformation about out there, around what intuition
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is and what it is not.
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So let me give you a distinction.
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When it comes to intuition, it comes from the Latin word intuit, which
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means to perceive.
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So an intuition is to perceive through our senses so that we can get a
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bigger picture of what actually is.
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And that is our intuition.
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So when it comes to intuition, intuition is not the same as your gut
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instinct, right?
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How many of you has said that before?
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Well, I feel it in my gut, right?
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I have this gut feeling.
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It is very different than intuition.
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Your gut instincts are literally, that's what it is.
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It's an instinct.
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It's an instinct that causes us to avoid pains.
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It causes us to move towards something pleasing to us and bring
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pleasure to us.
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That's an instinctual reaction, which is very different from an
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intuition.
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An intuition allows you to perceive things that are deeper as well.
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And the great news about intuition is that it's not about needing to
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develop it or strengthen it.
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And that's where the missing a lot of misinformation is out there.
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Your intuition is innate.
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We all have an intuition.
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Every human has an intuition.
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It's about honing our abilities, developing our abilities to
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understand it.
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So if you are somebody who is wanting to know, how do I do that?
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Then the next video coming up next, you don't have to go anywhere
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coming up right up next is a video that I I recorded earlier to talk
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about how do you develop your intuition?
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How do you hone it in to listen to it?
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And how do you know that this is my intuition versus my gut feeling or
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my gut instinct?
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So that video is coming right up next.
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I'll see you there.
