1323: Stuck In Insight Mode
Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Episode 1323: Are You Stuck in Insight Mode?
Ever feel like you’re doing the work — reading the books, listening to the podcasts, journaling your heart out — but your life hasn’t actually changed?
You might be in Insight Mode.
In today’s episode, we’re unpacking what Insight Mode is, why it feels productive (but isn’t), and how to shift out of it — with small, real-life actions that actually move the needle.
We’ll cover:
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What Insight Mode looks like (with some real-life signs you’ll recognize immediately)
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Why this mental loop is one of the biggest traps in personal development
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The difference between self-awareness and self-discipline
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How to shift from “aha” moments to follow-through
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The exact question to ask yourself when you’re stuck in learning but not changing
💡 Plus: I’ll share a client story that kicked off this conversation — and a quick Bluey reference for all the parents and grandparents listening.
🔗 Mentioned in This Episode:
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The Consistency Course: For those ready to shift from knowing to doing. Message me “TCC” if this episode hit home.
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📌 If this resonated…
Don’t just nod along — do something with it.
Message me on Instagram @elizabethbenton and tell me one shift you’re making today.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to |
| 0:07.1 | Consistent, a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of |
| 0:13.3 | progress or overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically |
| 0:20.5 | chasing new habits and start |
| 0:22.6 | strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:35.5 | Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 0:42.9 | We are going to talk about a breakthrough conversation I had with one of my clients, |
| 0:45.9 | and I know you need to hear it too. |
| 0:49.1 | I have this one client in the consistency course. |
| 0:50.2 | I adore her. |
| 0:51.9 | She's very insightful. |
| 0:53.9 | She's very self-aware. Maybe those are things that you think of yourself as. |
| 0:56.6 | Like you can recognize your own patterns and you have tremendous self-awareness around the ways |
| 1:03.2 | that you hold yourself back. See, I got a weekly check-in from her and it looks like a lot of her |
| 1:10.1 | other weekly check-ins where she says, you know, |
| 1:12.5 | I'm the kind of person who, and it all stems back to when. And this episode really resonated |
| 1:20.3 | with me. And I messaged her back and I said, I love your self-awareness. But what I hear are a lot of insights, but what I'm missing, |
| 1:31.8 | what I want to hear from you is connecting the dots to action. So today I will. So the change |
| 1:38.2 | I'm making is I'm going to work on this by. Today I'm shaking things up in this way. And I said, it feels like |
| 1:47.3 | you're stuck in insight mode. Now, I don't think she realized it. I'm pretty sure she'd never |
| 1:55.9 | even heard the phrase insight mode. I don't even think I had ever said the phrase insight mode before, |
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