191: What We're Learning
The Next Right Thing
Emily P. Freeman
4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We don't learn just from experience. Transformation happens when we reflect upon our experience. Of all the lists we keep, the most important isn't a to-do list but a list of what we're learning. Because you're not just doing things, you're becoming someone. Who? And what are you learning along the way? Listen in.
Links + Resources From This Episode:
- Pantsuit Politics end-of-month Instagram posts: July and August
- Annie B. Jone's August Instagram post
- Because I Love You by Kaitlin Walden
- In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen
- When the Soul Listens by Jan Johnson
- Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
- Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
- Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
- Download a transcript of this episode
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| 0:00.0 | In the words of Jan Johnson and John Dewey and I'm sure many others, |
| 0:04.8 | it's not the experience that brings transformation. It's our reflection upon our experience. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to episode 191. |
| 0:20.2 | This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making a life. If you struggle with |
| 0:25.7 | decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant |
| 0:30.3 | stream of information and the sometimes delightful but also distracting hum of entertainment, |
| 0:35.8 | you're in the right place for a thoughtful story, a little prayer, and a simple next right step. |
| 0:41.2 | Listen in. |
| 0:51.2 | Oprah Winfrey calls it one of her most embarrassing moments when film critic |
| 0:55.0 | Jean Siskel asked her on live TV, so what do you know for sure? And she did not have an answer. |
| 1:02.9 | After that, Oprah did a lot of thinking about the things she knows for sure and this is often |
| 1:07.9 | a question that she asks other people. That story inspired me years ago to ask myself that same |
| 1:14.4 | question, what do I know for sure? Now this was many, many years ago when I used to join in with |
| 1:19.7 | other writers who had blogs and we would share 31 days of writing on a particular topic and I |
| 1:24.7 | thought, hey, this is it. I'm a writer for 31 days about what I know for sure. That's only 31 |
| 1:31.9 | things. I can't wait to get started. And then I got started. I could not come up with even a |
| 1:38.4 | week's worth. It was the for sure bit that tripped me up because I could come up with a list of a |
| 1:43.3 | lot of things I know. But when you add that little part for sure, the list gets a bit smaller. |
| 1:49.7 | Now, I'll pause and say there are some things I know for sure and maybe I could even list 31 of |
| 1:55.0 | them now. I know for sure that John loves me, but that doesn't guarantee that he's not going to |
| 1:59.7 | leave me. I mean, I don't suspect that's happening, but I can't know that for sure. I know for sure |
| 2:05.0 | the Wizard of Oz is the greatest movie of all time and that I have too many bags and also too many |
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