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The Game Changer Life

#28: How to Deal Intelligently with Stupidity

The Game Changer Life

Dave Anderson

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.9550 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We all do stupid things from time to time; it's part of the human condition. From time to time we also have to deal with people who continually do stupid things and let stupidity dominate their decisions, actions, and life. In this episode, Dave shares steps for you to deal intelligently with stupidity (whether it's people on your team, people who work for you, or someone you work for). Use this episode to help avoid being taken out of your zone and away from the game changer life by stupidity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life.

0:14.3

I'm Dave Anderson.

0:15.5

In this episode, I want to talk with you about the topic.

0:19.2

How to deal intelligently with stupidity. Now, some of the snowflakes

0:23.8

are already melting, thinking, oh, this is going to be an offensive episode. They're running off,

0:28.9

scurring off to their safe space. But please let me explain what I'm talking about here. We all do

0:34.2

stupid things from time to time, right? It's part of our human journey.

0:38.7

But I'm talking about the people, maybe they're on your team, you work with them, they're

0:43.5

in another department, they work for you. Maybe you work for them. All right, and they continually

0:49.0

do stupid things. I mean, stupidity dominates their life, their conversation, their actions,

0:56.8

their value system, their decision-making mechanisms. It just seems to dominate more often than

1:02.8

not. They're saying or doing something stupid. Well, the fact is we all deal with that from time

1:10.2

to time, but we have to know how to deal with it intelligently to where you're not taken out of your zone and so much of your own momentum is broken or your own morale is lost or your own passion is drain because you're not dealing intelligently with stupidity.

1:25.5

And so we're going to talk about a few ways to do that to help you.

1:29.4

And before I really get too much further into that,

1:32.4

I had a Q&A that just really fit well into this topic.

1:36.4

So before I get into the topic, it's time for quick hit Q&A.

1:43.3

And this fits like a glove.

1:45.0

Here's the question.

1:46.4

Dave, I listen to your podcast often.

1:48.5

A question, being a D1 coach, how does a game changer survive when you're surrounded by

1:53.3

undertakers and caretakers and other departments?

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