455. The Stories We Tell About the Numbers
Better Than Happy
Jody Moore
4.8 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We can all agree that there are many things in our world that are subjective or up for interpretation. But there are certain things like numbers and data that are just true, right? The numbers don’t lie… or do they? We can’t argue with numbers… or can we?
Join me this week to hear how we use numbers to craft stories that are ultimately subjective. I’m showing you how different stories can be produced from the same set of data, what happens when your belief hinges on numbers, and how something as black and white as data has the ability to either empower you or hold you back.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 455, the stories we tell about the numbers. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, we can all agree that there are a lot of things that are subjective, relative, or up for interpretation. This is where your mindset and reframing work can make a big difference. |
| 0:17.0 | But there are some things that are just true. Just facts, like numbers. The numbers don't lie or do they? You can't argue with the |
| 0:27.9 | numbers or can you? Today we're diving into how we can use even something as black and white as numbers and data to either empower us or hold us back, |
| 0:38.0 | beginning with my own personal example of how I caught myself using what could be useful data against myself just this week. |
| 0:45.8 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:49.8 | Welcome to Better Than Happy. I'm Jody Moore and I'll be your coach today. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello everybody. We're going to talk about numbers today. |
| 1:00.0 | And I am not very good at math. And guess what what you don't have to be in order to get a lot out of what I'm going to teach you today |
| 1:08.6 | there are certain areas in our lives where all of us are doing some version of tracking. Maybe it's with |
| 1:14.8 | your budget. Maybe you like to keep an eye on your bank account. Maybe you're |
| 1:18.8 | doing it with regards to your health goals. Sometimes people like to track their food, track what |
| 1:24.0 | their eating, calories, macros, micronutrients, things like that. I'm doing it |
| 1:28.6 | in that area as well as with my glucose numbers, which I'm going to talk to you more about in just a minute. |
| 1:34.4 | Maybe you are an entrepreneur or you work in a business in some function where you are tracking |
| 1:40.5 | numbers you might be tracking again revenue profits and losses in a business |
| 1:45.9 | expenses things like that or you might be tracking conversion numbers if you're in the |
| 1:51.1 | field of marketing in some way. |
| 1:54.0 | Those are the main areas of my life that I have experience with tracking numbers. |
| 1:58.0 | You might have others. |
| 2:00.0 | What I'm going to teach you today, I hope you can apply to any situation in your life. |
| 2:05.0 | I want to begin by telling you a little story about what I observed in myself this week that prompted me to want to do this episode. It was something I observed in me and also several different |
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