Welcome back to the Art of Charm Podcast, I am AJ.

And I am Johnny.

And for the last 11 years, we've been hosting the Art of Charm Podcast and live in personal programs that help with

building social skills, strengthening your confidence, getting through anxiety, and strengthening your relationship skills.

Now we have a very exciting announcement to make. We've been hard at work over the last couple months,

rebuilding our social skills challenge. Now some of you listening may have participated in the old challenge,

we're going to be launching a new challenge, including that private Facebook group on April 1st.

We're really excited because these new social skills challenge are CBT back, that's cognitive behavioral therapy back,

strategies to help you break outside of your comfort zone, and start to overcome some of that social anxiety,

maybe feeling. So stay tuned, April 1st, we're relaunching the challenge. Very excited about that.

Today's episode, we're talking about mental models and frameworks and some of you listening are going to wonder what the heck is that.

So we're going to break down what we mean by that. We're going to talk about where they come from, how we absorb these mental models and frameworks over the years.

And Johnny, I'm going to share some backstory on how we develop the mental models and frameworks that we use now in our daily lives to give you a little bit of color behind who you're listening to here on the Art of Charm Podcast.

Now, if you'd like to learn more about our social skills training in person here in Los Angeles, you can check out the artofcharm.com slash bootcamp for more information.

Now, special shout out to a show fan Bruno, we have a story to share later in this episode. So please email us stories, questions, how you're utilizing the content from these recent toolbox episodes.

You can send me an email, AJ at the Art of Charm will be answering questions on future episodes as well and giving some shout outs to the fans.

So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to toolbox episode, mental models and frameworks.

These mental models and frameworks, one of the reasons we wanted to discuss them today is because it's going to give you a little bit of color to our background.

And I know after releasing the value episodes and having some appearances on the show in its early years as an audience, you've heard some of our stories, but we want to give you a little bit more perspective into the way that we think and how we've developed in our personal journey into self development, when we realize that some of our mental models and frameworks that we were passed down through families and our environment back home, how they were failing us so to speak as we got older.

And it led us to try to work on ourselves to improve our outlook and ultimately our results in life.

Yeah, I will also point out how those models and frameworks that we had gotten early in life also benefited us to a point as well and discussing this with the hopes that you'll be able to look back into your life and maybe put some pieces together and perhaps find some blind spots or some outdated frameworks that are not benefiting you anymore.

So you can adopt new ones that allow you to be to push you forward rather than hold you back.

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