Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping

you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 718. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of new mindset who this. As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to encourage us to think differently, to be a bit dangerous, to date differently, to work differently, to work out differently, to dress differently. I don't know if I would say drive differently, but the idea here is different.

Because research has shown that getting what you want in life doesn't always come from more,

from working harder, from 10xing, from, you know, putting in a thousand more hours. That is what we've been taught, though, right? It's kind of ingrained in us. It's what we

assume. And of course, effort is required, but success doesn't just come from hours. It comes from

doing things a bit differently. And for this, shout out to a guy named Billy Oppenheimer,

great writer. He has a weekly email that he sends out on Sundays with interesting ideas.

This past week, he shared the following, which it builds on this thesis I've had that I've

talked about many times. I remember doing an episode like probably 400 episodes ago on the power

of opposites, like the power of sitting down and being like, what is the opposite of

what I've been doing? How can I do the opposite of what I've been told and just to see what

goodness it brings into your life? Consider that within the context of what he wrote here. And then I'll

share a mindset. So he wrote the following. He said, quote, in the early 1980s, the sociologist

Daniel Chambliss spent five years

studying swimmers at every level of ability.

He visited learn to swim programs, coached a regional swim team, and traveled with the

U.S. Olympic team.

He was interested in what separated the good from the great, the habits, training regimens,

mindsets, physical traits, and daily practices that contribute to the reason some swimmers

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