#73: The Power of a Closed Mind
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Having an open mind is important when considering ideas, opinions, feedback, or suggestions. But equally important, especially if you want to live the game changer life, is knowing when to have a closed mind - becoming more discretionary about where you invest your precious time, energy, and resources. In this episode, Dave shares areas where you should close your mind to, so you can assess and address anything that is holding you back from becoming unstoppable.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Game Changer Life. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Dave Anderson. |
| 0:15.8 | In this episode, I want to talk about the power of a closed mind. Yep, power of a closed mind. I'm not talking |
| 0:23.4 | about closing your mind to other ideas and opinions and that sort of thing. I'm talking about |
| 0:29.1 | becoming more twosy about who you're going to spend time with, what you're going to look at, |
| 0:33.5 | what you're going to read, what you're going to watch, right? And so everybody thinks, |
| 0:38.2 | oh, I have to have an open mind with everything. No, not with everything. There are some things that are just got to become off |
| 0:42.9 | limits if you want to live the game changer life. So we're not closing our mind of feedback and |
| 0:48.8 | opinions and ideas. Please understand that. But listen, we have to become far more discretionary about where we invest our |
| 0:56.9 | precious time, energy, and resources. So if you want to live the game change your life, |
| 1:02.9 | as you know, if you've listened to past episodes, there are eight traits you need to more |
| 1:07.2 | consistently bring to the table. All right. And in the book, Unstoppable, which I believe |
| 1:14.0 | quite a few of you have read, I talk about the four different types of performance groups, |
| 1:17.5 | undertakers, caretakers, playmakers, game changers. And I said in a nutshell, the game changer |
| 1:22.3 | is just more consistently bringing effort, energy, enthusiasm. Got to love enthusiasm. |
| 1:27.3 | Excellence. Always trying to do |
| 1:29.0 | it better than the last time. Passion. Not only are they excited about what they're going to do that |
| 1:34.7 | day, but when they're doing it, they're loving it, even when it's tough. Passion, attitude, |
| 1:39.6 | all right? They understand attitude's a choice. Can't choose what happens to me. I do get to |
| 1:43.2 | choose how I respond to it. Focus. Focus is happens to me. I do get to choose how I respond to it. |
| 1:45.4 | Focus. |
| 1:46.3 | Focus is not always helpful. I'm going to bring the focus on the things that are going to bring me the highest return and integrity. Okay, I've got to have integrity. I've got to do it the right way. I'm not going to cut corners. I'm not going to step on other people. I'm going to keep commitments. And so bringing these eight traits more |
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