Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.

My friend Stacy and I were on a road trip when a song came on the radio and she said,

ooh, I like this.

We bebobbed our heads to the beat and she asked,

who's the artist?

As soon as I told her who it was, she said,

oh, I don't like it then. Her mind was so firmly set on not liking that artist that even if she found herself

enjoying one of their songs she would convince herself otherwise. We also do this when we reject a movie without even watching it,

when we find out who plays the lead role, and most recently I experienced this with an inspirational

quote online.

I want to talk about this post that I shared online, which was initially met with

surprisingly equal praise and retaliation, so I started a discussion about it.

And that conversation sprouted its own legs

and took off in many different directions.

The reason I want to combine the experience

into a podcast episode is because I think

there's much we can learn about the human

condition from the way people respond to having their comfort zone stretched.

I read a lot of books mostly on audible especially when they are narrated by the author, and many of them are memoirs because I'm

intrigued by people's stories and how much we can learn from one another.

After recently reading Michelle Obama's memoir, Becoming, which isn't political propaganda,

mind you, but a personal story of her individual journey.

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