You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo episode number 106.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast where it's all about real clients, real problems and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor Brooke Castillo.

Hello my beautiful friends. How are you all today? I'm doing amazingly well.

I'm so thrilled with all of your feedback on the last two episodes.

Number 104 and number 105 all doing with weight loss.

I have to tell you my research and work that I've recently been doing in overeating and weight loss has been some of the most rewarding work I've ever done.

Working with the people that I have taken through the last six months and their journey through weight loss and their journey to freedom from overeating has been a profound experience for me.

And I'm so in love with everyone in that class and I'm so excited by the combination of work that we were able to put together to find a real permanent solution for them.

So I just want to say thanks for kind of being my witness to that. It's been an amazing experience.

So but today what I want to talk about is knowing versus not knowing.

I will say like one of the main issues that I deal with with all of my clients and my students is their need jerk reaction to I don't know.

And I think it's really important to pay attention to when you say that.

So one of the rules that I have is that when I ask a question to one of my students they can't say I don't know or even to one of my clients they can't say I don't know they have to come up with an answer.

And often they just really want to say I don't know I don't know I don't know.

Now this is very different than saying I don't know the answer to a trigonometry problem or I don't know the answer to you know a trivia question.

That's not the kind of I don't know I'm talking about right. That's a very humble position and it's a whole different thing.

This is about denying your own wisdom. This is about not wanting to look inside not wanting to be conscious and not wanting to know what you know.

And so one of the ways that I'd like to look at this is to understand three main components that go along with knowing right.

So there's knowing something for sure right which is kind of an interesting thing to think about what is it that you do know for sure and how does it feel to know that for sure.

And is there anything you think you know for sure that you need to question we're going to talk about that.

Then there's the unknown right which most of us stay away from because we use the excuse we don't know we use the excuse we don't want to be uncomfortable we use the excuse that it's not a good time.

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