How to Quit Walking in Circles | Mindset Monday

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Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

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Summary

Have you ever heard of the study where kids were lost in the woods? It gives us some pretty startling insights into the way all people actually work. 95% will stay lost. But 5% have a simple secret to get themselves out of the endless loop of confusion. That’s what I’m talking about in this Mindset Monday.

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0:00.0	The great Seth Godin once told me a story about kids that were taken into the forest to see how they might react, what they might do, would they recover, would they find their way?
0:09.1	I don't think you'd be shocked to hear that 95% of them walked in circles, walked in circles endlessly and ultimately had to be saved.
0:17.4	Only 5% of the people looked around and said, wait a minute, the sunset, the sunrise, the tallest
0:23.5	mountain. They got a destination. They pointed toward something and said, let's go that way.
0:29.6	5% of the people know exactly where they're going. 95% walk aimlessly in circles on this Monday.
0:36.1	As you think about the balance of this year
0:37.7	and what you want to accomplish in 2026,
0:40.6	do not walk in circles.
0:42.6	Point and go.

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