ITL062 : Accessing the Power of the Individual

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2012

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Andy and A.T. discuss the power of the individual and how to channel it through discovering your passion.

A listener named Sheryl writes in about her experience with breast cancer. Her story prompted A.T. to wonder how people who aren’t writers or speakers or someone with a large audience can have a big, lasting impact on the world.

Andy brings up the butterfly effect story that he often tells on stage
The story illustrates how great moments or accomplishments all go back to “ordinary” people who did a seemingly small deed that caused big things to happen down the line

Sheryl mentioned that her experience with cancer didn’t “define” her; it “refined” her.

Andy points out that this is often seen as an odd way of thinking
It’s actually a great way of thinking
As a society, we often think logically to the wrong conclusions
We have the ability to choose the way we think

Everybody has something they are meant to do.

It takes a different way of thinking to figure out what that is and master it
When you can mix your passion with value for others, you can affect enormous amounts of people

Quote from H.G. Wells:

“The test of greatness is this: what did that person leave to grow? By this test, Jesus stands first.”

Questions for Listeners

· Have you discovered your passion? How were you able to do so, and what are you doing with it?

o Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY

o E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com

o Facebook.com/AndyAndrews

o Twitter.com/AndyAndrews

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different
0:07.4	perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, Andy Trob.
0:15.1	Well, hello, everyone. I am your host, Andy Trob, and you can call me AT. And I want to welcome you
0:19.3	again to In the Loop where Andy
0:20.9	Andrews shares powerful yet simple principles that once applied will change your life forever.
0:26.5	On today's show, we're going to talk about the impact of the individual, about how each of us
0:31.1	can impact the world around us. But before we do that, let me welcome again your friend in mind,
0:36.3	Mr. Andy Andrews.
0:37.7	AT, I'm happy to be here today, brother.
0:40.4	It's going to be good because we've got great listeners, and one of them is named Cheryl,
0:45.4	and she took the time to write us, and we were very moved by her feedback.
0:50.5	We're going to talk about how we can all have an impact.
0:55.5	How do you spell Cheryl's name?
0:58.7	S-H-E-R-Y-L.
1:07.0	There you go. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Cheryl. I ask because I was, you know, I'm kind of a visual person, so I was thinking the C-H. know when i when i sign books yeah yeah yeah i
1:14.1	always ask you know somebody i come up and say uh you know bob and i'll say and that is b o b because and polly
1:21.9	you know polly asked me she's why do you ask everybody how to spell their name is are you kidding me
1:26.2	because have you no idea how many different ways people spell their names? Is T-E-R-R-R-R-I-E? T-E-R-I-E-E-R-I-E, T-E-R-R-I-E? There you go. I mean, it's just unbelievable. It's not getting better either. better either. It's getting worse. My name is Bob and that is with an S. It's like, what? You know, it's just unbelievable. Yeah. But what's really funny is people come up sometimes and I'll say, and who do I make this too? And they go, me. Now we go, oh, with a capital of him? That's right. Anyway, okay, Cheryl with an ass. Let's get. All right, here we go. She says, I got, dear Andy, I got turned on to you by a video that Big Daddy Weave posted of a seminar. They posted this on their Facebook page that you gave to some college kids. I've been hooked on you since. I purchased
2:18.2	two of your books, the traveler's gift and mastering the seven decisions, and promptly devoured them.
2:23.3	I cannot count the times I have forwarded your In the Loop podcast or retweeted a tweet of yours.
2:28.8	They have been a source of inspiration to me. Just this Friday, I had what will hopefully be my last reconstruction
2:35.4	surgery. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in March of 2011, and this was the fifth surgery
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