ITL135: The Paradox Between Thinking and Action
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2014
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on thinking and how it inspires action.
Most people believe that their choices determine where they are.
- In a way they do, but you can’t really control your choices any more than you can control the flip of a coin.
- Unless you have a process in place for guiding your choices, at best you can hope to make 50% of your choices right.
- Thinking determines the choices we make, choices determine actions, and actions determine our reputation.
Are there instances in which action inspires different thinking?
- Yes, if we are looking to learn something.
- When we are not looking to learn something, our words (or thinking) will overpower our actions.
- Thinking and action are kind of circularly intertwined.
There is a great paradox between “As a man thinketh, so is he,” and yet we’re still able to choose what we think and how we think.
God feeds the birds, but he doesn’t throw worms in their nest.
- I realized years ago that I was praying beggar prayers, and I felt like God was rolling his eyes at me.
- If you’re sitting at home and lying on the couch, the people that God places on your life path are probably not sitting next to you.
Questions for Listeners
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- Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
- E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
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- Twitter.com/AndyAndrews
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm your host, David Loy, and I am thrilled as always to be here with you, Andy. |
| 0:21.1 | Thrill as always. |
| 0:23.3 | How are you today, Andy? |
| 0:24.4 | Good, good. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:27.0 | This is awesome. |
| 0:28.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:29.2 | We are jumping back in to another great topic. |
| 0:33.2 | As you know, we've been getting so many listener questions, emails, phone calls from a lot of different |
| 0:39.1 | people. And part of our... I like the listener questions. Absolutely. And part of our goal here is to |
| 0:45.4 | continue to answer as many as possible. We've gotten a great amount of them. We've told people |
| 0:50.4 | that we love doing this. They keep coming in. So we're just going to keep rifling through these. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, I enjoy the listener questions because I think because I enjoy conversations. |
| 1:00.5 | And I especially like conversations that make me think, you know, |
| 1:05.3 | that I'm not just having to like give some answer that I've given a million times or something. And so I love these |
| 1:13.0 | listener questions because they do make me think. Absolutely. And it's something new and fresh. |
| 1:18.0 | Every time we address it, people are going through different situations in their lives and they |
| 1:22.8 | bring those questions. And I feel a little bit like Dave Ramsey, except I don't, I'm not as mean to people as |
| 1:30.2 | Dave is. Right, exactly. I love sitting in there watching Dave. Somebody would call him and go, |
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