ITL166: The Weird Side Effect of Going Through Our Toughest Times
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I discuss the little-known benefit of the hard times in our lives—and how my greatest struggles led me to my most important realizations.
During the time I was living under the pier and reading biographies, I was graphing out in my mind what had worked to make these people turn out like they did.
- I was at a point in my life when I had a tough time with, “Is there more?”
- I thought, were these people born this way, or was it something they did? What did they do and how long did it take them to do it?
- After reading that many of them, you start to realize the things these people have in common.
- I realized they weren’t habits, or theories, or really even mine. But I saw that they worked every time, and that they were principles.
- I began to think what happens to somebody who knows all seven?
A lot of people don’t understand there is huge value in tough times.
- To back this up this statement, my idea for the Seven Decisions came from a horrible time in my own life.
- I would not have read these biographies had I not been living under a pier.
- When you’re struggling in a certain area, you build muscle in that area. For the rest of your life, you are able to call upon that muscle.
- Tough times can often force us into different ways of thinking.
The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.
- If everything were always in our control, none of us would ever struggle.
- The “worst” thing can actually turn out to be the greatest thing that ever happened to you, but ONLY if you allow it.
If you know people who would benefit from Andy’s books or materials, this episode would be a great one to share. It’s a great entry point to get people up to speed on who Andy is and what he wants to help you accomplish. Take a moment and forward this episode to a friend!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.1 | Hello and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy, and sitting |
| 0:17.8 | across the table for me again today, I'm so excited. Andy Andrews. |
| 0:22.7 | I don't know why I laughed. It's just like you're so excited. I am excited because we don't |
| 0:28.4 | have to deal with technology. You know, sometimes we're dealing with Skype and Skype is great. We love it. |
| 0:34.3 | But we take the uncertainty out of it when we're sitting across the table from each other. |
| 0:38.3 | And Matt is here. Absolutely. Matt, the fixer of all audio issues is, uh, maybe we should change your title to that, Matt. Fixer of all audio issues. |
| 0:48.8 | Anyway, uh, we're excited to be here. We're glad to be here again. We have kind of a treat today. We get, I think we've mentioned before, but we get calls and emails from people truly all over the world. |
| 1:00.8 | You know, primarily, obviously, it's in this country. |
| 1:03.4 | But we get people, we get inquiries and questions and ideas from all over the place from all ages. |
| 1:10.5 | And today we have an email that came in from an eighth grader in Florida. |
| 1:16.0 | And I just think it's so cool that his name is Andrew, that Andrew wrote into us, Andy, and he actually has a great question. |
| 1:24.4 | And so we're going to use Andrew's question as our topic for today. |
| 1:28.2 | Awesome. What did he ask? So let me read you his question, and then we'll get your thoughts on it. |
| 1:33.0 | Again, this is from an eighth grader, I'm assuming Andrew is 13, 14, somewhere in that age range. |
| 1:38.4 | Right. So here's his email. Dear Mr. Andrews, hi, my name is Andrew. I'm in the eighth grade at a private school in Florida. |
| 1:47.2 | My mom has heard you speak in the past, but I haven't seen you in person. |
| 1:51.4 | At my mom's request, I read the young traveler's gift, and I liked it so much that I recommended it to my teachers. |
| 1:58.5 | I love that, by the way. At my mom's request. Andrew, how tactful. You didn't say my mother made me read this stupid book. Right. At my mom's request. Anyway, go ahead. He's earning major brownie points there. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. That's fantastic. So I read the Young Traveler's gift. I liked it so much that I recommended it to my teachers. |
| 2:18.8 | After the principal and two teachers read it, they loved it too. Now our entire eighth grade |
| 2:25.3 | history class is reading it as a part of the curriculum. Awesome. My friends are getting a lot |
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