ITL217: The Anatomy of Principles (and How to Use Them to Get What You Want)
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, I answer a listener question on how to identify a principle and overcome the doubt of making it work.
A principle is something that works every time.
- It’s the foundational truth.
- It’s not just true. It is the truth.
- Principles work whether you know of them or not.
- You don’t have to understand or even agree with it, but ignorance of principle is no protection from the consequences of violating that principle.
If you took a blind person who didn’t have any idea what an elephant was and you said, “Here’s an elephant. Make your determinations…”
- Well, if they are standing in the front and the person touched the trunk, they would say an elephant is kind of like a snake.
- If they grabbed onto a leg, they might say it’s like a tree trunk.
- Everything they said is true—it just wouldn’t be the truth.
- The more wisdom you gain about principles and the more you align with them in your life, the easier your life will become and the easier it will be to have a level of belief about where you’re going and what you want to do.
Tune in this week to hear an example we can all relate to about why our will is stronger than our emotional state.
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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 |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.3 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm your host, David Loy, and I am thrilled, excited, mesmerized to be here once again, Andy, with you. |
| 0:25.9 | We always have a blast doing this. I wanted you to tell, you know, a lot of times we start off |
| 0:31.2 | these shows just by talking or chatting or whatever and you say something funny and we laugh |
| 0:35.6 | or whatever, but you told me that something happened to you and that it was really funny. |
| 0:41.6 | No, you said it was a great story. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah, well, I can't believe you and heard it. |
| 0:45.2 | And I'm not heard it. |
| 0:46.3 | So I want you to tell this to me for the first time while everybody else hears it for the first time. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, you know, last weekend, Polly, Austin, Adam, and I were up here in Nashville at Uncle Bob's. |
| 1:00.1 | Yes. |
| 1:00.6 | You know, they call Robert Uncle Bob. |
| 1:02.4 | Right. |
| 1:03.0 | And so we're, I forget where we were even going, but we're coming back from wherever we were, had been going. And it was right at dark, |
| 1:15.3 | and there's a fair amount of traffic, two-lane road here in Franklin. And all of a sudden, |
| 1:23.8 | you know how you'd like see roadkill? You see dead animal in a road yes well we saw just right |
| 1:31.3 | there in the headlights it's already dead it's already dead but there's traffic coming the other way |
| 1:37.4 | and robert somehow cannot avoid this oh no with his tire oh no And so he hits it with his tire right about the time we all realize it's a skunk. |
| 1:51.7 | Oh, it's too late. |
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