ITL228: Still Deciding Who to Vote For? Keep Asking Yourself This One Question
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on what people should be looking for in a presidential candidate.
Have you ever known something but later found out you were wrong?
- Is it possible you know what’s best?
- The best is the truth. Things can be true in a certain context, but not the whole truth.
- When people find what is true to them, they stop searching and don’t go any farther.
- You can know the truth and not accomplish the best, but you will never accomplish the best without the truth.
The only time most people ask ‘why’ is when things aren’t working.
- When they get the answer, they don’t ask anymore.
- Always keep asking ‘why’—about the things that are working as much as you ask ‘why’ about the things that are not.
- Only a principle can provide a bottom line or the truth. Principles work every time, whether you know them or not.
A wise person knows when a compromise will be useful or foolish.
- Wise compromises are made with opinions.
- You get 100% of the value of the compromise.
- When you compromise on a principle, you get zero value.
Tune in to hear Andy’s enlightening comparison between choosing a candidate and choosing from a menu at a restaurant, and learn why America is the most prosperous place on the planet.
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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. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Thanks for joining |
| 0:18.3 | us again this week. We have something special planned for our |
| 0:22.0 | episode this week. We're actually going to do a two-part episode, and this is the first of two |
| 0:28.3 | episodes. So excited to see what the response is to Andy's presentation today, and make sure to |
| 0:35.7 | tune in next week as well for part two. All right, Andy, |
| 0:39.6 | thanks for joining us. I know that you're in your office right now at home. You're probably |
| 0:44.2 | staring at that ceiling full of pennies, aren't you? I am. The ceiling is coming along. We're, |
| 0:49.8 | you know, we're still marching across with the pennies. And so... We had so many people respond back. |
| 0:55.3 | I guess it was, I don't remember, maybe six months ago or so, that you teased out what... |
| 1:00.9 | It might have been closer to a year ago. |
| 1:03.0 | I don't remember when that was, but you teased out what you were doing. |
| 1:06.2 | And the intrigue, everybody was so curious as to what it was going to be. |
| 1:12.2 | And people thought it was hilarious that it was pennies. You said you were talking about how cheap it was to do this. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah, we're getting there. Well, go back and if you're listening, if you're new to In the Loop, |
| 1:23.4 | go back and find the episodes where Andy's talking about his office. We did a couple of great |
| 1:29.2 | episodes about the things that are in his line of sight, the things that he's intentionally |
| 1:35.0 | put in front of his face every day as he's working. And I'll try to go back as we're talking |
| 1:41.0 | here today and find those numbers and I'll give those to people here in a little while, but certainly worth very interesting, the intention that you put behind |
| 1:49.0 | what surrounds you as you work every day. It's very important. So, Andy, we've got an interesting |
| 1:55.1 | topic today and I'm going to jump right in because people are interested to hear your thoughts. |
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