Minisode Monday #5 | Testing Our Assumptions

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🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Welcome to the fifth episode of Minisode Monday, where we'll talk about testing our assumptions! We keep finding so many useful tactics and tips that we want to share with you, but they don't fit into the format of a regular show -- hence, Minisode Monday. Here's what's up today: The Cheat Sheet: Give someone who remembers WWII an iPod or comparable modern media player and they may not be able to wrap their brains around how it can store so much music and other content. Maybe because they used to have a record collection that took up half the basement, they have assumptions about how much space it takes to store that much media based on past experience that haven't been updated to account for modern, unfamiliar technology. No matter our age, we all carry around assumptions -- right or wrong -- about the way the world works. As we get older and the world changes around us, many of our assumptions naturally become archaic. But how many of our assumptions are fact-based or purely opinion? It's our programming that causes us to make these assumptions before our conscious mind can intercept them -- not just with technology, but with people, too. This week, whenever you catch yourself making assumptions about something or someone, put it to the test: is the guy at the deli with all the tattoos really a scary person? Is the movie theater ticket clerk really just an aloof teenager? Did someone snub you on purpose, or are they maybe distracted with their own issues? Some of the programming that triggers these assumptions may need rewiring -- and if you're ready to make that happen, here's a good place to start. Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Leave a comment below, tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response, or email jordan@theartofcharm.com (he reads everything)! Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/minisode-monday-5-testing-our-assumptions/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mini-Sodemunday. Hope your weekend was amazingly refreshing.
0:03.9	Happy to be here with you. Kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you
0:07.6	can implement right away that'll make you more magnetic and effective. Now a few days ago,
0:12.8	one of our older neighbors here in the neighborhood got an iPod from his grandson for his birthday,
0:17.2	and he wanted to put some old-time radio shows on it and some music from back in the day.
0:21.3	And naturally, as the quote unquote youngsters around here, Jen and I went to help.
0:26.0	He didn't understand how something so small, like an iPod, could hold so many pieces of music
0:30.9	and media. He had a concept in his head of storage as a manifestation of physical space to hold
0:37.2	data, and it just didn't align with what he knew about physical storage and how things can fit
0:42.4	into other things. In other words, how the heck can all these songs squeeze into this little
0:47.2	iPod nano. And on the way home, Jen and I had a little chuckle about how people just don't get
0:52.2	technology sometimes and it's cute and we're totally going to be that way when we're older and
0:56.0	blah, blah, blah. But of course, this got me thinking as I often do and it all goes back to programming.
1:02.5	His programming was causing him to make certain assumptions about how things work and he just
1:06.8	couldn't shake it. If you don't believe me, hand a three-year-old an iPad and he'll learn it in a
1:11.5	few minutes. Then hand that iPad to his grandmother and prepare yourself for 15-plus phone calls over
1:17.7	the next two weeks. It's our programming that puts ideas in our head before our conscious
1:22.9	mind can intercept them. And we do this all the time, not just with technology, but with people too.
1:28.9	We have judgments popped into our head, good and bad, accurate, inaccurate, all the time.
1:34.2	Our programming is what causes us to mistake these assumptions for facts instead of just what they
1:39.4	are, which are basically opinions formed by our subconscious mind that we seldom actually test
1:45.2	for accuracy or for validity. So instead of thinking critically about people, problems or
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