Weekly Training: What Now? Staying Grounded in Ambiguity

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Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

I recorded this yesterday, after election day, and wanted to both weigh in on things and also zoom out a bit and take a look at one of the more pervasive aspects of 2020: ambiguity. At the end, I give some helpful tips and some hard-hitting prompts to help you navigate. When there are so many possibilities and so many variables, the mist of ambiguity is obviously the result. When we combine that with (as the science has shown) our inherent negativity bias, our rational mind can feel completely uprooted and react in unhealthy ways. So how do you manage ambiguity? How do you move into an intuition-based form of decision-making? If anything resonates, let me know! Leave a rating or review, or hit me up @mantalks on Instagram. Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Biedon. And on this week's midweek mini episode,
0:06.9	we are going to do a few things. We're going to talk about post-election, now what? And we're
0:12.2	to talk a little bit about staying grounded in the face of ambiguity. So for many people in the
0:18.1	United States and around the world, watching the election unfold,
0:22.2	watching some of the sort of chaos and pandemonium leading up to the election, there has been a lot
0:27.9	of stress. There has been a lot of ambiguity. What's going to happen? How do we know? There's
0:32.3	been a lot of speculation. And this is what we as human beings do when there are major events, major circumstances that are happening in our life that can have a very serious impact on us and our families, our work environments, our taxes, our livelihoods, the way that we live our lives, whether or not we're going to be safe, et cetera.
0:54.4	And so there's been a lot of speculation about what is going to happen.
0:59.6	And I'm recording this the day after the election.
1:02.8	So it's Wednesday.
1:04.3	You know, things went down yesterday.
1:06.7	And as I think many people sort of expected and predicted, the election didn't really have a sort of
1:14.2	resolution, right? There's still, right now, the votes are being tallied and we aren't really
1:21.0	too sure what's going to happen yet. Donald Trump, in some ways, a tried to claim victory, which is, you know, that's neither
1:31.2	here nor there. I think many people on both sides of the political spectrum are sort of
1:37.9	rejecting that attempt at saying that he's won, obviously, because it's not finalized yet. And I think for the
1:48.0	average person, though, this is a small instance, a small sort of window into what has been
1:57.6	happening for pretty much all of 2020. 2020 has been riddled and littered with a
2:05.1	tremendous amount of ambiguity. And by the way, if you're tuning into today's episode, thank you very
2:10.1	much. I also just want to recognize that I don't have the greatest sound quality right now.
2:16.3	Vienna and I just drove the past four days from Idaho back to New Jersey, and we didn't
2:21.5	get in until midnight last night.
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