Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you haven't

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another episode. Today, we're going to be talking about how you might be doing personal growth,

personal development all wrong in that self-help books and conferences and journaling and meditating might not be what you

need. And what I'm going to teach you today is a strategy that I think is going to help you

improve your life quickly. It's a perspective of a way that you should look at the world to grow

as fast as you possibly can. I believe that every single thing that

happens to you and happens to me in our lives, every single moment of our life, good, bad,

neutral, whatever label we want to put on it, I believe that it is brought to us as an opportunity for us to learn. I believe

that our life is a classroom and that our soul is here to learn and that your life is the perfectly

crafted curriculum for you to learn what you need to learn while you're here. Why? I don't know. I don't know why.

I don't know what happens after this. I don't know what happens before this. I'll give you a couple

just random fun things to think about. But the problem is that most people don't see life that way.

They don't see life as a classroom. The biggest misconceptions that I have found about personal

development and where I really screwed up in

personal development was I thought personal development was sitting down to read a book. And so I have

400 personal development books and mindset and business and leadership books that I've read

over my lifetime. I thought that it was sitting down to meditate

and getting myself to learn to be quiet. I thought that it was going to a conference and jumping

around like an idiot for a few hours every single day. I thought that it was journaling. I thought

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