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A team Glen as Here. Walking back to the Building Better Humans Project podcast, I thought I'm going to have a little bit of a structural change through the podcast. So Mondays, I'm going to still sick with outside motivation, your PEP talks and those sort of things. Wednesdays, I want to really focus on youth development. So this is not just where we're going with youth development, but youth development tips for the young people in your life, how to keep them motivated, inspired, supported, safe, but also pushing them to step outside their own boundaries. And then on Fridays, I wanted to continue because it was quite popular going down the road of looking at what I'm personally looking at and saving on social media, why I save it? And also I guess encouraging you to look at social media with a different light. So we're not looking at social media as the problem. We're looking at who am I following on social media as the problem. And this is largely what I've always believed, and particularly as I've started cutting away people that have no value or that I follow for no particular reason, maybe because everyone else is following them, but they don't add anything to me, And so the one I want to share today is from an Instagram page called business Mindset one oh one. No, I don't follow this page for business at all, but they put up some quotes that I like, and that side of things makes it quite enjoyable. Now, the quote today says, your hustle will intimidate those okay with being average. Your hustle will intimidate those okay with being average. Now, this is not a disrespect on people that are willing to be the median or willing to be the average. Of course that society and we need that. But it's more about the fact that if you step outside the box and if you do things a little bit differently, you must expect that there's going to be some pushback against that because it does make other people feel uncomfortable. Now, I first witnessed this, to be honest, when Alyssa, my daughter, was eight ninety ten years of age. At eight years of age, she did the Kakoda track with me. This is back in two thousand and five. And then she did ever A's Base Camp with me when she was ten years of age, and at school she started to get a bit of media. She was just she wasn't playing the normal sports. She did boxing for a little while. She won an Australian title in that, but even that at an all girls' school back then, was a bit outside the box. She wasn't doing your gymnastics and your athletics and your touch football and your netball, which was the rage back in those days. Girls were still very much doing girls sports, and so she started to experience a lot of kickback from kids around her, and even parents and a teacher. I remember one teacher pulling her aside and saying, do you really want to be doing this stuff or is it your parents that are pushing you to do it? And she couldn't understand that because she wanted to do this stuff. This was about her, It was never about us, but because she wasn't doing something that everyone else was doing. I remember when she won an Australian boxing title, and whenever kids won awards and stuff, awards their Wednesday or Thursdays was like they would do a big assembly and that's where they'd bring anyone up that had won something outside of the school, and hers wasn't brought up. But I just asked the school why and they just had some issues around boxing and violence and boxing for girls in particular, and so again you're being judged by people based off of a series of societal norms. Now you can either conform, which is okay, and not have that feedback given to you anymore. But if it's something that you're truly passionate about, don't be tempered by other people. Don't be tempered by the mindsets or the attitudes or the fixed mindset in particular of people that are trying to conform to society, but more importantly want you to conform as well. My idea is, as long as you're not doing anything to hurt someone else, and as long as you're not doing anything illegal, you can literally do what you want with your life. It is your life. You don't need to feel the power and the pressure of other people's judgments. And that's easier said than done. But just remember that what you're doing could intimidate other people, could make other people feel uncomfortable. And if you're just pulling yourself away from the herd in some way, shape or form, they're just going to grab you and pull you back down. And it might be through little snide comments, or it might be more direct where they just don't like who you are and what you're about, and you know what, you've got to be okay with that. There are eight billion people on the planet. You don't need to be for everyone, and not everyone is going to be for you. So rather than conforming, and rather than starting to then feel unfulfilled because you're not being true to yourself, my suggestion is, except that this is the way other people think, except that the norms of society are going to try and bring you back to them. And if what you're doing isn't hurting anyone else and isn't illegal, and it does light your fire and you do want to do it, then I suggest you go out and do it. So again, that was from business mindset one oh one. Your hustle will intimidate those okay with being average.

A team Glen as Here. Walking back to the Building Better Humans Project podcast, I thought I'm going to have a little bit of a structural change through the podcast. So Mondays, I'm going to still sick with outside motivation, your PEP talks and those sort of things. Wednesdays, I want to really focus on youth development. So this is not just where we're going with youth development, but youth development tips for the young people in your life, how to keep them motivated, inspired, supported, safe, but also pushing them to step outside their own boundaries. And then on Fridays, I wanted to continue because it was quite popular going down the road of looking at what I'm personally looking at and saving on social media, why I save it? And also I guess encouraging you to look at social media with a different light. So we're not looking at social media as the problem. We're looking at who am I following on social media as the problem. And this is largely what I've always believed, and particularly as I've started cutting away people that have no value or that I follow for no particular reason, maybe because everyone else is following them, but they don't add anything to me, And so the one I want to share today is from an Instagram page called business Mindset one oh one. No, I don't follow this page for business at all, but they put up some quotes that I like, and that side of things makes it quite enjoyable. Now, the quote today says, your hustle will intimidate those okay with being average. Your hustle will intimidate those okay with being average. Now, this is not a disrespect on people that are willing to be the median or willing to be the average. Of course that society and we need that. But it's more about the fact that if you step outside the box and if you do things a little bit differently, you must expect that there's going to be some pushback against that because it does make other people feel uncomfortable. Now, I first witnessed this, to be honest, when Alyssa, my daughter, was eight ninety ten years of age. At eight years of age, she did the Kakoda track with me. This is back in two thousand and five. And then she did ever A's Base Camp with me when she was ten years of age, and at school she started to get a bit of media. She was just she wasn't playing the normal sports. She did boxing for a little while. She won an Australian title in that, but even that at an all girls' school back then, was a bit outside the box. She wasn't doing your gymnastics and your athletics and your touch football and your netball, which was the rage back in those days. Girls were still very much doing girls sports, and so she started to experience a lot of kickback from kids around her, and even parents and a teacher. I remember one teacher pulling her aside and saying, do you really want to be doing this stuff or is it your parents that are pushing you to do it? And she couldn't understand that because she wanted to do this stuff. This was about her, It was never about us, but because she wasn't doing something that everyone else was doing. I remember when she won an Australian boxing title, and whenever kids won awards and stuff, awards their Wednesday or Thursdays was like they would do a big assembly and that's where they'd bring anyone up that had won something outside of the school, and hers wasn't brought up. But I just asked the school why and they just had some issues around boxing and violence and boxing for girls in particular, and so again you're being judged by people based off of a series of societal norms. Now you can either conform, which is okay, and not have that feedback given to you anymore. But if it's something that you're truly passionate about, don't be tempered by other people. Don't be tempered by the mindsets or the attitudes or the fixed mindset in particular of people that are trying to conform to society, but more importantly want you to conform as well. My idea is, as long as you're not doing anything to hurt someone else, and as long as you're not doing anything illegal, you can literally do what you want with your life. It is your life. You don't need to feel the power and the pressure of other people's judgments. And that's easier said than done. But just remember that what you're doing could intimidate other people, could make other people feel uncomfortable. And if you're just pulling yourself away from the herd in some way, shape or form, they're just going to grab you and pull you back down. And it might be through little snide comments, or it might be more direct where they just don't like who you are and what you're about, and you know what, you've got to be okay with that. There are eight billion people on the planet. You don't need to be for everyone, and not everyone is going to be for you. So rather than conforming, and rather than starting to then feel unfulfilled because you're not being true to yourself, my suggestion is, except that this is the way other people think, except that the norms of society are going to try and bring you back to them. And if what you're doing isn't hurting anyone else and isn't illegal, and it does light your fire and you do want to do it, then I suggest you go out and do it. So again, that was from business mindset one oh one. Your hustle will intimidate those okay with being average.

Thanks for listening to this episode of the Building Better Humans podcast with your host Glenn Asa. For feedback. To stay up to date or go back and find an old episode, head over to one ady dot net dot au here the Building Better Humors Project piecas This go

Thanks for listening to this episode of the Building Better Humans podcast with your host Glenn Asa. For feedback. To stay up to date or go back and find an old episode, head over to one ady dot net dot au here the Building Better Humors Project piecas This go