If you're ever wondering, whether you are bright enough, that actually means you're one of the brightest people in the world. Because dumb people don't wonder whether they're bright enough.
On this episode of Great Escape Podcast, I'd just thought I'd talk a little bit about questioning and inquiring mind. One of the constant challenges that we have when we're trying to escape a situation is, am I bright enough to find a new way out, or am I currently going to be stuck in this situation, or actually, sometimes just the embarrassment of how did I get stuck in this situation in the first place. Why didn't I see this coming? And the reality is that, the way our brains work, they like being stuck in the situations. And I've talked about it in some previous episodes, how the brain is such an energy-hungry piece of our body. Something like thirty-percent of our total energy consumption is happening in here. The thinking is actually a pretty expensive process. The brain tries to find simple...

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It's been an interesting few days.

I'm really making some progress with a couple of projects, and that causes a tension with other things that need to be done, aren't necessarily terribly important, but are urgent and you get this sort of sense of frustration of, actually, I need to be focusing on this, this strategic thing, but there's this tactical, interruption that also needs to be dealt with and it's just getting in the way.

Getting that balance. Working out how to respond to those things has actually been quite tricky in the last few days. So, I've got quite a lot of tension or frustration going on inside as I try and work out how to get that balance right, so what I'm trying to do is Get up, Rehydrate, first thing. Get down to the gym. Get some fairly serious exercise done just to get the blood moving because we all know that has really positive impact on mental health and mental state as well as the physical advantages. And then spend the morning doing what I want to do....

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I've had several conversations today with friends, business colleagues, who are struggling for all sorts of reasons. But actually, when I thought about it, I realized that part of what I was struggling with as well today, is that human beings are tribal, social creatures. Through most of our history we lived in small communities, something like 70 to a 100 people. We knew everybody within our community, we work together, we live together, we play together. And something that happens in modern life is even though we're more connected than we ever were, Facebook, Twitter, all of these things, email, mobile phones. Actually in many ways, we are less closely connected with anybody. So when we...

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Couple of weeks ago, I discovered that a good friend of mine for many years had died unexpectedly. And I was on my way to an airport to head out to another country for a business trip, and so I'm sitting in a taxi trying to process his death. How did I feel about that? What did that mean for, various projects that we had on together? All of those things and my own personal grief with that. And you would get on an airplane, fly for a couple of hours, land somewhere else, deal with all of the things that needed dealing with there. And hey, it was a great business trip. Got a lot done, built some new relationships which should turn into profitable and enjoyable business. And all the time, I'm kinda struggling with this idea that we are mortal, that life ends. And that was kinda there in the back of my head and a bit of an irritation, really, in the great scheme of things. Is it that, that...

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- Well, as I shared with you earlier, life for me was not an easy start, like you mentioned. I, within seconds of my birth, I was abandoned. My mother placed me for adoption and while in foster care, I was about two months old and I had, I was either dropped on my head, or thrown against a wall, it's a little vague on what happened, but I ended up with a blood clot on my brain, and spent the next couple of months in a hospital while they drained that. And then there was a lot of uncertainty as to what the longterm effects would be, so I became what they termed unadoptable. But fortunately, there was a family that was also deemed unmatchable,...

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- In the general population, 49% of male respondents said they were struggling with imposter syndrome daily, or regularly, and it was having a measurable effect on their performance, their mental health, and their emotional well-being. The figure for women was 52% daily or regularly. The figure for entrepreneurs, 82%.

- I've been working in the office today editing videos and listening to podcasts. And I was listening to Sara Moseley's Million Dollar Online Business podcast, which is great. Absolutely fabulous podcast, and I'll put a link to that in the show notes. She, in her most recent episode, was talking to Clare Josa. Not quite sure how they pronounce Clare's surname. And Clare has done a fantastic piece of research into imposter syndrome and released a book. And one of the just truly amazing things is that in the general population, as you heard in the...

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