Powerful And Unpolished

Good day everyone. Welcome to Powerful and Unpolished. I'm Tim. I am the host and welcome to another solo episode. It'll be short and sweet. The last one was quite long. I listened to it, and thank you for hanging in there. If you did listen to it, I hope it was helpful. But yeah, the solos are better when they're short and sweet.

And so today I'm going to explore. One of the chapters or touch on one of the chapters from my book and the chapter is about programming and conditioning. And so I'm just going to highlight the aspect of we're all programmed and conditioned little secret. Probably not that big of a secret, but we are, we all have this conditioning through our families, through our communities that we live in through the countries we live in, the culture that influences us, influenced our parents, that influence us, and that's why I was going to bring up the concept of the programming and conditioning. The work that we are here to do at powerful and unpolished insights for choice and that the book touches on is to help people in their awareness.

Self-awareness, growth, strength, understanding. And so that's why I like to pull this apart and not really dig into, you know, it's not really about the book, it's just the information and the information around programming and conditioning is this. You hear about these algorithms that are in social media, that are in a lot of computer systems that affect us.

They all affect us. And the interesting thing is they, they always affect us because we're the one that provides the data for the algorithm to work us. So it's an electronic mirror coming back to us. One algorithm that I find really interesting, and I don't know that people see it as an algorithm, but I do.

Is when I go to a marketing event or a social, a conference where somebody is presenting and they're selling from the stage, or they're selling from, you know, their training of the experience. I like that stuff. I think it's great. I think it's cool. Where the algorithm drives me batty is.

I'm a pretty quick decision maker. I'm either, I can see the value and I'm into it and I'll make the decision. I can see the value. I'm not into it. I make the decision not to be into it. Whatever the case is, I get, there's a lot of other people around me who have a different decision process. Their algorithm, their energy, their, their how, their fear level, their risk level is different than mine.

I totally get that. For me, someone who either can easily decide I'm in or decide I'm out. Oh, it drives me batty because if I can really see the value and I'm kind of in, it's like, okay, cool. I can go in, go back, start the process, sign up if it's something I want to engage in, I want to learn, I want to invest in whatever it is.

So that's the good side of being able to make a quick decision. Stand behind it. I don't, I can go start the process if I understand it and it's not for me, and I make a clear decision, alright, cool, this isn't my thing. Not gonna go there. I have to sit through like 45 minutes, two hours, four and a half hours of them continuing to try to convince me to buy.

And I understand they're working the algorithm because it, it reinforces like if you sit in there and they are continually expounding upon the offer and, and what's available to you and all that kinda stuff, it's not a bad thing because. Algorithm has, you're gonna have a certain percentage of people who are gonna jump on the bandwagon at the very last minute because they're slow decision makers and they have trust issues and whatever else the case may be.

But that's all part of an algorithm or a, a calculation of trending. So even though it drives me batty, I understand why it happens. It still doesn't lessen the fact that it drives me batty. It's like, really? We gotta keep talking about this. You've made the offer, you've expanded down the offer.

You've, you, you've, so I just highlight that as one awareness of how algorithms are a pattern, a process that reflect back to us. The programming and conditioning that we are, that we reinforce, that we create, we create this response. Like there are, there is a significant number, a percentage of people in the room with you that will have to hear it seven and a half times, 13 and a half times, whatever the, the, the pattern is.

And then. They'll make the decision yes or no, but until then, they'll hang out on the fence. They'll contemplate, they'll go through their patterns, and so that's just sort of how we react to our programming and conditioning. It's not always a, a bad thing. It's not always a a, a dysfunctional thing. It's not always a a, a detriment. When I talk about programming and conditioning, it's just what it is. It's just something to be aware of so that, you know, I'm still functioning within this algorithm, but I know that I am authentically in this choice of experience and for people who.

Know they have trust issues, know that they hang out and wait to be convinced. It sort of reminds me back to, um, I've heard this quote off and on for years, but the quote that says, people don't like to be sold, but they like to buy. And it's that mindset. It's like when I'm buying, I feel like I'm in charge.

I feel like I've made clarity. I've done my homework, I've done my due diligence. I feel strong in my decision to buy, no matter the outcome of whatever it is I buy. I feel strong in that. But if I have somebody here constantly selling me, trying to convince me and stuff like this,

I don't like to be sold. And I don't know really anybody else who necessarily does. So the algorithm is about getting over that hump of I don't wanna be sold. If it's for me, I want to buy, is it gonna benefit my life? Is it gonna benefit my situation? The reason why I explore this stuff is 'cause this affects every aspect of your life.

You have algorithm patterns of how you do your daily life. Brush your teeth, you know, get up in the morning and you know, shave in the shower, shave before you get in the shower. Whatever your pattern of comfort, 'cause that's what the, the programming and conditioning also plays into our comfort zones, plays into our autopilot.

Another thing, it's not a bad thing, but when we are more engaged, when we are more aware, when we are more present with our understanding. We are more likely to be more powerful or more empowered in the situation that we're involved in. So that's just kind of the awareness that I wanted to touch on, because programming and conditioning, I want to throw it out to you.

Do you ever look out into your life? I mean, maybe you do, maybe you don't. But that's the question I'm gonna throw out to you is do you know the areas that you are programmed in that you can actually specifically say, I can see where my conditioning is here. I can see why I do this this way, and when I pull it apart and explore it, I can even see why I developed that pattern of doing it that way.

It only helps us. To be more present and helps us to move out of a reactionary kind of conditioning or programming or pattern into a more active pattern.

So I just wanted to throw that out there. Like I would challenge you think about where are the areas. You can isolate they your program, and I'll give you another example. Well, there's plenty of examples, and this isn't to be inflammatory, but in this day and age, it seems like everybody is a little tender or sensitive around stuff like this.

If I talk to you about politics and about a certain candidate. So if I say something to you about Donald Trump and your first instinct, or your first comment, or your first thought is to tell me about the other side, Biden, blah, blah, blah, the the Libs, that's a clear sign of all your programming. If I say Biden was blah, blah, blah, or you know, my experience or how I see Biden was this, and you're like, well, no, Trump, the conservatives, MAGA, you're programmed.

You are absolutely programmed.

And how you know it is this, if I say Donald Trump X, Y, and Z. We talk about Donald Trump, X, Y, and Z, and we're talking about that subject of whatever. He's a good debater. He's not a good follow through. He's whatever. Whatever you your opinion is. I'm not here to get into that, but the reason why I pick.

The political, especially in our, our environment the last 10 years at least, if not further. Well, it's further back too, but definitely in the last 10 years is when you talk about politics, people all around you go into their justification, their excuses, their validation, all of this kind of stuff, and it's like I just made a comment about how he addresses the camera.

Not in comparison to another politician, not who his family is. So this is one of those areas that people are hugely conditioned and programmed, and they will get in fights with you, verbal arguments with you. They'll, they'll disown you.

Then they never or rarely have the ability to look in the mirror or look at their algorithm and say, wow, wait a minute. I am a creator and a participant in this response.

Again, it doesn't matter what side you believe you're on in that world, we could talk about religion. Same thing. We could talk about certain religious practices and how they're executed and when somebody starts talking about something else, in comparison, there's your programming. Unless they specifically have a question, what do you think about this versus this, what do you think about this in relationship to this?

Doesn't mean you're not gonna have, you'll, you'll still have programming that come, always comes into the experience. You'll still have conditioning that always comes into the experience. Then that's more of a explorative, constructive, rather than a reactionary following pattern where you're just, you're low hanging fruit.

You're basically, you know, they're, they're dangling, you know, little things in front of you, and you're like, squirrel. Squirrel. Oh, squirrel. I'm doing what they're telling me to do, you know? This isn't to be derogatory towards anybody, but this is the human condition, my friends that we all live in, that we all experience.

It really is, and that's why I just really want to share and to the, to the listeners and the friends and colleagues who are open to exploring, be open to your own programming. Be open to your own conditioning. Just so you can have the awareness and be stronger in your decisions, in your active actions when you take them and understand how much the rest of the world around you is running on autopilot and they are just being utilized by the system, by the program, by the algorithm.

So it's something to consider. Consider, you know, if you can catch yourself. Wow. I didn't realize I was so hooked into, because we stopped listening. We stopped listening. When we go to the comparison, when we go to the righteousness of, of our belief versus their belief when that wasn't even part of the discussion.

Like people say, nowadays we can't even discuss anything. Yeah. That's 'cause everyone's in, in their programming and conditioning, they're righteous about their reactions and they're coming from a weak state of being. That's the general populace, FYI And it's not a judgment about 'em. It's not, it's just we're not as aware as we're available that we could be.

So until next time, just something to consider. Please give yourself grace, give those around you, grace and I look forward to connecting and, and, and moving further down this information path as we explore it. So, until next time, I wish you all the best. Cheers.