Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick (Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon")

Enjoy this incredibly relevant conversation that supports the whole idea behind "who you are,  determines how well what you do works." It’s my hope that this conversation, with this very special guest, will simply end with you pointing in the right direction 🙏

Bob Burg, the co-author of the international bestseller The Go-Giver, a book that has transformed the way people think about success in business and life. Bob is not only a celebrated author but also a highly sought-after speaker, known for his ability to inspire individuals and organizations to create exceptional value while achieving extraordinary results. With his revolutionary 'Go-Giver' philosophy, Bob has shown that shifting our focus from getting to giving—putting others' interests first and continually adding value—leads to greater success, fulfillment, and joy. His message is timeless, practical, and, above all, needed now more than ever. Let’s dive into this conversation about leadership, entrepreneurship, giving and receiving and living a life of purpose. 

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast: This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works and that perception is a subjective and an acquired taste. If it's true that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Consider this podcast your daily dose of a new perspective around some of the things you had already made up your mind about. 

Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast

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Show Highlights

0:00 - Intro
3:25 - Did you ever imagine the Go Giver would be such a success?
5:18 - What was life like for you before you became a Go Giver?
7:26 - If you want to make a lot of money in sales…..
9:47 - Asking what's in it for you is a better second question than first to ask.
14:59 - The rules of mentorship.
20:20 - How do you define a leader?
23:15 - How do we define what value is in this fast paced tech world?
28:03 - How would operating as a Go Giver solve the problems we face today?

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. With a combination of solo conversations as well as intriguing interviews with some of the leading experts in the field, the Makes Sense Podcast offers cost free content with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. 

Today we’ll Make Sense of the Science, Art and Philosophy of Making Sense. The intention of this episode is to arm and equip you with the basic language and understanding of your Sense Making Machine, that is operating 24 hours a day and seven days a week. We will also become aware of the fact that this sense making machine has been programmed in large part by outside sources, forces and people. Not necessarily by you.

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Resources:

• What Happened To You: Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey https://amzn.to/42yEUh5
• Case Against Reality: Professor Donald Hoffman

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Show Notes:

BRAIN AWARENESS PERCEPTION:

Lets begin with a brief understanding of how our sense making machines (the brain) works and embrace what leading expert on childhood trauma Dr. Bruce Perry refers to as Brain Awareness Perception. Dr. Perry recently co-authored a fantastic book with Oprah Winfrey called What Happened to you. A book that unpacks unresolved childhood trauma and its impact on childhood development and thus, your programmed Sense Making Machine. Or perception of reality. The idea behind it is simple in principle yet complex in application. Perry speaks about the vast network of immeasurable functions occurring all at once in the human brain that manifest in your conscious mind as thoughts, feelings and an all around awareness of what you call reality. In fact, that brain of yours has the ability to process between 40-70,000 thoughts a day. Of course they don’t all get absorbed and manifest as the thoughts and feelings you actually perceive. Your sense making machine somehow selects a few of those thoughts and tethers to them in its creation of a baseline determination of what you call your reality. Good day, bad day. Happy, sad. Depressed vs confident. All subconsciously chosen by this all and powerful OZ that ironically sits comfortably in the only place in the human body that is completely protected by bone. Must be important eh?

YOUR VIRTUAL REALITY SUIT:

So as we move about our day, our brain is working with our 5 primary senses to perceive and process all we interface with. The end product is a highly effective description of what's going on. It helps us stay away from harm, move towards pleasure, and determine good from evil. All in conjunction with things like natural selection. Our eyes do the seeing. Our nose does the smelling. Ears do the listening. Mouth does the tasting. Skin does the touching etc.. I like to refer to the 5 receptacles as our Virtual Reality Suit. Named after the realization that these five senses operate the same way a pair of virtual reality glasses work. Almost like a VR Haptic Suit. In the VR world we recognize that the Goggles and Haptic suit are giving us an Artificially Generated virtual experience. Almost like a suggested experience that's just for the sake of experiencing.

So this sense making machine consists of your brain which we can call “Mission Control” and your 5 senses and receptacle aka your “Virtual Reality Suit”. It runs on auto pilot and is working its ass off as we speak and helping you make sense of this podcast episode. Does all of this make sense? 

WHERE THINGS GET STICKY?

Where things get sticky is when we notice a glitch or wrinkle in this sense making system. Sometimes we hit a wall where we can’t figure something out. It doesn’t make sense. When this happens, our sense making system moves from Defcon One to Defcon 2. It experiences the thoughts and feelings associated with confusion which are correlated with other feelings like frustration. 

Things get a little sticky when you become aware of this sense making process taking place and become conscious of two things.

1. Your Sense Making Machine is calling all the shots. It's not only interfacing, analyzing and creating perceptions. It's also making the decisions on how to react and respond to everything we interface with. Most often without you being aware of it all. So brain awareness perception was Dr. Bruce Perry’s way of explaining the act of becoming aware of this.

2. Your Sense Making Machine has been programmed by outside forces and not by you. From birth, as your vulnerable brain developed, all you received and consumed from your MFTPSE (Your Mother, Father, Teacher, Preacher, Society and Evolution) and developed what it considered its baseline reality. Or its base line encyclopedia of how the world makes sense. You learned what to do and not to do. You consumed religious, political and ethical beliefs systems. You picked up concepts about relationships, partying and a specific explanation of how to go through life and what it means to have a good life vs. bad. However, all of these concepts were those of your programmers and never your own. In fact, when you think you are making your own decisions, they are being influenced by this program as well.

In the grand scheme of things, this sticky wrinkle and the unpleasant feelings associated with it can actually become a blessing as they are the necessary obstacle we must take prior to reclaiming control of our sense making machine. 

It's only when we practice this present time consciousness around our sense making system and how it works, that we can learn to place a pause on it and voluntarily step into the space between that which we are interfacing with and perceiving. In other words the stimulus and our response to it, that we can have a fighting chance to create our own perception and response.

Have you ever considered this as you go about your day? Ask yourself questions like “Hmmm, I wonder where I got that idea?” or “Hmmm, I wonder why I think and feel that way?” 

If you have, then you can understand the first step of a system and strategy I developed called the IRS (Interface Response System). This system is a 4 part strategy to reclaim control of your sense making system and teach it over time to work for you rather than happen TO YOU. We’ll discuss in later episodes in more depth. Yet for the sake of this discussion regarding the acknowledgment of our Sense Making Machine, were considering the value of learning to take an extra step in our daily interfacing with reality to simply pause the knee jerk reflexive nature of our programmed sense making machine and allowing ourselves to challenge the stimulus with our own thoughts using things like logic and rational considerations. Rather than letting our programmed system call the shots. This is what it looks like to both get out of your own way and reclaim control of your reality as the dominant force and shot caller.

It's as simple as practicing the insertion of a specific sound that encompasses the pause of your programmed response and moves you into a space of curious contemplation. Where you have the opportunity to use logic and rationale evaluating the stimulus or event in reference to your desired state and goals in life. It sounds like this. “Hmmm?” It says, “ok, i see, i feel and i think, however, I am going to consider other things like, is this even about me? Does this matter? Is this useful and in support of what I want, need and must have? Just imagine how many times we get caught up in, distracted by and triggered by things that really don’t matter and have little or nothing to do with you or your goals and dreams. Lots of wasted time as a result of our unconscious program doing what it thinks it needs to do? 

The power of Hmmm? I was sitting in an airport, having a cocktail and multiple TV’s were on. A woman sitting next to me, a few drinks ahead of me if you know what i mean. Started ranting to me about the news cast taking place on the TV in front of us. It was a story about the current president at that time. Donald Trump. FYI, I don’t watch the news. She spent approximately 15 minutes telling me how unhappy she was with him as the President, and shared very explicative words describing her hatred and frustration with him as a human. After 15 minutes of her talking to me, she decides to finally take a breather and ask for my opinion. My only answers to her all the while were “Hmmm?” Simply observing her behavior and obvious passion for the topic, while not caring in the least about the topic as it had nothing to do with me, was out of my control and in no way shape or form was connected to my goals or the things that mattered most to me that day. She said “Right?” I replied “Hmmm?” with a tone that implied confusion in the question. She said “Him?” and pointed to the TV. I replied “What about him?” She said he’s an asshole right?” I replied, “Oh, I don’t know, I've never met him.” She got up and left.

There's a famous saying that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change. I believe I first heard this from the late great Wayne Dyer. What we are talking about, is the first step to actually executing on this powerful concept. The first step in changing the way we look at things is recognizing that there is a pre-programmed sense making machine that controls how we look at things. Once you recognize the potential danger connected to allowing that program, which was uploaded to your operating system by others that may have very well not known what was best for you. It makes a ton of sense to place a pause on that knee jerk perception and reaction system and have a look at things in a more logical and rational fashion. This being the first step in the IRS (Interface Response System) - A 4 step process and strategy I created to help people better make sense of the things they interface with, thus helping you change the way you look at things so the things you look at can actually begin to change and do so in a way that better suits your wants and needs in life.

So there you have it. You are now armed and equipped with the first tool in your belt as we claim more control of your sense making machine. Brain Awareness Perception. By understanding that what you see is in fact what you get. However, what you see is what you’ve been programmed and conditioned to see. We're going to learn how to control what we see and re-configure and bend our reality to better suit our needs.

THE TROUBLE WITH UNDERSTANDING: Fascinating look at the arduous task at trying to understand another human and the way they are thinking, feeling and reacting, without knowing what it is like to think, feel and act like them? Available on both Apple and Spotify

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Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. 

Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of GROWTH - To seek or not to seek? That is the question. The intention of this episode is to arm and equip you with the basic understanding of the challenges we face as humans to grow and acquire our goals and dreams. We will also provide easy to follow action steps and strategies to begin leveraging a better life experience for you and those you love.

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SHOW NOTES:

A great next discussion and next step after last week’s episode on brain awareness perception and learning about our amazing sense making machines. Why is this topic relevant as a logical next step? Well, once we awaken to how our sense making machine works and begin to identify the things that hold us back? We can decide at any time that we will begin the process of reclaiming control as the shot callers in our lives? There is a crucial next step. This being making a quality decision to go after something, no matter what? 

No matter what? Why is this important? To characterize and label your decisions to do something or go somewhere no matter what? Because it's not an easy thing to take a made up mind and request it move in a different way. I like to use an analogy of an oil tanker. An oil tanker ship weighs somewhere between 80,000 and 120,000 deadweight tons and steam ahead at a clip of about 20-25 mph. Imagine what it would take to turn that sucker around in the other direction? It would take some time, no? Lets just say that would be an easy and doable task compared to that of turning the oil tanker in your cranial vault. Why? Well imagine if you go to the captain of the ship and make a request to change course and he says “No!” and further explains that the course he has selected is the course that he has taken successfully for the past 30 years. It is the safest and most effective course and he refuses to allow anything else. Now you have another step before you even begin the process of the course correction. You now have to somehow convince the captain to even consider the change against his will. He's very dedicated to his job and takes pride in his 30 year record of getting his ship there on time. Who is the captain in your mind? Your ego, and it has every intention of staying the course. Your ego is not your enemy. It’s your employee and it is extremely dedicated to you and what you’ve taught it to do over all these years. Not to mention the fact that you have also taught your ego to not listen to you when you come up with a new idea that contradicts one of the core principles it has been trained to protect. So when you do make a request for change, your ego knows you are just kidding. Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids. Remember that commercial where the rabbit tries to cross the word Kids out on the Trix cereal box and replace it with Rabbit? The kids represent your ego and laugh at the rabbit saying. Silly Rabbit, trix are for kids.

Let's talk about this for a bit. What does it mean to make a decision to move in a different direction? Well for one thing it involves risk. What’s the risk? When we set our eyes on something we desire that sits in a new place, different from our day to day schedule or regularly scheduled program, it comes with the risk that we may be making the wrong decision. Or that we might fail? Or perhaps that we might succeed and not be able to handle it? However, due to the fact that as humans, we possess one quality that makes us unique amongst most other life forms. As a species, we have been both blessed and cursed with the fact that we know we are gonna die. This brings up a whole different discussion that we will unpack and make sense of in episode six of this podcast where we discuss death and dying. It is actually a fun concept to have and will help you resolve a lot of concepts most people have and allow them to get on with living rather than worry about dying. However, for the case of this episode, because we know we have a limited and unknown resource of time here, it makes the decision to take risks, well lets say risky. But then we somehow shift. We all have the potential to flip the script and reframe any narrative to validate taking that risk. Why is this important? To learn how to move into a place where you are up for the challenge if taking risks? Well first. Risk, discomfort and inconveniently hard work is required for growth. If that's what you seek. Second, there is potentially an even greater risk on the other side of this risk we are contemplating. That being the decision to not take risks. What's the risk of not pushing forward into the sucky nature of the uncomfortable unknown? It carries a 100% percent guarantee of “no growth”. Without risk, without facing fears, accepting challenges and doing hard things, there is no growth. 

As I always say, “isn’t it mysterious how the universe and god have placed everything we desire in life, inconveniently on the other side of a big pile of shit? So what does this mean? It means we must become shit navigators if we want to grow and win. We must learn to move through it, under it, over it or around it. In fact we must often come to realize the shit isn’t even real and only a figment of imagination and mirage that was created by our programmed minds. I contend that there is a version of you that not only has the ability to navigate through the suck, but one that has no second thought to it and one that almost enjoys it because you are connected more so with what's on the other side of the challenge rather than focused on the challenge.This is an important awakening and power move to make before we go any further in this series. Important because we are gonna discuss some wonderful breakthroughs that can place you in the fast lane towards your dream life. But they will require action beyond the breakthrough. To move from the jacuzzi experience of learning and acknowledging the breakthrough to that pivotal experience where you actually take action. Remember this. Learning is nothing more than a distraction, in the absence of action. Wanna know the secret? The secret to making these hard decisions and taking radical action and accepting the risk with no second guessing or doubt and no quit and 100% follow through?

Let’s shift our consciousness. I call this example THE AIR

Come with me for a few minutes here. Lets envision that you and I were in a pool and all of a sudden i take your head and push it under water. Feeling that I mean business, at that moment, what is your goal and greatest desire? AIR. To breathe right? So you make an attempt to wiggle free but then realize that i am really strong and you can’t break free? Does your urgency for the air get bigger or smaller? Bigger right? What are you now willing to do to break free and get that AIR? Anything and everything at the risk of dying. In this scenario, did you even for a second think about the risks associated with trying hard? Or did you second guess yourself and ponder whether this was the right time, or whether you were the right person for the job? Did you have any concerns that you would waste your time trying and contemplate just rolling over and dying? NO! Why use this example? Because you just flipped a switch and reframed the narrative of the shit that sits in between you and everything you desire in life. Its not the challenge, the hard work or your motivation, self belief or timing that gets you there. It's what's on the other side that determines whether or not you will engage in the work and follow through.

So before we move on to the next episodes where we make sense of potential breakthroughs and strategies to become the dominant creator of your reality, I recommend you start getting to know what you actually want in life and why you want it. If it is as important to you as the AIR when your head is under water? Then you need no assistance in how to get it, only some concepts and tools to make it not easy but easier. Other wise, this podcast and the awesome stuff coming your way will just help you create the illusion that you are growing by simply knowing more stuff. One of my great mentors, Dan Bell always reminded me of the 11th commandment. Did you know there were 11 commandments? It reads like this. Thou shall not kid thyself. 

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Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. 

Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of THE JACUZZI EXPERIENCE-  How to Shift from the Jacuzzi experience to a pivotal experience where your 2024 dreams become your reality.  

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SHOW NOTES:

My intention in this episode is to help you flip that switch in your sense making machine so the unknown becomes known. This conversation is about breaking free from the comfortable Jacuzzi Experience and moving into that of a radical high leveraging pivotal experience where you win.

However this process is a partnership between the both of us. We’re gonna first need you to move that switch on the side of your head from write protection to write open. You know, that little switch on the side of an SD Card? When it is closed, the SD card is not open to any new information. When open, it becomes once again vulnerable to new information. We need to do something abnormal and EXTRAORDINARY here. Open ourselves to something new and this means open ourselves to the fact that what we refer to as normal or our comfort zone, may not be an accurate or efficient system? Make Sense? 

As we move along this journey together, it becomes increasingly important to establish some language and ground rules so that we can be on the same page. Why is this important? It is my greatest desire that you do not just learn some more bitchin breakthrough concepts, get all hopped up on motivation and belief and the idea of shifting into action and then do nothing about it. See, I have let go of the need to be right and I no longer get off on the validation that my concepts and lessons are cool. In fact, I don’t care much about how you get to your dream life and whether or not I assist you. I only care about results. I am also not concerned with the pace in which you move. That is based on your willingness to be open and curious about changing your old ways and the urgency you have to make them now. There is a gas pedal at your feet that will accelerate your speed and velocity towards your dream life. But it requires you to push your foot down on it. If for whatever reason you are either not ready to push that pedal, or fear crashing, or not being able to handle the speed? The value and urgency you place on the destination is what will make you push it anyway. No matter what. So that's on you. Make Sense? 

My job is to show you the pedal and offer you the opportunity to remove some of the made up excuses you’ve been using not to push it and keep the pedal to the medal. But remember, that's not your fault and if you still pull out those excuses? I get it. It's that program running inside your head that is controlling your sense making machine. But it aint gonna get you there so consider your options here.

Let's talk about some common concepts that come with that programming you have received. If you are like most people today, chances are, you experience what I refer to as the “program prompted” Illusion that things like motivation, self belief and timing are prerequisite and precursors to following through? Sound familiar?

I contend that concepts that tell us that things like belief in self, motivation and timing are nothing more than a contingency plan or escape route that is put in place to prevent us from things like failure and overwhelm. If you think about it. When we say we don’t believe in ourselves, or lack motivation or deem that this is the wrong time to run at our goals? We are validating and justifying our decision to retreat from the responsibilities associated with forward progress. This is why I call them a contingency or back up plan. Perhaps an escape route?

Do you have these concepts written in your programming? Do you find yourself saying that you will wait for a certain date to begin going after a certain goal? Perhaps January 1st? Or after things settle down? Maybe you excuse yourself from the work involved in reaching your goals by saying there is just too much going on right now? Or perhaps you shame yourself and claim you are just not cut out for the job or maybe even place the blame on another. Saying “I would totally do it but I have too many responsibilities with my mom or kids right now.” I will go after this once those things settle down. There are many powerful factors at work in the science of your belief system and it goes way further than you think. In fact right now, you may very well be taking a stand and protecting your particular scenario, justifying it as a unique situation that truly does hold you back. Excuses are incredibly powerful especially when you believe them to be valid with every fiber of your being.

I am not here to challenge you and your excuses. Truth is. If you are tethered to them and made up your mind that they are valid? Nothing else will change that made up mind. My intention is only to show you something. Unveil something you might have overlooked. That program is running the very sense making system that was used to make these decisions on what is good and what is bad. Or what is right vs wrong. What you can do vs can’t? It's giving you these perceptions of these rules of engagement in your goals and dreams. And that program was passed onto you by others. We’ve referenced them in an earlier episode. Let's call them your programmers. Your MFTPSE (Mother, Father, Teacher, Preacher, Sciety, and Evolution) We will dive deeper into this in the next episode when we discuss THE PROGRAM. 

For now, with regards to your current reality and belief system around things like willpower and motivation and the roles they play in your life. I offer you a different look at them. To simply ask yourself where they came from? When you look at something you desire and what is required to obtain it? Then begin to second guess or contemplate whether you should or could go after it? Simply become open and curious to the fact that the belief system that is generating those questions and contemplations have been passed onto you by others. If you can see this, I congratulate you and you can be very excited about the vast potential awaiting you in the future. 

Remember the oil tanker though. These beliefs about  motivation and willpower, as well as many others are wired into your makes sense machine and not easily persuaded to change. It takes time. 

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Here are a few simple practices to begin the process of reclaiming control of your goals, dreams and reality. These practices are not effective by simply knowing them and feeling you understand and agree with them. They must be practiced until they begin to show signs of opening up new alternate beliefs that unveil different possibilities and outcomes of your future potential. 

1. Just say Hmmm?: When you find yourself contemplating yourself in evaluation of your willpower or motivation, just say Hmmm? Not to the thing you are evaluating, but to the very act of generating those concepts of your motivation and belief. Remember the idea of Brain Awareness Perception.

2. Focus on your North Star: Very often when we feel “stuck” and begin contemplating our willpower, motivation and, our belief in ourselves, it's a side effect and symptom of forgetting where you were going and why? When you feel lost and confused, simply look up at the North Star and find your way back home to your goals and dreams. 

3. Practice Patience: A few words missing from most people’s 2024 goal sheet are patience , agility, awareness. Again, a side effect of our programmed mind are things like entitlement, impatience and frustration. They easily trigger a contingency plan to abort and move in a different direction. Once the contingency plan is set forth, our program begins to validate the decision to abort with the excuses that demonstrate the concepts of things like self belief, motivation and willpower being precursors to our following through. Saying Hmmm, and pausing your programmed mind will help you practice patience. 

Remember. Truly doing the work can be exhausting at first. Not to mention frustrating as there are not too many wins associated with it at first. Making Sense of these distinctions can easily be washed away by your programmed mind and sense making machine as a waste of time if you are not ready. Perhaps showing up as you are telling yourself something like. “Ah, fuck this. We only live once and I don't want to spend my time struggling to move this mountain ahead of me. I want to enjoy my life etc..” My response to you would be “Hmmm?” 

If that is going on in your mind right now or later, it's normal and you can feel better knowing that most people will do the same. But right after you feel better because you’re not the only one. Ask yourself why only a few individuals sit at the top of the mountain at the table of success, fulfillment and happiness? Then look at your statement of “Ah, fuck this” and see why that is?

It’s a game I call “DRIFTING and SHIFTING”. Drifting refers to the act of unconsciously falling back into your regularly scheduled program. The one that isn’t advancing you towards your desired state. Remember, it’s not your fault. You are wired to do this. But if you can learn to simply place a pause on that idea of not following through and retreating to the comfortable place called “known”. By inserting a “Hmmm?” and allow yourself to look at the idea you have from a place of logic and rationale? You’ll catch yourself DRIFTING again. See, Drifting is not the problem. Drifting off-course is a normal human behavior. Life gets sticky when you are unconsciously drifting. So catching yourself drifting is where the win is. As it becomes the fertile ground to you SHIFTING. Not only shifting back on course, but shifting into a more conscious version of yourself, that can remember things like the lesson you just heard on Motivation, Self Belief and Timing, and how they are not factors in your success. 

It takes what I call PRACTION. A state of practicing being in action. See, you won’t be good at this at first. You may find yourself drifting more than shifting. But keep at it. It never gets easy. But it does get easiER.

Be well my friends. And remember. If you learned something today? Give it away. That’s the only way it will stay. We hope that you will consider paying forward this podcast to your contact sphere. Strike up conversations with them about the topics and you’ll find that its when we teach that we learn twice. 

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The basic premise of Minimizing or being Minimalistic is the practice of shedding or getting rid of the things that are of no use to you and do not apply when looking at your goals and dreams. This episode can be found on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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Moving right along. Welcome to  STEP TWO of the 4 step Interface Response System called PAUSE. This powerful tool teaches us how to place our often problematic, knee jerk perception and response on a temporary pause in order to allow ourselves to step into the space between tthe stimulus and our response, to evaluate the situation with an untainted, open and clear mind. Welcome to the eye of the storm. 

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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:15) Recap of Step One Brain Awareness Perception
(00:8:45) Its you that has the idea to change your program, not your subconscious mind.
(00:10:25) Cognitive Dissonance, Cognitive Bias, Cognitive Distancing
(00:13:36) Sponsor - Makes Sense Academy
(00:15:00) The Illusion Of Agency and Paul Conti
(00:14:40) The Space Between the Stimulus and Response - Viktor Frankl
(00:15:46) The Eye of the Storm
(00:19:08) The Disentanglement of Consciousness
(00:23:22) HMMM? 

In this episode of RISE UP WITH DRAGON, we have a very special interview with a man that is impacting the world and teaching us all a Time tested system to LEARN. Imagine if you could learn how to read faster, retain and remember things at a much higher level. Essentially become #LIMITLESS with the amazing Jim Kwik!

Jim is an old friend who has risen up to become a New York Times best selling author and the BRAIN 🧠 COACH of some of the most influential people of the world. This is part 2 of another conversation we had and it’s sure to be powerful. 

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The Stoic Diet: How Ancient Philosophy Can Help You Achieve Lasting Health in 2025. Master self-discipline, overcome emotional eating, and reclaim your health using Stoic principles.

Discover how Stoic philosophy can revolutionize your approach to dieting and health. Learn self-discipline, voluntary discomfort, and practical steps to achieve your goals in 2025.

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast: This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works and that perception is a subjective and an acquired taste. If it's true that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Consider this podcast your daily dose of a new perspective around some of the things you had already made up your mind about. 

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Show Highlights

0:00 - Intro
2:28 - The Stoic Diet
6:53 - Anyone can learn to follow through
7:23 - It’s not your fault
8:37 - Nobody is special in that can’t win
9:31 - Society has taught us we can’t get healthy on our own
11:15 - Where do the statistics of disease come from?
13:42 - Top Ten Steps to build Self Discipline
31:17 - Practical Action Steps

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest Karen Conti. In this episode we will be Making Sense of The Death Penalty as well as the idea of defending someone that the world perceives as a monster?  Our guest is none other than Karen Conti, defense attorney for John Wayne Gacy and author of the best selling book, “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy.. 

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Highlights:

19:20 - Gacy had co-conspirators that went free?
27:01 - Does anyone deserve the death penalty?
30:46 - Why did Gacy do what he did?
34:08 - Did you build a relationship with him?
36:43 - What were his final words before his death?
40:59 - What happened to your name and career in the aftermath?

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Have you ever heard of Post Traumatic Success? How did we come to a place where there is such a powerful stigma attached to mental health and men? In this episode we Make Sense of Men's Mental Health and the Post Traumatic Stress associated with being in the line of fire as a Police Officer. Join guest Kevin Donaldson, Co Author of number one best selling true crime book Man You’re Crazy for a story of moving from messed up to blessed that will blow your mind. This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify.

Surviving post traumatic stress and multiple suicide attempts, Kevin P. Donaldson found resiliency in the embrace of his trauma. Retiring from the police department in New Jersey in 2014 after being involved in a shooting during a domestic incident, Kevin struggled to find peace inside his own chaotic mind dealing with feelings that were foreign and new while fighting through the difficulties that life threw his way. Kevin now Chronicles his struggles by speaking out and destigmatizing mental health to find resiliency in facing suffering head-on by showing that there is a way to find your smile once again.   Find Kevin's work and dedication to face the truth as the host of The Suffering Podcast.

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Podcast Episode Highlights

4:30 - How society poses judgment on Police Officers

7:51 - A tough childhood - To have and to have not?

16:53 - The rare opportunity to reinvent yourself

23:47 - Are most police officers ex knuckleheads from their childhood?

31:13 - How did you become a cop?

35:33 - A plane just hit the world trade center!

46:55 - The Day that changed everything - July 10th 2013

57:33 - PTS - POST TRAUMATIC STRESS

1:08:44 - Nowhere to turn. Considering suicide

1:22:03 - Radical Forgiveness and Gratitude

In this episode of RISE UP WITH DRAGON, we have a very special interview in my opinion one of the most intelligent and intreaguing speakers and educators of our time. Professor Donald Hoffman, Author of A Case Against Reality and cognitive psychologist at UC Irvine. In this episode, Dragon and Donald dive deep into the case against reality, what our purpose iss as humans, if any. As well as some thought provoking conversations regarding how evolution and natural selection in no way has positioned us to be capable of perceiving reality in its true form.

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06:19 - Has Natural Selection enabled humans to objectively see reality as it truly is?

07:11 - The Red Pill - Space, Time and Matter are not the way to describe reality

09:52 - Why would it be advantageous for Natural Selection to hide the truth from us?

12:30 - What are Fitness points and how do they correlate with natural selection 

15:33 - How do you explain obesity?

19:30 - Is our species trying to kill itself?

25:30 - Is what we see what is or just what we see?

29:58 - Object Permanence

36:47 - Are science and mathematics valid methods to validate reality?

41:53 - Where does consciousness live?

44:19 - What happens when we die?

48:04 - What is our purpose on this planet?

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What is your current reality, stance, and past experience with Pornography? No matter what it is, Pornography is here and is having a massive impact on humanity. Dragon is stepping into this controversial and sensitive realm with special guest and author of FIGHT THE BEAST, Heather Nielsen. Heather works passionately in Porn Addiction Recovery and has a powerful and solution-focused message to share with us. This episode is now available on both Apple and Spotify 

Watch Interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/T9PXlvHf4MQ

This episode os from 2022 and considered to be ONE FROM THE VAULT of the previous RISE UP WITH DRAGON Podcast.

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Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. 

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Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of a process i call SORTING - A technique from step three (Assess) of the Interface Response System that assists us in making better Decisions that are in support of the life you desire

Let’s consciously take this moment and begin the process of reclaiming control of our reality. How do we reclaim control of our reality and life? We must first identify what it means and feel like it is out of control? How does the feeling of being out of control show up in your life? For me, it shows up in many ways. When I participate with my thoughts and feelings of worry and concern for example. I can find myself either overeating or easily agitated and irritated by people. Even loved ones. I find it hard for me to multitask and stay on track with the things I had planned to do that day. Sometimes I find my confidence is down as well as my general outlook on life. In fact I have created a general name for all these symptoms and feelings associated with me being out of control. I call it FUNKY TOWN. Where I find myself in a FUNK. Have you been there? Only challenge is that while I am feeling these downstream symptoms I am unaware or unconscious that I am out of control.  I just feel crappy in general. Yet I am unaware that I am trying to control the uncontrollables in my life. See, that is my definition of being out of control. Being out of the state of controlling the things we control and in the state of trying to build an airplane in the sky or teach a goldfish to climb a tree. Both are impossible. Just like you trying to control the uncontrollables in your life and feeling, OUT OF CONTROL.

One of my favorite quotes came from the amazing Ekhart Tolle, author of one of my top favorite reads, The Power of Now. Tolle speaks a lot about suffering and says that the first step to end suffering is the acknowledgment that you are in fact suffering. This is why I introduced the concept of first being able to make the distinction that you are in fact out of control and that your lack of control is showing up in your ineffectiveness at responding to adversity with grace. As we discussed in the last episode. Why is this important? Well, it would be the reason and catalist for you wanting to make some changes in your life. Specifically in taking control of what you decide to do with your time, as well as who and what gets into your schedule and mind and who and what does not? 

So let's start with unveiling why we’d want to learn how to sort through the things that matter vs don’t? It begins with your current reality and what your perception is about your life. Are you genuinely happy with your life? How would you go about determining if you were genuinely happy?

Paul Conti interview on Huberman Lab. When asked how we define a “Healthy Self”? What is the healthy version of self? What should we all be aspiring to? Paul Conti replied that a healthy self presents its life through the lens of agency and gratitude. He explains that if a human has those two things, Agency and Gratitude, you almost never see things go wrong. 

Agency refers to an individual's capacity to make choices, set goals, and take intentional actions to influence their life circumstances.

Gratitude: involves recognizing and appreciating the positive aspects of life, acknowledging the goodness in oneself and others, and expressing thankfulness.

So, if someone is genuinely happy with themselves, they are someone that is experiencing agency and gratitude  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLRCS48Ens4)

My question to Paul Conti should I ever be graced with his presence on the show would be this. Can a human being create and self fabricate the illusion that they are in a state of agency and gratitude through the practices of mindfulness and repetition of things like daily affirmations and controlling what they consume from the world each day? And, is that the same as the genuine agency and gratitude that I am hearing you speak of? In other words, can we decide any day to practice and manifest agency and gratitude even in the absence of things like basic physical, mental and financial well being due to a lack of motivation and consistency in our daily lives? Can we fabricate it and make it up?

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Why am I fascinated by this idea of possessing the ability to look at life through the lens of Agency and Gratitude? Because it is the foundation for why someone would take their lives serious enough to consider practicing some of the various effective tools we discuss on this podcast that are intended to pause our potentially inefficient response system, and take measures to learn how to protect the doorway to our minds with things like consumption control and the practice of sorting. In other words, if you don’t know your power and abilities and don’t have a deep appreciation for how amazing and precious life is? You won’t be motivated to protect it and will do what most do. Go with the flow.

Definition: Sorting is the process of arranging things systematically into groups; separating things according to type, class, etc. "the mail was sorted" 

In the context of phase three of the Interface Response System, ASSESS. Sorting carries the same definition yet has a different intention outside of just getting things organized. The practice of sorting is analogous to that of a filter. Taking things we interface with (events, people, thoughts, feelings etc.) and sorting them out to determine which ones go and which ones stay. Similar to the traditional elements of sorting, in this filter we must learn how to assess the events;

• Prioritization and importance: Does it matter

• Goal Alignment: In accordance with our goals and dreams.

• Categorization: Where does it fit in or does it not?

• Control Factor: Do we have any control over the situation or not?

THE BOUNCER:

The best way to put some color to the practice of sorting is analogy of the BOUNCER - The basic premise of a bouncer's job in a bar or nightclub is quality control. If working the front door, the bouncer checks ID’s and uses a guest list to control who gets in and who doesn’t. If walking around the inside of the facility, the bouncers job is to make sure everyone that got inside is playing nice and adding to the quality of the environment for all to enjoy themselves. If all is looking kosher, its nothing but smiles. If someone or something is out of alignment the bouncer reserves the right to remove them from the premises with force if necessary. 

In terms of you being the bouncer in your life it means that your mind, mental health and sense making machine represents the nightclub. Your voluntary conscious mind is the filter or bouncer that is there to sort things out. Determine who and what’s on the invited guest list or not. Your negative thoughts, fears, worries, and concerns that are holding you back? They are the guests in your nightclub that are no longer welcome and must be escorted from the premises. 

The skill set of the bouncer goes beyond just sorting. A good bouncer doesn’t take things personally when guests argue and complain or resist being removed. A good bouncer separates themselves from getting emotionally attached to these interactions and just does their job based on using logic and rationale in connection with the desire to have a homeostatic, safe and efficient environment.

They assess the situation by asking three basic questions that require checks across the board. Get one no to one of the three questions? No entry and removal from the premises.

1. Does this matter and is this about me or them?

2. Is this in support of the direction I am moving?

3. Is this in my control or not?

By asking these three questions, you are passing all things you interface with through your sorting filter. Helping you determine what gets in and stays, vs. what doesn’t get it and must go. 

Might you need to hire a bouncer to start checking ID’s, and walk through your nightclub to remove unwanted guests?

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This is one from the vault from the previous Rise Up With Dragon podcast that unpacks and Makes Sense of the inherent Value in Mortality? Dragon provides us with a shift in perspective here where we look at mortality as a blessing and great gift that gives is the very reason we have to get up and go. This episode is available on both Spotify and Apple platforms.

I am very excited to present to you STEP ONE of the 4 step Interface Response System called PERCEPTION. This crucial step unveils the very reason we’d validate working on our perception and responses in acknowledging the vast capabilities your brain possesses to run the show as the sense maker and decision maker without any help from you. 

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Huberman Lab Interview With Paul Conti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLRCS48Ens4
PBS Special - Your Brain, Who is in control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6VOOd73MA 

Timestamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:04:02) Intro to the IRS (Interface Response System)
(00:6:50) If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
(00:7:49) Brain Awareness Perception?
(00:10:18) Sponsor - Makes Sense Academy
(00:15:00) The Illusion Of Agency and Paul Conti
(00:42:18) Mazarin Banaji - How much Control over Agency do we have
(00:16:07) Uri Maoz - The perception of agency
(00:18:23) Icahn School of Medicine Sleep Center at Mount Sinai, Emmanuel During

The Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast is your opportunity to wake up from your slumber and reclaim control as the dominant conscious force in your life.

Today's episode Makes Sense of visual learning. This episode is available on both Apple and Spotify Platforms.

Are you like me and enjoy and gain value from the visual component of learning? Perhaps from a White Board Instruction or any visual aids to help the information sink in?

Our Guest, Doug Neill is the owner and creator of Verbal To Visual. Doug Neill helps people make sense of the world by making marks on the page. After training to become a high school teacher he got pulled into the world of visual thinking and in 2014 he founded Verbal to Visual where he teaches people how to sketch out simple drawings and diagrams as a learning, problem-solving, and storytelling tool.

Doug loves to spread the word about the power of visual thinking through hand-sketched videos, online courses, and live workshops and talks. His favorite way to put these skills to use himself is by creating visual summaries of interesting books.

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IG: @dougneill

MENTIONED RESOURCES: 

• DIGITAL MINIMALISM VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJdZ7kmA2QQ

• Doodlers Unite - Sunni Brown Ted Talk https://ed.ted.com/lessons/doodlers-unite-sunni-brown

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Episode Highlights

0:00 - Intro
5:22 - How did you get started with verbal to visual learning?
11:12 - Does the School System need to make learning more visual?
12:37 - What’s the science that backs the value of visual learning and Dual Coding
22:04 - How does one learn how to learn how to interpret verbal to visual?
28:36 - What would that idea or book look like?
29:29 - How do you video yourself doodling?
41:14 - How would you draw and explain the idea of Making Sense?

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Makes Sense Mondays Youtube Episode: Podcast Interview with Dr. Steven G: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... 

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Have you ever been curious to know more about what goes on at these plant medicine retreats. What is Ayahuasca, Psilicybin, San Pedro, Peyote and the infmaous Bufo Frog? Is it safe, is it for you? How would i go about figuring out where to go and which one is right for me? Do i need Plant Medicine in my life? Welcome to one of my absolute favorite discussions with my good friend Billy Venkatraman as we look to Make Sense of Plant Medicine Retreats. This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify.

About Billy Venkatraman: Born in India and raised in England, Billy has embarked on a remarkable journey thus far, driven by his vision of creating positive change in the world through love.

With over a decade of experience working with various plant medicines and spiritual practices, Billy has gained profound insights into their healing potential. He now shares this wealth of knowledge to facilitate transformation and experience for others.

Billy’s exploration spans a diverse range of plant and natural medicines, including Ayahuasca, Peyote, San Pedro, Mushrooms, and Bufo. He passionately believes in their power to heal, transform, and reconnect individuals with their authentic selves. His dedication to spirituality and natural healing extends to practices such as Yoga, Vipassana, and breathwork, demonstrating his commitment to holistic healing and spiritual practice.

Beyond Billy’s love for spirituality, and plant medicine, he is a qualified Life Coach and holds diplomas in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (C.B.T) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (N.L.P).

Before founding I AM TRIBE, Billy served as a Facilitator and Coordinator at Arkana spiritual center, one of the world’s largest and most esteemed plant medicine centers. This experience allowed him to forge profound connections with shamans and medicine people from diverse traditions around the world, many of whom he now considers friends, and integral members of his spiritual tribe.

In alignment with his role in creating I AM TRIBE, Billy aspires to be an author, proving his dedication to sharing wisdom, and values his role as a devoted son, partner, and a friend, cherishing the relationships that enrich his life.

Billy’s journey embodies the essence of love and the pursuit of positive impact in our world. He is now honored to share these insights and experience through I AM TRIBE, where love, experience, and transformation take center stage.

Contact Billy V:
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Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy

Episode Highlights:

3:16 - How did you find your way to Plant Medicine?

16:31 - Talking to plants?

22:19 - How does Plant Medicine Work?

27:37 - Does Plant Medicine expand your experience?

29:32 - About Purging?

30:48 - Sponsor Break - Makes Sense Academy

32:37 - Augmented Reality

36:53 - Who is Plant Medicine For?

40:39 - How do I find the right retreat to go to?

52:14 - Experience vs learning?

53:56 - Do we need the medicine?

Are you feeling the curious calling to learn more about or experience working with plant medicine? Have you been researching Psilocybin or Ayahuasca and wondering what they are and if they are right for you?

DISCLAIMER: I in no way shape or form make any recommendations that anyone work with plant medicine. My purpose on this show is to remove the blindfolds from the programmed mind and provide access to facts and alternative methods of thinking outside the box we live in. This is a very popular topic these days and one mostly misunderstood. I can assure you, it’s not what you think.

MY EXPERIENCE: I’ve just returned from the Amazon Jungle in Peru and experienced the most powerful transformation of my life. I’m excited to have the owner and chief Dharma officer Jose Saenz as my guest on the Rise Up with Dragon Podcast on Wednesday, December 14th to unveil the facts of what Ayahuasca is in its purest form and help assist people to better understand the value in plant medicine and determine if it’s a good fit for you. This will be one for the vault.

Watch It On Yourtube: https://youtu.be/a6kCR1VlIGY 

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Contact Jose :

Arkana Spiritual Center: www.arkanaspiritualcenter.com

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06:18 - How do you know its the right time to try ayahuasca?

09:28 - What is plant medicine?

17:12 - How does Ayahuasca work? WHat happens when I consume it?

21:22 - What can I expect at the retreat?

25:22 - What is the role of the Shaman?

27:49 - What can ayahuasca do for various traumas and disorders?

31:43 - Is it safe for women to travel to the Amazon?

33:59 - What if i am taking antidepressants or similar meds?

38:03 - Whats it like to be on Ayahuasca and Sapo

46:24 - How do you choose the right facility? Why Arkana?

48:04 - What is the future for Plant Medicine?

#RISEUPWITHDRAGON #PERSONALGROWTH #SELFDISCOVERY

Absolutely in love with Thanksgiving for so many reasons. Especially because it has the words THANKS and GIVING in it. In this unique episode, Dr. JC Doornick brings to light a concept and life practice called UNTAMED GRATITUDE where we will place our focus and energy where it needs to be. In present time gratitude.

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast: This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works and that perception is a subjective and an acquired taste. If it's true that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Consider this podcast your daily dose of a new perspective around some of the things you had already made up your mind about. 

Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast

The Makes Sense Podcast is sponsored and supported by the Makes Sense Academy and Makes Sense Business Academy. A private, psychological safe haven where you can stop GOING through life and start GROWING through life. MSA uses a unique low cost, group coaching model, where you gain access to the coaching, mentorship and tools for your growth while participating as a key element of what has become an incubator for growth. Check out the Makes Sense Academy, risk free with a money back guarantee, for $48 / month before it goes up to $97 a month in January. 

This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify

 
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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where i get all these topics for almost 15 years? I have learned to read at almost 4 times faster with 10X retention from Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon 

 
OUR SPONSORS:
- Makes Sense Academy: Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about
- The Sati Experience: A retreat designed for the married couple that truly loves one another yet wants to take their love to that higher magical level where. Come relax, reestablish and renew your love at the Sati Experience. https://www.satiexperience.com
Contact Dr. JC
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AM I AI (Artificial Intelligence) - Interesting look at the idea that we as humans think that AI is a goal of ours as if we were some sort of baseline level of intelligence. Join the Dragin and entertain the idea that we might be AI creating AI that will do what one day? Yes, create AI. This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify

Contact Dr. JC
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Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. 

Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of ADVERSITY Handling Adversity with grace and how to become that version of yourself that is impeccable to your word and follows through with your commitments. No matter what.

CONNECT WITH Dr. JC Doornick - https://zez.am/makessense 

SHOW RESOURCES and REFERENCES:

• Joe Rogan Podcast with David Sinclair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwd-D94pzE 
• A Man's Search For Meaning Book Victor Frankl - https://amzn.to/3SzrE7s 

SHOW NOTES:

My intention of this episode is to arm and equip you with a shift in perspective about your relationship with adversity. When I say adversity I am referring to your adversity not necessarily mine. This is a healthy place to begin this discussion as it uncovers the first step towards handling adversity. To recognize that adversity is both defined and in existence due to your own observation of it. Think that one through. Would adversity exist in the absence of you taking note of it? I mean, an event is just an event until you label it as adversity, yes? Why is this important? Well what if your sense making machine is faulty or glitched? And there is a high chance it is, due to your programming right? Remember that virtual reality suit, and your sense making machine is what you’re using to label these events. Its responsibility is perceiving and processing everything? Is it safe to acknowledge that adversity only exists due to our perception and labeling of it?

See, handling adversity is not just learning how to cope with it and move through or past it..Those can be valuable skills to adopt yet until you understand where adversity comes from and what it represents FOR YOU rather than TO YOU, you will always be fighting an endless war. Lets learn what adversity is, where it comes from and how it both harms and helps you.

First, I want to share an interesting distinction that might help.I was listening to an episode of the Joe Rogan podcast with guest David Sinclair, a 53 year-old Harvard Biologist who claims to possess a biological age that is a decade younger as a result of practicing a plant based intermittent fasting regiment. Although I am fascinated with the concept of fasting, I heard him make mention of an observation that motivated me to create this episode on Making Sense of adversity. When Rogan asked him how he justifies eating a 2,000 calorie meal once a day for dinner then fasting for 24 hours after as being more beneficial than spreading that 2,000 calories out over small 50 calorie meals, Sinclair had this response

“Because going back 6 million years, our bodies were designed or evolved to respond to adversity. And we’ve removed that from our lives because it feels good. But we need adversity to be resilient and fight disease.”

Isn’t that fascinating? To embrace adversity as something we were not only designed to handle but something we actually require to thrive and be our best? Does that help? Yes, this means that without adversity, we are at a disadvantage.

I believe the challenge we face with adversity is in how we have been programmed to look at and define it. So if you are struggling with adversity, it's not your fault and there is hope.

The Webster Dictionary defines adversity as a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune showing courage in the face of adversity. 

This is where the struggle with adversity begins. Its very definition paints it as a difficulty or misfortune. In our society, we take our kids and lock them in a box called the classroom, handing their education over to institutions, teachers and textbooks generated by who? We just assume that this is the right thing for them. Why do we accept this? Because we, as parents, have our own lives and responsibilities to provide for the family. A roof over their heads, beds to sleep in, have a little fun here and there and then pay for those schools. At varying degrees of acceptance with this system, we are forced to trust this system and hope that it sets them up for success and does little harm to our kids. Meanwhile, their vulnerable and susceptible brains continue to develop and begin to hardwire all these lessons about science, mathematics, history, language and how to perceive and survive in life. When it comes to adversity, they learn to avoid it and if they have a teacher that goes the extra mile, learn how to persevere and grow through it. We refrain from doing too much investigation into all this as we haven’t got the time nor energy with all we have on our plates. So we trust the system, pull our cars up, drop them off for the day, then pick them up hoping it all went well.  Can you see why so many are turning to homeschooling these days? Call it a healthy decision or not. It is the only way you can maintain control of what your children are consuming and what they are exposed to so it makes sense to me why so many move to that model. My personal strategy at this time is to have my children attend school and make a point to sit and discuss what they learned and encourage them to challenge everything before they allow it to wire into their operating system and sense making machine. Yes parents, this means at the end of your long day, we can’t just pick them up, help them with homework and feed them. We must ask them questions and teach them to do the same.

Why is this stuff  important to recognize? We're talking about the idea of handling adversity with grace here. How can we begin to do that without understanding what we've been taught and hard wired to know about it? What we are talking about is program awareness perception. Simply becoming aware of our programming. How it was formed and how it impacts our sense making system. In this case, how it impacts our perception and response to adversity.

It reminds me of the vaccine controversy. When I was younger on break from Chiropractic school, I thought it would be cool to show up at a popular bulk food and household supply chain one day when they were offering free flu shots. Leaving my opinion out of this particular topic of discussion, my intention was to study the behavior of those in line and expose how powerful their programming was in prompting them to make decisions. I presented myself as a student doing his thesis on the topic of human behavior, with a specific interest in how we make decisions for our families during times of adversity. I presented this scenario to create space for those I would interview to want to share their opinions. I had an audio recording device and simply asked random people “what they were online for?” They said free flu shots. I then asked why THey said it's flu season. I asked when does that start and begin? THey said they weren't sure? Then I asked who was giving the flu shots. They said they weren't sure but assumed it was some sort of health professional? Then I asked, what is in a flu shot? They said they weren't sure.

Disclaimer. On this podcast we make a concerted effort not to share our opinions on topics like our school systems, politics, religion and vaccinations. When we interview guests or interact with listeners, we feel that everyone believes what they believe and we respect and honor that. My opinion is not relevant here. My intention is to simply help you become more conscious human beings and recognize where you got these ideas and why you came up with your opinions. They were for the most part taught to you. 

Where do we go in this discussion from here? Your perception of adversity is merely that. A perception. And your perception making machine has been programmed by your MFTPSE. If your desire is to learn how to handle adversity with grace? Your first step is that program awareness perception. To understand that your current perception of it is your best guess based on what you’ve learned about it.  In my four step Interface Response System, we learn to take note of our knee jerk programmed thoughts and feelings about what we see, then insert a spacer or pause on them knowing that they may be flawed and can produce an inefficient perception and response to the stimulus. Placing us in what I call the eye of the storm. A space in between the stimulus and our response to it, where we have the opportunity to look at it with a more conscious, rational and logical mind. Thus triggering a more effective and goal supportive response that helps us stay on track and follow through with our original plans to move forward. I have created an online course for the interface response system that can be found in our Makes Sense Academy, as well as dove deeper into it in my book, Makes Sense, solving the mystery of why shit happens.

A big moment of clarity and distinction came from a fantastic book and story i read. In his book, A Man’s Search for Meaning, Author Viktor Frankl shares a miraculous story of both resilience and perseverance through the trials and tribulations of being a prisoner in the Nazi Death Camps under the reign of Hitler. It's a must read yet its highlight that's relevant to this discussion is how he came to not only survive the traumatic event but find his way to forgive those that did him harm. His secret? He speaks about the “space between” the stimulus or adverse event and your response as being the secret to handling adversity with grace.

So in summary, handling adversity is only difficult due to your relationship and perception of it. If you find yourself struggling with adverse and hard times, there is a good chance it is due to your current operating system and sense making machine’s interpretation of it. Not necessarily it itself. By learning to implement the tools in my interface response system and embracing things like David Sinclairs insights on how adversity is not only necessary but the catalyst for evoking the best version of you, we can learn to stop surviving during times of adversity and start thriving. Happy hunting my friends. I hope you are blessed with tons of adversity today so you can be your best and kick some ass. 

Remember, if you learned something today, please, give it away. That is how its gonna stay. Consider sharing this podcast or our makes sense academy community and join the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Hope to see you in our community soon.  

Episode Description

Making Sense of the Carnivore Diet? Is the carnivore and animal based diet all sizzle and no steak? Join me as i interview Dr. Robert Kiltz to make sense of the carnivore diet. This episode is available on the Apple and Spotify Platforms

Dr. Kiltz is a Diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fellowship trained and Board Certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. A Graduate of the University of Southern California, he completed medical school at the University of California, Davis. 

A thought leader in the keto carnivore movement, Dr. Kiltz believes that an animal-based diet dramatically improves mental clarity, fertility, and health, empowering people to live their best lives. In addition to his own media channels, Dr. Kiltz appears regularly on numerous popular blogs and social media outlets, and has shared his views as a speaker at TEDx. Listen to this episode on both Apple and Spotify Platforms.

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Highlights:

0:00 - Intro
4:37 - Reproductive Endocrinology?
7:03 - Why are we all sick?
10:14 - A unique approach to fertility
14:30 - What's the difference between Keto and Carnivore?
15:52 - What is Ketosis
17:30 - Plants are not required in our diet?
19:01 - Are humans depleting the meat resources?
23:19 - Is science just a belief system?
25:04 - Who is the carnivore diet right for?
26:53 - What is the Carnivore Diet?
30:13 - Who should not do the carnivore diet? What about high cholesterol?
34:16 - Do people with high markers (Cholesterol, HDL, LDL) need medication?
37:46 - If you are struggling with your health?
41:32 - Are Vegetables and Carbs necessary at all?
46:06 - The Choice is yours
50:47 - Where should I get my meat?

DAILY FOCUS: PRACTION- It’s an old joke. A fellow goes to New York to attend a concert, but gets lost. He spots another fellow who’s carrying a violin case. “Sir, can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” The musician smiles and says, “Practice, practice, practice.” Where Action meets Consistent Practice.

How does Jim Kwik remember numbers and names? How does Jim Kwik read so fast? What is Jim Kwik's IQ? Can i learn to read faster and retain more information? Can i learn to remember numbers and names too?

The answer is yes and Jim Kwik himself shares all his secrets and much more in this episode. 

My good friend friend Jim Kwik has agreed to spend one hour with us and i have asked him to share his top tips, strategies and secrets to level up your brain power and step into greatness in 2025. This was a very special event and Jim has extended a very special Discount on his most powerful courses. Take Advantage of his generosisty before it disapears here:

Lowest Rate Anywhere for Jim Kwk's Memory Recall and Speed Reading Courses. www.jimkwik.com/dragon

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast: This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works and that perception is a subjective and an acquired taste. If it's true that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Consider this podcast your daily dose of a new perspective around some of the things you had already made up your mind about. 

Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast

The Makes Sense Podcast is sponsored and supported by the Makes Sense Academy and Makes Sense Business Academy. A private, psychological safe haven where you can stop GOING through life and start GROWING through life. MSA uses a unique low cost, group coaching model, where you gain access to the coaching, mentorship and tools for your growth while participating as a key element of what has become an incubator for growth. Check out the Makes Sense Academy, risk free with a money back guarantee, for $48 / month before it goes up to $97 a month in January. 

This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify

Welcome to MAKES SENSE MONDAYS with Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" where we makes sense of the things that make you go Hmmm? Start your week off the right way by reclaiming control of your Great Morning.
 
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Contact Dr. JC
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0:00 - Intro
5:26 - Whole Brain Note Taking?
7:08 - Brain Injury Accident at 5 yrs old.
8:59 - If you fight for your limitations you get to keep them
11:47 - It's not how smart you are, it's how are you smart?
13:38 - How does one's IQ play into their ability to learn?
15:04 - Life is the letter C between the letters B and D.
15:41 - You are a thermostat not a thermometer.
18:26 - Special Offer from Jim Kwik
21:25 - Can you get addicted to learning?
24:52 - Women have higher risk of Alzheimers than men?
26:14 - ⅓ of brain functionality is predetermined, ⅔ in your control?
29:04 - MEDS RX (Meditations, Exercise, Diet, Relationships, Extras)
33:02 - The value in remembering your dreams?
36:52 - WATCH? Words, Actions, Thoughts, Character, Habits
38:48 - 3 Keys to a better memory. M.O.M.
44:12 - SUAVE: SAY IT, USE IT, ASK ABOUT IT, VISUALIZE IT, End with their name.

Empathy? Its one thing to understand and aknowledge what it means but an entirely different things ot apply and practice it in relationships.

Just back from an extraordinary immersive couples retreat where we uncovered the secret to true love via learning the world's most difficult language to learn. Empathy. Lets Make Sense of Empathy together and equip ourselves with this life changing language and skillset. This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify

Contact Dr. JC
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HIGHLIGHTS:

0:00 - INTRO
2:23 - Empathy, the hardest most valuable language to learn
3:27 - Sati Experience - Relationship/Couples Retreats
6:19 - What is Empathy? What would life look like if you were not empathetic?
10:55 - Whats challenging about practicing empathy?
11:55 - Empathy in Business and Finances?
13:38 - The primary skillset for empathy is awareness.
15:53 - Learning the IRS (Interface Response System)
18:10 - Limitless potential for Love

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. With a combination of solo conversations as well as intriguing interviews with some of the leading experts in the field, the Makes Sense Podcast offers cost free content with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. 

OUR SPONSOR:
The Makes Sense Podcast is sponsored by the Makes Sense Academy.  Co-Created by wife Mieke (aka The Chicken) and I, the Makes Sense academy is a Live interactive community, where like minded, solution focused, curious seekers of expansion, gather daily in a mastermind setting with both Chicken and Dragon, where they have access to premium content, online courses and powerful collaboration and networking. All for $24 a month. The Makes Sense Academy and its members are solely responsible for funding the Makes Sense podcast so feel free to check out the Makes Sense Academy, Risk Free with a money back guarantee at https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy 

Get in touch with Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon" https://zez.am/makessense 

So grateful for the opportunity to spend time deep diving with the Nightingale of empowering humans to greatness in Mindset and Financial success. This podcast is available on both Spotify and Apple. Sharon Lechter is the Co-Author of the international bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad, and 14 other books in the Rich Dad series. With over 10 years as the co-founder and CEO, she built the empire into the world’s leading personal finance brand.

In 2008, she was asked by the Napoleon Hill Foundation to help re-energize the powerful teachings of Napoleon Hill just as the international economy was faltering. Sharon has released three bestselling books in cooperation with the Foundation, including Think and Grow Rich-Three Feet from Gold, Outwitting the Devil and her latest project, Think and Grow Rich for Women, released in June of 2014. She is also featured in the 2017 movie Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy and has released the book Save Wisely, Spend Happily in cooperation with the American Institute of CPAs. Sharon is a highly sought-after mentor and has worked with major brands like Disney and Time Warner and served two U.S. Presidents as an advisor on the topic of financial literacy.

Now, Sharon is back and playing big again, and she wants you to as well with the Play Big Movement. It’s time to shed the limitations that have stopped you in the past. It’s time to play big, master your money and time and create maximum impact. Enjoy this podcast on both spotify and apple platforms.

YOUTUBE EPISODE: https://youtu.be/N1c_WPKvHYc

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Website: https://sharonlechter.com
IG: @sharonlechter

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What do Yoga, Meditation, Spirituality and Technology have in common? Lets Make Sense of Yoga and technology with best selling author of the Simulation Hypothesis, Simulation Multivers and his newest book Wisdom of a Yogi, Rizwan Virk. This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify.

Resources:
Books:
- Wisdom of a Yogi - https://amzn.to/4dYWjEY
- Simulation Hypothesis - https://amzn.to/3yBkOYP
- Simulation Multiverse - https://amzn.to/4bzUz3z

Podcast Interviews: 

- Interview from the Joe Rogan Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/031mtxfwvp01AsiZKtxjjc

Contact Rizwan Virk:

• www.zenentrepreneur.com

• X - @rizstamford

• IG - @rizcambridge

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Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy

Episode Highlights: 

3:52 - Brief Background of yogananda

11:13 - How does yogananda correlate with the simulation hypothesis?

27:05 - Do you think people that take risks face more challenges in life?

34:15 - Birth and Death if Life is a Dream?

35:23 - When does the soul enter the body? 

38:04 - The Pizza Effect

41:53 - Are we AI trying to build AI?

Dr. Russell Fulmer is an Associate Director at the Counseling Program at the prestigious Northwestern University. He has research interests in Artificial Intelligence and Psycho-dynamic Theory. He lived in the Caribbean for 5 years where he had a counseling practice as a therapist and professor. Dr. Fulmer teaches a course called Psycho-dynamic Counseling.

YOUTUBE EPISODE: https://youtu.be/N1c_WPKvHYc

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#RISEUPWITHDRAGON #PERSONALGROWTH #SELFDISCOVERY @psychodynamictheory #russelfulmer

The Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast is your opportunity to wake up from your slumber and reclaim control as the dominant conscious force in your life. 

Today's episode Makes Sense of both Rejection and its relationship to living an extraordinary and epic life. This episode is available on both Apple and Spotify Platforms.

Our Guest, Corey Poirier is a multiple-time TEDx, and sought-after Keynote Speaker. He has spoken on MoMonday’s and PMx stages, and has shared the bill with everyone from John C. Maxwell to Deepak Chopra to Stephen MR Covey to General Hillier and has presented to hundreds of thousands of attendees since he began his speaking journey. Corey has interviewed almost 7,000 thought leaders and pays forward his most memorable and impactful lessons as well as how he overcame anxiety and hypochondria to become a world class public speaker and communicator. THis episode is available on both Apple and Spotify platforms.

Author of new blockbuster book The Enlightened Passenger, Corey takes us all on a ride through the trials and tribulations of a life riddled with setbacks, let downs, anxiety, hypochondria, rejections and everything else that makes most people quit. Followed by his time tested, results driven insights and strategies that made him the dominant force that he is today. 

A father to his young son Sebastian, boyfriend to Shelley and a father to 3 fur-babies, Corey is also a practicing Yogi and Rock Recording of the Year Nominee.

Makes Sense Academy:

Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about

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Episode Highlights

0:00 - Intro

2:52 - How did you decide to engage in the number one biggest fear people have. 

7:09 - Your true life begins at the end of your comfort zone

12:40 - Overcoming Hypochondria and Anxiety

22:47 - What it actually takes to be successful

24:08 - The blessing of Rejection

37:38 - The Enlightened Passenger

42:57 - How does one actually live an extraordinary and epic life?

56:16 - What does the future hold for the entrepreneur?

"Embrace Pain to Avoid Suffering" - An interview with Brian Bogert. Brian Bogert is a passionate performance coach, motivational speaker, business strategist, top sales professional and philanthropic leader who believes in helping growth-minded individuals achieve the best version of themselves: their most authentic selves. Brian teaches how to leverage radical authenticity and awareness to create the intentional life you’ve been dreaming of, but have struggled to create on your own. His revolutionary strategy—embrace pain to avoid suffering—has helped individuals, groups and entire companies break beyond their normal to achieve the success in life and business that they’ve always wanted. If you want to create a life of no limits, Brian and his team will get you there. This was one of my favorite interviews to date and you will love it.

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Highlights

0:00 - Intro

1:21 - Whats it like to be Brian Bogert these Days?

4:38 - Navigating Obstacles

8:21 - Brian’s Story

13:59 - Embracing Pain in order to avoid suffering

20:31 - Pain points us towards what is important

23:21 - Whats your process for working with people that seek change?

Have you ever taken note that both wanting and desire are two powerful occupants of your mind and body that prevent you from enjoying the present moment you are in now? Lets make sense of the power in detaching from WANT and DESIRE in search of unlimited joy, fulfillment and enlightenment. If you're into that sort of thing? This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify.

Welcome to MAKES SENSE MONDAYS with Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" where we makes sense of the things that make you go Hmmm? Start your week off the right way by reclaiming control of your Great Morning. This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify.

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Highlights

9:08 - The Four Noble Truths

11:02 - The Eightfold Path

19:54 - There can bo NO gratitude without detaching from Want and Desire.

20:50 - The Timeless Dimension

24:29 - With no attachment to want and desire there are no obstacles?

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest in Jodi Wellman. In this episode we will be Making Sense of Mortality and whether death is your friend or foe?  Our guest is none other than Jodi Wellman, positive psychologist, TED Talk Speaker and author of soon to be best selling book, You Only Die Once , “How to make it to the end with no regrets". 

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HIGHLIGHTS:

08:21 - Why do we need to almost die to live?

09:08 - Boundary Situations?

10:26 - Temporal Scarcity - Embrace the scarcity of your time left.

14:12 - Memento Mori

19:08 - Moving from dreaming and wanting to taking action

23:09 - The Three Main Regrets

31:36 - How many Mondays do you have left?

36:32 - How to live an astonishingly successful life? (Wider and Deeper)

41:43 - Would you recommend your life to someone?

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It is a hidden force that drives most human behavior and is the root cause of your suffering. Your strive for Relevance. Lets make sense of Relevance and equip ourselves to become the dominant force in ur life. This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify.

Welcome to MAKES SENSE MONDAYS with Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" where we makes sense of the things that make you go Hmmm? Start your week off the right way by reclaiming control of your Great Morning. This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify.

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Highlights 

0:00 - Intro

03:16 - Something Happened TO ME

08:36 - Your two choices of how to respond?

14:43 - Reclaiming Control of your perception and responses

16:27 - Uncovering the hidden desire of relevance

21:58 - The decline of our relevance as we age?

24:41 - Can the decline of relevance exist in the absence of its perception?

Are you struggling? What does that even mean? To Struggle? What is your current relationship with struggle? Enjoy this pivotal moment from the vault when the Dragon opens up a can of whoop ass on the man made illusion and label we call struggle. This episode is available on both Apple and Spotify Platforms.

Your Virtual Reality Suit: We are what we consume and we get to choose and what we consume becomes our VIRTUAL REALITY. Let's make sense of the Brain and Body and 6 senses that make up our Virtual Reality Suit and determine our reality.

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Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. 

Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of THE PROGRAM-  That way you think, feel and act? It’s not your fault, its your program.  

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SHOW NOTES:

As we move further into this new Makes Sense podcast, it's important that I continue to provide you with the base constructs, concepts and language that we will be using in later episodes. This podcast is about you transforming into a more conscious version of yourself so you can begin to see the previously unseen.  My intention in this episode is to expose something to your conscious mind. What makes this challenging is that this thing I want to show you is invisible to you. In fact it often cloaks itself as you. No it's not your ego. In fact, your ego works for it.

“I woke up to realize that my perception of reality was not my own but one I assumed, as a result of the information I had been consuming.”
- Dragon

Stop for a moment and ask yourself this question. Is your interpretation of reality, including the way you look at and respond to things, your own? Or can you acknowledge the outside forces that have played a role in it? Before you say no, can you prove that it's not possible? That the way you perceive, believe and respond are a manifestation of what you have been taught and continue to reinforce everyday with the things you consume with regularity? Welcome to the program.

An excerpt from my new book MAKES SENSE, Solving the mystery of why shit happens. 

After a life of misfortune and suffering, French artist, Paul Gauguin painted a masterpiece in his dying days while living in exile in Tahiti. Viewed from right to left, it demonstrates the circle of life from birth to death. This powerful piece unveils the deepest mysteries of the human race and is appropriately named. Where do we come from? Where are we? And where are we going? 

These questions are the premises upon which we all roam this planet in search of answers as sense-making machines. When we seek the answers to unanswerable questions, we are forced to do our best to fill in the gaps and make sense of things.. In other words, we make shit up. In fact, this is the birthplace of religion, psychology, theories, and science. All representing man's attempt to make sense of things. 

Think about that for a second. Whatever it is that represents your foundation for your reality. What’s good or bad. Right or Wrong? Just or injust?  Did you come up with that? Well if you came up with it, you are pretty special as most humans are born into this world without knowing these things until they are taught to them. 

Why is this important? To recognize that our sense making machines have been programmed and that program is the backbone software that is controlling your hardware and virtual reality suit? Well, for starters, what if it's not accurate? I know you’ve been sold into the idea that it was. But what if it is not? Here you are doing your best to make the right decisions in life, choose the right path as well as stay on track and follow through with your physical, mental and financial goals. And now we are for the first time noticing a red, check engine light that’s been on yet had black tape over it for years. That light, now illuminated, is suggesting that we take a look under the hood at an engine that was built by others with their own intentions for you. Perhaps different than the ones that are actually FOR YOU.

It’s important here to shift into a curious state of possibility thinking. Why? If you can’t justify a reason to rethink or re-evaluate something due to the mere possibility that there may be another truth or better way? The idea of making changes to your regularly scheduled program will seem nonsensical. So in order to experience growth we must be willing to challenge this programming that we have received and become open to a better way. Otherwise, you will find yourself hell bent on protecting and justifying your position on things and that is the life of the herd. The majority. The popular masses that are ok with trying to get into town in a rocking chair. Because they believe in that rocking chair and that rocking chair is part of their core values etc.. This of-course gives rise to the definition of insanity.

To add some color to this, it's interesting to look at the characteristics and strategies of scientists. There is no group of humans more open and curious than scientists. Why? Scientists seek the truth and seek facts. The idea of coming across something that improves or debunks their own theories excites them. Because it is the truth they seek and will let nothing deter them from acquiring it. Not even their own theories. So a nice role playing exercise to play in life is that of a scientist. Checking facts and remaining open and curious to better ones. 

The Operating System

“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

― Alan Watts

If you look into a baby's eyes, you'll see they have little self-awareness. The person one grows into is a mask worn over their consciousness. You’ll be surprised to learn that this mask is given to them from the outside in.

Once a human becomes awakened, their consciousness begins to penetrate and shine through the mask to see what it sees. Not what it's been trained to see. We come into this world as biologically conditioned structures without a self-image.  However, there is much debate over the idea that we are all born prematurely. This is because a newborn baby’s brain is not fully developed at birth. In a perfect world, we’d further our stay in our mother's womb for 15 months. Not a good thing at all for the mom, I know. However, the theory makes sense and unveils our susceptibility to not only learning and absorbing from the outside in. But reminds us that our brains can become permanently wired to accept all that we consume at this early phase as reality. Simply, the way things are.

As we grow through life, we face the challenge of increased responsibility for ourselves. Over the next several years, I began experiencing a series of awakenings that unveiled an inefficient operating system that was not moving me forward. 

I became aware that I was running a program inside that was unconsciously calling the shots. This program decided what was good or bad, and what I should or should not do. What is interesting about this program is that I was unaware that it was running. I always assumed that I was voluntarily making decisions. Not the case. There was an automatic operating system that would activate in different ways in response to certain happenings, people, and scenarios. The side effects and symptoms of this programmed response system began showing up. For example, I'd find myself overeating, and saying things I didn't intend to friends and family. There was something inside me calling the shots without consulting me.

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M.F.T.P.S.E. (The Programmers)

This brings up a unique challenge. See, once a program has been absorbed, we have a fail-safe defense mechanism to protect it from anything otherwise. Its your number one employee and right hand man. Your ego.

A fun analogy to use is one I call The Bouncer: A bouncer stands outside his nightclub with a detailed guest list, checking every ID. The nightclub represents your life and your bouncer controls who and what gets in and who doesn’t. That’s your trained ego safeguarding and preserving your programmed thoughts, feelings, and concepts labeling and judging everything it perceives. Your bouncer works closely with your VR Suit and decides who and what gets into the nightclub, and it’s not open to new ways of perceiving the world. Remember, the bouncer works for you and is just doing its job. 

In order to consider reprogramming our intel processor and VR Suit, we must take control of the bouncer. It’s like the write-protected switch on an SD card. Your bouncer, or ego, is committed and not open to new ideas. If it is protected, it cannot receive new data.

I became intensely curious to identify where I received this inefficient operating system? 

Think about it. Whenever we buy a new car or technology, it malfunctions or breaks down. Who do we blame? Yes, the manufacturers. I was already blaming my parents for all my problems, and now I know why. They played a role in programming my operating system by teaching me to adopt theirs. They taught me the good and bad of what they were taught. I bought into it all, as most kids do, and unknowingly started viewing the world through their eyes. But I knew there was more. I couldn’t blame or credit them solely for it all. I wasn’t consuming and absorbing information from them alone. 

Who else is involved in my programming? Like a detective, I began unpacking the files of my past and evaluating where I picked up the thoughts, perceptions and concepts that controlled my mind and VR suit? 

My mother. My father. Oh, wait, my teachers and preachers too! Making these observations into my 30’s, I recognized that I had spent over 20 years in the box of the education system. Consuming with regularity, the lessons shared by my teachers. We weren’t religious, but I sure had preachers in my life. They were represented by those that spoke from a place of being right about things. People that shared concepts over and over again with my vulnerable, neuroplastic mind. Friends, family, and authority figures. I was in school, in and out of synagogues and churches throughout my life as well. Consuming and assuming their uploads were valid. All well-intentioned, I'm sure. But unconscious to the ramifications of me buying into their program. The very nature of mothers, fathers, teachers, and preachers is to nurture, guide, and protect. Some useful, some harmful, but all are well-intentioned. Nobody’s perfect, right? So, I couldn't blame them as that would imply that they were at fault. In fact, I've learned through parenting my own children and mentoring others throughout my career, my goal is not to indoctrinate people to believe what I do. Or look at the world the way I do? Mothers, Fathers, Teachers and Preachers often unconsciously push their own concepts of reality onto others to simply validate themselves. If someone buys into what I think, it only validates what I think. Not them. Make sense?

Traveling further into my evidence room, and placing all things on my evidence board aka my CRAZY WALL. I discovered other elements at play that were responsible for my own operating system. 

Now referring to our programmers as our M.F.T.P.S.E. There’s the mother, father, teacher, preacher, society and evolution. The last two being the silent killers. Silent meaning we are often unaware of their influence because we don’t consider these things. Remember, that which you consume with regularity, programs your mind and VR suit to assume with regularity. It’s hard to register, but society and evolution represent other components of our programming. We are exposed to society daily through interactions, social media and the idiot box. That’s what my grandfather called the TV. Throw in the passing on and forward paying of all things our predecessors and ancestors learned through the evolution of man dating back to the days of the caveman. Even though there are no more sabertooth tigers and T Rexes trying to kill us, our stress response systems have been wired to fight or flight in the face of anything that remotely resembles anything from the past. That's right, you’ve been programmed and continue to  unconsciously consume and, over time, assume its programming. Now, it's become  your operating system. 

What's interesting to note is that you’ve constructed a customized surrounding and strategic perception of society that validates and supports your program. This is known as confirmation bias, where we seek out and favor only the information that supports our existing beliefs. Even in the absence of them being factual. Turning our head from anything and everyone that thinks otherwise. This can lead to an illusion of reality and creates a challenge should you decide to change the way you look at things. Think about those things in your life you call your core values and beliefs? Perhaps the non-negotiables? You might even be known as stubborn or hard nosed? 

“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence, but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.” 

 ―Daniel Kahneman

Rock climbers refer to that one hard move in their line that poses the biggest challenge. The Crux! The Crux in reclaiming control of our program lies with the bias we’ve developed over time to support that program. 

Confirmation and cognitive bias is the simplified processing of all information through a filter that references all past experiences and preferences. We use this filter to process perceptions, make decisions, and determine our reality. This cognitive bias can direct our focus on things that others can’t see. Typically due to the fact that they are not there to be seen. Outside the realm of logic and rationale. Projecting an augmented version of reality that suits our current needs which prompts us to support that reality by focusing only on the things that confirm it and ignoring those that falsify it. In other words, we make shit up to make our story true. Even in the absence of facts. All of this, going on without you even knowing it. Almost makes you feel like a puppet, no? The programming we’ve received thus far becomes justified and protected by our bias, or the ego's opinion. You could even say that the ego is the master of puppets.

Many refer to Descartes's famous quote, “I think; therefore, I am, " as the fall of civilization. It began a movement that prompted people to address reality and form opinions and reactions based on their thoughts. In his defense, I don't think Descartes knew how much we would be thinking about how susceptible we would be to the repetitive suggestions from our programmers. Our influential MFTPSEs. 

It's easy to become wired into the suggestions, opinions, and concepts we consume regularly. “Neurons that fire together wire together.” This principle is known as the Hebbian learning rule; when two neurons in the brain are activated at the same time, they become more strongly connected to each other over time. This process is called synaptic plasticity, and it is the basis for learning and memory formation in the brain.

Hebb's theory also proposes that the strength of the connection between two neurons depends on the frequency and timing of their activation. When two neurons are activated at the same time repeatedly, the connection between them becomes stronger. This reminds us of the power of consistency as it leverages these neural connections where memories of the event are formed.

This created a situation where people could be led to believe one thing and be close-minded to the possibility of another. Descartes also said;

 "Since our senses cannot put us in contact with external objects themselves, but only with our mental images of such objects, we can have no absolute certainty that anything exists in the external world.” 

Descartes postulated what he called the “evil demon argument.” This is where he proposed we all live with an entity, a demon, capable of deceiving us. As a result, we lose our inherent ability to process what we see, without doubting its difference compared to what we think.

Hmmm. Interesting to think about this concept. That there’s an evil demon, or machine, living inside our heads calling shots. As if it is a separate entity, implanted in our brains that controls and coordinates our perceptions and responses? I believe we all inherently feel there is a guest or as i call it, the "little liar,” manipulating us. The concept of the “dark passenger” is widely accepted. We have these preposterous thoughts that cause us to cringe at the very idea of others knowing of them. As Jim Dethmer describes in his drama triangle theory, we place blame on the demon or machine in our head. As if it were placed there by others. 

Plato’s Cave

Plato’s allegory of the cave is a symbolic story of how humans learn to interpret reality based on what they see rather than what is. In this story, Plato described a scenario where a bunch of prisoners were constrained by chains side by side in a cave where they were forced to only look at a wall in front of them. With a fire lighting the room behind them, the projected shadows on the wall from people walking behind them, became the only thing the prisoners saw over time. After some time, these shadows became their interpretation of the world and reality. 

The allegory looks at our philosophical thoughts of truth and how we come to terms with it and confidently describe it. Not until the prisoners are released can they slowly begin to entertain a new reality. The narrative ponders what would happen once the freed prisoners learned of the new reality outside the cave. First, the assumption was that they would return to the cave and attempt to free the others so they, too, could see the vast new reality. Their following belief was that the prisoners still in the cave would try to kill the messenger threatened by his blasphemy.  

Humanity today is not much different from Plato’s narrative. We are what we eat, and that’s not just with food. The “S” in MFTPSE “society” reminds us of our constant daily consumption. Watch the news regularly and see how your perceptions, conversations, and reactions to everyday life shift. Follow politics or the conflict on the Gaza Strip and see how that affects your perceptions and conversations with others? I spent my whole life consuming and shaping my perceptions with a programmed operating system that I received and confirmed from my MFTPSE. My brain (software) and my VR suit (hardware) became hardwired to my unique way of looking at things. My programming was its manifestation, and my perceptions and responses were not actually mine. Not from my conscious mind but my subconscious programmed mind. I learned later that it represented 95% of the operating system. We program and support our subconscious mind with the repetitive consumption of data. Data from your MFTPSE. If you have a concept and belief system, it was created, molded and confirmed by your consumption. Those learned concepts are running on autopilot and in charge of your life. They say what you see is what you get. I agree. However, is what you get what actually is or just a manifestation of what you see. 

Another SNAP moment. It was all becoming clear. I began reviewing clips of every event in my life through a new set of lenses. As if I was in a library using the good old news searching system we used to call microfiche. I had been justifying my reality and potential based on something I bought into. Now? I am progressively waking up and disputing everything. All bets are off and that means that I might be wrong about a lot of stuff. Including my potential and the very resource of potential in the world.

When I use the word awakening, I’m referring to the opposite of being asleep. The difference between being instinctively closed, unconscious, and unaware vs. being open and conscious and aware. When you’ve been programmed, your VR suit (your 5 senses) continues to process, consume and confirm your current operating system. You’re unaware of it, and it validates the programming. 

This is the same way good and bad habits are created. Practice an activity or consume something for 60-90 days, and you not only become good at it. You become unconsciously competent at it. You don’t even know who you are. That’s a habit. There's something called the rule of 100. It states that an individual that spends 100 hours a year or 18 minutes a day on a discipline will end up being better than 95% of the entire world at that discipline. This awakening helped me tackle things like losing weight and keeping it off for 18 years. Rather than trying to stop the destructive behaviors, I began looking at why they were even there.

We wake up one day to recognize our own inefficient operating system. It happens while running our regularly scheduled program, when some sort of glitch in the matrix pops up that suggests it is not working. We notice the insanity of  our behaviors where we expect different outcomes from doing the same old things. If you don’t challenge this and just go with the flow and stay comfortable, the universe has a way of forcing your hand to change. The universe is in full support of your success and fulfillment. Yet if you are sleepwalking through life, it will curb stomp you to grab your attention and make you take a look at things. 

Get too comfortable? Fat, lazy, depressed. Move too fast? Divorce, hypertension, anxiety, substance abuse. 

I experienced a series of car accidents that forced me to recognize I was moving too fast and to re-access my behaviors, priorities and the underlying reason for their existence. Or when I experienced that SNAP moment, I was forced to see that therapist and learn why I hated my birthdays. I’m sure all humans have these universal offerings that force them to see something and make a powerful distinction. However, if we’re not seeking growth. We may miss or ignore them.

Disclaimer: It is important to acknowledge that I was seeking growth with urgency at this time.  We all want the same things in life. We want to be Happy-ER, Healthy-ER, and Wealthy-ER. I refer to humans as “seekers of the ER”. However, only those that seek with urgency will follow through and do the work. If you are learning this stuff and not moving into action, that's ok. Your time will come and it will come when you build urgency around it. I was frustrated with my lack of certainty, confidence, and progress at that time. I wanted more and began to engage in personal growth with a specific interest in neuroscience and the study of the human brain and consciousness. I became open and curious about these observations, even while in full survival mode. 

This is a lifelong journey, and you’re welcome to join me. Are you ready to leave your concept cave?

Here’s the good news folks. This programmed mind of yours? Demon included. It's completely re-programmable and we're gonna talk about some strategies to execute on that in upcoming episodes and conversations with guests. However, it starts with the awareness and acknowledgement that our perceptions, thoughts and feelings have been persuaded by an outside stimulus which means they may very well not be of our own choice.

Here are a few simple practices to begin the process of reclaiming control of your goals, dreams and reality. These practices are not effective by simply knowing them and feeling you understand and agree with them. They must be practiced until they begin to show signs of opening up new alternate beliefs that unveil different possibilities and outcomes of your future potential. 

1. Just say Hmmm?: When you find yourself contemplating yourself in evaluation of your willpower or motivation, just say Hmmm? Not to the thing you are evaluating, but to the very act of generating those concepts of your motivation and belief. Remember the idea of Brain Awareness Perception.

2. Focus on your North Star: Very often when we feel “stuck” and begin contemplating our willpower, motivation and, our belief in ourselves, it's a side effect and symptom of forgetting where you were going and why? When you feel lost and confused, simply look up at the North Star and find your way back home to your goals and dreams. 

3. Practice Patience: A few words missing from most people’s 2024 goal sheet are patience , agility, awareness. Again, a side effect of our programmed mind are things like entitlement, impatience and frustration. They easily trigger a contingency plan to abort and move in a different direction. Once the contingency plan is set forth, our program begins to validate the decision to abort with the excuses that demonstrate the concepts of things like self belief, motivation and willpower being precursors to our following through. Saying Hmmm, and pausing your programmed mind will help you practice patience. 

Remember. Truly doing the work can be exhausting at first. Not to mention frustrating as there are not too many wins associated with it at first. Making Sense of these distinctions can easily be washed away by your programmed mind and sense making machine as a waste of time if you are not ready. Perhaps showing up as you are telling yourself something like. “Ah, fuck this. We only live once and I don't want to spend my time struggling to move this mountain ahead of me. I want to enjoy my life etc..” My response to you would be “Hmmm?” 

If that is going on in your mind right now or later, it's normal and you can feel better knowing that most people will do the same. But right after you feel better because you’re not the only one. Ask yourself why only a few individuals sit at the top of the mountain at the table of success, fulfillment and happiness? Then look at your statement of “Ah, fuck this” and see why that is?

It’s a game I call “DRIFTING and SHIFTING”. Drifting refers to the act of unconsciously falling back into your regularly scheduled program. The one that isn’t advancing you towards your desired state. Remember, it’s not your fault. You are wired to do this. But if you can learn to simply place a pause on that idea of not following through and retreating to the comfortable place called “known”. By inserting a “Hmmm?” and allow yourself to look at the idea you have from a place of logic and rationale? You’ll catch yourself DRIFTING again. See, Drifting is not the problem. Drifting off-course is a normal human behavior. Life gets sticky when you are unconsciously drifting. So catching yourself drifting is where the win is. As it becomes the fertile ground to you SHIFTING. Not only shifting back on course, but shifting into a more conscious version of yourself, that can remember things like the lesson you just heard on Motivation, Self Belief and Timing, and how they are not factors in your success. 

It takes what I call PRACTION. A state of practicing being in action. See, you won’t be good at this at first. You may find yourself drifting more than shifting. But keep at it. It never gets easy. But it does get easiER.

Be well my friends. And remember. If you learned something today? Give it away. That’s the only way it will stay. We hope that you will consider paying forward this podcast to your contact sphere. Strike up conversations with them about the topics and you’ll find that its when we teach that we learn twice. 

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DAILY FOCUS: DIS-SATISFACTION An interesting observation of human behavior that displays how we are perpetually dissatisfied with everything. Whether resting or active, happy or sad, winning or losing at life? We eventually express dissatisfaction with it and everything. Available now on both Spotify and Apple Platforms

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Observe the three words. Interface - Response - System? Steps one through three have been acknowledging the Interface between you and the things you come across in life.  Now armed and aware of your unconscious and automatic response system we are ready to receive an upgrade to your new, improved one that better suits your goals and dreams. Your old system had its perks and got you to this place. However, it was often inefficient and glitchy in terms of forward progress towards bigger and better things. Now, let's look at creating a more efficient and rational response. Enjoy

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(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:01:25) Response - ABILITY - Steven Covey
(00:2:45) Who decides what a Healthy Response is?
(00:3:58) If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
(00:6:02) Collective Illusion - Todd Rose
(00:8:48) The Madella Affect
(00:11:16) The Reality Threshold
(00:15:57) The Makes Sense Academy.
(00:18:25) More or Less
(00:19:37) Design Thinking - Herbert A Simon
(00:22:00) What does it take to reprogram our response system?
(00:26:31) Habit Formation
(00:25:41) The four stages of conscious transformation
(00:27:50) Emotional Resiliance
(00:29:18) Accountability and Support
(00:34:45) Look Out for Flow Burglars
(00:35:57) The Science of FLOW

One from the vault of the earlier Rise Up With Dragon Show. This short 5 minute episode exposes the secret to my Rise Up Great Morning Routine in capturing the sensitive and prescious moment when we wake up and move from unconscious to conscious and begin claiming control of our reality by claiming control of the narrative in our minds about the day ahead. So simple and so powerful. This podcast episode is available on both Apple and Spotify

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0:00 - Intro
05:17 - Who was Nadine before she met the Wolf of Wall Street?
07:40 - What do Narcissists look for in the people they target?
09:29 - What was it like when you first met the Jordan Belfort
13:05 - Was the story where he crashed his Lambo on Quaaludes True?
16:01 - What was it like to be married to a guy that had such crazy friends?
19:00 - What was the first red flag that made you notice you were with a narcissist?
21:44 - Does a narcissist have the ability to acknowledge the irrationality of their behavior?
23:11 - Can my love change and fix him?
27:21 - Are people born as narcissists?
30:20 - What did you learn about yourself through all of this?
32:00 - The big 5 personality assessment.
33:11 - The Trauma Bond
35:42 - How does someone break free from a trauma bond?
27:47 - Tolerate the guilt of protecting yourself.
41:39 - Did this stuff happen to you or for you? Is there a blessing in disguise?

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest in Dallas Clounch "THE AI SURFER". In this episode we will be Making Sense of Artificial Intelliegence and what it means for humanity?  Our guest is none other than Dallas Clounch, The AI Surfer. 

About The AI Surfer: From coding novice at 21 to running a successful software company by 23, his SEO-based firm boosted small businesses online, spawning products that empowered home-based earnings for thousands.

Dallas created BOB, the sales enablement app in 2013, which has helped generate millions for entrepreneurs all over the world. His success led to international speaking engagements, inspiring thousands globally. In 2016, he joined Spring Aqua as a partner and acting CTO, driving millions in sales with the BOB platform.

Now Dallas "The AI Surfer" has grown from 0 followers to over 250,000+ followers for his business across social media in less than 6 months by leveraging AI and showcasing the exact process for everyone to follow.

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Highights

10:45 - Human intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence
12:28 - How fast is AI evolving and what can we expect?
13:15 - Why is it important for people to start learning about AI?
14:15 - Can AI get to a point where it thinks its real?
19:18 - Are humans just an advanced form of AI thinking they are human?
21:34 - What are the coolest things happening n AI today?
26:38 - Demo of AI Surfers Content
30:15 - Who are the majority of people using AI and why?
31:45 - What are some killer Prompts to leverage AI potential?

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Conformity?  This episode is some good shift. Dragon draws an analogy correlated to human behavior and conformity where we can all find ourselves on a Line. Which line? The one you thik is the right one to be on. Get off that line and you are "Out of Line " - This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify

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FEAR MANAGEMENT: 
GREAT MORNING: Today I am grateful for fear and grateful for my openness to allow myself to partner with fear and elevate my impact and service to humanity.
Stepping outside the box with star studded July and the uncertainty and potential for criticism is scary but necessary as we know where growth takes place 
Mentioned the idea of selfless and bigger mission supported service. Made me think about serving humanity and the kind of people I am looking for in my business.
KELLY? FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY? Why would you want to do that? What a nice Brand to be in service. The only person that doesn’t appreciate that brand is the one that is angry at themselves for not carrying it themselves. Hate you cause they ain't you. 
You’re either the kind of person that sees garbage discarded on the street and picks it up or the one that expects and assumes someone else will because you don’t feel it is your fault and insist that you are not a garbage man. I’m looking for 5 garbage men/women. To mentor, and partner with in my coaching business to change the world one person at a time. 

Isn't it interesting how God and the Universe have mysteriously placed everything we desire the most, inconveniently on the other side of a big smelly pile of shit? Notice this? We come up with anecdotes to acknowledge this as normal like the obstacle is the way. No mud, no lotus. Referencing the fact that the marvelous lotus flower ironically grows only in smelly mud. Heck, the amazing work done with the science of the FLOW STATE shows us that in order to get into your proverbial FLOW STATE you must first successfully navigate some sort of fear, challenge or struggle. If you really become aware of this phenomenon and learn to embrace the suck, you’ll begin to remodel your perspective, perception and relationship with struggle. Almost get excited when challenges arise, knowing that they are the precursor to your success. However, when you add the emotional component of FEAR to the equation, this acknowledgement becomes easier said than done. Our MFTPSE (Mother, Father, Teacher, Preacher, Society and Evolution have taught us how to navigate fear our whole lives. So if you are in a current reality where fear has a grip on you? And you are using that grip as an excuse to excuse you from your responsibility for your own success? It's not your fault. However, if you woke up this morning with the FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW to go out there and claim control of your life as its dominant force. To become the shotcaller of your days and start leveraging your success? It will require that you rewire your brain and develop a more efficient FEAR MANAGEMENT STRATEGY.
Business owners and entrepreneurs may face a range of fears, including fears of failure, finances, and losing control. Allow yourself to acknowledge the double edged sword of your perspectives and perceptions of the following common fears being both barriers and motivators and know that the side you focus on is a choice you make based on your urgency to win.: 
Financial fears: Concerns about financial instability, not having enough money, or losing what they have. 
Fear of failure: A common fear that can also be a source of inspiration. 
Fear of losing control: Difficulty letting others take over, or becoming vulnerable to outside factors. MY STORY OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
Fear of making mistakes: Fear of making a major mistake, or failing to scale. 
Fear of the unknown: Fear of uncertainty or being behind the market. 
Fear of missing out: Missing business opportunities or not enjoying the job anymore. 
Fear of letting people down: Fear of letting down the team or employees. 
Fear of inadequacy: Feeling less than or not being skilled enough. 
Fear of commitment: The commitment required to start a new business.  
Fear of success: Success can seem overwhelming. 
Some say that fear can be a motivator, but it can also be a barrier that prevents business leaders from taking risks. What does it mean to face your fears and overcome them? Does this mean they go away, or does it mean you have reprogrammed your brain and perception of fear and learned how it is perhaps happening for you rather than to you? I have found that every entrepreneur that has reached the top of the mountain and claimed their seat at the table  of success and fulfillment have strong FEAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS that involve making fear their friend.

Funny twist ran through my mind when looking at the astoundingly challenging game of ANGER MANAGEMENT and all that comes with that. And that of my observation and own participation in FEAR MANAGEMENT. Although they are closely correlated, they have some fascinating differences. First of all I find it interesting how one seems to be more widely accepted then the other? Think about it. If someone says they are angry, in some way shape or form, don’t you recognize that as something that must be dealt with swiftly? You must either get the hell away from them or help them turn it down or off before something bad happens? But fear? When someone says they are afraid, there seems to be much more empathy and understanding around it. As well as the sharing of how normal it is to be afraid and perhaps share commonality with one another with some me too examples. So right off the bat, Fear Management poses a great challenge in that it is accepted. When something is accepted and somewhat normalized, the brain and body have less urgency to take an aggressive approach in addressing it no? 
So society pays forward and sells us some great Fear Management strategies that are also socially acceptable and normalized and I find it funny that these strategies can often fly low under the radar of our being conscious of them being fear management strategies. Rather seeing them as just normal things that people do. A few interesting examples are seen in people taking cover. We learn to retreat under our desks, curl up and place our hands over our heads in a bomb drill or airplane crash scenario. Or the typical run and hide strategy. Then we see humans at times reacting to fear by impulsively buying more stuff for fear there will be no more stuff? We saw this during covid and we even saw it during Black Friday Sales etc. This type of fear has spawned multi billion dollar strategies of fortune 500 companies and sales trainers teach scarcity and urgency strategies to exploit it. In fact, when the FEAR of Death creeps in. When you wake up and see the unpredictable and limited nature of your mortality, this fear prompts people to either seize the day and make their time count, yet more often prompt people to say “fuck it” and allow themselves to experience as much pleasure and indulgence as they can before they die. This plays a large role in the Obesity Crisis no? Then there is the most popular Fear Management strategy that is so powerful that most wouldn’t allow themselves to admit this as a fear management strategy. That being the idea that aligning yourself with forces of goodness, will eliminate or alleviate your exposure to the things you fear. The notion carries this idea based on the Good vs. Evil theory teaches us that by being one of the good guys, you will somehow be protected by the bad guys. Obviously showing up in various religions or even in the notion of being a good human. Serve God and humanity and the forces of the universe will protect you. Interesting to experience this moment as I write the word God, forgetting to make the G capitalized, my computer underscored it and reminded me he gets the capital G. Yes sir, I'm sorry to forget that. What's interesting about this fear management strategy is to notice that in order for us to feel we are in the right, we must convince ourselves that others are in the wrong. This goes far past creating the vast incongruence of religions and their unique beliefs. It is often the cause of large scale tragedies of dictatorships and cults. Where people are prompted to follow a leader or movement, motivated by being convinced that the others are evil or abnormal and you must either be in or out. 
Can you see there cannot be a right without a wrong? When you are justifying and standing for your right. Can you be aware at the same time that there must be something wrong? Can you also take note that the only person in that instance that sees the wrong as wrong, is you? The person you perceive is wrong perceives themselves as right. In fact making them right, no? Well, as right as you think you are. It's fun to converse with people and make a pact with them. I will let you think you are right, if you allow me to do the same. Deal? 
Also a fun observation to look at all the great saints and gurus that we perceive have reached some sort of sainthood or enlightenment? They share the same types and amounts of fear and neurosis as we do. What makes them saints and gurus is how they have just stopped identifying themselves with them. They look at their fears and neurosis as ripples in a vast ocean. Also being aware that behind each ripple of fear and neurosis, is a n equal amount of ripples and waves of confidence, clarity and peaceful joy. Perhaps this is the way? Now, it is a hard pill for someone to swallow, reading this, if their version of this is the following of and serving their God. But also consider that this pill is as difficult to swallow to a young German boy that had brought into a dictator’s vision for the world. Guess what their strategy of handling or managing that fear and sense of adversity? ANGER and often extrication and violence. No worry, they can start going to ANGER MANAGEMENT classes for that. :)  So it's only the open, curious and conscious individual that can identify their own Fear Management on this level. Which is difficult so I empathize. Makes me wonder about the soul of the human sometimes. Not the human. Humans can get caught up in good and evil. But I believe the soul is neither good nor evil. I believe the soul just is. Which means the human, if allowed, can coexist as both and be ok with that. But it takes the will and desire to do so and work. When looking at the work we do with our IRS (Interface Response System), this poses a worthy challenge in the assessment phase. Where we determine how to label someone as good or evil in determining who we allow in and out of our nightclub (Life). According to Ram Das, the challenge and art is to be able to see actions as evil, not the beings. This is the space that allows us to love everyone and forgive those that do evil things, knowing they know not what they do. But their being is inherently good. Big challenges there that we get to accept or reject. So what about you? Can you step away and untether yourself from the program you are comfortably running and identify your fear management strategies? If so, you are a highly open, curious and conscious being. From that vantage point you will be able to see all the other channels that offer other ideas that you needed to be wrong so you could be right. Perhaps you can take the huge step of allowing yourself to consider which ones actually suit you best. As options? Kind of like moving from a TV that only has one station to getting cable. Surf the channels and see what show you like the best? Perhaps you can also see that without the perception of fear, you’d have nothing to manage? Heck, without it, you might not even get out of bed today. Make Sense?

The goal is to change the way we look at things, so that the things we look at can begin to change. Welcome to Stpe Three of the Interface Response System - ASSESS - In this episode we learn how to execute on this arduous task of assessing the scene of the interface from a different vantage point. Along with three powerful tools to add to your belt, this episode will play a major role in the rewiring of your assessment making machine. My favorite step of the 4 step process. Enjoy

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• Rizwan Virk Interview - https://youtu.be/x0iqxkdBplw?feature=shared

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• The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot - https://amzn.to/3J6aCcL 

• The Elephant Parable by John Godfrey Saxe - https://allpoetry.com/The-Blind-Man-And-The-Elephant

• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - https://amzn.to/3xqPwDe 

• Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini - https://amzn.to/3J8g0Mn 

• The Arkana Spiritual Center - https://www.arkanaspiritualcenter.com 

• Free Will by Sam Harris - https://amzn.to/4ancWrz 

Timestamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:37) Change the way you look at things so that the things you look at begine to change.
(00:3:19) What we see is what we get but is what we get what actually is or just what we see?
(00:5:37) Looking at things from a different vantage point.
(00:6:47) A case against reality with Donald Hoffman
(00:8:01) The Simulation Hypothesis with Rizwan Virk
(00:13:20) Life as a video game?(00:15:46) The Eye of the Storm
(00:14:37) Your old programmed mind is impatient and doesn't like to wait too long.
(00:18:27) Cognitive Disputation
(00:20:21) What is the efficacy of Free Will with Sam Harris
(00:22:04) THe Elephant Parable
(00:26:21) Survey the Scene
(00:28:10) Thinking Fast and Slow with Daniel Kahneman 
(00:29:04) Makes Sense Academy Sponsor Break
(00:29:00) The Bouncer Revised
(00:32:30) Whole-O-graphic Vision

This being one of my all time favorite episodes from the Rise Up with Dragon Podcast. 

DO YOU SUFFER FROM ANXIETY? Folks you are in for a treat. As someone that has suffered, come to terms with Terrible Anxiety, and moved on to live my best life, this topic and guest are very exciting for me. This episode can be watched and hear on muliple platforms including Youtube, Spotify and Apple.

Join me and my special guest Russel Kennedy, MD, "The Anxiety MD" and author of the 2020 book THE ANXIETY RX as we remove the blindfolds from your mind and create clarity on what Anxiety really is, and as Dr. Russel says "Show you the Way Out".

Dr. Russel will share his own battle with anxiety and how he turned his trauma into his triumph, now helping many unlock the shackles that hold them back from living their best life. This episode can be watched and hear on muliple platforms including Youtube, Spotify and Apple.

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Show Highlights: 

0:00 - Intro

1:07 - Welcome Dr. Kenedy (The Anxiety Prescription) - https://amzn.to/47cD3kq

2:43 - The true source of Anxiety? The Back Story

4:41 - Uncovering the source of Anxiety with LSD?

10:36 - Where anxiety lives? Not what you thought.

12:25 - How do you leave the practice of medicine?

15:35 - Anxiety is not a mind thing, its an alarm in your body.

1843 - The Brain is a Meaning Making Makes Sense Machine

24:20 - Break for Sponsor - Makes Sense Academy

26:41 - How does someone become conscious they are having a panic attack?

33:44 - The Alarm Anxiety Cycle

Today’s episode unpacks the Science, Art and Philosophy around miracles. What are they, and to what degree do we have control in their manifestation? Can we “expect a miracle” today? Let’s see. I think you will be both surprised and intrigued by what i have found. This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast: This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works and that perception is a subjective and an acquired taste. If it's true that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Consider this podcast your daily dose of a new perspective around some of the things you had already made up your mind about. 

Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast

The Makes Sense Podcast is sponsored and supported by the Makes Sense Academy and Makes Sense Business Academy. A private, psychological safe haven where you can stop GOING through life and start GROWING through life. MSA uses a unique low cost, group coaching model, where you gain access to the coaching, mentorship and tools for your growth while participating as a key element of what has become an incubator for growth. Check out the Makes Sense Academy, risk free with a money back guarantee, for $48 / month before it goes up to $97 a month in January. 

This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify

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Highlights:

0:00 - Intro
3:31 - I AM LOVE - Set yourself Free to just BE
6:14 - Do I need another person to be in love?
8:59 - Polishing the mirror by Ram Das
11:45 - Conditional vs. Unconditional Love?
13:06 - The hard problem of love? Where does it come from?
19:16 - It’s gonna take some PRACTION (Practicing Action)

SHOW NOTES: 

• I AM LOVE: The minute you can shift from I would be fine if i were this way to I AM you will set yourself free to simply BE. Be who? You, that's who. And if you allow yourself to bask in it with no distractions? Being you is pretty cool isn’t it? No one else is like you. You are one of a kind aren’t you? Let's take this day and focus on recognizing that I AM that makes you, and learn to see it in others. I AM LOVE. I AM ENERGY. I AM AWARENESS. Fascinated with the feeling and act of being IN love. I was curious if humans require another person to be IN LOVE or is it that person we have found or seek that allows you to express that which you already are? There is something called AGAPE LOVE? In the Bible, agape is a Greek word that describes a selfless, universal, and unconditional love that is characterized by self-sacrifice and loving others. It appears frequently in the New Testament, but rarely in other ancient Greek literature. The word comes from the verb agapan, which means "to greet with affection". However, it starts with loving yourself. I was exposed to a cool theory the other day that said that when two people are in love, that is just their souls hanging out with one another. Experiencing life freely with each other.  In reading the book, Polishing the Mirror by Ram Das and diving deep into his work elsewhere, he speaks about the fact that if we strip away everything that we are seeking in life. I call it the “ER”. HappiER, HealthiER, WealthiER. We are all seekers of the er no? Strip all that desire away, what are you left with? You are left with that which you are. The, I AM. What can you recognize about yourself after taking everything away in your life that is not you? That’s your I AM. When it comes to that love you seek or crave, isn’t that something already inside you that you want to let out? To be IN LOVE? I just find it fascinating because there is often an illusion that's been created by a world that offers for the most part conditional love. From what we’ve learned, love has rules and circumstances doesn’t it. We have our brushes through parents and the right spouse that offer unconditional love. But even that has conditions, no? But like the hard problem of consciousness, ie; us not understanding what exactly it is or where it is created. Where does love come from? Does it require two entities? Does it come from an outside force? Like a magnet, does it require a positive and negative force? Your love for your spouse, your children, your pet, your job, your best friend, or perhaps your life at this time? Are these things required for you to be in love? Or is love who and what you are? Already inside you. You're I AM. Can you see that we are all hungry to be in a state of love? Most commonly interpersonal romantic love. But this has a shelf life which concerns us. It’s gonna inevitably end one day, no? What I love about meditation is that it allows me to strip away the dependency from all external things and unveil that I am in fact already in love. This state often makes me want to share this love with others and external forces. Can you see that in thinking love requires an outside force or another person, we are often prompted to take possession of those you love as your own? Through forming friendships, marriage and parenting or even owning a pet. All the while unconscious to the fact that there resides an unlimited supply of love in the awakening that it is the primal source and main ingredient in what makes you, you. Get a grasp on this concept and awakening and it will help you gain clarity in many aspects of your life’s desires which is where we struggle the most. If you can start to affirm and embrace each start of your day in recognition of this by stating I AM LOVE. It will help put many things in perspective and allow you to slow down your love hunger drive and allow yourself to be grateful in the present moment. When it comes to the things you possess that allow you to express more of what you already are? Your spouse etc.. Perhaps you can do so with a simple state of gratitude for them as they have come into your life to remind you of who you are? How cool is that. Look at the person next to you that you are in love with. Consider what that means in this context? You are already in love, as are they. Yet for whatever reasons unique to your energy and life experiences, the two of you offer one another a safe and effective space to feel and express love. This form of gratitude comes from appreciating them for allowing you to express your true self. Sometimes we are fortunate to find our way into a group of others that create a safe space to express and bask in the love of one another. In Buddhism there is something called Satsang or Sangha, that translates to "community of seekers after the truth" and is also known as sangha. It's a spiritual community where people gather with like-minded individuals, especially those on a spiritual path, to work on themselves and others, and to share food, stories, and kirtan. Satsang can also refer to a group of people engaged in a spiritual dialogue. For those frustrated that they are not in love and think that feeling is conditional to you finding the right person? Now you understand that you are needlessly suffering due to you thinking love is conditional. No. Love is unconditional because you are love. When you find someone to share that space with, yes, it will be nice and you too will be grateful for it and them. Just like you are grateful when the sun rises and creates what you call a nice day. But a nice day can exist like love, anytime you choose. Make Sense?

EGO DEATH and the God Complex - THis episode unveils the Mysterious city of Eleusis where it was said humans experienced the magic of mortality and Rebirth by drinking some sort of magic transformational potion. If true, this takes the modern day structures of religion and god and shakes them up into manifestations of something else. Enjoy this thing that makes you go hmmm. 

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Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest. Making Sense of Optimal Health with Dr. Steven Geanopulos. What a great conversation about a topic that proves to be mostly confusing and for the most part made up to suit the needs of the individual when asked "What does it mean to be healthy?" Dr. Steven Geanopolus is a licensed Doctor of Chiropractic as well as a diplomat in Chiropractic Neurology. As the CEO of Cyrene Labs, a full scale optimal health diagnotic company, brings a facinating and eye opening vantage point to the mystery surrounding the topic of health in America and the world.

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Enjoy this amazing episode from the old Rise Up With Dragon show  where Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon" sheds light on the difference and relationship between the world inside your mind and the one on the outside. Can you see how they shape eachother?

One from the vault is a special blessing once a week where we look through the vast library of episodes from the previous Rise Up With Dragon Podcast and select episodes that deserve a replay. 

Here's One from the Vault of the Dragon's previous show called the Rise Up With Dragon Podcast. In this episode, Dragon flips the script on the idea that our universal goal is to become more conscious by unveiling the double edged sword of getting what you want. The Downside of A Conscious Mind can be found on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 

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