It was the deadliest string of shark attacks the world has ever seen. In 2011, sharks in Réunion, a beautiful island, way out in the Indian Ocean started biting people way more than ever before and with lunatic violence. The epidemic forced local surfers, politicians, and business owners into a proxy war with ocean lovers and conservationists worldwide, where long simmering tensions boiled over. Réunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise is the story of what happened on this beautiful island, and t ...
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Amnesia: Convenient or Productive
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"I remember it the way it should have been." - An old man once told me whilst reminiscing about the past A truthful admission. Confession is good for the soul. But accurate recall is also good. And right! Remembering the right thing requires that we first do the right thing. The only way to remember it the way it should have been is to have done what should have been done. It's like telling the truth versus telling lies. Tell the truth and stop worrying. Because it's the truth. Tell lies and you have to become a master juggler or be found out a liar. It begins with doing the right thing. Telling the truth. Making the right decision. Doing what's right. That's how we can prevent the need for convenient amnesia. An NFL quarterback throws a pick-six (an intercepted ball the opposing team runs back for a touchdown). The announcer remark, "He has to put that behind him and forget about it." Within minutes when the quarterback gets the ball back, we find out whether or not he can forget the horrible mistake he just made. Sports are filled with such instances. Aaron Judge is chasing a home run record as I hit record today. The pressure must be intense. After all, he's a New York Yankee chasing a Yankee and an American League record, but he's currently stuck on number 60. Striking out. Walking. Base hits here and there. Does he let his mind linger on the strikeouts? Maybe. His ability to forget it and move on, knowing the next at-bat is going to be a new opportunity to achieve the record --- that's going to make the difference in his success. He'll figure it out. Great athletes almost always do. It's one trait that makes them great - their ability to practice productive amnesia. Convenient amnesia is delusion. It's inaccurate and heavily biased in our favor. "I remember it the way it should have been." Productive amnesia is moving forward. It's the realization that we failed in the past, but now we're going to take advantage of the opportunity in front of us. "Regrets, I've had a few," sings Sinatra in that classic song, My Way. Regrets, I've had a fewBut then again too few to mentionI did what I had to doI saw it through without exemptionI planned each charted courseEach careful step along the bywayAnd more, much, much moreI did it, I did it my way Too few to mention is likely an understatement for most of us. If we're willing to be honest with ourselves. For me, it's less about regrets and more about what lessons those regrets teach me. I work at fixing my mind on a single question, "Now what?" Convenient amnesia gets in the way because of pride. I may not always want to admit I was stupid, foolish or that I failed. A big part of convenient amnesia is also that woulda-coulda-shoulda feeling we've all had. Those times when we wished we had made a different decision, or taken a different action - those times when we regret what we did or we regret what we neglected to do. Six to eight months ago - and before - when the real estate markets were going crazy we talked about putting our house on the market, but we weren't ready. For lots of reasons. Mostly because we had yet to embark on our mission to purge and declutter our lives. We talked about it, but we had yet to back our ears and do it. During those times people stabbed a "for sale" sign in their yard and within days (sometimes hours) the houses were scarfed up, sold above asking price in many cases. We're feeling that woulda-shoulda-coulda feeling about it, wishing we had prepared ourselves to take advantage, but we didn't. It's not the first time we've felt that way. Truth is, real estate has never been my friend. ;) All our married life we've found ourselves, due to career moves, needing to leave one place and move to a different place where the markets just never lined up to benefit us. In this part of the country - Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana - we inevitably needed to sell a house in a stagnant or down market and move to a les...
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Innehåll tillhandahållet av Randy Cantrell. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av Randy Cantrell eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.
"I remember it the way it should have been." - An old man once told me whilst reminiscing about the past A truthful admission. Confession is good for the soul. But accurate recall is also good. And right! Remembering the right thing requires that we first do the right thing. The only way to remember it the way it should have been is to have done what should have been done. It's like telling the truth versus telling lies. Tell the truth and stop worrying. Because it's the truth. Tell lies and you have to become a master juggler or be found out a liar. It begins with doing the right thing. Telling the truth. Making the right decision. Doing what's right. That's how we can prevent the need for convenient amnesia. An NFL quarterback throws a pick-six (an intercepted ball the opposing team runs back for a touchdown). The announcer remark, "He has to put that behind him and forget about it." Within minutes when the quarterback gets the ball back, we find out whether or not he can forget the horrible mistake he just made. Sports are filled with such instances. Aaron Judge is chasing a home run record as I hit record today. The pressure must be intense. After all, he's a New York Yankee chasing a Yankee and an American League record, but he's currently stuck on number 60. Striking out. Walking. Base hits here and there. Does he let his mind linger on the strikeouts? Maybe. His ability to forget it and move on, knowing the next at-bat is going to be a new opportunity to achieve the record --- that's going to make the difference in his success. He'll figure it out. Great athletes almost always do. It's one trait that makes them great - their ability to practice productive amnesia. Convenient amnesia is delusion. It's inaccurate and heavily biased in our favor. "I remember it the way it should have been." Productive amnesia is moving forward. It's the realization that we failed in the past, but now we're going to take advantage of the opportunity in front of us. "Regrets, I've had a few," sings Sinatra in that classic song, My Way. Regrets, I've had a fewBut then again too few to mentionI did what I had to doI saw it through without exemptionI planned each charted courseEach careful step along the bywayAnd more, much, much moreI did it, I did it my way Too few to mention is likely an understatement for most of us. If we're willing to be honest with ourselves. For me, it's less about regrets and more about what lessons those regrets teach me. I work at fixing my mind on a single question, "Now what?" Convenient amnesia gets in the way because of pride. I may not always want to admit I was stupid, foolish or that I failed. A big part of convenient amnesia is also that woulda-coulda-shoulda feeling we've all had. Those times when we wished we had made a different decision, or taken a different action - those times when we regret what we did or we regret what we neglected to do. Six to eight months ago - and before - when the real estate markets were going crazy we talked about putting our house on the market, but we weren't ready. For lots of reasons. Mostly because we had yet to embark on our mission to purge and declutter our lives. We talked about it, but we had yet to back our ears and do it. During those times people stabbed a "for sale" sign in their yard and within days (sometimes hours) the houses were scarfed up, sold above asking price in many cases. We're feeling that woulda-shoulda-coulda feeling about it, wishing we had prepared ourselves to take advantage, but we didn't. It's not the first time we've felt that way. Truth is, real estate has never been my friend. ;) All our married life we've found ourselves, due to career moves, needing to leave one place and move to a different place where the markets just never lined up to benefit us. In this part of the country - Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana - we inevitably needed to sell a house in a stagnant or down market and move to a les...
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