A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE IF YOU NEED HELP... BUT, ARE YOU LISTENING? EP. 386 The Earnest Mann Show
Discovering Self-Awareness and Insight: An Earnest Perspective
Hey, it's Earnest Mann here! Today, I'm bringing a real-world perspective on self-awareness and insight, free of jargon or complex theories. This episode is about practical ways to improve your understanding of yourself and your surroundings, helping you make informed, intelligent decisions. There’s no high-priced book or word salad—just valuable, usable knowledge.
The Power of Self-Perception and Honest Communication
In this episode, I dig into how people often avoid reaching out or opening up, whether it's due to fear, reluctance, or a simple lack of communication. I share my perplexity over the silence from some listeners and explore possible reasons behind it, including hesitation or even a bit of humorous suspicion about my motives! Real communication, I stress, requires being open to others' genuine care and interest, as it can make a real difference in your life.
A Practical Look at Contextual Value and Decision-Making
To illustrate, I offer a vivid metaphor: imagine being in dire need of water in the middle of the desert, where your choices are limited. This shows how context influences our perceptions of value and impacts our reactions. Just like the $50 bottle of water that’s worth it in a desert but ridiculous in a convenience store, self-awareness can change how we approach life situations. When we understand our fears and emotions, we’re better prepared to make smart, informed choices that benefit us.
Insights Beyond the Surface
With my background and knowledge, I know I can offer unique insights and solutions to real-world problems that you won’t find online. But it all starts with a genuine ask. So, if you’re curious, let’s keep the conversation real and meaningful, grounded in actual reality rather than the virtual. Catch my show for more practical wisdom every Monday and Friday at 6:00 a.m.—unless you’re here to waste my time, then keep moving!
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With friends, I desire quality over quantity. I know some very important life truths I'm just waiting for you to ask about. I have found in life, many people talk about happiness, but are unwilling to pay the price, or believe they shouldn't have to, because they are entitled to it, but I know with absolute certainty, that such beliefs are always due to stupidity, Insanity, or some degree of both.
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Transcript
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hello again and thank you for being here
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would you like a little insight about
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yourself that's exactly what I'm going
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to be talking to you about today
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actually giving you a little insight so
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you can help yourself I'm not going to
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be trying to sell you a book or SPO out
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a whole bunch of confusing words salad
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Jordan Peterson style that Sigman
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Freud himself wouldn't even be
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able to figure out
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just something you can actually
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use if you work for a living why do you
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kill yourself
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working you'd actually be surprised with
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how much help there is out there from
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sources you may never have considered
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but one of the big problems is when when
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people choose to hunker down mentally or
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emotionally as though they are engaged
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in some kind of battle well that's
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really not a good way to go through life
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because it blocks your ability to see
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things much more clearly like being able
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to see when someone else is genuinely
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concerned about you and if you can't see
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that the greatest advice in the world
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the greatest message will never get
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through to you because it's falling on
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death ears one of the things that really
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perplexes me about this concerns
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communication or actually a lack thereof
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from some of my listeners you see
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relatively speaking I don't hear from
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nearly as many of you as I would like so
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that basically leads me to two possible
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explanations first the people that are
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listening to my show have very good well
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adjusted lives everything is pretty much
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fine they don't need any advice from me
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or anyone else they proverbially have
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their together for second even
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though they may watch my videos and
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their life situation is as up as
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a dyke at a ker party they don't reach
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out to me because something has put the
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fear of God into them do I work for the
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FBI the CIA or maybe just maybe I'm a
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Mason come the think of it I do
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recall somewhere a picture of me taken
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with one hand tucked into my sport coat
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one of the secret signs of all Masons
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yep I admit it I'm caught red-handed
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somehow that photograph got out to the
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public and everybody knows I'm a
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Mason the nefarious plot of my
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organization to take over the world has
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finally been
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exposed okay just kidding I'm not a
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Mason so seriously what is it
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then is the subject matter in my
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episodes so utterly terrifying that you
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simply can't bring yourself to ask me a
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question or perhaps and I'm thinking
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that maybe this is a distinct
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possibility because I do admittedly have
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a masochistic streak and I regularly
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pound my head against the wall
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trying to get a response from you
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my listeners are primarily
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sadist who enjoy giving me the silent
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treatment the same thing that psycho
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woman I was dating many years ago used
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to do because you know just how much it
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irritates me okay fine I went
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along with your sick and twisted game
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but enough is enough I'm going to tell
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you the same thing I told that psycho
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woman many years ago
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off well okay maybe I jumped the gun a
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little bit I didn't really mean to tell
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you to off I'm sorry but I would
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really really really appreciate
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a question from you self-absorbed all
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knowing
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bucks so getting back to the original do
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you remember I said I would give you
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some insight well if what I just told
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you concerning your psyche is an Insight
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I don't know what it
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is this is exactly what I'm talking
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about when it comes to having insight
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AKA self awareness still don't believe
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me not enough for you huh well allow me
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to give you yet another
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example let's say I'm the owner of a
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small convenience store here in the
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Pacific
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Northwest and you come in to buy a bot
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of water you come to the counter and
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when I ring it up it's
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$50 after I get a well-deserved cursing
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out from you telling me in no uncertain
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terms what a crook and criminal
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I am for trying to charge you $50 for a
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small bottle of water you leave in a
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huff which I admit is
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understandable now let's say the exact
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same scenario happens except for a few
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not so minor
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differences this time you are very
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thirsty let's just for illustrative
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purposes is leave any potential violence
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such as robbing me out of the picture
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maybe I have security guards standing
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around with guns or
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whatever but my convenience store is in
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the middle of the Arizona desert there
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is not another convenience store or
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source of water for 500 miles in any
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direction and you are seriously in need
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of
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water I would bet chances are Not only
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would you pay the
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$50 but you would be very cool with me
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am I still being a total crook
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and criminal absolutely but you totally
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refrain from indignantly proclaiming
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that to me cursing me out or telling me
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what a complete I am for what's
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obvious you were very afraid remember
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you can't take the water or steal it
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from me
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without the risk of pissing me off
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because you assume correctly that in
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this particular case you need to hold
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your tongue because I may just decide
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not to sell you the water at all then
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you would really be now consider
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this with everything I have said thus
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far especially in the previous metaphor
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if I have the knowledge to illustrate
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what I just did to to you that clearly
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and
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concisely imagine what I could
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potentially do for you or the issues I
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could solve for you I have a very large
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information base and know you won't find
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it
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online in your actual
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life to wrap this up the key word here
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being actual as in real life actual
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existence a assuming you are old
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or self-aware enough to understand that
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that is what I do and I do it well but I
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can only do what I do when I am asked to
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do so preferably by someone who
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understands the difference between
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virtual and actual
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reality and speaking of reality check
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out my show every Monday and Friday at
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6:00 a.m. for fantastic insights just
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like this unless you're a sis then stay
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the hell away until next time this is
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earnest and I usually am
