Here For the Memories
A thought-provoking audio memoir shorts filled with stories, humor, anecdotes, and commentary on social, cultural, business, and religious issues. Whatever Linden remembers and thinks will entertain, challenge, and inform is a possible subject.
Here For the Memories
Challenging Conventional Wisdom
In "Break Free From Conventional Thinking," we dismantle the prison of conventional wisdom and the half-truths peddled by self-help and business gurus. I urge you to question popular advice and avoid the pitfall of becoming a second-rate imitation of someone else's life. Instead, seek out the wisdom of those who truly understand your struggles and have grounded, real-life insights to share. Reflect on your moments of independent thinking and embrace the journey towards authenticity and self-reliance. So tune in, and let's commit to originality and truth in every facet of life.
Here For the Memories
Here for the memories thought-provoking audio memoir shorts filled with stories, humor, anecdotes and commentary on social, cultural, business and religious issues. Whatever Lyndon remembers and thinks will entertain, challenge and inform is a possible subject. The collection of memories about one's life allows for the development and refinement of a sense of self, including who one is, how one has changed and what one might be like in the future.
Speaker 2:Greetings and salutations. I'm Lyndon Wolfe, and welcome to my audio memoir. Here for the Memories. If you think you came here accidentally, you are completely wrong. This is a providential event designed to take you on a much-needed journey.
Speaker 2:I'm rarely the smartest person in the room and I continue my lifelong practice of impertinence toward convention and the status quo. My lack of reverence toward unwritten rules and the social constructs of business etiquette was once demonstrated by my answer to an interview question asking me to inform a room of suits and you know what I mean when I say suits concerning my morning routine, something they consider to be a precursor to a day of productivity, discipline and, ultimately, success. How silly is that? Their rigorous devotion to the morning routine borders on religious fervor Ridiculous, Anyway. My answer to the question about my am routine was I set up in bed, light a cigarette, turn on ESPN and yell at my wife to bring me my Bloody Mary. Turn on ESPN and yell at my wife to bring me my Bloody Mary. Maybe this is why my current employer, the Onan Group, labeled me as the company's most interesting man, and never leader of the year. The odd stares and chuckles I elicit at executive meetings are commonplace when things become drab and stale. Folks look my way for comments of levity and comments of complete incongruity with the culture that permeates most boardrooms. Depending on who you ask, I'm either a breath of fresh air or the pungent odor of an unwanted renegade, or maybe I'm seen as a harmless, senile old man.
Speaker 2:To my point, what we assume to be true because it's conventional wisdom is often illogical and eventually retards our personal and professional growth. For example, let's take the comment perception is reality Very common, but very false. Sometimes our perception has nothing to do with reality, or objective truths for that matter. Why? We are emotional creatures, prone to seeing things through the lens shaped by our own experiences and our own wishes. Although we might want something to be true, believing it to be does not make it so. There must be something more impartial, some standard that is more neutral than our feelings to measure things by, or we are hopelessly at the whim of an easily distorted and manipulated psyche.
Speaker 2:Even to say one's perception is their reality is often false as well. For example, I once thought I was extremely intelligent and witty, but those who know me are well aware that this is patently false. Hmm, let's think about another one. Okay, you can become anything you truly want to be, whatever your mind you've heard can conceive and believe it can achieve man. These are seriously short in intrinsic logic. I, for one, finally realized that I would never be the starting center for the Boston Celtics I really desired to be, no matter the amount of mental gymnastics I performed to conceive and believe that into reality, it just wasn't going to happen. I tried, though Sadly I found my intense efforts at stretching, eating, gluttonous amounts of trans fat and incessant chanting of grow, grow, grow, and I am still 13 inches too short. This, ironically, is why all faith healers die.
Speaker 2:The idea that we can literally speak reality health, for example into existence has some stunningly obvious limitations. Into existence has some stunningly obvious limitations. No-transcript heal yourself. Why don't you? Do I even have to address the silly notion that the customer is always right? Anyone who thinks that has completely lost their mind. Or that those who agree that the pen is mightier than the sword sounds good, doesn't it? But they've never been stabbed. What about? What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Well, my bout with cancer suggests otherwise. You are what you eat.
Speaker 2:Can't be a literal truth, unless most of us are pigs and plants. A watch pot never boils. Just watch it long enough, I dare you. Slow and steady wins the race, unless it's the 100-meter dash. In that case I would suggest sprinting, and if what I'm writing or speaking offends you, then you don't really believe that. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. I want to break in song every time I say that line.
Speaker 2:Well, so much of what we've been told are axioms true or just flat-out false. This begs the question what else is there that I assume to be true just because I was told it was? Often we can't make progress because we're held captive by false assumptions and ideas. We wish to be true, but they really aren't. We struggle because we find it difficult or undesirable to step back from our perceptions and challenge our own status quo.
Speaker 2:The way we've always thought about or done things can be a prison of untruths that defy objective reality. This is not a good way to live and, to be brutally honest with you, your favorite self-help or business guru might be contributing to the problem. Those brandishing platitudes and blowing secondhand smoke up your skirt they really do disgust me. So what's my point? Well, challenge conventional wisdom and stop letting psychobabble bobbleheads put wrong and hurtful notions in your small head. Remember that if everyone is running one way, it might be best to run the other. At least you're original and let wise people who don't have their ugly mugs plastered on book covers and seminar flyers help you define the real truth, not a bunch of clichés that aren't true.
Speaker 2:These people are in the trenches with you. They fight similar battles, whose insight you respect because you know them, their character and their wisdom Thoughts. Have you bought into the hype but not seen the results? Are you listening to those who are far more concerned with their own financial success than yours? Have you become nothing more than an amalgamation of others' ideas and have become a walking copycat? I suggest you look back at a time you thought for yourself, believe what you believed and live with the confidence that you were your own person. I think it's worth considering. Until we meet again. This is the one of a kind Lyndon Wolfe and you have enjoyed here for the Memories. The next time we meet, I expect to see a whole new you. Please like and subscribe to see a whole new you.
