07/24/2019

I was listening to the @storybrand_ podcast yesterday and heard Donald Miller paraphrase a quote by Viktor Frankl -
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Millers paraphrase: “Pretend this is the second time that you’ve lived your life, and don’t make the same mistakes”
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Viktor Frankl: “So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
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Wild to think about right?
In the podcast, Donald Miller (the creator of Story brand) interviews Adam Savage (Myth Busters) and he explains this AMAZING tactic he uses when he’s in an argument or “knows” he’s not going in the direction he ‘wants’ to…
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He “steps back” out of his our mind almost and sees his life as a movie- a screen write if you will.
He then Re-WRITES his character in his mind-
He says to himself, “if they audience is seeing me now, I’m the villain and despised-
HOW can I turn this around to redeem myself with the audience?”
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In the example he gives, he says he is then able to say to his loved one- “I am sorry I said those things…etc- I was angry for other reasons and taking it out on you etc…and is able to ‘step outside of himself’ and see what an observer would see.
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It was such a novel concept, I wanted to share. -
Anyone do something similar?