Nov 30, 2018
Accusations of arrogance or being opinionated or even dogmatic are thrown about. But, are those accusations warranted or true? Is it wrong to be opinionated or dogmatic?
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*Professor Paul*
Welcome to episode number 200 of the Morning
Mindset podcast. Wow, and I've been doing this show for less than a
year as I speak the words into this microphone. I hope you're
enjoying it. I hope you appreciate it. I hope you like what we've
been doing. When I say we me and my producer in the background who
you don't ever hear from because I am alone in the studio alone
with my thoughts and loan with this carbon steel
microphone.
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Today we're going to talk about opinionated and
arrogant or arrogant and opinionated, and it kind of dovetails
right in with yesterday's discussion on identifying quality. Now if
you have gone out and gotten the experience lived life got an
education and training and so forth. You may be better able to
identify quality then other people, and for instance, whether it
especially when it comes to training, let's see education or types
of training or what have you if you go out and you get lots of
Education you take lots of classes training
courses.
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What
have you, I've done that for 30+years, and so I feel that I am
very, very capable of identifying a good trainer, a good training
program, a good class, a good instructor. I'm very skilled or
well-equipped shall we say to identify high-quality good
instruction and poor mediocre or average instruction. It doesn't
take me very long to sniff out an average or a poor instructor
because well because I've got 30 plus years of experience doing it
and what that leads to I may say, I don't like this or I don't
appreciate that or I don't endorse this.
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There are also programs products gear things
that I wholeheartedly and very strongly endorse. and the reason
that I'm endorsing these things is because I have this experience
and the spaces in Education and Training, but when you go forward
and endorse something when you endorsed a when there's a training
program or whether it is a product or where there is a way of
thinking when you endorsed that and when you endorsed it strongly
and wholeheartedly you open yourself up to the accusation of
arrogance or opinionated.
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I've
been accused of both of those. I've been accused of being arrogant
because I believe that I'm right. Or that I believe I'm always
right that Paul Markle guy. He always thinks he's right. Well, yes,
as a matter of fact, I do. I do think I'm right and the silly and
ridiculous thing about that accusation is that people that throw it
out? What is the other option? Is the other option? Not believe in
your own thoughts not believe in your own decisions. Opinionated
people say that guy's very opinionated all I don't I don't like him
because he's opinionated.
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For
what makes an opinionated? Well, you know, he said exactly and
here's the thing people are often accused of being opinionated
because they tell you. with without reservation exactly how they
feel about a certain subject. They don't beat around the bush. They
don't offer half-truths. They don't temper what they're going to
say with political correctness. They say exactly what is on their
mind with Noah. No uncertain terms, right and when they do that
they're accused of being opinionated.
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She
politicians are rarely accused of being opinionated because they
temper everything that comes out of their mouth. They never tell
you exactly how they feel they never take a stand on anything
because they may need to change it tomorrow or this audience might
not like what they have to say so that they have to modify their
opinions. Or their thoughts or their decisions or whatever they
have to modify their speech based upon whose hearing it. Now when
you don't do that. When you offer your own opinions your thoughts
your beliefs and you don't take into
consideration.
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Who's listening? You're accused of arrogance
you're accused of being opinionated and recently I was listening to
Matt and Scott talked about starting strength and some of the
people who have criticized starting strength over the years and
they've criticized it for being dogmatic. Meaning that there they
hold firmly to their beliefs and they refused to change them. Yes,
sometimes being dogmatic is actually a good thing. I ask you this
if you were looking for someone let's say I don't know, let's go
ahead and say something like you wanted to learn how to play the
guitar.
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You
wanted someone to teach you and you could pick any person right any
person in the world to teach you to play guitar to show you the ins
and outs in the upside downs and the Mastery of the guitar. Who
would you go to like, you know, when one of those Lottery
situations where you could just pick any person, and they would be
made available to you to answer all of your questions and to show
you what they knew and so forth. Who would you choose would you
choose someone that is a master of that for instance, would you
choose Eddie Van Halen?
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Would you choose Eddie Van Halen
to teach you the guitar or would you choose somebody that? Well,
that doesn't feel that they're very good. It's silly to me, but yet
it still exists. people don't appreciate those who they accuse
those who have strong truthful opinions of being arrogant people
who don't change or modify their thoughts based upon who the
audience happens to be that day and they're accused of being
dogmatic or opinionated sometimes it's good to be opinionated and I
don't know what about the arrogance thing, but I can tell you this
if someone has experience education and they have been striving or
if they have striven to master, whatever it is their field of
endeavor.
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Whether it's strength training or you know
being a musician or what have you they probably have very very
strong feelings about that because they've invested a lot of time
and effort into it. So before you're willing to throw out the
arrogance label or the opinionated label or you know, before you
listen to someone like that you might want to think about exactly
where that comes from. I just thought I would date. You know, what
the heck I would I would deal with that subject. I would address it
because I run into it quite frequently. Alright, ladies and
gentlemen, like I said today was episode number 200 of Morning
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