Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - Making Sense of Conformity - Out of Line - Episode 60

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

Conformity?  This episode is some good shift. Dragon draws an analogy correlated to human behavior and conformity where we can all find ourselves on a Line. Which line? The one you thik is the right one to be on. Get off that line and you are "Out of Line " - This podcast is available on both Apple and Spotify     MAKES SENSE PODCAST SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW the NEW Podcast - You will find a "Follow" button top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each https://podcasts.apple.com/.../makes-sense.../id1730954168     Podcast Affiliates: Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where i get all these topics for almost 15 years? I have learned to read at almost 4 times faster with 10X retention from Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://thelimitlesslearner.com/reading-promo62327921?via=m835j      OUR SPONSORS: - Makes Sense Academy: Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about - The Sati Experience: A retreat designed for the married couple that truly loves one another yet wants to take their love to that higher magical level where. Come relax, reestablish and renew your love at the Sati Experience. https://www.satiexperience.com Contact Dr. JC https://zez.am/makessense Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C. Dornick podcast. This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Make Sense podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is a subjective and acquired taste. What we know is that when you change the way you look at things, the things that you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C. Dornick podcast.

This topic that we're going to bring up today, which I have called Out of Line, is a really, really interesting observation of you for yourself, but also of people. And it's very, very timely positioned during voting and elections. And the intention of this rise up will be to stimulate a conversation that acknowledges so many different things about our likes and our dislikes, our decision-making process about others, and how we sometimes forget that if we're the kind of person, this is an interesting observation. If I ever observe somebody, as I would say, that is out of line, what I'll notice is that I'm only observing someone that's not on my line. And at the same time, I've learned to

recognize that I'm probably out of their line. From an opening, curious place as somebody that wants to be able to have a conversation with anybody. Not to try to change people, but just in observation, I wrote this for you guys this morning. So this is out of line. And it begins with just acknowledging that there's a lot of debate on this topic of like, what's appropriate, what's inappropriate, what does it mean to be in line or out of line? So there's a lot of debate on it. And you could kind of guide most humans to a place where they can determine their greatest

desires. A lot of times we'll start off saying like, well, what are you, what's your greatest desire? What do you want? Why? And what matters most to you? Most people can determine what their greatest desires are. What and who are the things in their life that matter most. As you start to think about that, if I was to ask what your greatest desire is and what are the things that matter most, what you'll notice is you'll start to define your line, the line that you're on. It's interesting way of looking at that, whether it's good or bad, because you think it's good. We always think what we're doing is good. Most people answer that question, what are the things that matter most? They'll say things like, well, my health, my relationship with God, my family. These are answers

that are typically not their own answers. Now think about that. If I say, what are the things that matter most to you? When you answer that, you're telling me what you think and what your decision is, is this is what's most important. Like I tell you that everything is about my kids. For me, as I look at that, I know that my kids are the most important thing to me. And the reason why I know that, funny to say I know, because if push came to shove without any thought at all, I would die for them. I would sacrifice my own life to save theirs. And parents understand that.

That's pretty powerful. So that tells me that they're the most important thing because I would give up my life for them. However, when it comes to my impression of life in general and what matters most, beyond who matters most, I have no trouble telling you who matters most. See, when you ask me what matters most, I very often will tell you who matters most, even if you told me that God matters most, or your health matters most, you'll notice that we don't struggle with saying who matters most. But beyond who matters most, so for me, as somebody that has progressively learned how to allow myself to become open and curious and more focused on the present moment than the past and the

future, that's a very, very big power move, is to just focus on what's actually happening in the moment. Because you'll notice that if you're tethered to thoughts about what you've learned, those typically are happening in the future and the past. But if you're living in the present moment, you're open to whatever's actually happening. There's not a lot of opinion going on in the present moment. I can see personally that I have 100% followed along with this path that I was taught to follow along with from birth. I mean, I didn't have any say when I came out saying goo-gu-gaga. Whatever I was told while my brain was developing, I just believed was. So I definitely followed that. I learned to be a good boy. I went to school. I learned about eating well and

drinking well and sleeping well, being nice. I learned the importance of education and getting good grades. I followed along the rules and I found my partner, got the job, got married, get the house, have the kids, and then found myself teaching my kids to do the same thing. But I never really stopped along the way to say, whose idea was this? Right? So that's what this is. That's your conscious move for the day is to go, huh, I'm not saying it's good or bad, but can you guys all see that we've been just kind of like following along for the most part?

and it has some interesting ramifications. Once again, neither good nor bad. You decide that. So looking back at the greater part of that journey, I personally find myself observing that I've pretty much been operating as some sort of programmed robot or zombie that has been sleepwalking through life because I never stopped to think.

If you wake up in the middle of the night and go downstairs and have a bowl of cereal and make a mess in the kitchen, you don't know you did that the next day. as human beings, we have this ability to drive for like five minutes without even recalling what we've done. We're running on autopilot. So I feel like some sort of program robot or zombie. Now, looking at all that stuff and the things that I've accomplished and acquired and just find myself wondering if any of it actually mattered. This is an interesting question to ask yourself is if I say what matters most, you'll revert to the who. So we're coming back to that space.

right now and you get to look at all the stuff that you've acquired along the way and you're either celebrating it and recognize it or back future focus but did any of it actually matter and i just want you to know i have this defense mechanism if you challenged me and say well did any of it matter at all i have this ability to draw this correlation and say well it all brought me to hear we're so good at that right say well if not for that like if somebody says hey it's pretty fucked up what you did when you were like 25, be like, well, it brought me here. How did you get over that tragedy that happened in your life? Well, thank God for that because it brought me here. So we have all of those things set up. But still, do we ever stop and say, you know, did any of it matter? Did it make my time count?

Did any of it actually matter in the grand meaning of life? As I get older and wiser, and I can't believe that I'm calling myself old and wise, I find myself looking at things differently. So this is what the premise of all of the work that we do is if it change the way you look at things and things you look at change. So primarily the difference is the way that I choose to look at things rather than the way I was taught. Now that's a big move. And when you go through the interface response system, that's pretty much the most powerful part about it is to recognize that you've been taught and persuaded and programmed and just have the opportunity. to say, well, maybe I can choose to think differently. Maybe. Make sense? So looking at the things the way I choose, I've learned over time, and I'm working on it all the time, to give myself permission

to step out from the line that I found myself on. So this is the visual that I want you guys to consider, this idea of being on this line. The line that I'm talking about represents the line of people doing what they're supposed to do in order to live this proverbial good life. If we had you all write a paragraph of what does it mean to live a good life, you'd see a lot of commonality in it. Because for the most part, we've all been on some sort of a part of our life on this same line. I can go back 15 years in my life or 20 years in my life and ask myself a question. I would ask myself this. I would say, hey, J.C., where is that line you're on going? I never thought of that. I was just just doing what I think I was supposed to. So I often ask myself, am I on a line with a bunch of other zombies at this time?

And you know what's funny about it? Is no matter how advanced and enlightened and conscious you get, you're still on a line. You could just find yourself on an advanced conscious human line. Just so you know, for anybody that's like saying, oh, God, this is very frustrating. I don't want to be on a line. I don't, I didn't decide to be on this line. It's okay. Like, you can actually realize that there's nothing wrong with being on a line. But are you a line jumper or are you a line sticker? That might be what you want to challenge. And the urgency of how fast I move on that line,

I usually base that on the fact that I'm going to die. And I don't know when. And as you get older, that becomes more apparent. So your outcome on that line is fairly predictable because the line was created by a bunch of other people. It's why you're on the line. You got on a line because it's predicting something. Now, once you step out of that,

that line, what happens immediately, and it could be scary, it doesn't have to be, but what happens immediately when you step off or out of line, you gain new perspectives and new vantage points that can bring you to what some people call an awakening. So an awakening would be to learn about something that you didn't know. How could you do that if you're on the same line? So none of the stuff that I thought mattered actually mattered. Now I'm going to add to that to me. The reason why I'm going to add to me is I'm going to recognize that when people are committed to being on their line, whether they know it or not, they don't want anyone telling them that they're on the wrong line or that they're making a mistake. They don't even want to be told they're on a line

because they're on the line. Anybody else that's not on your line, they're just out of their minds, right? So can you see that you're on a line? Don't call it good or bad, but can you see it? And can you question right now whether or not you're online or are you out of line? One of the reasons why I get challenged every now and then I realize is because I'm kind of out of line. You know, with politics, sometimes people get mad at me if I, in any way, shape, or form, like say something, even just saying politics, people would start looking at me differently. So I always have to be careful with that.

Any big, big decision that's line oriented, if you just even say that you're neutral, or you're allowing yourself to look at all sides, you're at a line from the perspective of somebody that's on a line. So isn't that an interesting way to evaluate your life? That's what I'm empowering you with. I'm not trying to arm you guys with an arsenal of equipment against my opinion, because I'm not giving you one. It's just an observation. In fact, people on the line look at those that step out of the line or have chosen even another line as disruptors and troublemakers. So think about this and yourself. Can you see that you're on a line? And are you online or out of line? So just listen to the way it sounds. If I said, hey, you're out of line. What have you been taught that that means?

Because I'm saying maybe it's a good thing. You should be like, hey, thanks, JC. I'm working hard on that. But what we've been taught is like, hey, you are out of line. But what I'm really saying is you're not on my line. And that's not good. Total chaos, right? So if one person starts disrupting stuff, that's why it's scary it scares the shit out of everybody that's on that line why why do we get so frustrated and angry at people now that you're conscious enough to recognize this whole line thing why do we get so scared and frustrated and angry at people that go their own way and challenge core principles whose core principles yours isn't that funny to say oh that person i don't like them And I say why.

And you will in one way, shape, or form explain to me that they're doing something bad. But what you're failing to see is they're just doing something other than what you do. You don't have to hang out with people. But if you can look at it that way, it's going to be helpful. Perhaps also it's scary to think that they might be right. And you might be wrong. Ooh, that's frightening. If you've been online for a long, long time, you know what it's like when you're waiting

online for a long time? And somebody next to you is goes, hey, this is too long. Let's get the hell out of here. be like, I'm committed. I'm not giving up right now. I've logged so much time on this line. I'm not getting off this line. And then you find out that you're on the wrong line.

You'll stay on that line for a little while, hoping that that person's wrong. But eventually, when you find out you're on the wrong line, ooh, I don't want to be around you. That's why we're scared about anybody that does anything disruptive. Also, we're also afraid of people that are out of line that they might cause trouble. We don't like people that coax others on our line to join their line. So have a wonderful day, and I love and appreciate you. I'll see you next time.

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