Claire HayekFounder, Mind. Soul. Purpose (MSP) Teambuilding · Pressure-Proof Leadership | Neuroscience-based leadership

🎤 SABOTEUR | SAGE SONG SERIES — Ep. 1 👉🏼 Beautiful Things by Benson Boone

5 Apr 2025 · 2 min

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In this introductory episode of the “Saboteur & Sage” song‑analysis series, the host (Speaker A) explains the core ideas of Positive Intelligence – the Saboteur (the part of the mind that works against us), the Sage (the part that works for us), and the Judge (the internal critic). The host proposes that listening to song lyrics is a practical exercise for spotting these mental patterns, because songwriters often embed emotional experiences in their words. As a concrete example, the host plays a short excerpt from Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” (performed by Speaker B) and promises to point out where the lyrics reveal the Judge, Saboteur, or Sage. The segment ends with a call for viewers to suggest future songs, like, and follow the series.

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Listen up. So I've been talking a lot about the PQ, our positive intelligence, and our saboteurs. So just to summarize, our saboteurs is when our brain is working, our mind is working against us, and when we're basically in our sage power, sage brain, our brain is working for us. Okay? Now, a lot of times, our saboteurs are sabotaging everything about our life, our mind, Our capabilities, etc., and limiting us in, you know, where we can step into our sage power. Well, actually, they're blocking that. So there's a lot of things we could do, but one thing we could do is identify and understand what these saboteurs are so we can anticipate it and stop them, right? Intercept them. And a great way to do it is to listen. When you're listening to music, do this exercise and figure out— Through the lyrics, because often when you write a song as a singer-songwriter— actually, I am one, in case you didn't know— we're a lot in our emotions and we're talking about an experience, um, whether it's positive or negative. And when we listen to a song, we're able to identify a lot of the Sage, a lot of the Saboteur, a lot of the Judge. So I wanted to give you an example, and I want to start this Saboteur Sage series, song series, and I want to start with Benson Boone, Beautiful Things. So listen up to the lyrics. Listen, I'm going to point out what each You know, lyric— part of the lyric symbolizes and where the judge creeps in and where the saboteur is totally all over the place, or where we're completely in our sage. Okay, so here we go. Oh, I know I've got enough, I've got peace and I've got love, but I'm up all night thinking I just might lose it all.
Please stay. I want you. I need you. Oh God, don't take these beautiful things that I got. Oh!
Tell me what you think, and maybe suggest a song that another song I could do. There's so many, and I'm really excited about these series. So. Like and follow for more.