Rocky Garza argues most people live on autopilot, giving safe answers instead of acting on what they actually believe. Like a computer reset to factory settings, we discard our experience and wisdom. Real growth means abandoning comfort and putting yourself out there.
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You feel like you're living your life on default. What do you mean? And I said, I hear you saying such natural responses to the questions I'm asking, but your responses don't feel like they're convictional to everything else you've told me you wanted in life. They feel like the default answer that's like you're just supposed to say, you've said it for 30 years. And so when I ask you, you just say it. Is that your default setting? And I kind of think about it like a computer, right? Like things get screwed up. It's stressful, struggles, business isn't working. I gotta find more money. Oh, I incurred debt. Somebody screwed me over, a relationship. Anything that occurs, sort of like, you know, the spinning wheel of death on our laptop, and we go, we call up, hey, I need help, and they go, hey, have you attempted to restore it back to its default settings? Which means that all the experience, the wisdom, the knowledge, the customization, if you will, about our life, we sort of just like toss it out the window. I think many of us would say that safety and security is a better blanket and a greater default than what's required to practice, put yourself out there,