EP 208 The Pando Tree Effect

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Welcome to the show, people. This is episode 208. That's right. 208 or 200 in eight from my professional people out there, my suburbanites, middle class, 208.

For everybody else, 208, the Pando Tree Effect. So we got a good episode today. First of all, we're going to talk about the power of so and sees, you know what I mean, and why we got to think through what that even means. A lot of times, if you come from coach, I can talk people.

Here we go already needing that. If you come from church culture, then a lot of times we think about so and sees as money, but we're going to get far deeper and far more practical at the same time than talking about money. We got to expand beyond money, especially when we're thinking about church, or at least talk about the proper way to think about money, which is why I do spend a lot of time talking about finances. We're also going to also, on that note, going to talk about why charity keeps you poor.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I know charity is an amazing thing. I support charity. I've been a beneficiary of charity, has had a positive impact on my life in many ways.

I've also tried to give back in many ways, but I also see this great area in charity where charity can actually keep you poor and help, you know, cause you to remain in that cycle. And then lastly, we're going to talk about, you know, why changing somebody's mind is the hardest thing you can actually do in life. And we're going to do all that while talking about the pando tree. But first, I'm going to give you a little bit of this intro.

All right, people, let's get into this episode 208, the pando tree effect. So this all started from a thought or before I do that, let me at least give you to the the focal scripture of today that's going to anchor today's episode is Proverbs 4 and 7. And it says that wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom and with all that getting and understanding. Let's just be real.

A lot of us are walking through life and we got all the information in the world. We got, you know, we see all the memes, we got all the internet websites or whatever to get information. We don't understand what we're looking at. Listen, can we just be real?

Like, sometimes you don't understand what's going on. Sometimes you've been going to church your whole life and you don't know what that scripture is talking about. Let's just be real. But today we're going to like break some things down.

I enjoy breaking things down, simplifying complex things. And we're going to get a little bit of understanding about some things in life. So let's jump right into it, the power of sowing seeds. So this whole thought for today's episode really came from this thought that I had about like how complex the world is, but everybody got this desire to like simplify stuff.

You feel what I'm saying? You got blood, you got crips, you got Democrats, you got Republican, you got black, you got white, like in this whole idea of like, man, things are way deeper than people make them seem. And so I get a lot of DMs, a lot of, you know, like messages and things. And people come to me and they ask me very complex questions, right?

Which is cool. No problem. But one of the things I realized with people is they want really quick surface level answers to deep stuff. You know what I'm saying?

It's like, if you walk up to somebody and say explain calculus to me in 30 seconds, it's going to be like, well, X minus Y, well, that's algebra. See what I'm saying? I ain't even on the right subject because that's how deep calculus is. I remember in college, I took an accelerated and accelerated calculus course where they basically crushed it into a eight week program over the summer.

Yeah, I think I got to see. You know, I passed. I passed. But I wasn't understanding everything that was happening because everything was condensed in order to understand things at an accelerated level.

You got to be accelerated in your process. And let's just be real. Just like I wasn't that accelerated in calculus, a lot of us ain't that accelerated in the things of life going on around us. So I'm going to give you an example, somebody, you know, actually, you know, how to start a business or how to make money or what should I do with $10,000?

These on the surface seem very simple. And then what I realized about people is the moment you start trying to actually explain to them what they should do. The answer is too complex and it's too deep for people. So what happens is we live in the world.

This is where memes come into play where we would rather try to get as much information as we can from a meme or a 30 second real or something like just real high level. And that's cool if you have the foundational understanding. But if I'm being real, like you can't really start your start your understanding at a meme, bro. Like, and so it's like, yo, you can watch a 10 minute YouTube video of what to do with $10,000.

But the reality is, it's deeper than that. So what am I saying? I was thinking about the power of planting seeds and how every little thing we do, it actually, it grows into something else. So like, if somebody, there are times like people come to me again, like, you know, maybe they asking about, let's keep it about money because money is just understandable.

If somebody like, um, oh, no, let's not do money. Let me go deeper than money. Let's go credit score, right? Somebody hit you up and they like, yo, um, how do I get a 750 credit score, right?

And let's say today they're at a 530, like I was 10 years ago, I think I was a 535 exactly. And so if we being real, what we want to do is, you just want a quick answer. Like, bro, I don't want to listen to an hour podcast of you telling me what I got to break down. And then I got to leave there and do more work.

I want you to tell me what to do. But here's the reality of it, John. In order to get a 750, 800 credit score, anyone who has that, if they, especially if they started at a low level, there was some seeds they had to plant, right? I paid the first bill and I saved up, then I called the next people and I had a settlement for that one.

And then over six months, I paid off that bill. And then I went, like so, the real answer is about these multiple seeds that I planted, right? And then you plant these multiple seeds and then you get this outcome. And what happens is people just see the outcome.

People literally just see the forest. They never think about what it took to plant the trees, what it took to nourish the trees, where the trees had to be planted for the best growth, the water they had to flow through there. They don't look at the river, like they don't look at the climate and is it sunny? Is it people don't look at none of that?

They just see the trees and they like, bro, I want a forest, tell me how to get a forest. So the first thing I want to tell you today is like, it is important to go through your process to plant your seeds. And we're going to dig into this, but every action that you take is a seed, everything that you do. I'm going to give you an example.

If you wake up today and you put all your time and your effort into something like, I'm going to binge watch this Netflix series, you know what I'm saying? No shade or whatever. I know a lot of people binge watch Netflix series. Cool.

That's you. That's your seeds. That's going to produce something. Now, maybe it's a good thing.

So maybe that equates for the rest because you had a long week of work and that's going to produce re recharging and resetting or maybe you lazy and you ain't even did nothing all week but binge watch. And it's just laziness is going to produce more laziness. You're going to plant seeds of laziness and then you're going to get trees of laziness that are going to bear fruit of laziness and you're going to look around and like your whole life is going to be a reflection of the seeds you planted. And so the real thing with a lot of us is that we want certain results that are not based on the seeds we planted.

It's like, bro, like, you know, when people look at you, if you have something, this is why I try not to look at people and covet what they have or make it seem like, oh, it's just easy because it's like, I don't know the work that went behind the plant into that seed or the discipline, it takes a lot of discipline for a person to maybe plant when you're just trying to harvest. Like a lot of us, all right, oh, that's a good that's a good spot to kick it real quick. A lot of people and what I tell you how you doing sister, a lot of people, they want to eat fruit when it's time to water a seed. And so I'm going to give you an example, like everybody likes nice cars, everybody likes houses, things like that, right?

So a person, if you take, and again, I've done episodes on cars and when you should buy a car, why you shouldn't buy a car at a particular time. And I use examples like these because they're super relatable, right? So when you think about a car, everybody has cars they likes most people, I have cars I like. And the thing is most people want the car, but they don't want to do what it takes to be able to properly afford the car.

So let's just take something like a Porsche, right? Porsche was a Panamera. I mean, that's about $100,000 on a good day, a good, you know, somewhere between 80 and one team probably. So let's just take $100,000 car.

Most people focus so much on the car that the car becomes their whole like, like basically the car is the fruit. So but you at the seed level, bro, like you don't have good credit yet, you don't have money saved up yet, you don't have assets, you don't have any net worth, anything, any passive income, you have nothing but just I go to work on this day, I get my check on Friday, go to work on this day, get my check on Friday, go to work on this, go to work on this. We in the same little loop, we stuck in a loop of go to work, get a check, spend the check, get the thing I like, go to work, get a check, spend the check, thing I like, go to work. And it's this cycle that a lot of us are calling in that we can't get out of because we don't know how to step back and say, yo, I'm in sea planning season right now.

So yes, I like the Porsche Panamera, but the Panamera doesn't define me. I'm doping the court. And I'm gonna be real with y'all. I'm just gonna keep it extra crispy.

Like some people problem is you dependent on a thing to make you fly. Like bro, grow some wings. Hey, I'm just being real like this could come off the wrong way and I apologize, but I'm just telling you how my mind thinks. And hopefully you can build something and take something productive out of this and this don't come off wrong.

But like I'll just say it this way, I'll tone it down. Generally speaking, I'm a confident person. I'm gonna just keep it a honey with you. I don't need things to make like I would rather just be dope because God made me dope.

If the car got to make me dope, I know that in my heart, if the shoes got to make me dope. Listen, I was dope when I was broke because I had hope and yes, I'm dropping bars. Like, so listen, I'm dropping bars in a regular conversation right now. I was dope when I was broke, not in an arrogant way.

I'm just saying that some of us are dependent on the thing to validate us. I was about to say, Validify, Validify, get the cup. Shout out to everybody watching on YouTube later. And if you're not on my YouTube channel, please do subscribe to at Inspire Guys, people on YouTube like subscribe all that we're up to about 781 subscribers as of earlier today and growing.

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You need a car to validate you. So what you're doing is you're buying a car, which is supposed to just be the result or the fruit. You're buying a car when you should be planting a seed. So if I go out and I go buy 100,000 car, just because I had $100,000 or to get $100,000 long, got approved.

Like that's another thing we do. We let people like you were approved for this much and then you go spend that much. No, that's how much they willing to let you go in debt, right? You know, you don't have that.

But you go in and you want, you want to pull from the fruit and you haven't even planted the tree and water, planted the seed and water to tree and let it grow. If you just delayed that gratification a couple years, then when you pull off the fruit to get a $100,000 car, the tree has produced 10 apples and it's like, oh, I'm just not that I've planted the seed, not that I've watered the seed, not that I've been disciplined, laid a foundation and did the things I was supposed to do. Now my tree has beard fruit. So now it ain't even about the car.

The car is just like the Bible says, but seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the things will be added. The car just becomes a thing that was added. But for a lot of us, the problem is we're trying to put the thing that was added before the seed. You feel what I'm saying?

Tonya, I feel that in my soul. I'm in seed planting seeds and right now. And here's the thing about it, y'all. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

Give yourself the freedom to plant seeds and be in your season of planting, watering, growing. And look, if you're a patient in do time, it will be time for you to get that thing that you want it. But the thing is, I'm going to tell y'all the trick about all this. Once you change your thinking to do the discipline thing first, by the time you get the thing, it don't mean as much to you as it does to other people.

This is a weird thing that happens in life. It's happened to me several times in life where I work hard for something over time and I maybe develop and mature in a certain discipline where I'm not just spending money or wasting money on something or just doing what I want to do. And then later, if I'm blessed to do that thing, yes, I still enjoy it. It's still cool, but I'm just being real.

Other people might react or whatever. And it's like, it don't really mean that to me because I put it in its proper place. That's the power of planting seeds. Actions produce results and results produce mindset.

And this is the thing that we have to know. Every action is a seed. So there is no action that doesn't produce some type of that is not a seed that is planted. And so what happens is, let's say I got a bad habit of eating cake for breakfast.

Let's say I eat cake for breakfast every day. Now that's a seed I'm planting. But then you got a water that seeds. So you continue to do it consistently over time.

Now you're nurturing that seed. The thing about it, the seed is it could produce something good or it could produce something bad. That's up to what you nourished. What you did consistently is like the first action was planting a seed.

The consistency of going back to it and nourishing it. Now you're developing a habit. That habit is going to produce a result. And maybe that result is instead of having a six pack, I got a one pack.

It's just a one. You don't even put the word pack after this. You just got one. It's there.

Your stomach is there, God. It's right here. There you go. That's a stomach.

Now, those were the results. Now those results produce the mindset for me. So now I'm walking around seeing life a certain way. You feel me?

I'm just trying to help you all. I'm walking around seeing life a certain way. And I don't realize it's because of these habits I've produced. That's a stomach.

I just be trying to be real. All right. Let's move on. So now we understand the power of plantain seeds, right?

This next part is going to challenge maybe some people. And I'm leading up to this bigger, this greater point about the pando tree. If you never heard of the pando tree, we're about to get into it. It's a mind-blowing tree.

And I just came across it in my studies today. I've been reading up on it all day and at least the past couple hours. Let me not kind of front and say all day. The past couple hours I've been kind of studying and thinking about what I want to talk about on this show and the pando tree effect is what we're going to lead up to today.

But before I get to that, I want to talk about charity and why charity keeps you poor. And it's a tough thing with charity because charity has a role in life. It's important. I'm a person that benefited from things like a good fella box or toys for tops.

And I can remember certain times where that just added to our Christmas. You know what I mean? It was one or two more things that you got where maybe it was some essential things that you got like, oh, the good fella's box got me some T-shirts and some underwear. So cool.

My parents can go out and get me to PlayStation, whatever it may be. Excuse me. And so my whole thing is like, I believe that charity has a place. But then I think there's this gray area like nobody want to be real about it.

And that's the thing like I just I just be trying to be real about stuff. Listen, okay, I'm done. I'm done telling you good. Motherhood is a journey of constant change, but you can always count on little bellies.

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I want to be real about the fact that charity ain't charity sometimes is a crutch and charity keeps a lot of people poor. Now I made this post earlier today and some people got mad at me earlier this week. People got mad at me because I said like, yo, a bridge car is intended to be a bridge. Don't build a residence on a bridge.

Nobody builds a house on a bridge. A bridge is for passing through to get you from one place to another. Now, I don't know why they named a thing a bridge car, but I'm just led to believe that maybe somebody was thinking, yo, we want the person to know this is a bridge, meaning this charity is for a specific purpose, but to get you somewhere else. This is not me taking shots.

I want to be clear that y'all feel like this ain't me taking shots. A lot of times I like to communicate in a somewhat raw, direct, maybe uncomfortable kind of way because I lived it, right? I've lived in poverty. I've lived under the mindset of poverty.

And I kind of feel like being politically correct and sensitive doesn't work to actually get people out of poverty. It keeps people in poverty because it's all kumbaya. I'm poor. I'm poor.

I'm poor. Poor rich. But listen, it doesn't work. So I'm gonna be real with you.

A lot of us have become dependent on a lifestyle charity. So meaning we've been on the bridge so long, we don't even want to cross it. So it's like, yo, because why? Because the bridge is good.

Like it's provide like, yo, why would I go work and do anything extra to disqualify for this when this is so good? But the problem is you put a glass ceiling over yourself and you limit how far you can go when you stay on the bridge and never actually cross it. And that's what charity does. So like, if you have a shoe drive and it's intended to give shoes to kids to go back to school, that's great.

That's an amazing thing. But we shouldn't see you at that charity for 15 years. You get what I'm saying? Like that the problem with it is the charity can only do the one thing.

This can only get you shoes this time. And so we have to grow beyond it. And some of us are like, we should be graduating from receiving at that charity to graduating to being someone who donates to that charity to get to the next person. But sometimes the next person can't even get the benefit because you taking it.

You've been taking, you've been on the bridge the whole time. And now the next person who actually need the bridge, they can't cross that bridge because you won't move. You feel me? Do you feel me though?

Like, so my problem with charity is, yo, I got the good fellow boxes. I got the toys for tights. I got all those things. But that motivated me to want to give back to charities.

And I'm not about to like talk about the things I've done for any charity. That's not important. That's more private. But what I will say is that I have done things and I have done things specifically because of what it meant to me of how I knew that in that moment, I really needed that.

And that is what charity is for. Charity is not for people who are able to graduate beyond it, but just so lazy or have become conditioned under a mindset to take advantage of things that they just want to keep taking, taking, taking. Remember, you are taking from somebody who actually needs it. That's one thing.

But the second thing is you have to be poor to qualify for it. So what you're saying to yourself when you take on the mindset that I am going to be on this bridge forever, I don't ever want to get past the bridge card. I don't ever want to get past this assistance. What you are saying is I always want to be in poverty because you've got to qualify for it, right?

So what you're saying is that I'm going to live my life in this box where I refuse to step above this because if I go above this, I won't qualify for that. So you can never actually get where God wants you to go because you are living in a lifestyle of receiving charity, something that is good in nature, good intention, but has kept many people poor because people abuse these things. And again, just like those seas that were planted, every action produces a result, every result creates a mindset. So every time, every year, you went to the same thing, you went and got the church turkey just to get the turkey, not because you needed it.

That's a seed that you're planting. Your mind is powerful. We're going to talk about the brain here shortly and we're going to talk about the pando tree and you're going to understand why I'm laying all of this out in this way before when we get to the pando tree in the brain. And so the thing is you are conditioning yourself to think a certain way and you're wondering why you're not going anywhere in life.

And I'm just, I'm just the person that want to be real with you and tell you like, this is why you've been broke for 20 years. This is why you have been on this end for all these years. Now I understand don't like people like to hit you with like example, what about this person that got went elbow and couldn't been did it. Listen, don't come to me with the extreme situations.

Think about yourself. This isn't about like there are always exceptions to the rule I get it. But this is about willing able-bodied people who are not willing to do things for themselves and grow beyond a situation. So they continue to qualify and have limited yourself to a lifestyle of qualifying for charity and government assistance.

And you know you can do better, but you lazy. All right, I'm gonna move on now. What's the next thing before people get mad at me? Do I want to go to the pando tree?

Let's, okay, let's talk about the pando tree. The pando tree man, yeah, went elbow and that boy didn't even been telling you. So you know how that is. Let me say this before I get to the pando tree.

I'm trying to think which one should I do first. So what I want to do is I want to make this point and talk about topics and things in life that are way more nuanced and detailed beyond the surface. But we have simplified them and almost dumbed them down to where people try to talk about politics, race all these things at the surface level. So what up?

Oh, you, I'm telling you right now, you're going to have to watch this from the beginning because anybody, this is a triggering episode, but you came at a good time. So now let's talk about the pando tree people. There is this tree. I got to share my screen and go to this.

But let me sum it up first. There's this tree in Utah, fish lake Utah that I came across today. And when you see the tree, it looks like a full blown forest. This is the largest living organism in the world today.

It's over 100 acres, I believe, over 40,000 stems or branches, whatever it is, stems over 40,000, I don't know if that's trees or whatever is in these hundred acres. And I'm going to show you the picture first. Oh my God, this is literally, I'm telling my like, I'm not even joking when I tell you that this right here, let's go to the picture. Where's the picture?

Oh, Jesus. Can't y'all see this? Hold on. Hold on.

Did y'all see it? Or no, did I share? Did I share? Let me let me go back.

Hold on. Hold on, people. Don't worry. We're going to get it right.

Oh, no, we're going to get it right. This right here. Where's it at? This, there we go.

Can y'all see this? Right? Y'all seeing this? This is the pando tree.

Yeah, y'all see it. All right. So this is the pando tree, people. And first thing I want you to understand is this is a tree.

All right. This is a tree, people. And so I know you think you're looking at multiple trees right now, but the pando tree in fish lake Utah on the surface looks like a whole bunch of trees and a forest, but underneath it is one root system. And it said to have been started from a single C.

Oh, I'm so hype. Wait a minute. I got to keep it on the screen for a second. Did you hear me?

Oh, no. Okay. I got it. All right.

Okay. Y'all didn't hear me. So I'm going to go one step further. I'm about to go one step further, people.

The pando tree on the surface to everybody looking at it looks like a 100 acre forest, but beneath the service, the belief beneath the surface, it is one root, one tree that has over time produced from itself all of these branches and all of these trees. I'm not even we have any Jesus. We ain't even got to the dope part yet, but I want you to take a moment to think about what we talked about so far. We talked about mindset.

We talked about the importance of planting seeds and how you can plant one seed and it produced so many outcomes. And some of us in life are so stuck in our situation. And we don't realize it's because of a seed that you planted 20 years ago. It's a seed that somebody else planted in your mind 20 years ago.

It's a song you heard. It's a movie you watch. Some people get caught up in support and I grieve because they watch one movie. You saw one scene.

It took you on a whole panda effect for your whole life. Like you can't keep your pants up for nobody because 20 years ago you saw a movie and what happens with so many of us, if we have minimized the impact of planting seeds to the point that we just walking around with a handful of seeds just planting everywhere. I'm going to watch this. I'm going to listen to this.

Oh, people say stuff like, oh, I can watch this. This doesn't affect me. I can drink this. This don't affect me.

I can smoke this. This don't affect me. I can do this. This don't affect me.

I'm still a Christian. This don't affect me. Okay, cool. It ain't affected you.

You don't think on the surface it looked like a whole bunch of different stuff, but beneath the surface it's all connected to one system. The pando tree effect. Come on, fam. Some of us are literally walking through life.

It have produced toxic tree after toxic tree after toxic tree because we planted one seed 20 years ago and never cut out the root. Jesus. This is the important like I'm trying to listen. Some of us are we talking about politics.

Politics is a very triggered thing that on the surface. Everybody is like, Oh, you either love Obama or you hate Trump. You hate Trump. You hate it.

And people try to simplify. This is why I'm a tell y'all the secret. If you don't notice, because you haven't listened to this podcast, I am not a Democrat or a Republican at all. I am independent.

And I the more I talk to Democrats and Republicans, the more independent I become. You know why? Because everybody sees it on the surface. Oh, like, oh, let's make fun of Trump.

Because he went to jail. Let's make fun of Joe Biden falling down the steps. Let's praise Obama. Let's do it.

Like we get caught up in this surface thing and it's like, bro, you like you trying to simplify something that is deep rooted racism. Like we try to make weight racism, black and white, planetended. At the end of the day, things are so deep rooted that a lot of us, we don't want to deal with the real issue. So what we do is we give the issue a face.

A symbol. Trump is a symbol for people. Obama is a symbol for people. And what people do with their symbols, when you limit life to symbols, you can say, Okay, if this person does something, it's all that if this person says or does something, it's all good.

I stand on this side of the tracks. I believe that and what people have literally done is taking the complexities of life that beneath the surface are all connected. It might be one little evil person or thing or situation. And we've tried to simplify without dealing with the real issue.

And this is why I don't like talking about politics with nobody. I don't enjoy it because most people don't actually want to talk about what's going on. They just want to talk about what they look like. Cultists, religious manipulation.

Okay, let's talk about that one. Cultists, religious manipulation. These are things that people complain about or talk about, but nobody knows how to fix because nobody actually goes back to the root to understand like, why are we doing this in the first place? Where did we go wrong?

When I say cultist, religious manipulation, I'm specifically wording it this way, because a lot of us have a lot of things as an example in our church that we never actually deal with and it's so deep rooted that everybody leaves it alone. The pando tree effect, it has produced all these things. Some things are good. I don't I don't know what to do.

I don't want to deal with it. Poverty, poverty is a pando tree effect. You know, so you'll have people that's like, don't say that about charity, German, because charity's good. Okay, that's one tree.

It's a thousand trees out here, bro. I got to look at all these trees. I got to look at everything. I have to understand the Bible said in Proverbs 4 and 7, right?

Wisdom is the principle thing. Get wisdom, but in all your getting, get understanding. Some of us stop at the information. We just get information, but we never understand it.

You got to understand what's going on or at least the tent to let's go a deep let's go a step further with the pando tree. Okay, because I thought that was it. Let's jump into this. Where's where's my let's let's go here, bro.

Let's go here, fam. This is for the the panda. This is a friends of panda or let me just read this real quick. The panda in a high mountain basin, a central Utah stands the world's largest tree panda, a quaking aspen clone.

It's called a clone because they're saying it just reproduces the same tree over and over again comprised of over 40,000 stems stems, which appear to us as individual trees, but in fact, are part of a gene genetically identical tree that spreads over 100 acres via a massive root system. Whoo. Do y'all feel what I'm saying? Okay, I want to go deeper into it though.

Where's the where's the let's explore panda, fam? I'm trying to I'm trying to get I'm trying to be deep in the panda. Let me let me see what y'all see. Okay.

Yeah, y'all seeing it. We bought the jump. We're I want to go I want to go in the panda, fam. Oh, yeah.

Are we in there? Oh, yeah. Y'all see it. Y'all see it, fam.

Oh, way buddy. This is the panda. So this is actually what it looks like in there. This is we in it like this is all one tree, one root system.

Look at this. Look at all these thoughts. Look at all these all of these trees that were produced off of a single seed. You allow yourself to think a single way about poverty and look at what it produced.

You allow yourself to think a single way about politics. You allow yourself to be manipulated by media manipulated by coats and people and things who did not have your best interests. And this is what happens. One tree, one root system, the pando tree effect is in our lives so much.

And look at this. Look at all of this. This is what happens in your life when you allow one seed to keep growing. And then it produces so much that you can never actually get out of it.

You don't know how to stop this. How do you stop this from growing? Look at it. Look at how much of it it is.

How do you how do you stop this? This is to me what this represents politics today. There are so many agendas. Every tree is an agenda.

I'm not even going to name a agenda agenda. Hey, agenda. How you doing? Keep me poor.

Keep me impressed. Make me think you're going to pay for something. Hold on. How you doing over there?

Destroy my kids. That's a tree right there. Destroy education. There we go.

The poor get poor. Hey, how you doing? Rich get richer over there. Hey, how you doing?

Oh, what's this tree about? Oh, the same tree right here. This is my debt. This is me not being able to be faithful.

Hey, how you doing? Tree over here. This is pornography. Hey, how you doing?

Less. This is a nice tree right there. How you doing? This obedience.

All right. Hey, how's it going? Tree. Hey, let's you know what?

Let's stay in this cycle. Hey, my granddaddy was this way. I'm as well do this way. Hey, this person in my family, we've been broke for generations.

Might as well be broke. Hey, how you doing? Hey, womanizer. Hey, how you doing over there, buddy?

Hey, nice to meet you. These are the trees in our lives that are produced and everything in your life represents a sea that you're planning. Don't tell me that this music on effect. You don't tell me I'm not saying you can't do it, but this is what I'm saying about people.

The Bible says get wisdom and understand it. What a lot of us is we get the information. Oh, I read a scripture that says that's Christian is I have liberties. Great, but did you understand the liberties?

Did you understand like, yo, you should go out and you should be careful still even though you have the liberty to do something because at the end of the day, it doesn't mean that your liberties don't produce trees. And a lot of us could if we wanted to start planting seeds because I want you to look at this in a positive way as well. When you do the right thing, all right, now we got to go back to the tree. Now we got to go back to the tree because imagine now, imagine now you have you have you have done some things and you did the right thing.

Okay, let me make sure this is this is showing right. Okay, y'all seeing it. Oh, hey, I planted one sea and I started paying off debt. Oh, wow, look at this.

This tree is a credit score right there. Oh, look at this. Look at this low interest rate over here. Wow, that one is good.

Hey, look at my savings account. Hey, great buddy. Wow. Okay, what do you mean?

Now I have an investment property. That's a great tree. Wait a minute. Now my kids have a college fund.

I like that tree. Oh, wait a minute. I gave some money to the charity that I used to take advantage of not advantage, but that was was an advantage to me, right? Oh, wow, this is a beautiful thing.

Hey, now inspire guys, people. That's a great tree. I'm gonna help other people. I'm gonna tell other people about the stuff that guy did for me and I'm gonna tell them exactly how I did it.

Look at that tree. Wait, now somebody else becomes financially free because I told them about this. That's a great tree. Like and so at the end of the day, people we have the ability to plant seeds, water them, nurture them, and then watch them grow the pando tree effect.

And now here's the last part, maybe the most important part that I want to talk about today. And that is I asked myself in studying for this. Why is it so difficult to change people's mind? That was the question I started with today.

I started my studies with why is it so difficult to change people's mind? And I ended up on this I don't know how I got there, what I was looking at on the internet, what I was reading, but I got to this pando tree. And the reason that it was so intriguing to me is because this book I read called Switch on Your Brain by Dr. Carolyn Lee, who's a Christian neurologist and brain scientist, I guess.

And I've read her book before and again, you know, hey, read at your own caution, I guess science and things can get really weird, but she is a Christian. And you know, she talked about this concept in her book that the neurons in your brains in your brain is like a tree. And she made this argument, which I kind of learned that is really around neurogenesis, which is the idea that these neurons in your brain that are like trees, you have the ability to keep growing new ones. So these neurons are like thoughts, memories, experiences, all these things happen in your brain.

I guess there's billions of them. I am not a scientist. Do not kind of quote me on the detail of this part. You know what I'm saying?

You might want to go read it yourself or the detail of that, but I'm just giving you the general abstract overview of a neuron. It looks like a tree. It's in your brain and your memories are stored here. And it's like all your life experiences produces all these neurons.

Dr. Carolyn Lee makes this argument that is, I believe, centered around neurogenesis, maybe neuroplasticity, maybe another way to say it. I think those are similar. Don't quote me on that.

But it's this idea that your brain ain't done. The neurons aren't done. I guess some scientists have believed before that by the age of 25, you had already produced all the neurons you were going to produce. But then this idea of neurogenesis comes up.

And it's the idea that I can plant new seeds that I can create new trees in my brain. But here's the thing, regardless of where you stand on that, it's the interesting idea and thought that these neurons in your brain are like trees. And when I said, why is it so hard to change somebody's mind, it's because of the pando tree effect in their brain. Your brain is that central root system.

But what happens is all of these billions of neurons are just like billions of trees in the forest that you have created. And it has given you a worldview, the way you view money. That's why some people are like, hey, they uncomfortable talking about money. You know how many people I talk to that are uncomfortable talking about money, the way you view the Bible, some people that you fall asleep, the moment you start reading the Bible is because you have created all these neurons around reading the Bible.

And it could be seeds that were planted throughout your life that told you this is boring, that told you that you couldn't do it. That maybe told you that it's not that important to actually read as long as you just over-stand the overall aspect of God and Jesus and who he is and listen, I'm not here to debate that. But what I am saying is that I believe that the way we view life laziness, some of us, we have these ways about ourselves that we can't seem to change and some of it is because of your mind has this pando tree effect that your brain, you have allowed all these thoughts and experiences and the music you listen to and the TV shows you watch, like people tell me stuff doesn't affect them, but then I look at the results of your life and how you live and I'm like, you live in just like the shows you watch. They waste money, you waste money.

Your favorite celebrity wears certain designer clothes, you wear those designer clothes. This person, your favorite artist, smoke drink, you do what they do. Like there's so many people that actually do live out what they put in, but they say it doesn't affect them. So the last thing I want to look at real quick, first let's go to the Bible.

Ronin's 12, it's just, let's read verse 2, don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Here's the important part, by changing the way you think. Even to be a Christian requires that you transform into a new person by changing the way you think.

You know how crazy that is to me? It's crazy to me that even in a Bible, Romans 12 and 2, it literally says you want to know how you could be a whole new person? Change how you think. That tells me how deep rooted our mindsets are, how deep, and again, maybe you think the right way about things like take a person that is in great shape.

They see life a certain way. They have a certain mindset around taking care of their body as a temple and they are consistent and committed to that and it produces results. Certain people have great marriages. They have a certain belief system about the way they see it and it produces something.

In the same way, you know how many people that have allowed themselves to think negatively about marriage or relationships. I see it all the time on social media. You think negative, you don't think nobody could be married, you don't think nobody could be this, you don't think, and then what happens is you're creating all these neurons in your brain. Let's see real quick.

Did I have, let's see if I had the neurons. I didn't say then. Okay, I'm gonna have to hold on one second because what I'm gonna have to do is I got to go to that. You feel me?

I got to give you at least a little bit, like at least a visual, you feel what I'm saying? At least a visual. Let's see. Okay, all right, let's go into it.

I don't know. This might be too much for some people. They're like, they ain't trying to get into this, but I love this. So let's look at brain basics.

Let's look at neurons, right? So this is brain basics. This is according to a national institute of neuro neurological. I can talk disorders and stroke brain basics, the life and death of a neuron.

This is right here visual what this neuron looks like, right? This tree with these branches, this system, right? So all right, let's see, neurons are nerve cells that send messages all over your body to allow you to do everything from breathing, talking, eating, walking, and thinking. Wow, even thinking neurons, they are these nerve cells that send messages all around your body.

So your brain has these trees growing that are really the nucleus to everything that you're doing, right? Until recently, most neurosciences, scientists who study the brain thought we were born with all the neutrons we were ever going to have. As children, we might grow up grow some neutrons to help build a pathway called neurocircuits that act as information highways between different areas of the brain. However, scientists believe that once a neural circuit was in place adding any new neutrons would change the flow of information and break the brain's communication system.

However, in 1962, scientists Joseph Altman challenged his belief when he saw evidence of neurogenesis, the birth of neurons in a region of the adult rat brain cell called the hippocampus. He later reported that newborn neutrons traveled from their birthplace in the hippocampus to other parts of the brain. In 1979, another scientist Michael Kaplan confirmed Altman's findings in the rat brain and in 83, he found special kinds of cells called neural percursal cells, precursor cells with the ability to become new brain cells, brain sent to become brain cells like neurons in adult monkeys. Okay, here is the overall point of everything I'm saying today.

Your brain has neurons that are really the source for how you think, how you breathe, you're walking, all of these things, how you talk, saw happen in your brain, billions of neurons. Neurogenesis is the idea that you're not stuck with the neurons you have. I love this, because what this says is that even though I may think a certain way, let's go back to Romans 12 and 2 now. Now that we understand a little bit about the brain, don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

I want you to let that soak in. How do you become a new person by changing the way you think? We become new in our minds, which means this idea of neurogenesis, in the fact that you can have a positive pando tree effect on your life right now, if you accept Jesus, if you allow yourself to see the world in a new way, to see the world through salvation versus oppression, to see the world through love, God's love versus hatred and evil or manipulation, you have the ability to create new neurons that just like the pando tree can then go and produce other trees. And then what will happen is if you found yourself living in a toxic depressed, down and out state, constantly seeing the negative and things, never being able to see the positive understanding that maybe you have some bad experiences, but the Bible said, let God make you a new person by changing the way you think.

That is the pando tree effect. We have the ability to change how we think. If we're poor, we have the ability to change how we think and start thinking rich. If we've been lying, we got the ability to change how we speak and live in the truth.

If we've been hating ourselves, we have the ability to change how we think and see ourselves as God sees us. If we have been destructive around God's family structure in the plan that he laid out and he wants in our life, we have the ability to change, but it starts in your mind, the pando tree effect. Hopefully you've enjoyed this episode. I want you to share this with someone.

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It won't even look like it's connected. That's why I once sometimes we're struggling with one thing and it don't look like it's connected to the other thing, but it all came from a single source, the pando tree effect. There are times that you're walking through life and you are just down and out and you can't figure out why, because it isn't that clear or obvious that these two things are interconnected. So those movies and those that music you was listening to that, that you say it didn't affect you because it wasn't really obvious that that it affected you or those people that you talked to or you hung out with that always had something to say.

They planted a seed in your ear and you thought, Oh, I'm good. That didn't affect me. It turns out that it did and it developed some trees that are so far away from the original seed that you didn't know that they were the same. That's the pando tree effect.

The beauty is, you also have the ability to do this for positive things. If you've been poor again, you have the opportunity now to think rich. If you've been lost, you have the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ right now in your life and can give you a new outlook, a new perspective on life. That doesn't always mean that life and things go perfectly, right?

I think sometimes we mix up this idea that like, Oh, I'm saying, so I'm always talking about faith. That means my life is easier. No, it means my perspective is different. The same thing happened.

Like it's like, people can go through the same thing and walk out and have a different perspective about it. And a lot of time that's that perspective is rooted in the way you think it's rooted in the system of your pando tree in your mind, your neurons, the seeds that have been planted over your life. And so if you want to change, you can become new, but you got to change how you think. Again, if you enjoyed this episode, please do like share subscribe.

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