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Podcast: Coffee with the Dog
Episode: Brain Fitness & Stand up Comedy EP800
Description: Hour 1:
Arnold Beekes
Arnold enables people to move from ‘Fitting In’ to Flying Out’.
Here he shares that he grew up in an environment of extreme ‘Fitting In’.
Conformity was an integral part of my upbringing. My father was a military officer, both in his work and at home.
Still, I was very different from my fellow students at primary school. I was complying with my father’s norms and not with those of my friends or school.
In high school the focus was on knowledge tests and totally not on discovering and developing talents and strengths. And – even more important...