Life Lesson: Steer Towards the Crash

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Welcome to Karen Hunter's Awesome.

I'm Karen Hunter and you know I'm on a 40-day journey, but also in this podcast, the

goal this year is to be my best self and also to challenge you to be your best self.

So I'm going to be dropping some life lessons, things that I have learned over my 60 trips

around the sun almost.

And I've also been talking to other people, some elders, like Yanda Vanzant and Dr. Rosemary

Mealy, who have given some life lessons because I asked for the life lessons, please can

you share?

Because wisdom is in short supply, unfortunately we're in a world where it's not even start

after or practice.

So I'm going to challenge everybody.

You know, this life is not meant to be lived in a bubble or in a vacuum or by yourself.

This is a collaborative effort.

And by that, I mean, you get better in community and you get better by talking to people who

have seen and done some things that you haven't done.

So I think the asking of the life lessons of the elders is absolutely what we should be

doing in our own lives.

Some of you have elders in your life that you don't talk to about things that are, you

know, transformative.

They've lived.

Okay, if you have an auntie or a grandparent that is 70, 80, 90 years old, please sit at

their feet and talk with them about the things they have learned.

And while the times are different, you know, it's not different wisdom.

Wisdom is age old, okay?

So I'm going to be dropping life lessons not just from me because I've done some things

and I want to definitely share with you in this space.

But also this is a time that I'm encouraging you to go talk to some people who know some

things about life that you may not because that's how we get better.

All right.

So today's life lesson is when you're in a situation where you look like you're going

to crash, drive into the crash, drive towards the crash, don't avoid the crash.

And I know you're like, what?

What?

Okay.

So several years ago, I mean, it might have been about a decade ago.

I was coming home for my radio show at Sirius XM, which is in Manhattan.

I'm coming home.

I get through the Lincoln tunnel.

I live in New Jersey, as you know, get through the Lincoln tunnel.

I'm 10th Avenue to the Lincoln tunnel on the New Jersey Turnpike.

And it's snowing.

It's a snowstorm.

So you may not know this.

But I've been driving into the city since I worked as New York Daily News when I was 21.

So I've been driving into Manhattan for the last damn 40, almost 40 years.

And so for me, it's nothing.

It's nothing to get on.

A lot of people are like very anxious, but I drive everywhere.

I drive everywhere.

So the snow didn't bother me.

I was not bothered by the SUV.

I'm like, okay, I can handle this.

But you know, the first precipitation on that on the roads with the oil makes it really,

really slippery.

And this was like a heavy snow.

So it was like poor visibility, big chunky snow.

So by the time I got to my exit, the roads were really bad.

And I can barely see.

And my exit is like a jug handle.

So I'm coming off the exit and I'm not speeding because I'm not stupid.

But I'm, you know, when you're an SUV, you have a little bit more confidence.

As I'm hitting the curve, I noticed my car, I lost control of it.

And it's headed towards the guard rails.

And I'm like, oh, damn, I'm going to have a damn accident out here.

And I was really, you know, panicky or whatever.

And your instinct is to steer away from the guard rail.

And I remembered that that is the absolute wrong thing to do.

So I counterintuitively steer towards the guard rail and my tires caught.

And I was able to get traction.

And I did not hit the guard rail.

I was shaky and nervous.

But I got home safely because I remembered that when you're in a spinout, you got to

steer towards the crash, steer in the direction that you're spinning out.

And in life, I'm sure that feels like, ah, we want to avoid conflict and crashing and

all of that.

But sometimes again, a lot of things that happen to you in your life are not you're doing.

It's not you're doing.

And some of it is unavoidable.

So the lesson here is to not run away from the thing is to confront the thing, is to face

it head on, gain traction so that you can gain control.

Then you can steer into the direction that you want to go.

So that's the lesson.

And I remember several years ago, it might be 30 years ago now, I read a book called

Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Now, I have since, because I have interviewed Robert Kiyosaki, who's the author.

And I feel like in some ways, he's grifting, this is my opinion.

You know, I think Rich Dad Poor Dad was a great book.

Now you got the board game and the speaking tour at all, I get it, you maximize your situation.

But you said a thing and you are eating off that thing, sir, and that's fine.

And the book is good, the book is good because it does illustrate the ways in which we think

about money.

It's a fine, it's more of a money book.

But he talks about this analogy of like when the stock market is crashing, the economy

is falling, people instinctively want to pull out.

They want to move away from, they want to avoid so they get their money out, right?

And when markets crash is when you should be pouring it in.

But I know like, for some of us, you've worked your whole life, you like, I have my whole

retirement in here and I've watched it go cut in half over the last week or two because

the market is crashing.

So you want to try to preserve what little bit of money is left in there.

But that is the absolute wrong thing to do.

Now, I know that there have been crashes where they didn't come back, you know, so like

Lehman Brothers is gone, it's not coming back or in Ron and people have all their money

in these places and they lost everything.

So if that is you, it's hard listening to me right now.

But historically, when markets crash, that is the time to go in, not out.

And Robert Kiyosaki in his book, he gives an analogy of a plane crash.

And he talks about, you know, there's a plane that's crashing and it's barreling towards

the earth and the pilot pushes down, right?

So in a plane crash, when you're going down, you go, you follow that to gain traction

in the air, which seems completely counterproductive and counterintuitive.

But I think about that every day, you know, we spend a lot of time, human beings trying

to avoid things.

But sometimes there's no avoidance.

Go get it over with and run into it.

And here's the life lesson, the worst thing that could happen outside of death, right?

Because death is not, there's no coming back from it, but, but because matter cannot

be created nor destroyed, death may not be the end, but we, we have not been conditioned

through sea life and death that way, I'm going to leave that for another discussion.

But the worst thing that I could ever think about besides like the death of my grandmother

or my father, some of the things that had me in a tailspin and I thought we ruined my

life, I look back on them now and I'm grateful that I got through them, that I've leaned

into them.

For some of you leaning in looks like therapy.

For some of you leaning in looks like quitting your job.

For some of you leaning in means you're just going to put your head down and finish school

or the task at hand and you're not going to let up until you're finished.

You're going to run right into it and keep going no matter how painful it is.

You're going to finish, you're not going to run away, you're not going to steer away,

you're not going to pull up because it seems intuitive, you're not going to pull your

money out because I don't want to lose anymore.

That's fear.

That's fear.

Sometimes it's warranted.

Sometimes you know a good run is better than a bad stand.

Those things you will know as you become more wise when it's time to hold them and when

it's time to fold them as Kenny Rogers would say or when it's time to take flight.

But the lesson today is when you're headed into something that you didn't mean to be in

but your head towards the guardrail steering, steering to the guardrail, head towards the

earth, lean down, keep going until you gain traction and then give yourself enough time

to get your grounding and your footing so that you can make better choices.

All right.

That's my life lesson.

Let me know if it's resonated with you.

You can follow me at KarenHunterShow.com, KarenHunterShow.com, leave me a comment and also

follow me on this podcast, give me the likes of the thumbs up or the hearts.

I don't know what they were asking for but do all of that and leave a comment there too.

I'm going to do a better job of reading the comments on the podcast as well.

But I appreciate you listening and I thank you and I love you.

That's an actual, all right, y'all, till next time.

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