{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69cffc27f57702d2d98a1eef/6a77e16dc3e1347e8b2c0bfb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 2- You  Are Not Every Thought You Think","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69cffc27f57702d2d98a1eef/1786240614766-09634bb6-134f-4709-90c8-1b56fd7a673b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>Episode two: You are not every thought you think</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Season two opens with a truth that hits hard: before we lead teams, systems, or change, we have to learn how to lead the mind doing the leading. <strong>Smita Challu Tulsani, </strong>host and narrator of<strong> The Intelligence Loop</strong>, explores how thoughts, patterns, and old stories quietly shape our choices long before we realize it.</p><p><br></p><p>This season is about awareness, not control. Episode 2 goes even deeper with one powerful reminder: you are not every thought you think. You are the one who can notice it, question it, and choose what happens next.</p><p><br></p><p>Episode 2 drives the message home with real force. Smita shows how quickly a thought can turn into identity if we do not slow down and examine it. The takeaway is simple, but life-changing: notice the thought, do not obey it.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key topics</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Thoughts arrive uninvited, but they do not deserve instant authority.</li><li>Quiet moments can be misread as rejection, failure, or threat.</li><li>Smita shows how language creates distance from a thought and protects clarity.</li><li>The mind can generate wisdom, but it can also generate fear and distortion.</li><li>Meditation is framed as practice in returning, not perfection.</li><li>A four-step internal loop is introduced: sense, synthesize, choose, learn.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>She closes with a seven-day exercise to test recurring thoughts with evidence and judgment.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Timestamps</strong></p><p>00:00 - Episode two opens: learning to observe the mind</p><p>00:38 - A thought can appear without permission</p><p>01:37 - How silence in a meeting becomes rejection</p><p>02:33 - Why interpretation matters more than the event itself</p><p>03:01 - Language that creates distance from self-defeating thoughts</p><p>04:31 - Fear is here, but fear does not have to lead</p><p>05:28 - The four-stage practice: sense, synthesize, choose, learn</p><p>06:57 - Seven days of challenging one recurring thought</p><p>07:55 - Listening without surrendering</p>","author_name":"Smita Challu Tulsani"}