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Microbiomes are Contagious?
Good News Podcast

Microbiomes are Contagious?

byAndrew McGivernMarch 13, 2023February 19, 2026
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Potential New Alzheimers Disease Treatment Reduces Amyloid Plaque by up to 80%
The Brain

Potential New Alzheimers Disease Treatment Reduces Amyloid Plaque by up to 80%

byGreatNewsPodMarch 11, 2023June 16, 2023
A study from UTHealth Houston suggests that a novel, disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer’s disease may…
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A Hormone Injection May Sober You Up Quicker When You Are Really Drunk.
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A Hormone Injection May Sober You Up Quicker When You Are Really Drunk.

byGreatNewsPodMarch 8, 2023June 16, 2023
A new hormone injection has been shown to decrease the recovery time from excessive alcohol…
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Bumble Bees Can Learn (and TEACH) How to Open a Puzzle Box
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Bumble Bees Can Learn (and TEACH) How to Open a Puzzle Box

byGreatNewsPodMarch 8, 2023June 16, 2023
A study has shown that not only can Bumble Bee's learn how to open a…
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China Sets New Rules For Gene Editing of Humans
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China Sets New Rules For Gene Editing of Humans

byGreatNewsPodMarch 8, 2023June 16, 2023
China has set new rules for the gene editing of human beings. The rules apply…
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Study Finds Children of LGBTQ Couples are NOT Developmentally Disadvantaged.
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Study Finds Children of LGBTQ Couples are NOT Developmentally Disadvantaged.

byGreatNewsPodMarch 8, 2023June 16, 2023
The analysis found that children raised by LGBT parents, especially pre-school-age children, demonstrated better psychological…
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The High-Seas Treaty is Set to Protect up to One-Third of The World’s Oceans!
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The High-Seas Treaty is Set to Protect up to One-Third of The World’s Oceans!

byGreatNewsPodMarch 8, 2023June 16, 2023
After ten years of negotiations, nations have reached a historic agreement to protect 30% of…
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New Discovery Could Lead To The Ability to Regenerate Damaged Heart Muscle Tissue.
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New Discovery Could Lead To The Ability to Regenerate Damaged Heart Muscle Tissue.

byGreatNewsPodMarch 8, 2023June 16, 2023
Researchers at UNC School of Medicine have achieved a significant breakthrough in the process of…
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Recently approved Diabetes Drug can be used by people without Diabetes for Weight Loss
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Recently approved Diabetes Drug can be used by people without Diabetes for Weight Loss

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Weight Watchers pivots to a pharma-based solution to weight loss.

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the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day
the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.

the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…

Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.

George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because good news should be heard and the link is in the show notes.

Today's quote comes from George Carlin, comedian, philosopher, social critic, and one of the most brilliantly observant minds of the last century. In a career spanning nearly five decades, 23 albums, 14 HBO specials, and three books, Carlin had a gift for wrapping genuine wisdom inside a laugh. This one is no different.

He once said:

”Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”

Go ahead and laugh. But stay with it, because buried inside that wisecrack is one of the most counterintuitive truths about mastery you'll ever encounter.

Psychologists have a name for what Carlin is describing. They call it unconscious competence, the fourth and final stage of learning any skill. It works like this. When you first attempt something new, you don't know what you don't know. That's stage one, unconscious incompetence.

Then comes the painful stage of realizing just how much you're getting wrong, conscious incompetence. Then the slow, effortful, self-conscious phase of actually learning the skill, conscious competence. You can do it, but you have to think about every step. And then something remarkable happens.

With enough repetition, enough practice, enough time, the skill becomes automatic.

It moves below the level of conscious thought. You stop thinking about what you're doing and you just do it. Unconscious competence. The highest stage of mastery.

And here's the beautiful paradox Carlin is pointing at: at that level, the best practitioners genuinely can't fully explain what they're doing or why it works.

Ask a jazz musician to describe exactly how they improvised that solo. Ask a seasoned surgeon to narrate every micro-decision of a complex procedure. Ask a master chef why they instinctively added that pinch of seasoning. They'll struggle to tell you because the knowledge has gone somewhere deeper than language.

They have no idea what they're doing. And they're extraordinary at it. There's a flip side too, and this is where

Carlin's joke gets even sharper. Overthinking kills performance.

The moment a great athlete starts consciously analyzing their technique mid-competition, things fall apart. Psychologists call it paralysis by analysis, when conscious thought interferes with unconscious competence and the skill you've mastered suddenly deserts you. The very act of trying to understand what you're doing stops you from doing it well. Sometimes the path to mastery runs directly through learning to stop thinking about it.

So here's the question: Is there an area of your life where you're good, genuinely good, but you keep getting in your own way by thinking about it too hard? Because Carlin's joke is actually an invitation to trust the work you've already put in. To stop narrating your own performance and just perform. To have enough faith in your preparation that you can afford, in the moment, to not know exactly what you're doing. That's not ignorance. That's mastery wearing a very convincing disguise.

That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern — I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
May 8, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Lee Iacocca – “Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.”
May 7, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Kurt Vonnegut – “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
May 6, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Jean-Paul Sartre – “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”
May 5, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Dan Sullivan – “Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.”
May 4, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Martin Short -“No one is any one thing.”
May 3, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Colin Kaepernick – “Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.”
May 2, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Paulo Coelho – “Do something instead of killing time because time is killing you.”
May 1, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Alice Morse Earle – “Not every day is good, but there is good in every day.”
April 30, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Unknown – “Be smart. Notice everything. But act like you know nothing.”
April 29, 2026
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Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News
Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News

The Great News Podcast is your source for positive news, inspiring stories, and good news from around the world. We skip the doom and gloom of mainstream media to focus on scientific breakthroughs, environmental wins, and the inspiring news that proves the world is getting better. Join Andrew McGivern for a dose of optimism and uplifting stories that will change your perspective on human progress.
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Keep looking for the good in the world, because it is not only there – its everywhere.

Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

Turning Off Bad Genes

How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

China’s Gigantic Battery

How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

Until next time… and there will be a next time.

Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
April 14, 2026
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The Longevity Revolution: Replicating Decades of Aging and Turning Nuclear Waste into Power
April 9, 2026
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Reversing Blindness with Cellular Rejuvenation and the Beating Heart-on-a-Chip
April 1, 2026
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Self-Spreading CRISPR and the Sun Battery That Outperforms Lithium-Ion
March 18, 2026
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Cancer-Eating Bacteria, 10-Passenger Flying Taxis, and the First Moon Harvest
March 9, 2026
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Can We Bottle the Sun? Plus the AI Tool Outperforming Doctors in Rare Disease Diagnosis
March 7, 2026
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Lower Crime and More Energy
March 3, 2026
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Saving the Banana and Reversing Brain Aging
February 28, 2026
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Mushroom Boxes and Bacterial Mating
February 25, 2026
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How AI is Designing Custom Antibodies and Curing Cancer
February 21, 2026
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    Lee Iacocca – “Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.”

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    Kurt Vonnegut – “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

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    Jean-Paul Sartre – “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”

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    byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

    The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

    Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

    Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

    Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

    How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

    Turning Off Bad Genes

    How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

    Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

    China’s Gigantic Battery

    How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

    If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

    The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

    For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

    Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

    Until next time… and there will be a next time.

    Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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