Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick

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1. Good Shift - In Consideration - E230

   4 november 2026 · 5 min

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   In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick brings the best of the Makes Sense Substack to the podcast with a short, sharp look at consideration. We are taught to be considerate, and rightly so. But he asks whether we have become so considerate of every headline, imagined judgment, and passing worry that we have gone inconsiderate toward our own well-being and the people sitting right across from us. He introduces the careless model, where caring less does not mean going cold. It means becoming less available to whatever keeps renting space in your attention. Stay with me. By the end you will be asking what deserves more of you, and what you can finally put down. Lees meer

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   MAKES SENSE PODCAST
   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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2. Hal Elrod - The 5 Minute Rule That Beat the Odds - E229

   2 november 2026 · 29 min

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   Hal Elrod was hit head-on by a drunk driver, found dead at the scene, and told he would never walk again. Years later, by his own account, he lost more than half of his income and his house went into foreclosure. Then he was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive cancer. Each time he reached for the same tools: the Five Minute Rule and the six practices behind The Miracle Morning, the book, series and documentary that has reached millions. In this conversation Hal breaks down where his mindset came from, why acceptance is the real engine, and how he reframed a 30 percent survival rate into a commitment to be among the survivors. If you have ever wanted a practical way to stop resisting what you cannot change, stay with me. Do not go anywhere. Lees meer

   Connect With Hal Elrod:

   Website: https://halelrod.com
   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hal_elrod
   The Miracle Morning (book and series): https://miraclemorning.com/books/
   The Miracle Morning Movie (free): https://miraclemorning.com/movie/

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   MAKES SENSE PODCAST

   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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3. Why Successful People Feel Like Frauds - E228

   30 oktober 2026 · 24 min

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   Dr. JC Doornick has lived extreme success and extreme failure, and he still catches imposter syndrome showing up in his own head. In this episode he opens with a rapid round of “makes sense or not” questions that expose the beliefs quietly running your decisions. Then he breaks down why your brain can generate a feeling of inadequacy without producing a single piece of evidence, how negativity bias and social comparison feed it, and how the four step Interface Response System from his book helps you investigate the story instead of defending it. Along the way he hands you four words to tuck in your pocket like a hammer in a tool belt. Stay with me. Lees meer

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   ► YouTube: /drjcdoornick

   MAKES SENSE PODCAST
   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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   Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I’ve been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with …

4. Good Shift - Nature Doesn't Hurry - E227

   28 oktober 2026 · 7 min

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   In this good shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick brings you the best of the Makes Sense Substack live in his Wednesday series. He begins with a line attributed to Lao Tzu: nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. From there he asks a simple, funny question: do trees worry? Drawing on his own healing journey while contending with cancer, he explores why the present moment may be the only place life actually happens. Then he takes on the hard part: what do we do with goals, hopes, and dreams, which all live in the future? You may find a different way to hold a dream without letting it hold you. Lees meer

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   Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I’ve been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

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5. Steven Kotler - We Have Godlike Power and Stone Age Brains - E226

   26 oktober 2026 · 57 min

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   Meet Steven Kotler, founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, a Distinguished Research Fellow at Florida Atlantic University, and co-author with Peter Diamandis of We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance. In this conversation, Steven breaks down what flow is, where it came from, and why it shows up in our best memories. He tells the story of the day a single surf session pulled him out of years of illness and a place of deep despair. I share my own stage 4 renal cell carcinoma diagnosis and what flow and gratitude mean to me right now. We also get into healing, group flow, and what information overload does to our attention. Then Steven gives one simple, specific practice you can start this week. Stay with me. Lees meer

   Content note: This episode includes a discussion of suicidal thoughts and serious illness. If you are struggling, please reach out to someone you trust or a local crisis line. In the US you can call or text 988. Outside the US, findahelpline.com lists services by country.

   Connect With Steven Kotler:
   Website: https://www.stevenkotler.com
   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kotler.steven/
   Flow Research Collective: https://www.flowresearchcollective.com/
   Book, We Are As Gods (Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler): https://www.porchlightbooks.com/products/we-are-as-gods-peter-h-diamandis-9781668099544

   Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy:
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   MAKES SENSE PODCAST
   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to chan…

6. For People Feeling Behind In Life - E225

   23 oktober 2026 · 22 min

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   On this Makes Sense episode, Dr. JC Doornick takes on the quiet questions most of us avoid: Am I doing enough? Am I behind? Do I matter? Drawing on ideas explored by Alan Watts and on his own experience living with stage 4 cancer, he asks whether we have turned purpose, achievement and legacy into evidence we collect to prove our existence has value. He walks through how ordinary moments become extraordinary when you stop treating them as the space between you and something important. He also shows how to tell the difference between creating from expression and creating from deficiency. If you have ever felt behind, or wondered whether your life has to earn its meaning, do not go anywhere. Lees meer

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   MAKES SENSE PODCAST
   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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   Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I’ve been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster an…

7. Good Shift - What Are You Waiting For? - E224

   21 oktober 2026 · 5 min

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   In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick, the Dragon, hears a David Guetta and OneRepublic song and finds it lands differently than ever before. Navigating cancer, he asks one question: what are you waiting for? He walks through the quiet assumption that there will always be time to call the friend, hold his wife longer, or follow the desire knocking at his door. He then connects it to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “fierce urgency of now.” This is not about hustling harder or living at full volume. It is about noticing what deserves your life while you are living it. Stay with me. Lees meer

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   MAKES SENSE PODCAST
   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

   SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast.
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   Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I’ve been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his progr…

8. Jack Daly - The Plan He Wrote at 13 Still Runs His Life Today - E223

   19 oktober 2026 · 42 min

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   My guest today is Jack Daly, a serial entrepreneur, sales leader, author, and endurance athlete. He built six companies into national firms, sold two of them to Wall Street firms, led sales organizations numbering in the thousands, and is a former US Army captain. He has also finished 15 Ironmans and run a marathon in all 50 states. What matters most is what life taught him along the way, including his own battle with cancer and the loss of his wife, Bonnie. Jack explains why a clear picture of your destination beats a mission statement on a wall, why the best salespeople stop selling, and how a goal written down at 13 still guides his week. We also go to the hard place: what he chose to do with the time he had left with Bonnie, and the permission she gave him to build a bigger life. Stay with me. Lees meer

   Connect With Jack Daly:
   Website: https://jackdalysales.com/
   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackdaly/
   X: https://twitter.com/Ironmanjack
   Book: Jack Daly’s Life by Design (author page): https://advantagebooks.com/authors/jack-daly
   Instagram: not verified, no link included
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   Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy:
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   MAKES SENSE PODCAST
   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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9. What Cancer Taught Me About Time - E222

   16 oktober 2026 · 30 min

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   Most of us are remarkably good at preparing to live and surprisingly bad at actually living. In this solo episode, Dr. JC Doornick shares what his cancer diagnosis has taught him about the illusion of tomorrow, why urgency is not the same as speed, and how much of our lives we put on layaway while waiting for something to change. Along the way he draws on Steve Jobs, Pema Chödrön, Randy Pausch, and a song that stopped him in his tracks, and he introduces “carency,” the currency of our care: the time, energy, and attention we spend every day. You will leave with a simple challenge for this week. Stay with me. Lees meer

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   MAKES SENSE PODCAST
   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

   SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast.
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   Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I’ve been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and ear…

10. Good Shift - Your Personal Board of Directors: Ask the Giants a Better Question - E221

    14 oktober 2026 · 5 min

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    In this episode of Good Shift, Dr. JC Doornick brings one of the best ideas from the Makes Sense Substack to the show: a personal board of directors made up of ten people whose lives, ideas, or courage inspired you. Not a boardroom with quarterly numbers, but framed pictures on your wall that you can consult at any fork in the road. Dr. JC shares the questions he imagines bringing to his own board, explains why the point is different lenses and not agreement, and walks you through a simple exercise you can start today. It ties directly into the Interface Response System. Stay with me. Lees meer

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    MAKES SENSE PODCAST

    Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it’s who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

    SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast.

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    Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I’ve been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get…

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