Compounding Daily
Do you feel stuck? Uninspired? Stagnant? The Compounding Daily podcast hosted by Miguel Sanchez, aims to spark curiosity and drive. Each episode gives you deep insights on how to cultivate healthy habits, practice discipline, change your perspective of life, and restructure your mindset in a way that promotes small changes in your daily life that will compound to help you earn that 1% needed everyday to reach your goals, whether they be physical, mental, or both.
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EP154- You Should Question Every Message You Consume.
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Ever catch yourself doomscrolling and suddenly everything feels heavier, louder, and more urgent than it did an hour ago? We’ve been there. This conversation starts with a Monday reset and opens up into a candid look at how the modern feed shapes our mood, our opinions, and our relationships—often without us noticing. We unpack the moment you realize you’re reacting emotionally instead of thinking clearly, and how a simple pause can change the whole week.
Together we dig into practical ways to protect your mind while staying informed. We talk through the rise of AI-generated content, the power of framing and bias, and why the same video can tell two different stories depending on who posts it. From questioning first impressions to cross-checking sources, we share easy habits for critical thinking that keep you from taking a single clip as the whole truth. We also get real about algorithms: how one long watch can contaminate your recommendations and make outrage feel normal—and what it takes to reset your feed with deliberate curation, time boundaries, and better inputs.
We don’t stop at the screen. When a topic matters, moving the conversation offline restores tone, nuance, and empathy. We highlight the difference between winning an argument and building understanding, and how to steer heated debates back into thoughtful dialogue. And if a story hits close to home, we point toward action that actually changes something: learn the policy, pitch in locally, support trusted organizations, and align your daily choices with your values. You can care deeply without burning out. Hit play for a grounded, hopeful framework to trade doomscrolling for clarity, agency, and a steadier week ahead. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review—what’s one boundary you’ll set with your media this week?
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Hello and welcome back, everybody, to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, Miguel Sanchez. Welcome back to another episode, episode 154. With me today, I have my lovely wife.
SPEAKER_01:Hello.
SPEAKER_00:Hi, welcome back to the show.
SPEAKER_01:Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Today's goal has a purpose. Today's goal has an uh today's recording has purpose, right? So my purpose today is going to be a quick short episode. Uh before we get into the topic and and the the things that I want to share today. Um, I always love to emphasize on this, right? It's it's Monday, and with it, it's an opportunity to make change. What that change looks like is always independent. And what I mean by that is what may be helping me this week may not help you, and vice versa. So it's about figuring out what needs to be done for your personal life this week, so that when you reach the end of another week, you're not in the same place, but you are making growth, you are making progression towards a better life or better you, and overall, just you know, uh uh uh uh a story of growth as opposed to a story of regression or you know, nothing exciting.
SPEAKER_01:So stagnation.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, oh that's perfect. Regression or stagnation. That's a perfect word. Yeah. Um, so with that being said, uh, today's episode is is gonna be about uh something that I've been observing in in the world lately. Um because of my my my work lately, and Juliana's here to to testify as evidence for this, because she's the one who who gets to uh to carry the weight of my emotions, since she is my best friend and my wife. You know, so she's the one that I vent to and the one who I uh deload my thoughts on. And lately I've been so busy that besides my morning messages and besides my casual uh once-in-a-while picture at the gym, uh, I haven't been on my phone a lot. Um, if I do get on, it's on YouTube and I'm just listening to something, but I I haven't had the opportunity to just sit and scroll. And lately I do get uh that opportunity at the end of the day, and when I open social media, when I open up the internet, what I'm realizing it's a lot of chaos, a lot of fear, a lot of doubts, a lot, a lot of anxiety, a lot of arguing, a lot of anger. And I, while being overwhelmed with the emotions in my own life with everything I got uh personally going on, caught myself agreeing with the things that I was seeing to such an extent that I was venting to Juliana, and she's like she told me, and I remember this clearly. She says, like, wow, like I've never seen you so so bothered before. And that really stuck with me because that brought to my attention that maybe I'm acting emotionally, not rationally, and it it it it put me in a state of pensiveness, which is typically when I go quiet for a while. And in in that state of pensiveness, I I started thinking to myself how important it is in today's world, one to protect your mind, and two to practice critical thinking. And what I mean by that is you as an individual have a an option at all times to protect your mind from poison. Now you can say, Well, what's poison to you is not poison to me, yada yada. But what I'm referring to is if you are in inhaling or trusting anything into your own body that as you're doing as you're consuming it is tarnishing your thoughts to is leading you to a place of anger, of anxiety, of fear, a place where emotionally you don't feel stable, then it's not just good to consume it and not question it, right? It's why I say the protection of the mind must must be first, in my own opinion, and then is where the critical thinking comes in. And the critical thinking comes in in the form of don't accept things just as facts because you are seeing it for the first time online. Don't think don't take things for truth without questioning it first. And I'm not saying there's a right or wrong, what I'm saying is there's always another story, there's always another side, and it's easy to just receive one side without understanding the other and start building resentment or anger, and then you make your own opinion, and before you know it, you're arguing on social media with people that you considered once friends or family, you know? And uh I'll let Juliana give her opinion on this, but it's not really her opinion, it's literally her observation of me uh over the last few weeks. Uh she she'd seen you've seen a change in me, right?
SPEAKER_01:Where like we were I don't think it's just you, I think it's it's a lot of us, right? So people in general just that we're surrounded with. Um, obviously, like you said, you specifically to me, because I'm with you every day. You're my husband. Um and we talk about everything. But realistically speaking, social media is like our news form these days, right? A lot of people don't have cable, especially our generation, you know, 20s, 30s, 40s. Um so all of the news that you'd usually watch on TV that you would say, oh, the adults watch the news or something like that, is all over every platform Facebook, Instagram, everything, Twitter, whatever you want to call it. So and something we have to remember is it's always a biased post, right? It'll be the same video from a different perspective with a different person's perspective on it and opinion on it. And sometimes these videos that are portraying something, right? It could even be completely fake, like AI.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:These days you don't even know. AI is so believable. I've seen so many videos of famous people, of cartoons, things like that that are AI developed and they look so real and so realistic that it's like, oh my God, did you see this?
SPEAKER_00:And it's like if you open the comments, right, you know, you'll see the the some individuals will point out the the the things that maybe to experts are so adamant and in your face, but to your casual person, especially the older, uh, the older crowd who doesn't really mess with technology a lot, they see a video, they take it as true immediately, and before you know it, they're running with it, right?
SPEAKER_01:Right, and then they're spreading that like that message, whatever it was, that story from that post, from that video, from whatever, and saying, Oh my god, at the next event that you see them at, oh my gosh, did you see this? Now this person's a bad person, and this party's this, and these people need to go in a little bit.
SPEAKER_00:Listen, like the reason this conversation's even happening is because I'm guilty of that. I'm guilty of of being one-sided, and it it's it's it's mature, in my own opinion, to observe yourself and realize that you are being too strongly opinionated towards something, and in that strong opinion, you may be closing opportunities or losing friendships. Now, if you're the kind of individual that says, Well, my opinion matters more than our friendships, and you get rid of friendships, then that's a a choice that you make as an individual. But I like to think that it doesn't have to get to that point, right? Like, uh, despite the chaos happening in the world, I'm an optimistic beside it all. And um that doesn't disregard the chaos happening in the world. If anything, it emphasizes more on our individual responsibility to work on our strong mind so that we're not just emotional animals reacting to what we're being fed through a little screen and then sharing words of hatred and anger without really going down the rabbit hole of understanding.
SPEAKER_01:Right. Like do the data, do the data research, look into these things, what's actually factual. Don't just be like, oh, this celebrity is saying this, and so I have to believe it because I do enjoy their one show or their one song. No, form your own opinion, get educated, you know. And I'm not saying go to college just to be educated. Get educated. There's plenty of resources out there that are factual, that can be backed up with sources that are credible, etc. However, it's just so easy to forget about doing your research when it's so easy to just get instant gratification from seeing a video online and then just accepting that as a fact or the truth when it's not.
SPEAKER_00:And you gotta understand that the algorithm is fed to your liking. So the second you write you you like a video or even watch it for too long, yeah, that's leaning to one way or another, chances are you're gonna continue to see it. My algorithm is contaminated right now, and every time I open social media, it's just poison, it's murder, it's crime, it's chaos, it's sadness. And if I go on my other page on Compounding Daily page, because I only follow like speaking and and entrepreneur pages, I'm not seeing a lot of that on that page. And that just tells you the power that we have to decide uh what we are in in what we are absorbing to our minds, right? And I I said this is gonna be a short episode, so honestly, I believe we can start you know wrapping it up soon because uh this isn't something that I wanted to go deep in. This isn't something that I want you guys to think like, damn, he's preaching at us for it. I'm sitting here to tell you that I observed it within myself. How easily, if you just absorb something and don't question it enough, or you're just taking in something without and what I consider having an intellectual thought with yourself, a conversation that says, before I accept this is true, before I allow this to make me a dumb decision, before I allow this to make me uh uh hold a strong opinion towards other people, maybe or a grudge towards something. Yeah, maybe I just take a step back, and in that step back, you realize like sometimes it's just good to observe, right? Sometimes it's good to be the person who's quiet, sometimes it's good to be the person who's not talking, just observing, right? Because in and that's ironic because here I am holding a microphone, but uh, I'm not here to give you my opinion. I'm not telling you here that you're right or you're wrong. I'm here to give you a change of perspective. I'm here to tell you that I don't deny the the the chaos happening in the world, but I emphasize on the importance uh that you have the control that's within your power to make positive decisions in your life. Right.
SPEAKER_01:You don't have to let it ruin your day. You don't have like you can feel empathy towards certain people or certain situations that are happening, or maybe anger or happiness or whatever the situation is, whatever your feeling is towards it, you're entitled to have feeling towards it, but don't let it corrupt your life. Or now it's all you talk about, all you think about, all you dwell on.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Instead, just inform yourself, see what's going on, get educated on it, and form your own opinions.
SPEAKER_00:Listen, if if if you feel like what's going on may be harmful to you and your family, then instead of just going on Facebook and bitching about it, you can actually do something about it in your personal life. What can I do to protect myself? What can I do to make sure that me and my loved ones are safe? How can I contribute back to society to support the things that I believe? Because see, listen, it's easy to have a strong opinion in today's world. Behind the screen writing. Yeah, but it it's so difficult to actually go out into the world and participate and and do something that's good, contributing to whatever it is that you believe in. So don't be what's called a keyboard warrior. And we're gonna wrap it up with this. So uh I'm gonna this is gonna be part of the caption of the episode, but I wanted to read it out loud um while I have it in front of me because I wrote this. This is one of those rare times where I was thinking for a while today about how mentally I've been impacted by life lately, and uh the the the rare case that I'd sit down and think about the episode and then write the caption before the episode is even recorded. Typically, I sit here and allow the mind to just tell me the things that I want to talk about. This time it was a little different because I felt like this message was uh a little bit uh on on the right side instead of the left. And what I mean by that is typically I'm leaning towards reflectional, motivational, inspirational. Today it was a little bit more personal, a little bit more on the protect yourself from the dangers that are put in front of you without realizing whether it's fact or opinion. And with that, I'm gonna read this. And before I read it, do you have anything you want to say?
SPEAKER_01:No, I was just gonna say, yeah, don't be a keyboard warrior. Like, don't hide behind the screen, have an in-depth in-person conversation with somebody if you really want to talk about a subject.
SPEAKER_00:Because listen, if you have a strong opinion, I'm not against defending it, defend it, right? I'm all about that freedom of speech. I'm all about being able to have your opinion and have an intelligent conversation behind it. And the second you lose the intelligent part and you get only emotional, what you're doing is turning it into an argument. What you're doing is no longer willing to understand, only argue and defend. And in that, you've lost purpose in the conversation because now nobody grows from it.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Think about that. And this is what I'm good. This is what I wrote earlier, and I'll leave it with this. This episode is isn't about ignoring the chaos happening around us or pretending it doesn't exist. It's about staying aware without becoming consumed, about protecting your mental and emotional space so you don't unknowingly absorbed negativity, fear, or resentment that can quietly turn into anger or worse, division. Think about that. Think about that as you go into the week. Think about that as you think about your future, think about that as you make decisions. It's always easy to make an opinion. It's it says more about the character who takes the time to understand before they react. Until next time.
