What are some opinions we still hold with deep conviction and where have we changed our mind?
In Episode #393 of 'Musings', Juan & I discuss: inspiration from Tim Ferriss, why we were both looking into Nietzsche's void, how I got fooled by my kleptomaniac friend, the radical transformation of Roosh V (and why I don't want to be like that), the mistakes of fame & Bill Cosby and a couple of other serious/silly examples.
Support from Dave Jones, Petar, McIntosh and Rememberjstark. Much appreciation to everyone supporting via streaming as well!
Timeline:
(0:00) - Flipping the old adage
(0:51) - Why this topic?
(2:56) - I blink at the abyss
(8:04) - Finding joy
(11:53) - Spend more time on health
(16:56) - Almost everything is subjective BS
(21:20) - Directed effort is your safest bet
(25:58) - My inability to judge people
(30:57) - Boostagram Lounge
(38:12) - Miscontruing power/fame/money for merit
(46:37) - Cold approaching has little long-term utility
(54:26) - Public speaking is more important than I thought
(56:11) - Summary
(1:01:26) - V4V: Try out a new app
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Welcome Mere Mortals
Welcome back, folks.
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I look at my phone right now
to confirm that it is
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14th of June, 7 p.m.
here, Brisbane, Australian City
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Eastern Standard Time.
I had to check because the
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watch face on my watch is right
over the actual numbers
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also. Nice. What is it?
This is musings, folks.
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We dive into here
at the Mere Mortals podcast.
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That particular topic in mind
and I had the privilege
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to check this one.
I was going to be
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two rights in a wrong
and we'll get into
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what that means. Look,
I didn't have a particular
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thought in my mind, but before we
get started, you'll want
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on the side. Car and here
on the other side,
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I actually made the
thumbnail the titled Do
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two rights make a wrong.
You know. Due to
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something like that I also.
Do two wrongs make a right.
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Maybe to rise make one wrong.
And so this was a was kind
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of scratching my head
I want to talk about
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we did a podcast a long time ago
outdoors for meandering.
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I think it was off the back of a
Tim Ferriss podcast.
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I believe I can
remember correctly with
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Kevin Kelly, I think
maybe Colorado.
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But they talked about, you know,
what's really giving you
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a lot of passion
was kind of, well, something new
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that you've learned
and something else.
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So I kind of went down this path.
And so what I wanted to
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talk through today
was as we saying,
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what is to think
is that, you know, you've kind of
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doubled down on you've confirmed
that, hey, I'm even more right.
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Maybe some examples as to
why that's come to be the place
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we of of offline beforehand.
This podcast kind of confirmed
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that one of them
were probably going
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to be a pretty serious one.
The other one a little bit
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more of a funny one.
My like semi funny,
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but it is funny and you'll
see what I mean in a moment.
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And then we'll talk into what
one wrong thing. Something that
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with either turned our mind
completely overnight or a little
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bit off with turn the back on
something or we've got our man.
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Yeah whatever. What what
was I thinking. Yeah.
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Two months years ago. The topic
I've particularly done
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is something in the kind of last
2 to 3 years that have been
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that I would say I've,
I've changed my mind on.
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So it's not Yeah,
it's not kind of super,
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super recent but it's still
kind of is it. It was actually
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you talking about this
kind of forced me to, to have a
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bit of a reflection and go,
Oh yeah, what actually have
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I thought about differently
and what do I think
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is still kind of what I,
what I do think.
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Gotcha. Okay. Yeah.
Monstrous of a reason as well.
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So look, that's
we're going to dive
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into this particular
topic at the onset. If you're
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listening to this or of you
watching it live, all of you
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watching it later or however
you're consuming it,
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I would appreciate, you know,
drop in your thoughts as well.
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One of the things that you
are thinking that,
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you know, two things
you're doubling down on.
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One thing that perhaps,
you know, you're
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realising it's wrong
and you know, at the same time
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and we'll talk about it
at the end. If you can
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boost agreement, all the better.
That's the best way
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that we read them out
and we'll check in at the end
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of the session as well
on previous scrims.
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So I think I can we go with the,
the rights first and we'll
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leave the wrongs for later,
for tasteful later
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so people can wait for a let's go
with let's decided Light-Hearted
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Let's start with the funny one
that's often if
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I can get this right. So I blink
at the abyss. So niche
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when you know,
when he talks about, you know,
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some people stare into the abyss
and the the abyss stares back
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and then it's like,
do you blink an eye,
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blink all the time. He would be
spitting at me. I can't.
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What are you doing? So recently
I had a couple of experiences,
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which is something
I've talked about
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kind of recently, but it kind of
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I got a Taste of fame
the other day. I was out in a
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and a kind of like night time
rooftop bar venue, and this guy
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came up to me, he's like, Dude,
I love the podcast, but the like
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kind of hyping up
giving me energy. And I went.
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Like. Yes, that's kind of cool.
And he said, he kind of. Knew me.
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From the cool Sonic Park
or something, but I didn't
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recognise this guy, so it must
have been years ago
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and all I could think was like,
Man, I don't like this
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feeling of fame, like this
taste of fame. It's not
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that they have all the power,
they know everything about me.
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But then I think about you know,
I'm creating clips at the moment.
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And just before we started,
I was saying, and that's starting
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to kick off.
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I don't know if I want to
keep doing this. You know, in
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six months time. Yoga did a yoga
the other day, a yoga class
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teacher comes up,
like specifically comes up to me
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afterwards, like, wow,
you're really good. Like,
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how long you been doing this for?
I'm like, Yeah,
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you know, for a while.
But I only do it
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every now and then.
Handstand Recognition.
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Arizona and Spanglish, Work,
promotion, soccer. Every time
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I kind of get
like a bit of success,
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it's like it's
just about to tick over
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into something.
It's almost like I blink and go,
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No, I don't want that. And then
kind of step away. So it's
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kind of one thing
that that's kind of, I suppose,
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like a reinforcement that I think
it's something that I do
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and that is probably
something I've, I've recognised
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for a while is I, I tend to
I wouldn't call it self-sabotage.
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Self-sabotage. But it's,
it's definitely maybe not
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taking opportunities,
not leaning into things
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super, super hard. So yeah,
I think that's,
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that's something of a it's
almost like every everything
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I get good at, I kind of
don't utilise it
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to its full potential,
something like that. Yeah.
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It's an interesting piece
actually. It's something
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so not exactly silly or fun.
Well it's, it's weird.
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It's, you know, you'll see
when I talk about mine, but it's
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almost sort of opposite. It's
some of the mentality
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that I have in actually posted
on Twitter today
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actually just sort of
came to mind.
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Anyways, I write down what I was
thinking about was that I,
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I see a lot of people who,
you know, do things for a day
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or for a week and get
really motivated and really enjoy
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the action. They'll do it
for a month. That's pretty good.
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But as of late I've been
much more impressed
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and wanting in myself
of, you know, what's the thing
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you can do for you
for five years, for ten years.
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And now what I'm really picking
in the energy that I'm doing with
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all things is I cool?
I can confidently and comfortably
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keep on doing this for
an indefinite amount of time.
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And so I think this year I'm
preventing myself
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from pushing harder.
So I could be true or it could be
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on the path of now I've
selected to choose the energy
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to be expended
that allows me to do it
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from kind of wherever, which
even to the podcast. Right.
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I'll still be able
to continue doing
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the amount of work I'm doing
for the podcast with a newborn.
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And so for me, it's like that's
I'm taking the books
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in that regard.
So yeah, I like down,
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I do like down. Do you think
that that is a I think you want
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to change not by.
Articulate, I. Mean.
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Because the thing is I still get
good at stuff, you know, it
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just, even though it's,
I do stuff for a year or two easy
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and well let's just take the yoga
for example. I've been on
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flexibility training for
more than ten years now,
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and I think it's more just
I don't want to get
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stuck into one box.
I want to be that one yoga guy
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or that one handstand guy
or that one podcast guy
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or anything like that.
And so it's kind of
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like a long, circuitous
I just would circuitous
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a circle route. And it is.
I mean, I would say
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circular, but. No, no, no.
That's so Judas. I hate that word
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circuitous. Anyway, I they,
it's the long winding route
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to get to your destination
rather than the kind of like
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barrel plough through machete
through the jungle
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type deal. Okay. And I think
you can get to the same place,
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if not higher places
by doing it like this. But it,
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it is kind of just a
reinforcement of that.
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So there's the positive
spin on it, which is you
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you kind of can get a lot of
various skills and whatnot
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and not not get locked
into a box, not get locked
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into a niche, which you can
then will will then have to
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struggle to kind of get out of.
So that's kind of the positive
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way of framing it.
I've just framed it
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negatively to, to start with.
Yeah. Now, okay, now I see that.
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I see that. Well the reason
I think this is
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an even more funny is my funny.
One of the ones
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that I think it's right
is wouldn't you know
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it is about niche as well.
So about niche as well
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because mom was more around and
one of my maxims
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is kind of a play
on the whole void one
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and it's like when the
when the voice says back at you
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stare back at the void and laugh.
Yes. And I think that's
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one of the ones
I've definitely doubled
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down, triple down, ten
quadrupled down in the hey,
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it's so powerful to find the joy
and the laughter,
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even in a real shitty
especially in a shitty situation
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because kind of just
alleviates things.
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And I went, you know,
I write about it,
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I've heard about it a lot.
And it's now to the point
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of having experienced it
enough times to know that
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during either challenging times
or experiences or honestly,
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just like any scenario, even just
stressful or, you know,
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I think we want to break the ice
sleep, some laughter or just
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a little bit of
comedic timing or joy
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honestly fills
the room and is good.
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So particular example of this of
why came up was
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I often find that in
connecting with friends
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I go a night out with friends
or a gathering with friends.
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It's always made all the better
when there's ribbing involved,
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when there's jokes being told,
when there's a bit of laughter.
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If it's a pretty sober
conversation, it can be a
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serious conversation,
it can be good and it can serve
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its purpose, but kind of made
all the better by the joy of
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the laughter, even in like
painful situations. We have
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a friend of ours.
He's got some problems
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from like in his big
apparently company,
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and we just gave him shit.
I just thought, That's fantastic,
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you know, it's like no harm done.
And there is
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obviously a line around that and
what friendship groups do. But I
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that again is an example
where laughing into the void
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is a good thing. And then
the most pristine
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one that's happened
really cemented in my mind
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has got to be, you know,
one in the morning,
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two in the morning,
me and my partner
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holding onto a baby, you know,
she's crying away
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and there's not much you can do.
And I've got her on video.
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So I want I want to share it
across to, you know, to the
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what amazes me more lights.
But, you know, it's
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surprising to see that, you know,
you're sleep deprived.
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You all you want to do
was go to bed. You know,
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you might be frustrated.
You know, you don't know
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how to put it. It's baby.
And all of a sudden you find joy
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in making up this random song
that can be crude, can be dark,
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humour can be, you know, whatever
it may be that suits you.
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And all of a sudden it alleviated
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there's kind of like, okay, what
I'm making on sort of the best
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out of the situation,
having a bit of joy
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and fun about it and catch
the video of it and you go,
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you know that the
I think there's a there's a point
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to be made about,
you know, suffering. And I
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have my own terminology
of how I would the night love it
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around the suffering context
but I go man
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if if there's anything
that's going to alleviate
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suffering in this generality,
Joy's going to do it.
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And a bit of laughter.
So laughing at the void,
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it's just being double down,
triple down in my mind. Yeah.
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And you see that
almost at the end
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of every episode
where I cut it off
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a lot of times.
But a lot of times I don't where,
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you know, you just,
you finish off a good and,
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and that is honestly
one's reaction
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to a lot of scenarios where it is
kind of fucked up or it is
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you know one of us
forgot something. One of us made
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the other person light,
one of us did something or just
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something happened. And it,
you know, cryptic goes down
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by 50%. Good. I wish it was more
you know, it's the
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he's not he's not
joking about that
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when he says yeah.
Yeah that's true.
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It is very true. Anyway,
that was my one.
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But interestingly
by his pick to avoid. Yeah, yeah.
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Something like today for my wife
which is very nice.
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I'll give you mine. I'll give you
my serious one. Okay.
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My more serious one I guess.
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light hearted
and I think it's the
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I had the operation
30 and operation 150 last. Yeah.
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Well this particular
annual goals that I had
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which for those who don't follow
along too closely was you know,
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I was trying to get as fit
as I could for a 30 year
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old and operation one fifties.
You know, how can I
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prepare myself to live
to 150 years old now in that
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particular journey, I found out,
you know, in myself quite a few
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things around. And this
probably comes to a point
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in blinking to the void
of recognising
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when you can be good
at something. But the level
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it takes to be great,
to be best at things.
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it's a very big chasm
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that you have to
be prepared to cross
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and be prepared to burn other
bridges and energy
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that you don't expend.
But it also made me realise
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and double down on the
importance of, I guess, knowing
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from a health fitness,
food perspective,
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the inputs and outputs,
I guess of the,
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the human body, the the knowledge
of oneself and the importance of
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measuring X-Y-Z
almost to the point of
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almost having the health measure
to a certain
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extent is going to be a more
beneficial factor in whatever way
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you view it. Even if you find
something wrong and not
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knowing about it and being able
to do something, even if you get
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then anxiety because now
you know that you have cancer
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or that you have whatever inside,
he has some malady
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that's really terrible. Well,
I still say it's better
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to know that and have the anxiety
that then never have died.
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And so I kind of dabble down
a lot more on that to the point
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that I can see. Well,
at least this month, you know,
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the whole month, I'm
just choosing topics
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to listen to and read that are
very particular to food
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and wellness and health,
just as a full month,
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just kind of completely
immerse myself.
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Now, I'd be doing that
all the time, but I wanted
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to dedicate a singular Manchester
almost this particular idea
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that I have my mind,
but beyond that I go, okay. And I
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kind of referred to it
a little bit earlier. This is one
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of the things that I will expend
energy or use energy up in, that
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I will continue to do this
probably for the rest of my life
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in the sense of I will track to
some degree, certain behaviours,
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certain consumption,
certain energy expenditure.
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the details of my training
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in particular sense,
my feeling of whatever,
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probably more than most
people would say.
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It's rational I guess.
But for me I go, No, that is
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here is probably
the one part of my life
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that I go, This is worth
that extra. You know,
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double of energy for an extra
5% benefit. I'll take it.
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This is a place where
if I'm going to
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invested like that,
this is the way I'm going to
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double down on. So I think that's
the other one that I've really
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come to go. Yep,
I'll I'm very solid in this one.
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I'm starting to deviate
away from, you know,
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having really strong opinions
and less and loosely held.
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Yeah, this is
this one's not like,
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loosely held anymore. This was,
is, was starting to become
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a little bit concrete.
So someone's
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got to shift my mindset
pretty quickly on this or it's
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going to remain. I'm going to be
one of those stubborn
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middle aged guys talking about
like the benefits of Sauna
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and Training Zone two
or something like that.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean.
That's, that's the main
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one for me. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, I look, I don't have much
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to add to that. I think the
focusing on your health is it's
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just one of those
undeniable things
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if you're getting stuck into a
delusion about some sort of cold
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or some new idea
or something like that, you know
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how your physical body
is responding to things.
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I mentioned this
in the latest podcast,
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but I think there is
it's one of those ones where it's
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probably worth you spending
so much time on because
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your genetics are so unique,
your history is so unique
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that when you hear
recommendations of Quito, Quito
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is great for everyone.
No, wait, wait. Carnival.
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Carnival is the way to go.
You know, that's that's
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the thing that's
you have an issues, you know,
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it'll solve it and people get so
strident on that.
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And I was saying, you know, this
this guy very
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even though I told him, you know,
seven years of intermittent
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fasting and eating carbs
has been good for me. And it was
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it was just like that
that was worth nothing, worth
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nothing in in his opinion.
So, yeah, the the focus
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on your own health I think is a
it's a huge, huge thing.
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Definitely for sure. All right.
What about the other
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what's the other positive want to
double down on. So this is
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a serious one. Yep. Yeah. Okay.
So my first of the
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serious ones is
wait, so did you do two
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serious ones and
two silly ones or. No, I did
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one serious one. And. One one
serious one on months. Only one.
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Okay, well I've done, I've done
like six in total then
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because I, I was like well that's
what I meant man.
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I was like a serious but I was.
Okay. All right, well, I'll just.
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How should I do this?
I'm going to stick with silly
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for the moment, so.
Yeah, stick with silly. So almost
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everything I say
and others say is subjective B.S.
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All it's it's almost like
the only thing that you can find
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the truth on is if it's
dispassionate autism, someone who
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doesn't give a fuck, but they are
just so autistic that they will
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go to the ends of the earth
to research this one
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particular topic
and present it in a way
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which doesn't have the
a persuasive language
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attached to it because they don't
care about that.
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It's almost like that's
the only way to get to
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the truth and things
and yeah I it's boring.
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The problem with that is just
boring as fuck. I'm sure
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there's someone out there
a YouTube channel talking about,
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you know, the most optimal way
to train the best. You know,
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this is how you make sense
of curve it
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or something like that.
And it's just boring is so boring
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that you can't get it.
So it's kind of
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I'm doubling down on when I
when I listen to people speak it
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it I just need to like
or it's almost no matter what
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I take it with a grain of salt,
you know, what are the
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incentives behind
what are they saying,
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what they're saying,
what's what's
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kind of the history.
Why would they link to this
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particular thing? And then
even if they're
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really knowledgeable on this one
particular subject, doesn't mean
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that doesn't have crossover to
something that is not directly
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related to it. So, yeah, that's
another one. I'm doubling,
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doubling down upon everything,
doubling down. Like I say,
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I'm a subject I've got.
I've got one more,
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I've got one more
on the silly side.
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Okay. I like that. I just
came up with my mom,
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but I thought it's a silly one
because it came up
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right on today. Right.
I'm doubling down on my ability
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to speak loudly. Yeah.
Because often when I speak,
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I can get loud, right?
I can be boisterous,
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voice can go around. And today
I was at work. Right?
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So I'm in the kitchen.
Kitchen's about ten metres
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by 50 metres, right
to be kitchen. I'm talking
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to one person I thought
speaking to him and just
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talking random talk
and all of a sudden
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from behind a concrete
wall beyond the kitchen,
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all this people come out the side
with headphones and they go one.
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We can hear like through
our headphones
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in our meeting, like
you were so loud. And then that
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preceded me walking over
and having a chat with them
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and having a conversation
and talking and whatnot.
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But it was
all just like all fine.
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It was all good.
And I kind of recognise
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that it's normal, it's own. It's
not only it's normally
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when I'm in like a
really confident, really happy go
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lucky type mood
that I'll be loud. And I think
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the loud voice can also be
just a very direct voice and
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I guess confident voice.
And I'm doubling down.
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I'm doubling down on not almost,
almost eating it. Okay, now
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you should go in there and be
a little bit louder
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than you need to be. And today,
actually, I went to go see I'm
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going to be a little bit offline
the rental details,
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but seeing a particular
accounting group
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and I went in there and yeah,
I kind of in my mind
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I was like, you know, I felt like
it was just a new place and so it
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could be a little bit louder,
going to be a little bit louder.
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And it just it made it
20% better, let's say,
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enabled me to be
a conversationalist and interact
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with people
in a 20% better manner
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that I would normally
in a first year touch basis.
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And that's huge.
That's a huge thing.
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So I was like, Yeah, cool.
I'm going to be a lot of folks.
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I'm going to be louder,
especially if you
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see me in person. I think.
I think it comes across too
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well in the podcast usually
because obviously getting through
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the audio stream. Of just can't.
But it is very different
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I think in a in an interaction
in person. So if you ever
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see me face, you're busy
or somewhere else. But I travel.
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Yeah, I think you're
going to hear of now I need.
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A little bit of that because at
the moment I'm
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speaking with a lot
of people at the gym
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and they all have their
earphones, headphones on.
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So you kind of it's
this weird mix where you have to
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get into their physical
space a little bit, do some sort
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of hand gesture so that they see
and speak loud to try and capture
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their attention, even even
when they're not
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doing an actual rep or anything.
Move and do that. Yeah. Yeah.
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So that's, that's
probably something
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that I'm I should. Be going to.
Take on board. Yeah, for sure.
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Should I do my
to see your response. Okay,
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so the first one is
directed effort
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is your safest bet.
And my second one is
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I am doubling down
on my inability to judge people
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and also kind of my reaction
to that. So elaborating on this,
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I was listening to
the Bitcoin dad episode 84.
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And one of the things
these are two guys who are
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much older than me, much older,
probably ten years on both sides
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and they've very into tech,
you know, I'm kind of
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just into it recently
and they were talking about
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how it's kind of
almost impossible to
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to really know about market
economics, to really,
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really get a good grasp
on, okay, you know, if interest
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rates are going up,
what's going to happen,
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if they're going down,
what's going to happen
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and which way will they go?
And predicting
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and all these things. And even
they were just saying,
436
00:22:10,319 --> 00:22:13,000
if you're trying to kind of
make an income
437
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,279
from these things, it's
it needs to be your whole
438
00:22:17,279 --> 00:22:19,240
life, basically.
It needs to be a job.
439
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,119
And even then, the only way
you can really do it
440
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,240
well is by being at one of
these accounting firms or,
441
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,000
you know, VC funds
or something like that,
442
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,960
where you have the the trading,
where you have
443
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,039
the direct connection
to the stock exchange
444
00:22:35,039 --> 00:22:38,880
and you have got the bots
that are able to get that extra
445
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,200
little millisecond slippage
or whatever shit.
446
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,759
And and you make money like that
rather than just being a pleb
447
00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:50,839
kind of individual sole trader.
And when I was just thinking,
448
00:22:50,839 --> 00:22:52,240
you know, what's a lot
of the things I've done over
449
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:57,119
the last year in terms of kind of
directed effort,
450
00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:01,599
the best ones have been when I
would want to grow
451
00:23:01,599 --> 00:23:04,200
the podcast, you know,
what's the best way of doing it
452
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,160
is to focus on podcast things,
to focus on clips and whatnot.
453
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,519
If I want to improve
my handstands, it's not
454
00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:13,759
by eating better,
it's by researching
455
00:23:13,759 --> 00:23:15,839
particular training
techniques, it's
456
00:23:15,839 --> 00:23:20,920
by recording myself and
rewatching those recordings,
457
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,640
checking for them
and things like that.
458
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:28,160
And so it's almost like
I sometimes forget that
459
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,640
the best way to fix
a problem is to attack that one.
460
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,319
One particular problem was having
this discussion with my
461
00:23:36,319 --> 00:23:39,359
my family a while ago,
and in particular my brother.
462
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,880
And we're talking about girls
and he's talking about
463
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,279
and getting a girl, you know,
finding a girl
464
00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:46,480
and he's talking about
looks, MAXINE, which is the thing
465
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,799
where you basically trying
to prove your parents
466
00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:53,759
to the utmost get jacked.
You wear tie fitting clothes, you
467
00:23:53,759 --> 00:23:58,799
get the head Turkish hair
transplant, you make sure
468
00:23:58,799 --> 00:24:02,039
you're moisturising, you're doing
all of these sorts of things.
469
00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:05,400
And I was telling him,
that's nice, but the best
470
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,119
way to get girls is to go out
and try and get girls.
471
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,400
You direct your
energy to that thing
472
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,279
looking fine. Sure, it helps,
but it's in terms of the
473
00:24:16,279 --> 00:24:19,400
amount of hours invested,
you get your biggest bang
474
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,160
for your buck by focusing
on the problem.
475
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,440
So it's kind of it's kind of like
focus. Maybe it's a better way
476
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,240
of saying this.
But because it's it's
477
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,759
sort of in another
translation, it's how do you
478
00:24:31,759 --> 00:24:33,440
you know, if you want to be
a really good
479
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,960
five kilometre run off,
what do you do? Well, fucking
480
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,000
the best thing you got to do
is run a five like run
481
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,400
five kilometres. That's just
it is more so the it's
482
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,920
the acuteness of the task,
it's always, it's
483
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,160
deliberate effort at the
very acute reason as to
484
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,640
why you're doing something.
It's almost a you know with like
485
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,000
your brother's point of yes,
you can maximise all the things,
486
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,079
but in the end the very direct
amount of energy that you can be
487
00:24:58,079 --> 00:25:00,839
doing on one thing and if it
everything else
488
00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:03,319
is supporting 10%,
that's probably going to Rex,
489
00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:06,599
probably 60% of the whole battle.
So more energy they might give
490
00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:10,160
you overall a better result.
Yeah, I think it's you'll
491
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,160
sometimes see this in
probably any venue to be honest
492
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,640
where it's all this is
the supplementary work
493
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,599
you can do a handstand
oh, I can work on my
494
00:25:20,599 --> 00:25:23,200
wrist strengthening
or maybe I can do
495
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,079
my core. Don't, don't.
A core core has nothing to do
496
00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:29,599
with handstands. Little
piece of advice there.
497
00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:32,720
But it's almost like you can
sometimes get trapped into
498
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,480
focusing on all of these extra
things and forget, you know,
499
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,200
if you want to do the best
deadlift, you got to be
500
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,079
deadlifting does
it doesn't matter if you can do
501
00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:47,400
Nordic curls
so it doesn't matter. So yeah,
502
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,200
I guess supplementary work,
but there's direct work.
503
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,160
Did you do the right thing
that you want to do? Yeah.
504
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,920
So that's, that's one thing
I'm, I've doubled down upon it.
505
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,519
You know, the best thing to do
is focus. The other one was my
506
00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:02,039
ability, inability
to judge people
507
00:26:02,039 --> 00:26:05,880
and kind of my reaction
to that as well. So what
508
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,319
I've kind of been like reflecting
just on this last year
509
00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:11,839
and it's like, you know what?
I kind of fucked up
510
00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:16,559
a couple of things.
The, you know, my ex
511
00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:20,839
basically breaking up with me.
It kind of blindsided me
512
00:26:20,839 --> 00:26:24,519
for a bit. And it wasn't
you know, it wasn't like a
513
00:26:24,519 --> 00:26:26,400
a full on Break-Up.
It was kind of this one
514
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,079
where it was
a little bit lingering. It wasn't
515
00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:32,519
really a harsh one.
It was kind of it seemed like
516
00:26:32,519 --> 00:26:35,319
it was more circumstances.
I covered that was forcing it.
517
00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:39,839
But now that wasn't
the real issue. A couple of
518
00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:42,559
other people, you know,
my dad, for example, doubting me
519
00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:45,920
about the whole podcasting
stuff and and and the bitcoin
520
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:51,000
and the crypto stuff
and, you know, as of this moment,
521
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:57,119
he is right. The payoff
for the amount of energy and time
522
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,559
I've invested into
a lot of these things
523
00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:04,279
and relationships it's yeah
that they haven't panned out
524
00:27:04,279 --> 00:27:07,480
and it's kind of
I learned this lesson
525
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,400
a long time ago where
I had a friend
526
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,400
when I was in primary
school, hell, even from before
527
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,799
that kindergarten. And he was
a kleptomaniac who liked to
528
00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:24,960
steal things. And I knew this.
And one night him
529
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,920
and another friend came over
and in the morning,$50 was gone
530
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,960
from my brother's wallet.
And it's like, who could have
531
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:38,480
stolen it? And I. And he took.
Over the kleptomaniac like. Yeah.
532
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,799
And he tells me
that he, he didn't. And it must
533
00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:43,960
have been Nick
and I just straight up
534
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,359
believed him. I just didn't,
you know. No question it. Yeah.
535
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,200
Pull my bullshit.
And it comes out later. Of course
536
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,079
he's the one who stole it.
And so I think it's this thing
537
00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:59,160
where it's my, my inability to,
to judge people.
538
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,079
I think I actually. Look, I'm
not hanging around with murderers
539
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:05,759
and psychopaths that
as far as I'm aware of yet.
540
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,440
But I'm also I don't think I
have the squeaky
541
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,599
clean track record of going men.
Yeah, I really know this person
542
00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:20,039
and I know what they kind of
are and aren't capable of.
543
00:28:20,039 --> 00:28:24,559
It's kind of just it's almost sun
soft forms of unexpected reality.
544
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:27,200
I thought reality
was in this way. I thought people
545
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,920
were like this and then they
behave like this
546
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,160
and it's like, Oh shit.
Another classic example
547
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,079
recently dates me to check.
I have a great interaction,
548
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:39,359
you know, think something's
going to happen and then just
549
00:28:39,359 --> 00:28:42,440
just disappears. Like go
out the shit where, you know,
550
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,039
where did this come from?
Didn't honestly,
551
00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:49,319
I didn't see it coming.
Now the thing that I've kind of
552
00:28:49,319 --> 00:28:52,319
doubled down upon is also my
reaction to this, which is
553
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,920
I've learnt a fair while ago
not to invest
554
00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,720
too much of my soul,
I guess, into one person or what
555
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,960
they say or something like that.
So, you know, even if you,
556
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,079
you know, we were talking about
some business stuff recently,
557
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,960
even if you completely
screwed me over, I wouldn't
558
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,400
kind of allow my whole salary.
For those who don't know,
559
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,359
Juan's just menacingly
popping his eyebrows and
560
00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:21,759
and looking in to the camera.
They're deeply I wouldn't.
561
00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:24,839
Mid-Way through this podcast
going to have like some sort of
562
00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:27,279
ATO, like squad team
going to break in
563
00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:32,319
through the window being like,
you didn't pay. You are we've.
564
00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:35,559
Been watching those Yeah.
Histograms coming in.
565
00:29:35,559 --> 00:29:38,559
We've been watching your profits
of your of your husky NFT
566
00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:45,000
of employee. Oh jeez. Oh jeez.
Yes I don't I don't let that ruin
567
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,599
my life And I think
some people can I think I think
568
00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:53,960
getting burnt I think
becoming cynical I, I haven't
569
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,319
allowed myself to become cynical
and I think it's because I'm not,
570
00:29:58,319 --> 00:30:00,839
I'm not trying to kind of
chucking I've got enough
571
00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:04,039
of my own shit going on that
no matter what. It's almost like
572
00:30:04,039 --> 00:30:07,559
no matter what happens
with other people,
573
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:09,599
I've still kind of
got my own little base.
574
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:14,160
I suppose so, yeah,
just doubling down that. Okay,
575
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,880
I'm actually not that great
a judge of character,
576
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:23,279
but my reaction to getting burnt
or bad things happening,
577
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:26,319
or even good things happening,
I suppose, is I feel like that
578
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:30,400
is is solid so I won't end up.
The jaded.
579
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,039
Jaded, cynical old man.
Yeah, you kind of
580
00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:35,359
you can't control
sometimes the things
581
00:30:35,359 --> 00:30:38,279
that are coming at you,
but you can control your impact
582
00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:39,400
like your reaction
that actually comes
583
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,759
from that in game. Yeah. Okay.
Almost almost
584
00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:43,319
in a neutral way either
both in the negative
585
00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:45,839
and the positive. Yes. Yep.
I mean, I definitely do
586
00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:47,839
get better at that.
But it's, it's, I can
587
00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:49,400
kind of show that that's,
I mean I wouldn't
588
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,839
double down on X, I'm not putting
enough energy to our attention.
589
00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:53,920
Something like that at all. Yeah.
Well I'm doubling
590
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,400
down on my doubt. Yeah. Okay.
Let's take a
591
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,400
little bit of a pause.
Let's go in
592
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,160
to the bicycle lounge,
getting to me,
593
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,240
the actual Bronx folks.
So I mentioned at the beginning
594
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,400
Beachcomber Lounge. It's a
what is be screaming again
595
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,039
mentioned at the end
and I've mentioned it
596
00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:13,799
a couple of times
now here, folks, because what
597
00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:17,039
we're asking for is for you
to be supporting the podcast
598
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:20,279
through the Valley
Four Valley Channel, which means
599
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:23,640
it is sending through a B stream
or SATOSHIS via streaming,
600
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,599
using new podcasting
apps out there, things
601
00:31:25,599 --> 00:31:28,079
like Fountain Cosmetics.
I was talking to Karen
602
00:31:28,079 --> 00:31:29,759
a little bit
a couple of days ago,
603
00:31:29,759 --> 00:31:32,039
maybe yesterday, around
how impressed I was with
604
00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:34,680
how much listeners are actually
coming through from these
605
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,359
different platforms and obviously
the streams and the satoshis
606
00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:38,960
that are coming through.
That is what
607
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,400
allowing us to continue
to do this podcast. So it's very
608
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,680
much appreciated
and we call them out during the
609
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,799
brief scramble. I specifically
when you said
610
00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:48,680
there will be screams,
so let's get through these ones.
611
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,720
We've got 12,112
sets it through again
612
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,720
by Dave Jones Weekly baseball.
What they heard.
613
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,400
Thank you very much, Dave.
Always, always,
614
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,079
always appreciate it. Yes.
And you'll be glad to know
615
00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,400
you are not the only one
in this booster
616
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,160
grab this time around.
That's awesome. We've got one
617
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,559
for ourselves.
We just sending through
618
00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:08,680
another app where I can boost
from podcast guru
619
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,759
for the win. Yep, yep.
So just now
620
00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:15,119
come from all of that.
Using podcast guru. So very good
621
00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:20,400
to see another one.
There we go on from Dr. Peter.
622
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,319
I was in him for a little while.
Again, it's been popping up
623
00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:25,480
every now and again,
which is nice. Aslaug He says,
624
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,680
I was a huge listener to Plan B
and a filter back in 2013.
625
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,519
Chris is an incredible
talent on the mike.
626
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:34,160
Such a natural. If Adam is
the Godfather,
627
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,559
Dave is a pot sage.
Chris must be the pot master
628
00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:41,920
grading the B car in 20
22,222 SATs and using fountain.
629
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,240
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
630
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,759
Chris is he is good. He is good.
You won't hear any whatnots or
631
00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:50,640
arms or legs from him inside.
Yeah, he was very direct.
632
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,920
It did very much.
I watch that. Watch it.
633
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,039
Not listen to it. I'll watch it.
I really enjoyed watching that.
634
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:57,920
Nice, nice. We've got one
from McIntosh.
635
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,319
She says Best episode 10,000.
That said using fountain
636
00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:04,680
and then he says, Man,
I keep booting to teeth. Sorry.
637
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,240
Like I was saying,
best episode ever.
638
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,160
Great conversation, gentlemen.
210 SATs using fountain.
639
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,680
So there's a11 from Macintosh.
I'm assuming is with
640
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,160
a conversation there with Chris.
No that's from the
641
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,759
regulation laws now that's
that's the two of us.
642
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:21,839
Me Oh wow. Amazing. Okay, cool.
I thought it was for some reason
643
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,839
the actual director interview.
So very cool. Yeah.
644
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:28,599
We're not sorry. Mac Macintoshes.
Yeah. He's from generation
645
00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:32,920
Bitcoin is. Yep. Very much
looking into the regulations
646
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,720
and that that kind of is
way up his alley. So I'm not
647
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,680
not too surprised
by that actually helped him out
648
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,839
recently with one of his episodes
because he's
649
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:42,559
kind of been having a
a bit of a think
650
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:46,279
as of of his podcast
format as well and potentially
651
00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:50,559
striking up another
a separate one. And is it worth
652
00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:53,279
the effort is value for value
working that sort of deal.
653
00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:56,640
So I was helping him out.
There's one here which you won't
654
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,880
have seen.
This is a thousand sets
655
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,880
with No, no, no, no
message from Remember J Stock
656
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,279
and that was for the Pete
Smiths an episode and that was
657
00:34:05,279 --> 00:34:08,280
on Fountain. So a big, big
thank you to him
658
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,000
as well and a big thank you to.
I can see Daniel Cook
659
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,119
streaming in here.
I'm pretty sure this is
660
00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:18,400
a grabber at GAB.
I'll become another
661
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,719
another person streaming in
a couple of different ways.
662
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,599
Jordan Bravo, a bunch of people.
So I love it now. It's good.
663
00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:28,280
It's good to see it.
One one thing that is of interest
664
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:33,599
and this is kind of currently
topical is the is up so noster
665
00:34:33,599 --> 00:34:39,000
they have gotten a recent
message from Apple telling them
666
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,920
that they are not allowed
to use apps which is basically
667
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,679
a way of liking but liking
via lightning. So you're actually
668
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,920
sending up a very small portion
of bitcoin, kind of
669
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,440
as if you would,
if you were doing it on Twitter
670
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,960
and hitting a like
or on Instagram, hitting a like
671
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,599
you're doing the same thing,
but you're sending a small amount
672
00:34:58,599 --> 00:35:02,719
or you could send a larger amount
and Apple is going,
673
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,440
no, no, no, no, you're not
allowed to do that. And so
674
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,079
they've basically told them
you're not allowed to do that
675
00:35:10,079 --> 00:35:12,960
for individual content.
I don't know why it is.
676
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,599
It's this weird
Apple rule related to
677
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:20,159
kind of selling.
It's almost like you're
678
00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:22,719
selling individual
pieces of content and that's
679
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,239
not allowed on the platform.
You're allowed to do it
680
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:30,599
at a kind of show level,
but but not on individual posts,
681
00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:34,920
which is basically going to
screw up this damn app
682
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,280
and you won't be able to use it.
Another great reason of why
683
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,519
it's good to have
decentralisation and have
684
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:42,880
multiple different
apps everywhere or multiple
685
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,840
different ways to connect.
But this could have
686
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:51,079
some implications for Fountain
Focussed Illmatic, for pop verse,
687
00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:55,239
for basically any app
that is on the Apple Store
688
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,239
or Podcasting 2.0 app,
because where essentially doing
689
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,960
the same thing for individual
episodes, people
690
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:05,360
boosting in that is
pretty. Much very.
691
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,559
To to what's going on. So yeah
that could be some news
692
00:36:08,559 --> 00:36:11,840
related to that
in the coming future because
693
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,880
if they're going after
the dominance, I'm not sure why
694
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,480
they wouldn't go after.
The album. As well
695
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,559
as some of the others. Actually,
not a problem.
696
00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:22,800
I wonder if that'll be.
A bad thing or a good thing.
697
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,320
I wonder if it'll call a call,
you know, almost like about
698
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,440
any news is good news
for the space. Yeah. Who knows?
699
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,039
Who knows? I mean. We got very.
There's a lot of
700
00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:36,840
interesting news. Like I've
kind of been watching like
701
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,039
some Cardano stuff recently.
Even the Bitcoin
702
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:45,760
things like lightning is another
new layer to being proposed slash
703
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,199
I think getting
the ground called Ark, which uses
704
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:51,440
these things called
virtual transactions
705
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,199
so complicated. So I'm
never going to be able
706
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:56,280
to understand these things.
But yeah, I remember
707
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,599
when I started looking into like
Z rollout Z roll up.
708
00:36:58,599 --> 00:37:01,599
Z, Cairo out. Like, you know.
Zero knowledge. Yeah, this.
709
00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:05,400
Is this is not this is not. Yeah,
I know where I posted
710
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,480
where I bought
cryptographer Yeah.
711
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,159
Yeah. Not exactly. But yeah yeah
that's a massive
712
00:37:10,159 --> 00:37:13,000
thanks for everyone
who is sending in. Absolutely
713
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,760
sending through
scrims and streaming
714
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,800
through. Added power.
He got his t shirt as well.
715
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,639
So just to remind everyone,
if you reach the 100
716
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:25,000
k limit, 100 K 100,000 satoshis,
we will send you a shot
717
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,599
no matter where
you are in the world
718
00:37:26,599 --> 00:37:31,960
and limited shots.
I think there's another 15. 15.
719
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,559
Left or something like that.
Get get them before they go on
720
00:37:34,559 --> 00:37:38,000
a limited edition.
It's all right. Down to the,
721
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,039
the wrong ones now.
So this is the. So what
722
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:42,840
we've changed our mind
particular. Yes. So what?
723
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,159
We've changed our mind on all
what we think is wrong.
724
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:49,239
We might not like gone in fully
taking the deed
725
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,280
and the action for it,
but we know it's wrong. Okay.
726
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,639
And the one that I've got here
has I've only got the one
727
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:57,199
and I think you've
got we probably have to mine was
728
00:37:57,199 --> 00:38:00,840
so this was more along
the lines of I think I'm
729
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,719
recognising this,
but it's not so much that I'm
730
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,960
fully changed, but
I have fully changed
731
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:13,440
the way that I act about it. So
it's all around
732
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:20,039
the notable figures
or individuals or famous people
733
00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:22,840
or leaves of the company
or anything like that
734
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:29,760
for a very long time
I had this almost aura slash view
735
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,480
that they must know.
Lots have seen,
736
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,639
lots have expertise,
should be revered. Yeah.
737
00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:38,119
So that sort of level
where I would often
738
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:40,400
go into a company and have had
the opportunity to meet
739
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,000
with the CEO or the, you know,
the chief markets officer or
740
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,400
something like that,
I was like, Wow, this is cool.
741
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,039
Like, this is making it.
This is awesome. And more and
742
00:38:50,039 --> 00:38:53,159
more now, it's hard
to really realise that there are
743
00:38:53,159 --> 00:38:57,719
there can be aspects to
an individual
744
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:02,960
that makes them heroic,
makes them impressive.
745
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,000
But you have to remove
or separate the the thing that
746
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,880
makes them or the thing
that you find inspiring to the
747
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,639
person themselves.
Because ultimately
748
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:13,119
every single person
to be immortal, right?
749
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:16,440
We're just all mere
mortal and just, you know,
750
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,039
meat bag with a bodysuit,
a little bit of skin on top,
751
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:21,119
lots of hair, depending on who
you are. Can't count on.
752
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:24,719
I've got plenty. So, you know, it
sort of depends. Borrow me more.
753
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,280
And so more and more it's
I'm realising that,
754
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,960
hey, they can be famous people,
they can be rich people,
755
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:37,320
they can be powerful people
and kind of less and less
756
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,039
matters in the.
Now, I'm not saying this is one
757
00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:42,119
of those things
where I can recognise
758
00:39:42,119 --> 00:39:46,960
the errors in my ways, not to say
that it changes some of the ways
759
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,519
that I'm acting still.
So to give you an idea, I was
760
00:39:50,519 --> 00:39:53,280
I saw a kind of senior person
in a previous company
761
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,000
that I worked with,
and I always went
762
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,880
went out of my way of talking
to another person.
763
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,000
I was having a coffee.
They kind of when I was going up
764
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,159
the elevator with them,
I kind of stopped.
765
00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:04,079
I went back out. I saw them,
I had a chat with them,
766
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:07,199
went through to the elevator,
so I didn't have a conversation.
767
00:40:07,199 --> 00:40:10,119
I reflected on afterwards
and I was like, okay, now there's
768
00:40:10,119 --> 00:40:12,599
probably part of me who did that
because I know the person
769
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,480
and it was a good conversation
to have, but all the power went,
770
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,119
Oh, it's because they, you know,
the influential, the powerful,
771
00:40:18,119 --> 00:40:20,559
and some of the things
can be beneficial.
772
00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:23,840
But I went ultimately, yeah, but
you know, ultimately
773
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,119
I don't think that's going to be
of a benefit to me
774
00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:28,679
in a long term, nor is it
something that I should aspire
775
00:40:28,679 --> 00:40:32,239
to try to go down the path of.
And it's always in the face
776
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:33,480
of what you were saying
with blinking
777
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,119
into the void. I went,
Yeah, I think I had this
778
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:41,320
wrong expression. We're seeing
people who, for whatever
779
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,119
reason, just went
bold through that void and didn't
780
00:40:44,119 --> 00:40:47,480
blink and achieved whatever
the achievement
781
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,000
can be impressive.
But I'm I'm tying the
782
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,920
the achievement to the person
too closely and I go, Yeah,
783
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,199
that's wrong.
I've got to separate
784
00:40:54,199 --> 00:40:56,760
that for sure.
And seeing other others
785
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,960
in the areas of that
where I guess this morning
786
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,440
I was actually training
at a different gym
787
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,480
and I saw someone who
generally like, Oh,
788
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,000
that's really cool like that.
They're huge follows
789
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,239
and they're an impressive person.
And I thought,
790
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:12,000
Yeah, is in my mind
when I make a thing
791
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,679
out of it, can I go on
and have a chat with them?
792
00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:16,199
Could I try to connect with them?
Could I talk to them
793
00:41:16,199 --> 00:41:21,239
on the podcast? Maybe last for
about 2 minutes? And I went,
794
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,679
Yeah, but I'm doing my workout.
And you know what the other day
795
00:41:24,679 --> 00:41:26,360
it was going to be?
I'll make it happen.
796
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,519
But right now
it's fine. It's okay.
797
00:41:28,519 --> 00:41:31,599
Continue on. And that
felt empowering, I guess, in
798
00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:33,599
my perspective.
But it's all there. So it's, it's
799
00:41:33,599 --> 00:41:36,599
one of those things I recognise
is the probably
800
00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:38,920
the wrong mentality
to be thinking about,
801
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,679
but it hasn't transferred yet
to the actions
802
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:44,840
or the deeds fully. But I think
we'll get there. So I'm happy
803
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,440
that I'm realising
that wrong and it's
804
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,320
relatively recent to be honest.
Maybe maybe a year, maybe less,
805
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,440
and it's still transitioning
into the. Okay, cool.
806
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,039
Now back it up with the action
that comes around,
807
00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:57,679
recognising that that could be
not a thing
808
00:41:57,679 --> 00:42:00,480
that I want to continue
to be enacting. Yeah,
809
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,280
I think it's that idea
of confusing meritocracy
810
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,719
for all of these things or morals
for all of these things
811
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,880
fame, power, money. If they,
if they're really famous,
812
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,159
they must be
really competent. And
813
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:20,119
I think it's it's probably even
becoming more and more nowadays
814
00:42:20,119 --> 00:42:24,480
just because there's less
need for hard physical labour.
815
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,599
So there's more kind of people
who just can just crop up
816
00:42:27,599 --> 00:42:29,840
out of nowhere
who have the time to
817
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,639
dick around on YouTube
making videos and things
818
00:42:32,639 --> 00:42:37,800
like this, i.e. like we're doing
where you can have that person
819
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:43,480
who just through sheer luck,
combination of factors
820
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:47,760
of being good looking of,
of having a personality
821
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,400
like this, of riding a trend
that can get to
822
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,079
a silly position of
of no notoriety,
823
00:42:55,079 --> 00:42:58,639
of fame, of wealth or power.
And yet there's no
824
00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:01,440
there's no kind of substance
beneath it. An analogy
825
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,840
that would be Vienna at this
moment is more flexible
826
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,239
than I probably ever will be.
Yet has she earned
827
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,719
that flexibility? No.
No, you have to get well.
828
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,679
I keep hearing this
on on different places. I've done
829
00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:21,639
I was popping up, but I keep it
when I miss a recognise, I guess.
830
00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:23,079
And the only way
I can describe it
831
00:43:23,079 --> 00:43:27,239
is that sometimes mere mortals,
peers the arrow
832
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:31,800
into heroic. Right.
But it is, it is a what I fail
833
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,199
to recognise is that it's a verb,
not a noun, in the sense
834
00:43:35,199 --> 00:43:38,400
that I'm looking at people
who are achieving this is either
835
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,639
the hero, right?
It's tying into this,
836
00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:43,800
but it's a verb. It's the action
that I should be more
837
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,800
impressed by and not the noun
or the collective it
838
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,760
to an individual of,
Oh yeah, it's
839
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,360
I'm finding this thing
aspirational, heroic in an action
840
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,000
that has taken
that doesn't mean that
841
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,119
all of a sudden it attaches
on the individual
842
00:43:57,119 --> 00:43:59,519
and they like that for
everything else. And so
843
00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:02,119
that can also falter. When you
go to meet someone
844
00:44:02,119 --> 00:44:04,800
who you might find
aspirational insert here, whoever
845
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,280
you find aspirational likes me
more or less out they or someone
846
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,599
you think is powerful and shit.
They might have done
847
00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:11,320
something really cool
once upon a time
848
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,400
or are doing it still,
but then you find out
849
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:14,760
something else about them
and you, you know,
850
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,440
you realise that
maybe the CEO out there
851
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,159
actually has a frickin horrific
family life
852
00:44:19,159 --> 00:44:21,280
because they just don't
go anywhere and you go, Oh,
853
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,599
I'm kind of disappointed in that.
And you almost,
854
00:44:23,599 --> 00:44:24,800
I guess, a wrong way
of looking at it.
855
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,760
So you can still be kind of
impressed or understand
856
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:34,840
the heroic or the quite driven
the action that is taken
857
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,679
and separated
from the individual, recognising
858
00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:39,480
that there's other difficulties
and on challenges to doing that.
859
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,119
So I think this is one thing
that I'm reviewing on
860
00:44:43,119 --> 00:44:45,719
sending more and more.
And then now probably
861
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,960
the transition is going to be
the action that comes behind
862
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:52,320
that in the years
to come. For me. Yeah, I was,
863
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,199
yeah, I just found this
Reddit thread which I bumped
864
00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:58,440
into randomly today and it is
who's an idiot that gets treated
865
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,280
like a genius and then is talking
about how some of the top ones
866
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,639
here, like Andy Warhol,
where there was this quote
867
00:45:05,639 --> 00:45:08,159
from Truman Capote,
which the only genius
868
00:45:08,159 --> 00:45:12,119
with an IQ of 80, you know,
Andy Warhol is probably
869
00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:14,199
the definition
of this kind of duet.
870
00:45:14,199 --> 00:45:16,760
You know, he's
the one who invented everyone
871
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,880
wants or needs
the 15 minutes of fame
872
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:23,840
or gets the 15 minutes of fame.
And he's kind of like that.
873
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,360
He apparently just didn't
have that much talent
874
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,000
as an actual artist.
And it was just, you know,
875
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,679
he just rode this
wave of whatever it was
876
00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:38,360
that was happening at the time.
Another good one is Bill Cosby,
877
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,360
just because he was a great actor
playing this family dad,
878
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,119
you know, wholesome
and things like that doesn't mean
879
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:48,719
that he himself
was a good person.
880
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:54,840
And from all the subsequent date
rapes and druggings and
881
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,000
things like that, you see. Okay.
No, he was pretty. He's scum.
882
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,159
So, yeah, it's
I think that's an easy
883
00:46:01,159 --> 00:46:03,039
one to get confused.
What is there anything that
884
00:46:03,039 --> 00:46:06,360
tipped you
over the boundary point of, of
885
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,960
like a meeting with someone
in particular? I wasn't.
886
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:14,400
It wasn't something that
was driven by me interacting
887
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,039
with someone. I think it was a
small little building blocks over
888
00:46:18,039 --> 00:46:21,480
time of either
having conversations with people
889
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,480
who are like sort
of trusted people that I
890
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:24,960
have been sharing
those sort of thoughts
891
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,199
or reading it or hearing it,
and then collectively,
892
00:46:28,199 --> 00:46:31,079
just all of a sudden more like
an emergent idea they got.
893
00:46:31,079 --> 00:46:34,559
Oh, yeah, actually, yeah,
I can see that more and more.
894
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:36,079
Yeah. Now that's a
that's a good one.
895
00:46:36,079 --> 00:46:38,159
I quite enjoy that. All right.
My serious
896
00:46:38,159 --> 00:46:42,039
one is cold approaching
and it's long term utility.
897
00:46:42,039 --> 00:46:44,760
So I would have said
a couple of years ago
898
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:49,199
that being able to cold approach
in no matter the scenario,
899
00:46:49,199 --> 00:46:53,559
is very beneficial
and will have long term utility.
900
00:46:53,559 --> 00:46:57,599
It's it's almost an essential
skill type of deal. I definitely
901
00:46:57,599 --> 00:46:59,079
would have said that
a couple of years ago.
902
00:46:59,079 --> 00:47:03,760
I flipped the fence on that.
And and this is a
903
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,239
relatively recent one,
probably in the last six
904
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:11,760
months, I'd say, where I am now
doubting the utility of it.
905
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,840
So elaborating on this
5th of June 2013
906
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,400
was the time that I
cold approach to go
907
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,039
for the first time. It was
the first time I ever
908
00:47:21,039 --> 00:47:24,599
went up to a girl and started
a conversation with her
909
00:47:24,599 --> 00:47:29,480
with the intention
of progressing it into a sex
910
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,320
or some sort of relationship,
progressing it
911
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,039
further than being just
complete unknowns.
912
00:47:35,039 --> 00:47:38,599
Sorry for those who are counting.
And listen, that is ten years
913
00:47:38,599 --> 00:47:40,679
and I don't know,
a week and a bit. So
914
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,679
I kind of like decayed to
something for me to reflect upon.
915
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:49,119
And I look at that
and I go, you know, what have I
916
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:53,880
learned from being being able
to cold approach? That was how
917
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,039
I kind of got over my anxiety.
That's how I started
918
00:47:57,039 --> 00:48:03,159
to meet girls for the first time.
And I'm kind of like, Hmm, well,
919
00:48:03,159 --> 00:48:07,199
what actually am I good at now?
I'm kind of okay at at
920
00:48:07,199 --> 00:48:10,360
just randomly creating things.
But obviously, if you've been
921
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,079
listening over the past
six months that hasn't
922
00:48:13,079 --> 00:48:17,639
really been serving me that well.
And you know what?
923
00:48:17,639 --> 00:48:19,079
I was trying to find
all these reasons
924
00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:22,159
for it, you know as dating
culture change the be changed.
925
00:48:22,159 --> 00:48:24,239
I'm a too old am I like
not attractive all these
926
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,280
sorts of things
and I'm beginning to just come
927
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,199
to the conclusion like it's it's
because you're cold approaching.
928
00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:34,079
That's that's the problem
with it. It's you're trying to
929
00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:38,599
force something out of nowhere.
And this does have
930
00:48:38,599 --> 00:48:40,679
some utility for sure.
It's not like it's
931
00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:44,239
totally inefficient and this is
particularly applied to dating.
932
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,440
But I'll also
apply this to a couple
933
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,760
of other things soon. It's you're
trying to create it.
934
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,119
You're really trying to force it.
And I think just at this stage
935
00:48:54,119 --> 00:48:58,639
in my life with with who I am,
that there's better ways of
936
00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:03,760
going about this. And it's
with with kind of just like girls
937
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,280
and I'm talking to is just maybe
even the culture.
938
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,239
It's just not having
a practical benefit
939
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:14,000
at the moment.
And I start to think, okay, well,
940
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,599
you know, you start to
meet people,
941
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:17,880
other people like this. It's a
it's a good skill. You can do
942
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,880
all these things. You can
you know, it's
943
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:25,199
good for marketing, it's good for
being able to be a salesperson
944
00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:27,960
or something like that.
And then I. Think of all
945
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,559
these people and I'm like,
okay, well, who are people
946
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:32,159
who are really good
at approaching
947
00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:36,840
a cold approaching? Usually
the salespeople, you know,
948
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,360
dodgy car salesmen,
the crypto scammers,
949
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,440
they're grifters. I think
just by and large, even the guys
950
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,400
that I met whilst who were also
kind of doing like pickup
951
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:52,079
artist stuff or pick up a
learning game, all of them,
952
00:49:52,079 --> 00:49:56,639
all of them had these kind of
psychological things. And this is
953
00:49:56,639 --> 00:49:59,360
getting back to my
judging of character,
954
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,280
you know, maybe I'm misjudging
these people, but all of them
955
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:07,000
seem to have these that were just
that were weird in a
956
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:11,199
in a in a non kind of nice way.
I guess there was just something
957
00:50:11,199 --> 00:50:14,679
a bit off about them.
And it makes me
958
00:50:14,679 --> 00:50:18,480
question like, well,
why are they cold approaching?
959
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,199
Maybe it's because they're
burning bridges, maybe
960
00:50:21,199 --> 00:50:24,480
because they actually can't
keep up relationships
961
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,960
and things like this.
And you know, this is that gets
962
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:33,000
maybe cold approaching is really
good for people who who need it
963
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,039
because they have to constantly
be on the move because they
964
00:50:36,039 --> 00:50:38,920
get a reputation
wherever they're at. And this is
965
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,519
where you start to think of like
snake or a salesman.
966
00:50:41,519 --> 00:50:45,280
If you want to go down
that route. They need
967
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,039
a new population,
they need a new town
968
00:50:48,039 --> 00:50:51,119
to ply their wares,
because obviously they're selling
969
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:52,679
snake oil. It's not
doing anything.
970
00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:54,679
They'll be found out.
They got to. Move. Exactly.
971
00:50:54,679 --> 00:50:58,119
And I look at myself and I go,
What do I want to be like that?
972
00:50:58,119 --> 00:51:02,679
Do I want to be a kind of a turn
or nomad? Do I want to be
973
00:51:02,679 --> 00:51:07,400
the type of person who has to get
good at this stuff
974
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,639
because they need it? And I'm
now going,
975
00:51:10,639 --> 00:51:14,880
okay, no, wait, this is
this is I'm becoming
976
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:19,039
kind of like people who I don't
want to be like. And the better
977
00:51:19,039 --> 00:51:21,199
I get at cold approaching,
the more it's taking me
978
00:51:21,199 --> 00:51:25,800
into a mindset and a
physical environment
979
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,760
and friendships or relationships
with people who
980
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,239
I don't particularly
want to be like them. I don't
981
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,800
I don't want to be like that.
So I think cold approaching
982
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:42,239
just in general is a useful skill
for a very short period
983
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,920
and probably at the start of
whatever it is that you're
984
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,480
trying to do,
but relying on that,
985
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,000
getting better at that,
focusing on that, that
986
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,079
directed energy and focus
of becoming good at
987
00:51:53,079 --> 00:51:56,559
cold approaching. A Yeah,
I've changed my mind on that.
988
00:51:56,559 --> 00:52:00,559
I don't think that's
got any long term utility to it.
989
00:52:00,559 --> 00:52:03,440
Yeah. Wow. Okay, that's an
interesting one. I did not
990
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,239
I did not see that
one coming. Yeah. Yeah. It's good
991
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,719
that you called out
that it can have an Absolutely.
992
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,920
You can have a short term
utility and short term benefit.
993
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,360
It helped me a lot.
Yeah. Doing things. Absolutely.
994
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,679
It's kind of either getting you
over the hump or getting you over
995
00:52:15,679 --> 00:52:18,639
the price of just doing like,
you know, if that is the
996
00:52:18,639 --> 00:52:21,719
only thing holding
you back from 0 to 1 of doing
997
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,559
something, doing
the first conversation,
998
00:52:23,559 --> 00:52:25,719
direct approach,
first conversation of
999
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,320
salesman, whatever. Do it. Do it.
At least it's better than
1000
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,960
being a zero. But then, you know,
once you're in the move,
1001
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,880
once you're warmed up, once you
are experienced, once more,
1002
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,519
you know, whatever, and there's
other options in front of you
1003
00:52:38,519 --> 00:52:42,639
kind of sounds like in in amongst
more options in our thoughts
1004
00:52:42,639 --> 00:52:45,119
decreasing in value. And so
putting into the long
1005
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:49,920
term utility maybe is missing
the other strategies or ways
1006
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,000
you can approach, you know,
the interactions
1007
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,519
of life. Hmm. Yeah.
And one of the things I really
1008
00:52:56,519 --> 00:52:59,199
kind of wish I'd done more
and we've talked about
1009
00:52:59,199 --> 00:53:01,800
how this wouldn't have worked
anyway is neither of us
1010
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,599
particularly enjoys online
digital communication.
1011
00:53:04,599 --> 00:53:07,559
I was never big into
the IAC chats. I don't know
1012
00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:10,679
if you were, you know,
social media, Bebo,
1013
00:53:10,679 --> 00:53:13,599
MySpace, Facebook.
We don't we don't used.
1014
00:53:13,599 --> 00:53:16,280
To use that but like.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
1015
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:21,840
And I wish I wish I kind of had
done this a little bit with the
1016
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,239
in the game forums
back in the day in particular
1017
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,760
the V forum because it
would have been amazing
1018
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,480
to have met kind of met these
people and then see
1019
00:53:31,519 --> 00:53:34,039
ten years later what, what
are they like now?
1020
00:53:34,039 --> 00:53:36,719
Where are they at. The only one
I can really look
1021
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:41,840
at is rush himself.
And you know, he became
1022
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,719
so good at cold approaching
that he became disillusioned
1023
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,360
with women, thought they were
all sluts, had a you know,
1024
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,400
it's not directly
related to this.
1025
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,920
There was a couple other things
going on in his life, but
1026
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,159
I'm sure this contributed to his
eventual complete
1027
00:53:56,159 --> 00:54:01,199
180 and becoming
Orthodox Christian and just
1028
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:05,519
condemning sluts and modern
life and basically all the stuff
1029
00:54:05,519 --> 00:54:10,559
that he used to do to hell.
I don't I have no words.
1030
00:54:10,559 --> 00:54:15,360
I have no words at how
this can happen. But I feel like
1031
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,440
the direct approaching,
the cold approaching, it's
1032
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,760
that kind of person
who gets good at it.
1033
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:28,199
So yeah that's a pretty big
my major one, my silly one is the
1034
00:54:28,199 --> 00:54:32,440
utility of public speaking.
This is a reason why
1035
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,639
you've seen this. I was making
the argument
1036
00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:38,639
that public speaking,
getting good at public
1037
00:54:38,639 --> 00:54:45,320
speaking is not useful for 95 98%
of the population.
1038
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,199
And you very much
took the opposite
1039
00:54:48,199 --> 00:54:50,840
argument of this.
Everyone who I have
1040
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,760
people in the in the comments
were saying were siding with you
1041
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:56,760
when I was asking
friends and family about this.
1042
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,039
They're all siding and saying
public speaking is
1043
00:55:00,039 --> 00:55:05,639
is the way to go. So whatever
I'll I'll admit I'll I'll say
1044
00:55:05,639 --> 00:55:09,679
I'm sorry. To the masses.
What I will also say is tying
1045
00:55:09,679 --> 00:55:12,199
in with my my doubt
and why everyone is
1046
00:55:12,199 --> 00:55:15,360
full of bullshit. Everyone is
full of bullshit because they're
1047
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,880
all saying that, Oh yeah, public
speaking is awesome.
1048
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,039
Everyone should be doing it.
No one. Is. No one's doing it.
1049
00:55:20,039 --> 00:55:22,559
No one is doing it
as some people. And spaces.
1050
00:55:22,559 --> 00:55:25,440
I'll admit there are a couple
of toastmaster here in Brisbane.
1051
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,760
I haven't been to them myself.
I only went to the one in Mackay.
1052
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:33,840
But the the amount of people
one looking at you, my brother
1053
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,000
looking you,
my dad looking at you,
1054
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,760
random person on YouTube, it
coming in looking at you
1055
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,880
you're not I very much doubt
you're spending any time
1056
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,079
working at your public
speaking so yeah. I mean look
1057
00:55:46,079 --> 00:55:49,519
I will say now I'm not doing
any Toastmasters but I sure as
1058
00:55:49,519 --> 00:55:53,079
fuck talk a lot during the day.
So yeah, you. Do a lot.
1059
00:55:53,079 --> 00:55:56,480
Of public speaking. Yes, I did
win out on that one,
1060
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,360
I think fearfully. But like
I'm sure there's some
1061
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,440
Inuits out there in Antarctica.
The public don't need
1062
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,119
public speaking.
You're probably right
1063
00:56:03,119 --> 00:56:05,159
with some percentage
of the population
1064
00:56:05,159 --> 00:56:07,599
and some animals in this world.
So well done. Well,
1065
00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:10,599
you can't on that one.
Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Very good.
1066
00:56:10,599 --> 00:56:12,599
Let me let me summarise, Max.
There's a couple of things
1067
00:56:12,599 --> 00:56:14,159
I've got this.
I was going to say. Yeah,
1068
00:56:14,159 --> 00:56:15,840
I was going to say is there,
is there a good summary
1069
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,400
that you can do
of all your points. Yeah.
1070
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:21,199
So number one, both of my mind
changes. The things I changed
1071
00:56:21,199 --> 00:56:24,599
my mind on came from you and from
external sources.
1072
00:56:24,599 --> 00:56:28,119
So this is where it's
definitely helpful to make sure
1073
00:56:28,119 --> 00:56:32,400
that you are taking note of what
your good friends are saying
1074
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,440
of if you're having a
continual problem
1075
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,760
that keeps coming up
and they've got that,
1076
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,800
they're kind of telling you
maybe a harsh truth
1077
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:39,920
or something you
don't want to hear,
1078
00:56:41,119 --> 00:56:43,800
it might not sink in straight
away, much like
1079
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,239
when you were saying
a lot of these things.
1080
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:46,880
I was kind of
pushing back like, Nah,
1081
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:50,239
one doesn't really get it.
I don't think that's right.
1082
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,239
And I still think
there's some nuances, but yeah,
1083
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:58,079
having external sources is vital,
I think, to to be able
1084
00:56:58,079 --> 00:57:01,679
to change your mind. It's very,
very, very hard to do on your own
1085
00:57:01,679 --> 00:57:06,840
and if not impossible,
it actually doesn't matter
1086
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,440
if your judgement is crap.
So this is kind of tying
1087
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,519
in my first and second points.
So if you got really crap
1088
00:57:12,519 --> 00:57:14,199
judgement on people,
you're probably
1089
00:57:14,199 --> 00:57:18,239
going to get burnt.
Or if your judgement of
1090
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,199
where the market's
heading or something
1091
00:57:20,199 --> 00:57:23,400
like this is wrong, you're going
to get burnt, you're going to
1092
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,039
lose some money.
I think the things
1093
00:57:26,039 --> 00:57:29,159
you can kind of recoup
that old back as long as you have
1094
00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:32,280
that directed
hard work energy focus.
1095
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:37,079
So kind of tying my to serious
ones together. If you don't,
1096
00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:39,679
if you have both of them, that's
probably the outliers. You know,
1097
00:57:39,679 --> 00:57:42,000
those are the probably like
the Elon Musk's of the world
1098
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,280
who they have
the hard work directed
1099
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:45,800
energy and focus,
and they're probably
1100
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,039
really good at judging people,
judging situations and making the
1101
00:57:49,039 --> 00:57:54,519
right moves. And then probably
most of the population
1102
00:57:54,519 --> 00:57:57,000
falls into the camp of
two negatives
1103
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,519
that they're not good
at judging people
1104
00:57:58,519 --> 00:58:01,119
and they're not great
at directing their energy
1105
00:58:01,119 --> 00:58:04,639
and focus onto the problem.
So yeah, those are
1106
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:07,159
for those people out there.
Maybe try working on
1107
00:58:07,159 --> 00:58:09,960
one of those too. And because
get it, getting two or two
1108
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,119
I think is pretty hard and then
the last one was Man Men,
1109
00:58:13,119 --> 00:58:15,719
this is, this is a great topic.
As soon as you suggested it,
1110
00:58:15,719 --> 00:58:19,239
I was like, Man, this is great.
That sparked a lot of ideas.
1111
00:58:19,239 --> 00:58:21,480
He went when he went, he went
overload it, too.
1112
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:22,960
I like it again.
He went doubled up.
1113
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,119
He doubled up on it.
So it was good. I'm I'm glad
1114
00:58:25,119 --> 00:58:27,360
you had enough of those topics.
My summary with them
1115
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:31,559
I was looking through there was
there's a saying I saw recently
1116
00:58:31,559 --> 00:58:34,079
and it's paying tolerant
with others but discipline
1117
00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:36,599
with yourself. And I like that.
I like that view.
1118
00:58:36,599 --> 00:58:39,239
And I think it applies
to some of my stuff because it's
1119
00:58:39,239 --> 00:58:41,840
being tolerant of kind of
external situations
1120
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:46,039
and external people in the sense
that don't take some somethings
1121
00:58:46,039 --> 00:58:48,400
too seriously. So again,
this coming back to the,
1122
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,199
you know, life of the void,
it's also be tolerant with others
1123
00:58:51,199 --> 00:58:53,880
in terms of don't associate them
with their actions
1124
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,519
that, you know, they are just
a mere mortal
1125
00:58:55,519 --> 00:58:58,400
and whatever actions they decide
kind of separate them out
1126
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,039
as as you wish. And so
that's tolerance and a discipline
1127
00:59:02,039 --> 00:59:04,800
with oneself
in the sense of there's
1128
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,320
very good reasons.
I've seen now with it
1129
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,360
from a health perspective,
fitness perspective,
1130
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,079
you name it, that I go,
this is worth its weight in gold.
1131
00:59:12,079 --> 00:59:14,480
And again,
doubling down, tripling
1132
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,760
down on the amount of energy
I'm spending it, listening
1133
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,280
and whatnot is worth the extra
percentage here
1134
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,079
because while it might yeah,
it might feel like it's
1135
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:26,519
only the 80% extra of energy
just to get 5% more,
1136
00:59:26,519 --> 00:59:27,800
I have an inkling
feeling that it's
1137
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,159
not just 5% more, it's it's
5% more in the immediate,
1138
00:59:30,159 --> 00:59:34,000
but it's 5% like kind
of compounding or 5% annually.
1139
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,960
That increases as it goes
rather than just kind of
1140
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,480
finishes up when I just do
that 80%. So it's
1141
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:43,320
that almost recurring
benefit into the future
1142
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,599
that I got. Yep, I'm
going to double down
1143
00:59:45,599 --> 00:59:48,119
as much as possible
onto that front. So I told them
1144
00:59:48,119 --> 00:59:50,960
with ideas and discipline
with oneself it's sort of how
1145
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,039
summarise own. Well that's,
that's kind of my life
1146
00:59:53,039 --> 00:59:55,559
philosophy, you know,
when something happens
1147
00:59:55,559 --> 00:59:58,960
and it's negative,
if other people do it, I just go
1148
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:00,840
deterministic mindset.
They couldn't have
1149
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,599
done anything else.
It was bound to
1150
01:00:03,599 --> 01:00:06,239
happen no matter what.
I try and try and not let it
1151
01:00:06,239 --> 01:00:09,639
affect you. If it was something
I did, man, you had a choice.
1152
01:00:09,639 --> 01:00:11,039
You had free will.
You could have done that better
1153
01:00:11,039 --> 01:00:14,079
car and work harder next time, do
put in the things place
1154
01:00:14,079 --> 01:00:15,920
and then if something. Positive,
that's the only time
1155
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,440
free will exist
for Karen. Yep. Yep. And then
1156
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,599
on the vice versa,
positive thing happens.
1157
01:00:20,599 --> 01:00:25,440
I do it now. It was always
bound to happen. Keeps me humble,
1158
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:27,719
makes me not get too ahead
of myself, Makes me
1159
01:00:27,719 --> 01:00:29,920
not think like, oh yeah.
And you actually know
1160
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,920
you're so great at judging people
and you're never going
1161
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,079
to make that mistake again,
or you've got
1162
01:00:34,079 --> 01:00:36,760
that one nailed down.
And then if other people do it,
1163
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,559
no free will, congrats them,
you know, applaud them.
1164
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:42,760
That was awesome that they made
a great decision, that they did
1165
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,800
a good thing and they chose
to do it. So, yeah, that's that's
1166
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:49,239
kind of how I view the world.
Yeah. Look, as as that sounds,
1167
01:00:49,239 --> 01:00:51,719
it's a good way. Yeah.
As paradoxical and irrational
1168
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:54,280
as it might seem from a
trying to add them up
1169
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,920
perspective in the end.
Yeah, it's a good way to live.
1170
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,079
Check out the book
review of Notes
1171
01:01:00,079 --> 01:01:03,480
from On the Ground from Fyodor.
Dostoyevsky came out
1172
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,679
as the day before
this is released and
1173
01:01:05,679 --> 01:01:07,280
yeah it's it's
got a bit of paradox
1174
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,599
in there irrational everything.
It's going to be the paradox.
1175
01:01:10,599 --> 01:01:16,320
What was that paradox book you
saw? I read a lot of books.
1176
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,559
One particularly about paradoxes,
forgetting that I wrote.
1177
01:01:19,559 --> 01:01:22,280
I can't remember.
I don't. I don't know.
1178
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:24,480
That's fine. We'll plenty
of book reviews, honestly,
1179
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,840
hundreds at this point. So I'm
going to leave it there, folks.
1180
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,960
That has been musings for today.
Once again, we are always live,
1181
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:34,079
7 p.m., Australian Eastern
Standard Time, even if we are
1182
01:01:34,079 --> 01:01:36,039
in different times. I in fact,
we were just talking about this
1183
01:01:36,039 --> 01:01:38,840
before the podcast. Look, we're
putting in effort here
1184
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:40,519
to be here with you,
whether you're alive
1185
01:01:40,519 --> 01:01:42,840
or listening afterwards
and you're either watching
1186
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,920
or listening to the audio,
I'm actually going
1187
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:46,920
to make a commitment.
I'm putting my hand up right
1188
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:48,719
when it puts some effort.
I'm going to use
1189
01:01:48,719 --> 01:01:53,239
today's today's video.
I'm going to create clips myself.
1190
01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:54,719
So I was going through it.
I went, you know what?
1191
01:01:54,719 --> 01:01:56,360
I liked a lot of things
that were being talked about.
1192
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,800
I'm going to create these clips.
So now we don't normally do it
1193
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:00,079
with music,
so I'm going to do it.
1194
01:02:00,079 --> 01:02:02,400
I'm going to see what it's like
to a bit of fun,
1195
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:06,719
put a bit of effort. And again,
this effort is take
1196
01:02:06,719 --> 01:02:09,119
some might take
some time is money.
1197
01:02:09,119 --> 01:02:12,480
Time is also energy. And so what
we ask of you in return is,
1198
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,119
if you like, the value
that we're putting out,
1199
01:02:14,119 --> 01:02:18,119
it's return back some to us.
Now that can be in many formats.
1200
01:02:18,119 --> 01:02:21,199
Primarily we asked for
booster grams or streaming
1201
01:02:21,199 --> 01:02:23,639
of the touches
through new podcast apps or come.
1202
01:02:23,639 --> 01:02:25,719
That could be things
like podcasts,
1203
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,159
fountain carry cost
all that new podcast.
1204
01:02:29,159 --> 01:02:33,320
Guru podcast guru. Which is.
Also pretty short. Verse
1205
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,679
so there's quite a few coming out
look, a big amount
1206
01:02:36,679 --> 01:02:38,760
of our listenership from an audio
perspective is
1207
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,000
through the audience. Amazing.
Thank you very much.
1208
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:42,880
Yeah, if you are,
you're catching us up, you know,
1209
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:44,199
through YouTube.
A lot of the platforms
1210
01:02:44,199 --> 01:02:47,000
go check it out. You know,
reach out to us to check up
1211
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,280
your service out as well.
You get a better experience
1212
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,519
there as well because I
put transcripts in. So if you're
1213
01:02:53,519 --> 01:02:55,920
Miss Hard of hearing,
you can follow along
1214
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:58,280
with the transcript
as it's going in in pod
1215
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,559
verse and fountain
in pod friend in cure.
1216
01:03:01,559 --> 01:03:03,559
ACOSTA Absolutely.
I was checking it out
1217
01:03:03,559 --> 01:03:06,159
just the other day. Yeah.
I'm listening to one of my
1218
01:03:06,159 --> 01:03:08,639
old episodes. I'm just saying
through the transcripts. Yeah,
1219
01:03:08,639 --> 01:03:12,880
but it was also works. Good that
I put in images and
1220
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:16,559
and links out to
different resources.
1221
01:03:16,559 --> 01:03:20,480
So if you are
this is for the book reviews, but
1222
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,840
even for here as well,
I always put in kind of best
1223
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:26,800
summary on notes. So kind of
you can you can read it as well
1224
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:30,400
not not just listen
to what we're saying. And yeah,
1225
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,800
there's just more benefits
by more better for you
1226
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,400
by going to these apps as well.
So it's not. Just a lot.
1227
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,599
It almost like unlocks another
little bit of realm
1228
01:03:39,599 --> 01:03:41,920
of how much you absorb of what
we're putting out there.
1229
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:43,199
I just a little bit
so we can put it
1230
01:03:43,199 --> 01:03:45,960
and you can absorb
know beyond that. Again,
1231
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:48,840
you can provide value back to us
by subscribing, by sharing
1232
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:51,559
with friends, by listening,
by interacting,
1233
01:03:51,559 --> 01:03:54,000
setting his comments,
going on the website,
1234
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,239
giving us feedback.
Now any of those things
1235
01:03:56,239 --> 01:03:59,719
also is valuable.
Obviously, for us. Primarily it's
1236
01:03:59,719 --> 01:04:03,880
the value of Boostagrams, but
you know, if you can help us out
1237
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:07,480
in other ways, absolutely zero
cost ways, you can help us out.
1238
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:09,280
And we are we'll be talking
about this. We're going
1239
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,880
to probably provide
another way for you to actually
1240
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,519
provide some sort of Ali,
back to us in a more
1241
01:04:14,519 --> 01:04:17,320
direct monetary way,
almost an intermediary
1242
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,920
between now,
what the future holds. You'll be
1243
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:21,760
on the lookout for that as well.
And that'll be come.
1244
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:24,400
Mere Mortalites going to
leave it there.
1245
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,119
Thank you very much for joining
this conversation of musings.
1246
01:04:27,119 --> 01:04:30,519
Once again, Brisbane 7 p.m.,
Eastern Australian Senate
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01:04:30,519 --> 01:04:33,119
Eastern Standard Time.
If you ever to watch this live
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01:04:33,119 --> 01:04:36,599
and for now be well
wherever you are Mere Mortalites.
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01:04:36,599 --> 01:04:41,440
Juan out. Kyrin out Byeee. Good!
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Welcome Mere Mortals
Welcome back, folks.
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I look at my phone right now
to confirm that it is
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14th of June, 7 p.m.
here, Brisbane, Australian City
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Eastern Standard Time.
I had to check because the
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watch face on my watch is right
over the actual numbers
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also. Nice. What is it?
This is musings, folks.
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We dive into here
at the Mere Mortals podcast.
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That particular topic in mind
and I had the privilege
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to check this one.
I was going to be
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two rights in a wrong
and we'll get into
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what that means. Look,
I didn't have a particular
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thought in my mind, but before we
get started, you'll want
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on the side. Car and here
on the other side,
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I actually made the
thumbnail the titled Do
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two rights make a wrong.
You know. Due to
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something like that I also.
Do two wrongs make a right.
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Maybe to rise make one wrong.
And so this was a was kind
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of scratching my head
I want to talk about
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we did a podcast a long time ago
outdoors for meandering.
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I think it was off the back of a
Tim Ferriss podcast.
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I believe I can
remember correctly with
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Kevin Kelly, I think
maybe Colorado.
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But they talked about, you know,
what's really giving you
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a lot of passion
was kind of, well, something new
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that you've learned
and something else.
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So I kind of went down this path.
And so what I wanted to
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talk through today
was as we saying,
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what is to think
is that, you know, you've kind of
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doubled down on you've confirmed
that, hey, I'm even more right.
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Maybe some examples as to
why that's come to be the place
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we of of offline beforehand.
This podcast kind of confirmed
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that one of them
were probably going
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to be a pretty serious one.
The other one a little bit
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more of a funny one.
My like semi funny,
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but it is funny and you'll
see what I mean in a moment.
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And then we'll talk into what
one wrong thing. Something that
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with either turned our mind
completely overnight or a little
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bit off with turn the back on
something or we've got our man.
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Yeah whatever. What what
was I thinking. Yeah.
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Two months years ago. The topic
I've particularly done
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is something in the kind of last
2 to 3 years that have been
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that I would say I've,
I've changed my mind on.
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So it's not Yeah,
it's not kind of super,
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super recent but it's still
kind of is it. It was actually
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you talking about this
kind of forced me to, to have a
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bit of a reflection and go,
Oh yeah, what actually have
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I thought about differently
and what do I think
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is still kind of what I,
what I do think.
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Gotcha. Okay. Yeah.
Monstrous of a reason as well.
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So look, that's
we're going to dive
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into this particular
topic at the onset. If you're
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listening to this or of you
watching it live, all of you
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watching it later or however
you're consuming it,
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I would appreciate, you know,
drop in your thoughts as well.
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One of the things that you
are thinking that,
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you know, two things
you're doubling down on.
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One thing that perhaps,
you know, you're
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realising it's wrong
and you know, at the same time
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and we'll talk about it
at the end. If you can
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boost agreement, all the better.
That's the best way
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that we read them out
and we'll check in at the end
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of the session as well
on previous scrims.
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So I think I can we go with the,
the rights first and we'll
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leave the wrongs for later,
for tasteful later
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so people can wait for a let's go
with let's decided Light-Hearted
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Let's start with the funny one
that's often if
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I can get this right. So I blink
at the abyss. So niche
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when you know,
when he talks about, you know,
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some people stare into the abyss
and the the abyss stares back
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and then it's like,
do you blink an eye,
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blink all the time. He would be
spitting at me. I can't.
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What are you doing? So recently
I had a couple of experiences,
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which is something
I've talked about
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kind of recently, but it kind of
reinforces was
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I got a Taste of fame
the other day. I was out in a
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and a kind of like night time
rooftop bar venue, and this guy
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came up to me, he's like, Dude,
I love the podcast, but the like
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kind of hyping up
giving me energy. And I went.
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Like. Yes, that's kind of cool.
And he said, he kind of. Knew me.
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From the cool Sonic Park
or something, but I didn't
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recognise this guy, so it must
have been years ago
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and all I could think was like,
Man, I don't like this
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feeling of fame, like this
taste of fame. It's not
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that they have all the power,
they know everything about me.
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But then I think about you know,
I'm creating clips at the moment.
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And just before we started,
I was saying, and that's starting
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to kick off.
And I'm like, Yeah, but
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I don't know if I want to
keep doing this. You know, in
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six months time. Yoga did a yoga
the other day, a yoga class
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teacher comes up,
like specifically comes up to me
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afterwards, like, wow,
you're really good. Like,
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how long you been doing this for?
I'm like, Yeah,
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you know, for a while.
But I only do it
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every now and then.
Handstand Recognition.
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Arizona and Spanglish, Work,
promotion, soccer. Every time
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I kind of get
like a bit of success,
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it's like it's
just about to tick over
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into something.
It's almost like I blink and go,
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No, I don't want that. And then
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kind of one thing
that that's kind of, I suppose,
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like a reinforcement that I think
it's something that I do
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and that is probably
something I've, I've recognised
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for a while is I, I tend to
I wouldn't call it self-sabotage.
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Self-sabotage. But it's,
it's definitely maybe not
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taking opportunities,
not leaning into things
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super, super hard. So yeah,
I think that's,
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that's something of a it's
almost like every everything
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I get good at, I kind of
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to its full potential,
something like that. Yeah.
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actually. It's something
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so not exactly silly or fun.
Well it's, it's weird.
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It's, you know, you'll see
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almost sort of opposite. It's
some of the mentality
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that I have in actually posted
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actually just sort of
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Anyways, I write down what I was
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I see a lot of people who,
you know, do things for a day
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the action. They'll do it
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and wanting in myself
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you can do for you
for five years, for ten years.
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in the energy that I'm doing with
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all things is I cool?
I can confidently and comfortably
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keep on doing this for
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preventing myself
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from pushing harder.
So I could be true or it could be
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on the path of now I've
selected to choose the energy
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to be expended
that allows me to do it
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from kind of wherever, which
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I'll still be able
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the amount of work I'm doing
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I'm taking the books
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in that regard.
So yeah, I like down,
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I do like down. Do you think
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to change not by.
Articulate, I. Mean.
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Because the thing is I still get
good at stuff, you know, it
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just, even though it's,
I do stuff for a year or two easy
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and well let's just take the yoga
for example. I've been on
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flexibility training for
more than ten years now,
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and I think it's more just
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stuck into one box.
I want to be that one yoga guy
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or that one handstand guy
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or anything like that.
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like a long, circuitous
I just would circuitous
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a circle route. And it is.
I mean, I would say
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circular, but. No, no, no.
That's so Judas. I hate that word
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circuitous. Anyway, I they,
it's the long winding route
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to get to your destination
rather than the kind of like
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barrel plough through machete
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type deal. Okay. And I think
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if not higher places
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it is kind of just a
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you kind of can get a lot of
various skills and whatnot
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into a niche, which you can
then will will then have to
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struggle to kind of get out of.
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way of framing it.
I've just framed it
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negatively to, to start with.
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I see that. Well the reason
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an even more funny is my funny.
One of the ones
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that I think it's right
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it is about niche as well.
So about niche as well
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because mom was more around and
one of my maxims
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is kind of a play
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and it's like when the
when the voice says back at you
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stare back at the void and laugh.
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one of the ones
I've definitely doubled
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down, triple down, ten
quadrupled down in the hey,
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it's so powerful to find the joy
and the laughter,
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even in a real shitty
especially in a shitty situation
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because kind of just
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I write about it,
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I've heard about it a lot.
And it's now to the point
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of having experienced it
enough times to know that
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during either challenging times
or experiences or honestly,
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just like any scenario, even just
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I think we want to break the ice
sleep, some laughter or just
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a little bit of
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honestly fills
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why came up was
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I often find that in
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I go a night out with friends
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It's always made all the better
when there's ribbing involved,
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when there's jokes being told,
when there's a bit of laughter.
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serious conversation,
it can be good and it can serve
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its purpose, but kind of made
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the laughter, even in like
painful situations. We have
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a friend of ours.
He's got some problems
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from like in his big
apparently company,
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and we just gave him shit.
I just thought, That's fantastic,
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you know, it's like no harm done.
And there is
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obviously a line around that and
what friendship groups do. But I
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that again is an example
where laughing into the void
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is a good thing. And then
the most pristine
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one that's happened
really cemented in my mind
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has got to be, you know,
one in the morning,
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two in the morning,
me and my partner
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holding onto a baby, you know,
she's crying away
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and there's not much you can do.
And I've got her on video.
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So I want I want to share it
across to, you know, to the
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what amazes me more lights.
But, you know, it's
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surprising to see that, you know,
you're sleep deprived.
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You all you want to do
was go to bed. You know,
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you might be frustrated.
You know, you don't know
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how to put it. It's baby.
And all of a sudden you find joy
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in making up this random song
that can be crude, can be dark,
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humour can be, you know, whatever
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the situation to the point of
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there's kind of like, okay, what
I'm making on sort of the best
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out of the situation,
having a bit of joy
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and fun about it and catch
the video of it and you go,
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you know that the
I think there's a there's a point
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to be made about,
you know, suffering. And I
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have my own terminology
of how I would the night love it
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around the suffering context
but I go man
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if if there's anything
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suffering in this generality,
Joy's going to do it.
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So laughing at the void,
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it's just being double down,
triple down in my mind. Yeah.
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almost at the end
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of every episode
where I cut it off
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a lot of times.
But a lot of times I don't where,
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you know, you just,
you finish off a good and,
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and that is honestly
one's reaction
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to a lot of scenarios where it is
kind of fucked up or it is
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you know one of us
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the other person light,
one of us did something or just
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something happened. And it,
you know, cryptic goes down
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by 50%. Good. I wish it was more
you know, it's the
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he's not he's not
joking about that
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when he says yeah.
Yeah that's true.
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It is very true. Anyway,
that was my one.
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by his pick to avoid. Yeah, yeah.
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Something like today for my wife
which is very nice.
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I'll give you mine. I'll give you
my serious one. Okay.
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My more serious one I guess.
But it again, it's just pretty
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light hearted
and I think it's the
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I had the operation
30 and operation 150 last. Yeah.
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Well this particular
annual goals that I had
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which for those who don't follow
along too closely was you know,
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I was trying to get as fit
as I could for a 30 year
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old and operation one fifties.
You know, how can I
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prepare myself to live
to 150 years old now in that
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particular journey, I found out,
you know, in myself quite a few
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things around. And this
probably comes to a point
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in blinking to the void
of recognising
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when you can be good
at something. But the level
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it takes to be great,
to be best at things.
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it's a very big chasm
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that you have to
be prepared to cross
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and be prepared to burn other
bridges and energy
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that you don't expend.
But it also made me realise
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and double down on the
importance of, I guess, knowing
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from a health fitness,
food perspective,
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the inputs and outputs,
I guess of the,
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the human body, the the knowledge
of oneself and the importance of
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measuring X-Y-Z
almost to the point of
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almost having the health measure
to a certain
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extent is going to be a more
beneficial factor in whatever way
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you view it. Even if you find
something wrong and not
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knowing about it and being able
to do something, even if you get
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then anxiety because now
you know that you have cancer
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or that you have whatever inside,
he has some malady
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that's really terrible. Well,
I still say it's better
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to know that and have the anxiety
that then never have died.
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And so I kind of dabble down
a lot more on that to the point
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that I can see. Well,
at least this month, you know,
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the whole month, I'm
just choosing topics
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to listen to and read that are
very particular to food
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and wellness and health,
just as a full month,
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just kind of completely
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Now, I'd be doing that
all the time, but I wanted
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to dedicate a singular Manchester
almost this particular idea
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that I have my mind,
but beyond that I go, okay. And I
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kind of referred to it
a little bit earlier. This is one
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of the things that I will expend
energy or use energy up in, that
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I will continue to do this
probably for the rest of my life
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in the sense of I will track to
some degree, certain behaviours,
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certain consumption,
certain energy expenditure.
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the details of my training
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in particular sense,
my feeling of whatever,
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probably more than most
people would say.
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It's rational I guess.
But for me I go, No, that is
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here is probably
the one part of my life
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that I go, This is worth
that extra. You know,
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double of energy for an extra
5% benefit. I'll take it.
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This is a place where
if I'm going to
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invested like that,
this is the way I'm going to
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double down on. So I think that's
the other one that I've really
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come to go. Yep,
I'll I'm very solid in this one.
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I'm starting to deviate
away from, you know,
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having really strong opinions
and less and loosely held.
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this one's not like,
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loosely held anymore. This was,
is, was starting to become
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a little bit concrete.
So someone's
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got to shift my mindset
pretty quickly on this or it's
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going to remain. I'm going to be
one of those stubborn
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middle aged guys talking about
like the benefits of Sauna
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and Training Zone two
or something like that.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean.
That's, that's the main
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one for me. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, I look, I don't have much
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to add to that. I think the
focusing on your health is it's
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just one of those
undeniable things
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if you're getting stuck into a
delusion about some sort of cold
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or some new idea
or something like that, you know
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how your physical body
is responding to things.
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I mentioned this
in the latest podcast,
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but I think there is
it's one of those ones where it's
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probably worth you spending
so much time on because
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your genetics are so unique,
your history is so unique
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that when you hear
recommendations of Quito, Quito
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is great for everyone.
No, wait, wait. Carnival.
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Carnival is the way to go.
You know, that's that's
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the thing that's
you have an issues, you know,
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it'll solve it and people get so
strident on that.
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And I was saying, you know, this
this guy very
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even though I told him, you know,
seven years of intermittent
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fasting and eating carbs
has been good for me. And it was
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it was just like that
that was worth nothing, worth
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nothing in in his opinion.
So, yeah, the the focus
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on your own health I think is a
it's a huge, huge thing.
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Definitely for sure. All right.
What about the other
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what's the other positive want to
double down on. So this is
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a serious one. Yep. Yeah. Okay.
So my first of the
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serious ones is
wait, so did you do two
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serious ones and
two silly ones or. No, I did
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one serious one. And. One one
serious one on months. Only one.
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Okay, well I've done, I've done
like six in total then
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because I, I was like well that's
what I meant man.
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I was like a serious but I was.
Okay. All right, well, I'll just.
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How should I do this?
I'm going to stick with silly
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for the moment, so.
Yeah, stick with silly. So almost
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everything I say
and others say is subjective B.S.
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All it's it's almost like
the only thing that you can find
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the truth on is if it's
dispassionate autism, someone who
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doesn't give a fuck, but they are
just so autistic that they will
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go to the ends of the earth
to research this one
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particular topic
and present it in a way
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which doesn't have the
a persuasive language
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attached to it because they don't
care about that.
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It's almost like that's
the only way to get to
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the truth and things
and yeah I it's boring.
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The problem with that is just
boring as fuck. I'm sure
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there's someone out there
a YouTube channel talking about,
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you know, the most optimal way
to train the best. You know,
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this is how you make sense
of curve it
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or something like that.
And it's just boring is so boring
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that you can't get it.
So it's kind of
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I'm doubling down on when I
when I listen to people speak it
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it I just need to like
or it's almost no matter what
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I take it with a grain of salt,
you know, what are the
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incentives behind
what are they saying,
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what they're saying,
what's what's
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kind of the history.
Why would they link to this
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particular thing? And then
even if they're
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really knowledgeable on this one
particular subject, doesn't mean
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that doesn't have crossover to
something that is not directly
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related to it. So, yeah, that's
another one. I'm doubling,
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doubling down upon everything,
doubling down. Like I say,
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I'm a subject I've got.
I've got one more,
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I've got one more
on the silly side.
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Okay. I like that. I just
came up with my mom,
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but I thought it's a silly one
because it came up
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right on today. Right.
I'm doubling down on my ability
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to speak loudly. Yeah.
Because often when I speak,
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I can get loud, right?
I can be boisterous,
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voice can go around. And today
I was at work. Right?
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So I'm in the kitchen.
Kitchen's about ten metres
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by 50 metres, right
to be kitchen. I'm talking
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to one person I thought
speaking to him and just
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talking random talk
and all of a sudden
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from behind a concrete
wall beyond the kitchen,
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all this people come out the side
with headphones and they go one.
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We can hear like through
our headphones
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in our meeting, like
you were so loud. And then that
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preceded me walking over
and having a chat with them
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and having a conversation
and talking and whatnot.
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But it was
all just like all fine.
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It was all good.
And I kind of recognise
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that it's normal, it's own. It's
not only it's normally
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when I'm in like a
really confident, really happy go
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lucky type mood
that I'll be loud. And I think
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the loud voice can also be
just a very direct voice and
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I guess confident voice.
And I'm doubling down.
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I'm doubling down on not almost,
almost eating it. Okay, now
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you should go in there and be
a little bit louder
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than you need to be. And today,
actually, I went to go see I'm
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going to be a little bit offline
the rental details,
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but seeing a particular
accounting group
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and I went in there and yeah,
I kind of in my mind
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I was like, you know, I felt like
it was just a new place and so it
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could be a little bit louder,
going to be a little bit louder.
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And it just it made it
20% better, let's say,
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enabled me to be
a conversationalist and interact
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with people
in a 20% better manner
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that I would normally
in a first year touch basis.
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And that's huge.
That's a huge thing.
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So I was like, Yeah, cool.
I'm going to be a lot of folks.
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I'm going to be louder,
especially if you
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see me in person. I think.
I think it comes across too
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well in the podcast usually
because obviously getting through
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the audio stream. Of just can't.
But it is very different
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I think in a in an interaction
in person. So if you ever
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see me face, you're busy
or somewhere else. But I travel.
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Yeah, I think you're
going to hear of now I need.
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A little bit of that because at
the moment I'm
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speaking with a lot
of people at the gym
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and they all have their
earphones, headphones on.
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So you kind of it's
this weird mix where you have to
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get into their physical
space a little bit, do some sort
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of hand gesture so that they see
and speak loud to try and capture
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their attention, even even
when they're not
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doing an actual rep or anything.
Move and do that. Yeah. Yeah.
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So that's, that's
probably something
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that I'm I should. Be going to.
Take on board. Yeah, for sure.
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Should I do my
to see your response. Okay,
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so the first one is
directed effort
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is your safest bet.
And my second one is
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I am doubling down
on my inability to judge people
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and also kind of my reaction
to that. So elaborating on this,
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I was listening to
the Bitcoin dad episode 84.
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And one of the things
these are two guys who are
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much older than me, much older,
probably ten years on both sides
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and they've very into tech,
you know, I'm kind of
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just into it recently
and they were talking about
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how it's kind of
almost impossible to
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to really know about market
economics, to really,
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really get a good grasp
on, okay, you know, if interest
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rates are going up,
what's going to happen,
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if they're going down,
what's going to happen
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and which way will they go?
And predicting
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and all these things. And even
they were just saying,
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if you're trying to kind of
make an income
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from these things, it's
it needs to be your whole
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life, basically.
It needs to be a job.
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And even then, the only way
you can really do it
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well is by being at one of
these accounting firms or,
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you know, VC funds
or something like that,
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where you have the the trading,
where you have
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the direct connection
to the stock exchange
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and you have got the bots
that are able to get that extra
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little millisecond slippage
or whatever shit.
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And and you make money like that
rather than just being a pleb
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kind of individual sole trader.
And when I was just thinking,
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you know, what's a lot
of the things I've done over
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the last year in terms of kind of
directed effort,
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the best ones have been when I
would want to grow
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the podcast, you know,
what's the best way of doing it
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is to focus on podcast things,
to focus on clips and whatnot.
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If I want to improve
my handstands, it's not
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by eating better,
it's by researching
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particular training
techniques, it's
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by recording myself and
rewatching those recordings,
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checking for them
and things like that.
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And so it's almost like
I sometimes forget that
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the best way to fix
a problem is to attack that one.
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One particular problem was having
this discussion with my
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my family a while ago,
and in particular my brother.
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And we're talking about girls
and he's talking about
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and getting a girl, you know,
finding a girl
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and he's talking about
looks, MAXINE, which is the thing
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where you basically trying
to prove your parents
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to the utmost get jacked.
You wear tie fitting clothes, you
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get the head Turkish hair
transplant, you make sure
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you're moisturising, you're doing
all of these sorts of things.
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And I was telling him,
that's nice, but the best
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way to get girls is to go out
and try and get girls.
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You direct your
energy to that thing
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looking fine. Sure, it helps,
but it's in terms of the
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amount of hours invested,
you get your biggest bang
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for your buck by focusing
on the problem.
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So it's kind of it's kind of like
focus. Maybe it's a better way
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of saying this.
But because it's it's
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sort of in another
translation, it's how do you
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you know, if you want to be
a really good
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five kilometre run off,
what do you do? Well, fucking
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the best thing you got to do
is run a five like run
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five kilometres. That's just
it is more so the it's
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the acuteness of the task,
it's always, it's
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deliberate effort at the
very acute reason as to
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why you're doing something.
It's almost a you know with like
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your brother's point of yes,
you can maximise all the things,
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but in the end the very direct
amount of energy that you can be
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doing on one thing and if it
everything else
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is supporting 10%,
that's probably going to Rex,
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probably 60% of the whole battle.
So more energy they might give
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you overall a better result.
Yeah, I think it's you'll
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sometimes see this in
probably any venue to be honest
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where it's all this is
the supplementary work
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you can do a handstand
oh, I can work on my
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wrist strengthening
or maybe I can do
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my core. Don't, don't.
A core core has nothing to do
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with handstands. Little
piece of advice there.
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But it's almost like you can
sometimes get trapped into
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focusing on all of these extra
things and forget, you know,
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if you want to do the best
deadlift, you got to be
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deadlifting does
it doesn't matter if you can do
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Nordic curls
so it doesn't matter. So yeah,
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I guess supplementary work,
but there's direct work.
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Did you do the right thing
that you want to do? Yeah.
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So that's, that's one thing
I'm, I've doubled down upon it.
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You know, the best thing to do
is focus. The other one was my
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ability, inability
to judge people
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and kind of my reaction
to that as well. So what
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I've kind of been like reflecting
just on this last year
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and it's like, you know what?
I kind of fucked up
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a couple of things.
The, you know, my ex
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basically breaking up with me.
It kind of blindsided me
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for a bit. And it wasn't
you know, it wasn't like a
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a full on Break-Up.
It was kind of this one
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where it was
a little bit lingering. It wasn't
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really a harsh one.
It was kind of it seemed like
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it was more circumstances.
I covered that was forcing it.
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But now that wasn't
the real issue. A couple of
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other people, you know,
my dad, for example, doubting me
519
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about the whole podcasting
stuff and and and the bitcoin
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and the crypto stuff
and, you know, as of this moment,
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he is right. The payoff
for the amount of energy and time
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I've invested into
a lot of these things
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and relationships it's yeah
that they haven't panned out
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and it's kind of
I learned this lesson
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a long time ago where
I had a friend
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when I was in primary
school, hell, even from before
527
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,799
that kindergarten. And he was
a kleptomaniac who liked to
528
00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:24,960
steal things. And I knew this.
And one night him
529
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,920
and another friend came over
and in the morning,$50 was gone
530
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,960
from my brother's wallet.
And it's like, who could have
531
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:38,480
stolen it? And I. And he took.
Over the kleptomaniac like. Yeah.
532
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,799
And he tells me
that he, he didn't. And it must
533
00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:43,960
have been Nick
and I just straight up
534
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,359
believed him. I just didn't,
you know. No question it. Yeah.
535
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,200
Pull my bullshit.
And it comes out later. Of course
536
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,079
he's the one who stole it.
And so I think it's this thing
537
00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:59,160
where it's my, my inability to,
to judge people.
538
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,079
I think I actually. Look, I'm
not hanging around with murderers
539
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:05,759
and psychopaths that
as far as I'm aware of yet.
540
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,440
But I'm also I don't think I
have the squeaky
541
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,599
clean track record of going men.
Yeah, I really know this person
542
00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:20,039
and I know what they kind of
are and aren't capable of.
543
00:28:20,039 --> 00:28:24,559
It's kind of just it's almost sun
soft forms of unexpected reality.
544
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:27,200
I thought reality
was in this way. I thought people
545
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,920
were like this and then they
behave like this
546
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,160
and it's like, Oh shit.
Another classic example
547
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,079
recently dates me to check.
I have a great interaction,
548
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:39,359
you know, think something's
going to happen and then just
549
00:28:39,359 --> 00:28:42,440
just disappears. Like go
out the shit where, you know,
550
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,039
where did this come from?
Didn't honestly,
551
00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:49,319
I didn't see it coming.
Now the thing that I've kind of
552
00:28:49,319 --> 00:28:52,319
doubled down upon is also my
reaction to this, which is
553
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,920
I've learnt a fair while ago
not to invest
554
00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,720
too much of my soul,
I guess, into one person or what
555
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,960
they say or something like that.
So, you know, even if you,
556
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,079
you know, we were talking about
some business stuff recently,
557
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,960
even if you completely
screwed me over, I wouldn't
558
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,400
kind of allow my whole salary.
For those who don't know,
559
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,359
Juan's just menacingly
popping his eyebrows and
560
00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:21,759
and looking in to the camera.
They're deeply I wouldn't.
561
00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:24,839
Mid-Way through this podcast
going to have like some sort of
562
00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:27,279
ATO, like squad team
going to break in
563
00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:32,319
through the window being like,
you didn't pay. You are we've.
564
00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:35,559
Been watching those Yeah.
Histograms coming in.
565
00:29:35,559 --> 00:29:38,559
We've been watching your profits
of your of your husky NFT
566
00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:45,000
of employee. Oh jeez. Oh jeez.
Yes I don't I don't let that ruin
567
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,599
my life And I think
some people can I think I think
568
00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:53,960
getting burnt I think
becoming cynical I, I haven't
569
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,319
allowed myself to become cynical
and I think it's because I'm not,
570
00:29:58,319 --> 00:30:00,839
I'm not trying to kind of
chucking I've got enough
571
00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:04,039
of my own shit going on that
no matter what. It's almost like
572
00:30:04,039 --> 00:30:07,559
no matter what happens
with other people,
573
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:09,599
I've still kind of
got my own little base.
574
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:14,160
I suppose so, yeah,
just doubling down that. Okay,
575
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,880
I'm actually not that great
a judge of character,
576
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:23,279
but my reaction to getting burnt
or bad things happening,
577
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:26,319
or even good things happening,
I suppose, is I feel like that
578
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:30,400
is is solid so I won't end up.
The jaded.
579
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,039
Jaded, cynical old man.
Yeah, you kind of
580
00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:35,359
you can't control
sometimes the things
581
00:30:35,359 --> 00:30:38,279
that are coming at you,
but you can control your impact
582
00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:39,400
like your reaction
that actually comes
583
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,759
from that in game. Yeah. Okay.
Almost almost
584
00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:43,319
in a neutral way either
both in the negative
585
00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:45,839
and the positive. Yes. Yep.
I mean, I definitely do
586
00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:47,839
get better at that.
But it's, it's, I can
587
00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:49,400
kind of show that that's,
I mean I wouldn't
588
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,839
double down on X, I'm not putting
enough energy to our attention.
589
00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:53,920
Something like that at all. Yeah.
Well I'm doubling
590
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,400
down on my doubt. Yeah. Okay.
Let's take a
591
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,400
little bit of a pause.
Let's go in
592
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,160
to the bicycle lounge,
getting to me,
593
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,240
the actual Bronx folks.
So I mentioned at the beginning
594
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,400
Beachcomber Lounge. It's a
what is be screaming again
595
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,039
mentioned at the end
and I've mentioned it
596
00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:13,799
a couple of times
now here, folks, because what
597
00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:17,039
we're asking for is for you
to be supporting the podcast
598
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:20,279
through the Valley
Four Valley Channel, which means
599
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:23,640
it is sending through a B stream
or SATOSHIS via streaming,
600
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,599
using new podcasting
apps out there, things
601
00:31:25,599 --> 00:31:28,079
like Fountain Cosmetics.
I was talking to Karen
602
00:31:28,079 --> 00:31:29,759
a little bit
a couple of days ago,
603
00:31:29,759 --> 00:31:32,039
maybe yesterday, around
how impressed I was with
604
00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:34,680
how much listeners are actually
coming through from these
605
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,359
different platforms and obviously
the streams and the satoshis
606
00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:38,960
that are coming through.
That is what
607
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,400
allowing us to continue
to do this podcast. So it's very
608
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,680
much appreciated
and we call them out during the
609
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,799
brief scramble. I specifically
when you said
610
00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:48,680
there will be screams,
so let's get through these ones.
611
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,720
We've got 12,112
sets it through again
612
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,720
by Dave Jones Weekly baseball.
What they heard.
613
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,400
Thank you very much, Dave.
Always, always,
614
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,079
always appreciate it. Yes.
And you'll be glad to know
615
00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,400
you are not the only one
in this booster
616
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,160
grab this time around.
That's awesome. We've got one
617
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,559
for ourselves.
We just sending through
618
00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:08,680
another app where I can boost
from podcast guru
619
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,759
for the win. Yep, yep.
So just now
620
00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:15,119
come from all of that.
Using podcast guru. So very good
621
00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:20,400
to see another one.
There we go on from Dr. Peter.
622
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,319
I was in him for a little while.
Again, it's been popping up
623
00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:25,480
every now and again,
which is nice. Aslaug He says,
624
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,680
I was a huge listener to Plan B
and a filter back in 2013.
625
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,519
Chris is an incredible
talent on the mike.
626
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:34,160
Such a natural. If Adam is
the Godfather,
627
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,559
Dave is a pot sage.
Chris must be the pot master
628
00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:41,920
grading the B car in 20
22,222 SATs and using fountain.
629
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,240
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
630
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,759
Chris is he is good. He is good.
You won't hear any whatnots or
631
00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:50,640
arms or legs from him inside.
Yeah, he was very direct.
632
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,920
It did very much.
I watch that. Watch it.
633
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,039
Not listen to it. I'll watch it.
I really enjoyed watching that.
634
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:57,920
Nice, nice. We've got one
from McIntosh.
635
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,319
She says Best episode 10,000.
That said using fountain
636
00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:04,680
and then he says, Man,
I keep booting to teeth. Sorry.
637
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,240
Like I was saying,
best episode ever.
638
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,160
Great conversation, gentlemen.
210 SATs using fountain.
639
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,680
So there's a11 from Macintosh.
I'm assuming is with
640
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,160
a conversation there with Chris.
No that's from the
641
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,759
regulation laws now that's
that's the two of us.
642
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:21,839
Me Oh wow. Amazing. Okay, cool.
I thought it was for some reason
643
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,839
the actual director interview.
So very cool. Yeah.
644
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:28,599
We're not sorry. Mac Macintoshes.
Yeah. He's from generation
645
00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:32,920
Bitcoin is. Yep. Very much
looking into the regulations
646
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,720
and that that kind of is
way up his alley. So I'm not
647
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,680
not too surprised
by that actually helped him out
648
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,839
recently with one of his episodes
because he's
649
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:42,559
kind of been having a
a bit of a think
650
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:46,279
as of of his podcast
format as well and potentially
651
00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:50,559
striking up another
a separate one. And is it worth
652
00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:53,279
the effort is value for value
working that sort of deal.
653
00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:56,640
So I was helping him out.
There's one here which you won't
654
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,880
have seen.
This is a thousand sets
655
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,880
with No, no, no, no
message from Remember J Stock
656
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,279
and that was for the Pete
Smiths an episode and that was
657
00:34:05,279 --> 00:34:08,280
on Fountain. So a big, big
thank you to him
658
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,000
as well and a big thank you to.
I can see Daniel Cook
659
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,119
streaming in here.
I'm pretty sure this is
660
00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:18,400
a grabber at GAB.
I'll become another
661
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,719
another person streaming in
a couple of different ways.
662
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,599
Jordan Bravo, a bunch of people.
So I love it now. It's good.
663
00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:28,280
It's good to see it.
One one thing that is of interest
664
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:33,599
and this is kind of currently
topical is the is up so noster
665
00:34:33,599 --> 00:34:39,000
they have gotten a recent
message from Apple telling them
666
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,920
that they are not allowed
to use apps which is basically
667
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,679
a way of liking but liking
via lightning. So you're actually
668
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,920
sending up a very small portion
of bitcoin, kind of
669
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,440
as if you would,
if you were doing it on Twitter
670
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,960
and hitting a like
or on Instagram, hitting a like
671
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,599
you're doing the same thing,
but you're sending a small amount
672
00:34:58,599 --> 00:35:02,719
or you could send a larger amount
and Apple is going,
673
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,440
no, no, no, no, you're not
allowed to do that. And so
674
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,079
they've basically told them
you're not allowed to do that
675
00:35:10,079 --> 00:35:12,960
for individual content.
I don't know why it is.
676
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,599
It's this weird
Apple rule related to
677
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:20,159
kind of selling.
It's almost like you're
678
00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:22,719
selling individual
pieces of content and that's
679
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,239
not allowed on the platform.
You're allowed to do it
680
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:30,599
at a kind of show level,
but but not on individual posts,
681
00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:34,920
which is basically going to
screw up this damn app
682
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,280
and you won't be able to use it.
Another great reason of why
683
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,519
it's good to have
decentralisation and have
684
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:42,880
multiple different
apps everywhere or multiple
685
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,840
different ways to connect.
But this could have
686
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:51,079
some implications for Fountain
Focussed Illmatic, for pop verse,
687
00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:55,239
for basically any app
that is on the Apple Store
688
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,239
or Podcasting 2.0 app,
because where essentially doing
689
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,960
the same thing for individual
episodes, people
690
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:05,360
boosting in that is
pretty. Much very.
691
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,559
To to what's going on. So yeah
that could be some news
692
00:36:08,559 --> 00:36:11,840
related to that
in the coming future because
693
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,880
if they're going after
the dominance, I'm not sure why
694
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,480
they wouldn't go after.
The album. As well
695
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,559
as some of the others. Actually,
not a problem.
696
00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:22,800
I wonder if that'll be.
A bad thing or a good thing.
697
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,320
I wonder if it'll call a call,
you know, almost like about
698
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,440
any news is good news
for the space. Yeah. Who knows?
699
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,039
Who knows? I mean. We got very.
There's a lot of
700
00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:36,840
interesting news. Like I've
kind of been watching like
701
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,039
some Cardano stuff recently.
Even the Bitcoin
702
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:45,760
things like lightning is another
new layer to being proposed slash
703
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,199
I think getting
the ground called Ark, which uses
704
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:51,440
these things called
virtual transactions
705
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,199
so complicated. So I'm
never going to be able
706
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:56,280
to understand these things.
But yeah, I remember
707
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,599
when I started looking into like
Z rollout Z roll up.
708
00:36:58,599 --> 00:37:01,599
Z, Cairo out. Like, you know.
Zero knowledge. Yeah, this.
709
00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:05,400
Is this is not this is not. Yeah,
I know where I posted
710
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,480
where I bought
cryptographer Yeah.
711
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,159
Yeah. Not exactly. But yeah yeah
that's a massive
712
00:37:10,159 --> 00:37:13,000
thanks for everyone
who is sending in. Absolutely
713
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,760
sending through
scrims and streaming
714
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,800
through. Added power.
He got his t shirt as well.
715
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,639
So just to remind everyone,
if you reach the 100
716
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:25,000
k limit, 100 K 100,000 satoshis,
we will send you a shot
717
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,599
no matter where
you are in the world
718
00:37:26,599 --> 00:37:31,960
and limited shots.
I think there's another 15. 15.
719
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,559
Left or something like that.
Get get them before they go on
720
00:37:34,559 --> 00:37:38,000
a limited edition.
It's all right. Down to the,
721
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,039
the wrong ones now.
So this is the. So what
722
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:42,840
we've changed our mind
particular. Yes. So what?
723
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,159
We've changed our mind on all
what we think is wrong.
724
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:49,239
We might not like gone in fully
taking the deed
725
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,280
and the action for it,
but we know it's wrong. Okay.
726
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,639
And the one that I've got here
has I've only got the one
727
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:57,199
and I think you've
got we probably have to mine was
728
00:37:57,199 --> 00:38:00,840
so this was more along
the lines of I think I'm
729
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,719
recognising this,
but it's not so much that I'm
730
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,960
fully changed, but
I have fully changed
731
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:13,440
the way that I act about it. So
it's all around
732
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:20,039
the notable figures
or individuals or famous people
733
00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:22,840
or leaves of the company
or anything like that
734
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:29,760
for a very long time
I had this almost aura slash view
735
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,480
that they must know.
Lots have seen,
736
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,639
lots have expertise,
should be revered. Yeah.
737
00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:38,119
So that sort of level
where I would often
738
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:40,400
go into a company and have had
the opportunity to meet
739
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,000
with the CEO or the, you know,
the chief markets officer or
740
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,400
something like that,
I was like, Wow, this is cool.
741
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,039
Like, this is making it.
This is awesome. And more and
742
00:38:50,039 --> 00:38:53,159
more now, it's hard
to really realise that there are
743
00:38:53,159 --> 00:38:57,719
there can be aspects to
an individual
744
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:02,960
that makes them heroic,
makes them impressive.
745
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,000
But you have to remove
or separate the the thing that
746
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,880
makes them or the thing
that you find inspiring to the
747
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,639
person themselves.
Because ultimately
748
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:13,119
every single person
to be immortal, right?
749
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:16,440
We're just all mere
mortal and just, you know,
750
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,039
meat bag with a bodysuit,
a little bit of skin on top,
751
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:21,119
lots of hair, depending on who
you are. Can't count on.
752
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:24,719
I've got plenty. So, you know, it
sort of depends. Borrow me more.
753
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,280
And so more and more it's
I'm realising that,
754
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,960
hey, they can be famous people,
they can be rich people,
755
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:37,320
they can be powerful people
and kind of less and less
756
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,039
matters in the.
Now, I'm not saying this is one
757
00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:42,119
of those things
where I can recognise
758
00:39:42,119 --> 00:39:46,960
the errors in my ways, not to say
that it changes some of the ways
759
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,519
that I'm acting still.
So to give you an idea, I was
760
00:39:50,519 --> 00:39:53,280
I saw a kind of senior person
in a previous company
761
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,000
that I worked with,
and I always went
762
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,880
went out of my way of talking
to another person.
763
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,000
I was having a coffee.
They kind of when I was going up
764
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,159
the elevator with them,
I kind of stopped.
765
00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:04,079
I went back out. I saw them,
I had a chat with them,
766
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:07,199
went through to the elevator,
so I didn't have a conversation.
767
00:40:07,199 --> 00:40:10,119
I reflected on afterwards
and I was like, okay, now there's
768
00:40:10,119 --> 00:40:12,599
probably part of me who did that
because I know the person
769
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,480
and it was a good conversation
to have, but all the power went,
770
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,119
Oh, it's because they, you know,
the influential, the powerful,
771
00:40:18,119 --> 00:40:20,559
and some of the things
can be beneficial.
772
00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:23,840
But I went ultimately, yeah, but
you know, ultimately
773
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,119
I don't think that's going to be
of a benefit to me
774
00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:28,679
in a long term, nor is it
something that I should aspire
775
00:40:28,679 --> 00:40:32,239
to try to go down the path of.
And it's always in the face
776
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:33,480
of what you were saying
with blinking
777
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,119
into the void. I went,
Yeah, I think I had this
778
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:41,320
wrong expression. We're seeing
people who, for whatever
779
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,119
reason, just went
bold through that void and didn't
780
00:40:44,119 --> 00:40:47,480
blink and achieved whatever
the achievement
781
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,000
can be impressive.
But I'm I'm tying the
782
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,920
the achievement to the person
too closely and I go, Yeah,
783
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,199
that's wrong.
I've got to separate
784
00:40:54,199 --> 00:40:56,760
that for sure.
And seeing other others
785
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,960
in the areas of that
where I guess this morning
786
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,440
I was actually training
at a different gym
787
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,480
and I saw someone who
generally like, Oh,
788
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,000
that's really cool like that.
They're huge follows
789
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,239
and they're an impressive person.
And I thought,
790
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:12,000
Yeah, is in my mind
when I make a thing
791
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,679
out of it, can I go on
and have a chat with them?
792
00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:16,199
Could I try to connect with them?
Could I talk to them
793
00:41:16,199 --> 00:41:21,239
on the podcast? Maybe last for
about 2 minutes? And I went,
794
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,679
Yeah, but I'm doing my workout.
And you know what the other day
795
00:41:24,679 --> 00:41:26,360
it was going to be?
I'll make it happen.
796
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,519
But right now
it's fine. It's okay.
797
00:41:28,519 --> 00:41:31,599
Continue on. And that
felt empowering, I guess, in
798
00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:33,599
my perspective.
But it's all there. So it's, it's
799
00:41:33,599 --> 00:41:36,599
one of those things I recognise
is the probably
800
00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:38,920
the wrong mentality
to be thinking about,
801
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,679
but it hasn't transferred yet
to the actions
802
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:44,840
or the deeds fully. But I think
we'll get there. So I'm happy
803
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,440
that I'm realising
that wrong and it's
804
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,320
relatively recent to be honest.
Maybe maybe a year, maybe less,
805
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,440
and it's still transitioning
into the. Okay, cool.
806
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,039
Now back it up with the action
that comes around,
807
00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:57,679
recognising that that could be
not a thing
808
00:41:57,679 --> 00:42:00,480
that I want to continue
to be enacting. Yeah,
809
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,280
I think it's that idea
of confusing meritocracy
810
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,719
for all of these things or morals
for all of these things
811
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,880
fame, power, money. If they,
if they're really famous,
812
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,159
they must be
really competent. And
813
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:20,119
I think it's it's probably even
becoming more and more nowadays
814
00:42:20,119 --> 00:42:24,480
just because there's less
need for hard physical labour.
815
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,599
So there's more kind of people
who just can just crop up
816
00:42:27,599 --> 00:42:29,840
out of nowhere
who have the time to
817
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,639
dick around on YouTube
making videos and things
818
00:42:32,639 --> 00:42:37,800
like this, i.e. like we're doing
where you can have that person
819
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:43,480
who just through sheer luck,
combination of factors
820
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:47,760
of being good looking of,
of having a personality
821
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,400
like this, of riding a trend
that can get to
822
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,079
a silly position of
of no notoriety,
823
00:42:55,079 --> 00:42:58,639
of fame, of wealth or power.
And yet there's no
824
00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:01,440
there's no kind of substance
beneath it. An analogy
825
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,840
that would be Vienna at this
moment is more flexible
826
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,239
than I probably ever will be.
Yet has she earned
827
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,719
that flexibility? No.
No, you have to get well.
828
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,679
I keep hearing this
on on different places. I've done
829
00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:21,639
I was popping up, but I keep it
when I miss a recognise, I guess.
830
00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:23,079
And the only way
I can describe it
831
00:43:23,079 --> 00:43:27,239
is that sometimes mere mortals,
peers the arrow
832
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:31,800
into heroic. Right.
But it is, it is a what I fail
833
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,199
to recognise is that it's a verb,
not a noun, in the sense
834
00:43:35,199 --> 00:43:38,400
that I'm looking at people
who are achieving this is either
835
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,639
the hero, right?
It's tying into this,
836
00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:43,800
but it's a verb. It's the action
that I should be more
837
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,800
impressed by and not the noun
or the collective it
838
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,760
to an individual of,
Oh yeah, it's
839
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,360
I'm finding this thing
aspirational, heroic in an action
840
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,000
that has taken
that doesn't mean that
841
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,119
all of a sudden it attaches
on the individual
842
00:43:57,119 --> 00:43:59,519
and they like that for
everything else. And so
843
00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:02,119
that can also falter. When you
go to meet someone
844
00:44:02,119 --> 00:44:04,800
who you might find
aspirational insert here, whoever
845
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,280
you find aspirational likes me
more or less out they or someone
846
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,599
you think is powerful and shit.
They might have done
847
00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:11,320
something really cool
once upon a time
848
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,400
or are doing it still,
but then you find out
849
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:14,760
something else about them
and you, you know,
850
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,440
you realise that
maybe the CEO out there
851
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,159
actually has a frickin horrific
family life
852
00:44:19,159 --> 00:44:21,280
because they just don't
go anywhere and you go, Oh,
853
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,599
I'm kind of disappointed in that.
And you almost,
854
00:44:23,599 --> 00:44:24,800
I guess, a wrong way
of looking at it.
855
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,760
So you can still be kind of
impressed or understand
856
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:34,840
the heroic or the quite driven
the action that is taken
857
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,679
and separated
from the individual, recognising
858
00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:39,480
that there's other difficulties
and on challenges to doing that.
859
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,119
So I think this is one thing
that I'm reviewing on
860
00:44:43,119 --> 00:44:45,719
sending more and more.
And then now probably
861
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,960
the transition is going to be
the action that comes behind
862
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:52,320
that in the years
to come. For me. Yeah, I was,
863
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,199
yeah, I just found this
Reddit thread which I bumped
864
00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:58,440
into randomly today and it is
who's an idiot that gets treated
865
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,280
like a genius and then is talking
about how some of the top ones
866
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,639
here, like Andy Warhol,
where there was this quote
867
00:45:05,639 --> 00:45:08,159
from Truman Capote,
which the only genius
868
00:45:08,159 --> 00:45:12,119
with an IQ of 80, you know,
Andy Warhol is probably
869
00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:14,199
the definition
of this kind of duet.
870
00:45:14,199 --> 00:45:16,760
You know, he's
the one who invented everyone
871
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,880
wants or needs
the 15 minutes of fame
872
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:23,840
or gets the 15 minutes of fame.
And he's kind of like that.
873
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,360
He apparently just didn't
have that much talent
874
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,000
as an actual artist.
And it was just, you know,
875
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,679
he just rode this
wave of whatever it was
876
00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:38,360
that was happening at the time.
Another good one is Bill Cosby,
877
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,360
just because he was a great actor
playing this family dad,
878
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,119
you know, wholesome
and things like that doesn't mean
879
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:48,719
that he himself
was a good person.
880
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:54,840
And from all the subsequent date
rapes and druggings and
881
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,000
things like that, you see. Okay.
No, he was pretty. He's scum.
882
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,159
So, yeah, it's
I think that's an easy
883
00:46:01,159 --> 00:46:03,039
one to get confused.
What is there anything that
884
00:46:03,039 --> 00:46:06,360
tipped you
over the boundary point of, of
885
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,960
like a meeting with someone
in particular? I wasn't.
886
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:14,400
It wasn't something that
was driven by me interacting
887
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,039
with someone. I think it was a
small little building blocks over
888
00:46:18,039 --> 00:46:21,480
time of either
having conversations with people
889
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,480
who are like sort
of trusted people that I
890
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:24,960
have been sharing
those sort of thoughts
891
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,199
or reading it or hearing it,
and then collectively,
892
00:46:28,199 --> 00:46:31,079
just all of a sudden more like
an emergent idea they got.
893
00:46:31,079 --> 00:46:34,559
Oh, yeah, actually, yeah,
I can see that more and more.
894
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:36,079
Yeah. Now that's a
that's a good one.
895
00:46:36,079 --> 00:46:38,159
I quite enjoy that. All right.
My serious
896
00:46:38,159 --> 00:46:42,039
one is cold approaching
and it's long term utility.
897
00:46:42,039 --> 00:46:44,760
So I would have said
a couple of years ago
898
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:49,199
that being able to cold approach
in no matter the scenario,
899
00:46:49,199 --> 00:46:53,559
is very beneficial
and will have long term utility.
900
00:46:53,559 --> 00:46:57,599
It's it's almost an essential
skill type of deal. I definitely
901
00:46:57,599 --> 00:46:59,079
would have said that
a couple of years ago.
902
00:46:59,079 --> 00:47:03,760
I flipped the fence on that.
And and this is a
903
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,239
relatively recent one,
probably in the last six
904
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:11,760
months, I'd say, where I am now
doubting the utility of it.
905
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,840
So elaborating on this
5th of June 2013
906
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,400
was the time that I
cold approach to go
907
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,039
for the first time. It was
the first time I ever
908
00:47:21,039 --> 00:47:24,599
went up to a girl and started
a conversation with her
909
00:47:24,599 --> 00:47:29,480
with the intention
of progressing it into a sex
910
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,320
or some sort of relationship,
progressing it
911
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,039
further than being just
complete unknowns.
912
00:47:35,039 --> 00:47:38,599
Sorry for those who are counting.
And listen, that is ten years
913
00:47:38,599 --> 00:47:40,679
and I don't know,
a week and a bit. So
914
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,679
I kind of like decayed to
something for me to reflect upon.
915
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:49,119
And I look at that
and I go, you know, what have I
916
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:53,880
learned from being being able
to cold approach? That was how
917
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,039
I kind of got over my anxiety.
That's how I started
918
00:47:57,039 --> 00:48:03,159
to meet girls for the first time.
And I'm kind of like, Hmm, well,
919
00:48:03,159 --> 00:48:07,199
what actually am I good at now?
I'm kind of okay at at
920
00:48:07,199 --> 00:48:10,360
just randomly creating things.
But obviously, if you've been
921
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,079
listening over the past
six months that hasn't
922
00:48:13,079 --> 00:48:17,639
really been serving me that well.
And you know what?
923
00:48:17,639 --> 00:48:19,079
I was trying to find
all these reasons
924
00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:22,159
for it, you know as dating
culture change the be changed.
925
00:48:22,159 --> 00:48:24,239
I'm a too old am I like
not attractive all these
926
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,280
sorts of things
and I'm beginning to just come
927
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,199
to the conclusion like it's it's
because you're cold approaching.
928
00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:34,079
That's that's the problem
with it. It's you're trying to
929
00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:38,599
force something out of nowhere.
And this does have
930
00:48:38,599 --> 00:48:40,679
some utility for sure.
It's not like it's
931
00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:44,239
totally inefficient and this is
particularly applied to dating.
932
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,440
But I'll also
apply this to a couple
933
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,760
of other things soon. It's you're
trying to create it.
934
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,119
You're really trying to force it.
And I think just at this stage
935
00:48:54,119 --> 00:48:58,639
in my life with with who I am,
that there's better ways of
936
00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:03,760
going about this. And it's
with with kind of just like girls
937
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,280
and I'm talking to is just maybe
even the culture.
938
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,239
It's just not having
a practical benefit
939
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:14,000
at the moment.
And I start to think, okay, well,
940
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,599
you know, you start to
meet people,
941
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:17,880
other people like this. It's a
it's a good skill. You can do
942
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,880
all these things. You can
you know, it's
943
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:25,199
good for marketing, it's good for
being able to be a salesperson
944
00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:27,960
or something like that.
And then I. Think of all
945
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,559
these people and I'm like,
okay, well, who are people
946
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:32,159
who are really good
at approaching
947
00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:36,840
a cold approaching? Usually
the salespeople, you know,
948
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,360
dodgy car salesmen,
the crypto scammers,
949
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,440
they're grifters. I think
just by and large, even the guys
950
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,400
that I met whilst who were also
kind of doing like pickup
951
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:52,079
artist stuff or pick up a
learning game, all of them,
952
00:49:52,079 --> 00:49:56,639
all of them had these kind of
psychological things. And this is
953
00:49:56,639 --> 00:49:59,360
getting back to my
judging of character,
954
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,280
you know, maybe I'm misjudging
these people, but all of them
955
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:07,000
seem to have these that were just
that were weird in a
956
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:11,199
in a in a non kind of nice way.
I guess there was just something
957
00:50:11,199 --> 00:50:14,679
a bit off about them.
And it makes me
958
00:50:14,679 --> 00:50:18,480
question like, well,
why are they cold approaching?
959
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,199
Maybe it's because they're
burning bridges, maybe
960
00:50:21,199 --> 00:50:24,480
because they actually can't
keep up relationships
961
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,960
and things like this.
And you know, this is that gets
962
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:33,000
maybe cold approaching is really
good for people who who need it
963
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,039
because they have to constantly
be on the move because they
964
00:50:36,039 --> 00:50:38,920
get a reputation
wherever they're at. And this is
965
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,519
where you start to think of like
snake or a salesman.
966
00:50:41,519 --> 00:50:45,280
If you want to go down
that route. They need
967
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,039
a new population,
they need a new town
968
00:50:48,039 --> 00:50:51,119
to ply their wares,
because obviously they're selling
969
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:52,679
snake oil. It's not
doing anything.
970
00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:54,679
They'll be found out.
They got to. Move. Exactly.
971
00:50:54,679 --> 00:50:58,119
And I look at myself and I go,
What do I want to be like that?
972
00:50:58,119 --> 00:51:02,679
Do I want to be a kind of a turn
or nomad? Do I want to be
973
00:51:02,679 --> 00:51:07,400
the type of person who has to get
good at this stuff
974
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,639
because they need it? And I'm
now going,
975
00:51:10,639 --> 00:51:14,880
okay, no, wait, this is
this is I'm becoming
976
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:19,039
kind of like people who I don't
want to be like. And the better
977
00:51:19,039 --> 00:51:21,199
I get at cold approaching,
the more it's taking me
978
00:51:21,199 --> 00:51:25,800
into a mindset and a
physical environment
979
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,760
and friendships or relationships
with people who
980
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,239
I don't particularly
want to be like them. I don't
981
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,800
I don't want to be like that.
So I think cold approaching
982
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:42,239
just in general is a useful skill
for a very short period
983
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,920
and probably at the start of
whatever it is that you're
984
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,480
trying to do,
but relying on that,
985
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,000
getting better at that,
focusing on that, that
986
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,079
directed energy and focus
of becoming good at
987
00:51:53,079 --> 00:51:56,559
cold approaching. A Yeah,
I've changed my mind on that.
988
00:51:56,559 --> 00:52:00,559
I don't think that's
got any long term utility to it.
989
00:52:00,559 --> 00:52:03,440
Yeah. Wow. Okay, that's an
interesting one. I did not
990
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,239
I did not see that
one coming. Yeah. Yeah. It's good
991
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,719
that you called out
that it can have an Absolutely.
992
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,920
You can have a short term
utility and short term benefit.
993
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,360
It helped me a lot.
Yeah. Doing things. Absolutely.
994
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,679
It's kind of either getting you
over the hump or getting you over
995
00:52:15,679 --> 00:52:18,639
the price of just doing like,
you know, if that is the
996
00:52:18,639 --> 00:52:21,719
only thing holding
you back from 0 to 1 of doing
997
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,559
something, doing
the first conversation,
998
00:52:23,559 --> 00:52:25,719
direct approach,
first conversation of
999
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,320
salesman, whatever. Do it. Do it.
At least it's better than
1000
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,960
being a zero. But then, you know,
once you're in the move,
1001
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,880
once you're warmed up, once you
are experienced, once more,
1002
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,519
you know, whatever, and there's
other options in front of you
1003
00:52:38,519 --> 00:52:42,639
kind of sounds like in in amongst
more options in our thoughts
1004
00:52:42,639 --> 00:52:45,119
decreasing in value. And so
putting into the long
1005
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:49,920
term utility maybe is missing
the other strategies or ways
1006
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,000
you can approach, you know,
the interactions
1007
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,519
of life. Hmm. Yeah.
And one of the things I really
1008
00:52:56,519 --> 00:52:59,199
kind of wish I'd done more
and we've talked about
1009
00:52:59,199 --> 00:53:01,800
how this wouldn't have worked
anyway is neither of us
1010
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,599
particularly enjoys online
digital communication.
1011
00:53:04,599 --> 00:53:07,559
I was never big into
the IAC chats. I don't know
1012
00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:10,679
if you were, you know,
social media, Bebo,
1013
00:53:10,679 --> 00:53:13,599
MySpace, Facebook.
We don't we don't used.
1014
00:53:13,599 --> 00:53:16,280
To use that but like.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
1015
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:21,840
And I wish I wish I kind of had
done this a little bit with the
1016
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,239
in the game forums
back in the day in particular
1017
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,760
the V forum because it
would have been amazing
1018
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,480
to have met kind of met these
people and then see
1019
00:53:31,519 --> 00:53:34,039
ten years later what, what
are they like now?
1020
00:53:34,039 --> 00:53:36,719
Where are they at. The only one
I can really look
1021
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:41,840
at is rush himself.
And you know, he became
1022
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,719
so good at cold approaching
that he became disillusioned
1023
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,360
with women, thought they were
all sluts, had a you know,
1024
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,400
it's not directly
related to this.
1025
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,920
There was a couple other things
going on in his life, but
1026
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,159
I'm sure this contributed to his
eventual complete
1027
00:53:56,159 --> 00:54:01,199
180 and becoming
Orthodox Christian and just
1028
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:05,519
condemning sluts and modern
life and basically all the stuff
1029
00:54:05,519 --> 00:54:10,559
that he used to do to hell.
I don't I have no words.
1030
00:54:10,559 --> 00:54:15,360
I have no words at how
this can happen. But I feel like
1031
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,440
the direct approaching,
the cold approaching, it's
1032
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,760
that kind of person
who gets good at it.
1033
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:28,199
So yeah that's a pretty big
my major one, my silly one is the
1034
00:54:28,199 --> 00:54:32,440
utility of public speaking.
This is a reason why
1035
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,639
you've seen this. I was making
the argument
1036
00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:38,639
that public speaking,
getting good at public
1037
00:54:38,639 --> 00:54:45,320
speaking is not useful for 95 98%
of the population.
1038
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,199
And you very much
took the opposite
1039
00:54:48,199 --> 00:54:50,840
argument of this.
Everyone who I have
1040
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,760
people in the in the comments
were saying were siding with you
1041
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:56,760
when I was asking
friends and family about this.
1042
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,039
They're all siding and saying
public speaking is
1043
00:55:00,039 --> 00:55:05,639
is the way to go. So whatever
I'll I'll admit I'll I'll say
1044
00:55:05,639 --> 00:55:09,679
I'm sorry. To the masses.
What I will also say is tying
1045
00:55:09,679 --> 00:55:12,199
in with my my doubt
and why everyone is
1046
00:55:12,199 --> 00:55:15,360
full of bullshit. Everyone is
full of bullshit because they're
1047
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,880
all saying that, Oh yeah, public
speaking is awesome.
1048
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,039
Everyone should be doing it.
No one. Is. No one's doing it.
1049
00:55:20,039 --> 00:55:22,559
No one is doing it
as some people. And spaces.
1050
00:55:22,559 --> 00:55:25,440
I'll admit there are a couple
of toastmaster here in Brisbane.
1051
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,760
I haven't been to them myself.
I only went to the one in Mackay.
1052
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:33,840
But the the amount of people
one looking at you, my brother
1053
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,000
looking you,
my dad looking at you,
1054
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,760
random person on YouTube, it
coming in looking at you
1055
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,880
you're not I very much doubt
you're spending any time
1056
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,079
working at your public
speaking so yeah. I mean look
1057
00:55:46,079 --> 00:55:49,519
I will say now I'm not doing
any Toastmasters but I sure as
1058
00:55:49,519 --> 00:55:53,079
fuck talk a lot during the day.
So yeah, you. Do a lot.
1059
00:55:53,079 --> 00:55:56,480
Of public speaking. Yes, I did
win out on that one,
1060
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,360
I think fearfully. But like
I'm sure there's some
1061
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,440
Inuits out there in Antarctica.
The public don't need
1062
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,119
public speaking.
You're probably right
1063
00:56:03,119 --> 00:56:05,159
with some percentage
of the population
1064
00:56:05,159 --> 00:56:07,599
and some animals in this world.
So well done. Well,
1065
00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:10,599
you can't on that one.
Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Very good.
1066
00:56:10,599 --> 00:56:12,599
Let me let me summarise, Max.
There's a couple of things
1067
00:56:12,599 --> 00:56:14,159
I've got this.
I was going to say. Yeah,
1068
00:56:14,159 --> 00:56:15,840
I was going to say is there,
is there a good summary
1069
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,400
that you can do
of all your points. Yeah.
1070
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:21,199
So number one, both of my mind
changes. The things I changed
1071
00:56:21,199 --> 00:56:24,599
my mind on came from you and from
external sources.
1072
00:56:24,599 --> 00:56:28,119
So this is where it's
definitely helpful to make sure
1073
00:56:28,119 --> 00:56:32,400
that you are taking note of what
your good friends are saying
1074
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,440
of if you're having a
continual problem
1075
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,760
that keeps coming up
and they've got that,
1076
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,800
they're kind of telling you
maybe a harsh truth
1077
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:39,920
or something you
don't want to hear,
1078
00:56:41,119 --> 00:56:43,800
it might not sink in straight
away, much like
1079
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,239
when you were saying
a lot of these things.
1080
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:46,880
I was kind of
pushing back like, Nah,
1081
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:50,239
one doesn't really get it.
I don't think that's right.
1082
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,239
And I still think
there's some nuances, but yeah,
1083
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:58,079
having external sources is vital,
I think, to to be able
1084
00:56:58,079 --> 00:57:01,679
to change your mind. It's very,
very, very hard to do on your own
1085
00:57:01,679 --> 00:57:06,840
and if not impossible,
it actually doesn't matter
1086
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,440
if your judgement is crap.
So this is kind of tying
1087
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,519
in my first and second points.
So if you got really crap
1088
00:57:12,519 --> 00:57:14,199
judgement on people,
you're probably
1089
00:57:14,199 --> 00:57:18,239
going to get burnt.
Or if your judgement of
1090
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,199
where the market's
heading or something
1091
00:57:20,199 --> 00:57:23,400
like this is wrong, you're going
to get burnt, you're going to
1092
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,039
lose some money.
I think the things
1093
00:57:26,039 --> 00:57:29,159
you can kind of recoup
that old back as long as you have
1094
00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:32,280
that directed
hard work energy focus.
1095
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:37,079
So kind of tying my to serious
ones together. If you don't,
1096
00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:39,679
if you have both of them, that's
probably the outliers. You know,
1097
00:57:39,679 --> 00:57:42,000
those are the probably like
the Elon Musk's of the world
1098
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,280
who they have
the hard work directed
1099
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:45,800
energy and focus,
and they're probably
1100
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,039
really good at judging people,
judging situations and making the
1101
00:57:49,039 --> 00:57:54,519
right moves. And then probably
most of the population
1102
00:57:54,519 --> 00:57:57,000
falls into the camp of
two negatives
1103
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,519
that they're not good
at judging people
1104
00:57:58,519 --> 00:58:01,119
and they're not great
at directing their energy
1105
00:58:01,119 --> 00:58:04,639
and focus onto the problem.
So yeah, those are
1106
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:07,159
for those people out there.
Maybe try working on
1107
00:58:07,159 --> 00:58:09,960
one of those too. And because
get it, getting two or two
1108
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,119
I think is pretty hard and then
the last one was Man Men,
1109
00:58:13,119 --> 00:58:15,719
this is, this is a great topic.
As soon as you suggested it,
1110
00:58:15,719 --> 00:58:19,239
I was like, Man, this is great.
That sparked a lot of ideas.
1111
00:58:19,239 --> 00:58:21,480
He went when he went, he went
overload it, too.
1112
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:22,960
I like it again.
He went doubled up.
1113
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,119
He doubled up on it.
So it was good. I'm I'm glad
1114
00:58:25,119 --> 00:58:27,360
you had enough of those topics.
My summary with them
1115
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:31,559
I was looking through there was
there's a saying I saw recently
1116
00:58:31,559 --> 00:58:34,079
and it's paying tolerant
with others but discipline
1117
00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:36,599
with yourself. And I like that.
I like that view.
1118
00:58:36,599 --> 00:58:39,239
And I think it applies
to some of my stuff because it's
1119
00:58:39,239 --> 00:58:41,840
being tolerant of kind of
external situations
1120
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:46,039
and external people in the sense
that don't take some somethings
1121
00:58:46,039 --> 00:58:48,400
too seriously. So again,
this coming back to the,
1122
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,199
you know, life of the void,
it's also be tolerant with others
1123
00:58:51,199 --> 00:58:53,880
in terms of don't associate them
with their actions
1124
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,519
that, you know, they are just
a mere mortal
1125
00:58:55,519 --> 00:58:58,400
and whatever actions they decide
kind of separate them out
1126
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,039
as as you wish. And so
that's tolerance and a discipline
1127
00:59:02,039 --> 00:59:04,800
with oneself
in the sense of there's
1128
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,320
very good reasons.
I've seen now with it
1129
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,360
from a health perspective,
fitness perspective,
1130
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,079
you name it, that I go,
this is worth its weight in gold.
1131
00:59:12,079 --> 00:59:14,480
And again,
doubling down, tripling
1132
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,760
down on the amount of energy
I'm spending it, listening
1133
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,280
and whatnot is worth the extra
percentage here
1134
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,079
because while it might yeah,
it might feel like it's
1135
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:26,519
only the 80% extra of energy
just to get 5% more,
1136
00:59:26,519 --> 00:59:27,800
I have an inkling
feeling that it's
1137
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,159
not just 5% more, it's it's
5% more in the immediate,
1138
00:59:30,159 --> 00:59:34,000
but it's 5% like kind
of compounding or 5% annually.
1139
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,960
That increases as it goes
rather than just kind of
1140
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,480
finishes up when I just do
that 80%. So it's
1141
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:43,320
that almost recurring
benefit into the future
1142
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,599
that I got. Yep, I'm
going to double down
1143
00:59:45,599 --> 00:59:48,119
as much as possible
onto that front. So I told them
1144
00:59:48,119 --> 00:59:50,960
with ideas and discipline
with oneself it's sort of how
1145
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,039
summarise own. Well that's,
that's kind of my life
1146
00:59:53,039 --> 00:59:55,559
philosophy, you know,
when something happens
1147
00:59:55,559 --> 00:59:58,960
and it's negative,
if other people do it, I just go
1148
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:00,840
deterministic mindset.
They couldn't have
1149
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,599
done anything else.
It was bound to
1150
01:00:03,599 --> 01:00:06,239
happen no matter what.
I try and try and not let it
1151
01:00:06,239 --> 01:00:09,639
affect you. If it was something
I did, man, you had a choice.
1152
01:00:09,639 --> 01:00:11,039
You had free will.
You could have done that better
1153
01:00:11,039 --> 01:00:14,079
car and work harder next time, do
put in the things place
1154
01:00:14,079 --> 01:00:15,920
and then if something. Positive,
that's the only time
1155
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,440
free will exist
for Karen. Yep. Yep. And then
1156
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,599
on the vice versa,
positive thing happens.
1157
01:00:20,599 --> 01:00:25,440
I do it now. It was always
bound to happen. Keeps me humble,
1158
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:27,719
makes me not get too ahead
of myself, Makes me
1159
01:00:27,719 --> 01:00:29,920
not think like, oh yeah.
And you actually know
1160
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,920
you're so great at judging people
and you're never going
1161
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,079
to make that mistake again,
or you've got
1162
01:00:34,079 --> 01:00:36,760
that one nailed down.
And then if other people do it,
1163
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,559
no free will, congrats them,
you know, applaud them.
1164
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:42,760
That was awesome that they made
a great decision, that they did
1165
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,800
a good thing and they chose
to do it. So, yeah, that's that's
1166
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:49,239
kind of how I view the world.
Yeah. Look, as as that sounds,
1167
01:00:49,239 --> 01:00:51,719
it's a good way. Yeah.
As paradoxical and irrational
1168
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:54,280
as it might seem from a
trying to add them up
1169
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,920
perspective in the end.
Yeah, it's a good way to live.
1170
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,079
Check out the book
review of Notes
1171
01:01:00,079 --> 01:01:03,480
from On the Ground from Fyodor.
Dostoyevsky came out
1172
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,679
as the day before
this is released and
1173
01:01:05,679 --> 01:01:07,280
yeah it's it's
got a bit of paradox
1174
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,599
in there irrational everything.
It's going to be the paradox.
1175
01:01:10,599 --> 01:01:16,320
What was that paradox book you
saw? I read a lot of books.
1176
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,559
One particularly about paradoxes,
forgetting that I wrote.
1177
01:01:19,559 --> 01:01:22,280
I can't remember.
I don't. I don't know.
1178
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:24,480
That's fine. We'll plenty
of book reviews, honestly,
1179
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,840
hundreds at this point. So I'm
going to leave it there, folks.
1180
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,960
That has been musings for today.
Once again, we are always live,
1181
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:34,079
7 p.m., Australian Eastern
Standard Time, even if we are
1182
01:01:34,079 --> 01:01:36,039
in different times. I in fact,
we were just talking about this
1183
01:01:36,039 --> 01:01:38,840
before the podcast. Look, we're
putting in effort here
1184
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:40,519
to be here with you,
whether you're alive
1185
01:01:40,519 --> 01:01:42,840
or listening afterwards
and you're either watching
1186
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,920
or listening to the audio,
I'm actually going
1187
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:46,920
to make a commitment.
I'm putting my hand up right
1188
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:48,719
when it puts some effort.
I'm going to use
1189
01:01:48,719 --> 01:01:53,239
today's today's video.
I'm going to create clips myself.
1190
01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:54,719
So I was going through it.
I went, you know what?
1191
01:01:54,719 --> 01:01:56,360
I liked a lot of things
that were being talked about.
1192
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,800
I'm going to create these clips.
So now we don't normally do it
1193
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:00,079
with music,
so I'm going to do it.
1194
01:02:00,079 --> 01:02:02,400
I'm going to see what it's like
to a bit of fun,
1195
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:06,719
put a bit of effort. And again,
this effort is take
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some might take
some time is money.
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Time is also energy. And so what
we ask of you in return is,
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if you like, the value
that we're putting out,
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it's return back some to us.
Now that can be in many formats.
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Primarily we asked for
booster grams or streaming
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of the touches
through new podcast apps or come.
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That could be things
like podcasts,
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fountain carry cost
all that new podcast.
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Guru podcast guru. Which is.
Also pretty short. Verse
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so there's quite a few coming out
look, a big amount
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of our listenership from an audio
perspective is
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through the audience. Amazing.
Thank you very much.
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Yeah, if you are,
you're catching us up, you know,
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through YouTube.
A lot of the platforms
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go check it out. You know,
reach out to us to check up
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your service out as well.
You get a better experience
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there as well because I
put transcripts in. So if you're
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Miss Hard of hearing,
you can follow along
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with the transcript
as it's going in in pod
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verse and fountain
in pod friend in cure.
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ACOSTA Absolutely.
I was checking it out
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just the other day. Yeah.
I'm listening to one of my
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old episodes. I'm just saying
through the transcripts. Yeah,
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but it was also works. Good that
I put in images and
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and links out to
different resources.
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So if you are
this is for the book reviews, but
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even for here as well,
I always put in kind of best
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summary on notes. So kind of
you can you can read it as well
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not not just listen
to what we're saying. And yeah,
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there's just more benefits
by more better for you
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by going to these apps as well.
So it's not. Just a lot.
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It almost like unlocks another
little bit of realm
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of how much you absorb of what
we're putting out there.
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I just a little bit
so we can put it
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and you can absorb
know beyond that. Again,
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you can provide value back to us
by subscribing, by sharing
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with friends, by listening,
by interacting,
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setting his comments,
going on the website,
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giving us feedback.
Now any of those things
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also is valuable.
Obviously, for us. Primarily it's
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the value of Boostagrams, but
you know, if you can help us out
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in other ways, absolutely zero
cost ways, you can help us out.
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And we are we'll be talking
about this. We're going
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to probably provide
another way for you to actually
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01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,519
provide some sort of Ali,
back to us in a more
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direct monetary way,
almost an intermediary
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between now,
what the future holds. You'll be
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on the lookout for that as well.
And that'll be come.
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Mere Mortalites going to
leave it there.
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Thank you very much for joining
this conversation of musings.
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01:04:27,119 --> 01:04:30,519
Once again, Brisbane 7 p.m.,
Eastern Australian Senate
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01:04:30,519 --> 01:04:33,119
Eastern Standard Time.
If you ever to watch this live
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01:04:33,119 --> 01:04:36,599
and for now be well
wherever you are Mere Mortalites.
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Juan out. Kyrin out Byeee. Good!
