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#1735 Mediocre Me - Harps · The You Project

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Speaker 1: I'll get a team. I hope you're great. So it's
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Speaker 1: going to come as no surprise to you that I
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Speaker 1: am fascinated with human potential. I'm fascinated with what's possible
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Speaker 1: for us when we can do what we need to
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Speaker 1: do to create the outcomes we want to create, whatever
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Speaker 1: they are. I'm fascinated with our capacity to be able
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Speaker 1: to waste our neate ability or optimize our ability, to
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Speaker 1: be able to manage our mind and manage our choices
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Speaker 1: and manage our emotions, and manage our behaviors and our
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Speaker 1: resources and our physical energy, and our relationships and our
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Speaker 1: choices and our life and our lifestyle, to be able
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Speaker 1: to produce the thing that we want to produce, or
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Speaker 1: create the outcomes that on planet us are desirable and
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Speaker 1: I have personally. So this is a very selfish interest.
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Speaker 1: But I've always been interested in how the person with
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Speaker 1: not outstanding innate or natural abilities or attributes could outperform
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Speaker 1: their natural talent or their natural predisposition to be good
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Speaker 1: or not so good at something. And the reason I
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Speaker 1: say selfish is because that is me. So I was,
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Speaker 1: you know, I was the kid who didn't have great genetics,
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Speaker 1: and surprisingly they didn't get better. My body got better,
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Speaker 1: and my choices and my behaviors and lifestyle and nutrition
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Speaker 1: and exercise got better, but my genetics didn't. Because I
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Speaker 1: can't change them. I can influence them. But what you've
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Speaker 1: got is what you've got for the most part. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you can, as I said, influence how they operate. For
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Speaker 1: one of a more fancy term, we call it epigenetics
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Speaker 1: or genetic expression. But you know, I had what I had,
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Speaker 1: and I had a certain amount or lack perhaps of
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Speaker 1: sporting ability or creative talent or academic natural academic ability.
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Speaker 1: I had certain social skills that my social skills were
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Speaker 1: not bad. They're probably better than the other things. My ability,
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Speaker 1: my natural ability to communicate was probably better than average.
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Speaker 1: But all of the other things, genetic, sporting ability, academic ability,
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Speaker 1: you know, all that stuff that really matters when you
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Speaker 1: all were told, we're told really matters. All that stuff
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Speaker 1: for me was at the very best average, maybe lower
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Speaker 1: than average. And so growing up with friends who were gifted,
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Speaker 1: and friends who had natural abilities and talent and a
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Speaker 1: natural predisposition for learning and for understanding the certain things
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Speaker 1: that I did not have. And by the way, there
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Speaker 1: was no hardship. There was no massive disadvantage. But for me,
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Speaker 1: it meant that if I wanted to be as good
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Speaker 1: as my friends at sport, you know, in particular, I was.
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Speaker 1: I was all about Bossie rules. I was all about
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Speaker 1: Australian rules football. I loved it. And so if I
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Speaker 1: wanted to make the team, I wouldn't get in on
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Speaker 1: my natural ability. I wouldn't get in on my natural
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Speaker 1: athletic prowess because they didn't have any. So I would
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Speaker 1: need to do more work. I would need to train harder.
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Speaker 1: I would need to consciously, you know, do things that
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Speaker 1: other people would not need to do to get So
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Speaker 1: somebody who might need to work at a three out
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Speaker 1: of ten to get to a certain point, and that's
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Speaker 1: great for them, by the way, there's no resentment in this.
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Speaker 1: There's a little bit of jealousy. But for them to
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Speaker 1: get to a certain level, whether three out of ten
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Speaker 1: workload or effort or application, I would need to do it.
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Speaker 1: I would need to give a seven or eight or
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Speaker 1: nine out of ten effort to be able to create
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Speaker 1: the same outcome. And so growing up being you know,
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Speaker 1: the morbidly obese kid with not very good genetics who
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Speaker 1: was a you know, at twelve thirteen years old, heavier
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Speaker 1: than most adults. I was heavier than most of my teachers.
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Speaker 1: I would suspect the kid who didn't ace the exams,
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Speaker 1: the kid who didn't have the natural disposition to study,
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Speaker 1: the kid who wasn't picked for all the sporting too.
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Speaker 1: There's no self pit in here, by the way. This
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Speaker 1: is just my life and where a lot of things,
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Speaker 1: most things did not come easily or naturally. But and
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Speaker 1: I've said this before, what I did love about all
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Speaker 1: of that was in the middle of all of that
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Speaker 1: stuff that I didn't have, what I did have was
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Speaker 1: I had curiosity. I had hope. I didn't have much
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Speaker 1: knowledge and didn't have much actual ability or talent, and
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a high IQ. It wasn't a brilliant scholar.
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Speaker 1: But what I was was I was really interested in
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Speaker 1: getting better. And there was a lot of false starts,
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Speaker 1: and there was a lot of peaks and troughs. But
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Speaker 1: and for me, the door opened as I won't bore
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Speaker 1: you with the story, but for me, the door opened
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Speaker 1: when it was always kind of cracked open, it was
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Speaker 1: always slightly a jar, but it kind of the door
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Speaker 1: blew open when I was fourteen, I lost a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of weight, and I mean when I say a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of weight, I mean like a lot of weight.
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Speaker 1: And I went from being, you know, one of the fattest,
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Speaker 1: if not the fattest kid in my school to definitely
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Speaker 1: one of the fittest kids in my school, just because
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Speaker 1: I did a lot of work I did. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the other kids were doing, but
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that there was very few, if any
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Speaker 1: kids in the entire school that were putting in the
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Speaker 1: miles and the work and the effort and the energy
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Speaker 1: that I was putting in to turn myself into a
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Speaker 1: version of an athlete. And while that was fun, and
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Speaker 1: going from you know, last to sometimes first in our
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Speaker 1: compulsory cross country runs that we had at school, and
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Speaker 1: going from not being seen to being somewhat more socially included,
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Speaker 1: that was nice too. Being picked in the first you know,
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Speaker 1: three or four or five for a sporting team instead
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Speaker 1: of being picked last. All that stuff was good. And
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Speaker 1: as a kid, of course, you want that. You want
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Speaker 1: to be socially accepted, you want to be seen, you
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Speaker 1: want to belong. You know, all the emotional and psychological
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Speaker 1: and sociological ramifications of being left out and excluded. They
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Speaker 1: are shit, indeed. But what really blew my mind when
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Speaker 1: I had this kind of teenage transformation was not, well,
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Speaker 1: look at my body. Now. I can run fast, I
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Speaker 1: can jump higher, I can do push ups and chin ups,
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Speaker 1: and I can you know, I can play a whole
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Speaker 1: game and I'm not exhausted. All that was good, But
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Speaker 1: what really kind of struck me was that when I
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Speaker 1: applied myself despite my limitations, but when I would do
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Speaker 1: everything that I could, everything that I could, some amazing
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Speaker 1: shit happened. And while I couldn't I couldn't. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: create better genetics or I couldn't be smarter. But I
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Speaker 1: could get more knowledge. I could get more understanding. I
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Speaker 1: could develop new skill. I could build my innate fitness
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Speaker 1: and competence. I could build strength. I could improve strength consciously.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't improve my natural kind of talent or ability,
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Speaker 1: like I said, but I could. I could just get
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Speaker 1: better through work. I could build insurance and endurance and
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Speaker 1: speed and confidence and awareness and competence at a range
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Speaker 1: of things because I was prepared to do the work
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Speaker 1: that the others weren't prepared to do. And it wasn't
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Speaker 1: like I had some big I guess epiphany about work
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Speaker 1: ethic at any stage or optimization of my own potential,
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Speaker 1: but rather, over time it kind of dawned on me that,
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Speaker 1: oh wow, if I can change my body, the thing
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Speaker 1: that pretty much defined me in a massive way, I
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Speaker 1: can go from being morbidly obese to being the opposite
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Speaker 1: of morbid EO. I can go from being one out
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Speaker 1: of ten fit too for my own potential nine or
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Speaker 1: ten out of ten fit. I can go from not
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Speaker 1: being able to do a single chin up because I
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Speaker 1: couldn't even I was so heavy. I couldn't even hold
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Speaker 1: my body weight. I couldn't hold my own body weight
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Speaker 1: for ten seconds. I couldn't hang off a a monkey
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Speaker 1: bar or a tree or whatever, or a chinup bar.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I even knew at a fucking chin
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Speaker 1: up bar, A proper one was. At that stage, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't even hold my body weight, and a year later
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Speaker 1: I could do comfortably. I could do fifteen proper chins.
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Speaker 1: And it's not like, well, that's because you know you've
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Speaker 1: got better genetics now, No, that's because I just did
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Speaker 1: things that created that change. And so I became really
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Speaker 1: interested in how could I leverage my mediocrity. How could
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Speaker 1: I didn't say it like this, but how could my
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Speaker 1: mediocrity be the driving force behind my success? What a
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Speaker 1: weird concept. And when I leaned into that, and I
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Speaker 1: just owned that and I accepted that, and I went,
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Speaker 1: all right, well, here's all the things you're not creat
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Speaker 1: here's all the things you're not. And this is not
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Speaker 1: self loathing. By the way. You might think I'm throwing
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Speaker 1: myself under the bus or I'm being unnecessarily mean to me.
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Speaker 1: I'm not. But I think what is really important is
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Speaker 1: that we are It's hard because we live in our
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Speaker 1: own subjective reality. I get that. But as objective as
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Speaker 1: I can be about me, I know that there are
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Speaker 1: some things that I have more natural ability at. And
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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, doing what I'm doing right
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Speaker 1: now is it has been a skill that's been developed.
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Speaker 1: But I also had a natural capacity to be able
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Speaker 1: to communicate and think clearly and understand, to a certain extent,
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Speaker 1: understand human beings and human behavior and human nature. And
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Speaker 1: that's something that over time I have developed. So that's
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Speaker 1: a certain kind of intelligence, of course, but kind of
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Speaker 1: classroom intelligence and academic intelligence that wasn't innate. I really really,
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Speaker 1: me and university we don't go together like peas in
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Speaker 1: a pod. Me and University, We've really had to figure
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Speaker 1: each other out. I've really had to learn to understand
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Speaker 1: that culture and that language, and that operating system and
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Speaker 1: paradigm that for me is not a natural fit. Research
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Speaker 1: for me is not a natural fit. There's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of things that I have had to work harder
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Speaker 1: than other people alongside me because I didn't have what
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Speaker 1: they had. I had to train harder than people. I
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Speaker 1: had to lift more than people, I had to do
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Speaker 1: more miles than people. I had to ask more questions
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Speaker 1: than people. I had to fail more times than other people.
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Speaker 1: And all of those things are and this might sound
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Speaker 1: a bit cliche, but all of those things, while they
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Speaker 1: are uncomfortable and painful and undesirable, in the moment, they
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Speaker 1: are fucking a superpower. They're a superpower, or they're a
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Speaker 1: super resource because what they're doing is they're helping us
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Speaker 1: become the thing that we need to be to be
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Speaker 1: able to thrive, or the person that we need to
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Speaker 1: be to be able to thrive and survive and navigate
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Speaker 1: and negotiate and problem solve and adapt because life is
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Speaker 1: messy and things are messy, and relationships are messy, and
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Speaker 1: business and learning and you know, becoming successful, whatever that
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Speaker 1: means for you, it's messy. It's not a three step process.
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Speaker 1: And the thing that will work for you know, the
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Speaker 1: thing that would work for my mates at school, they
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Speaker 1: would do a certain thing, and that would work for them.
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Speaker 1: I would do the same thing. It wouldn't work for me.
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Speaker 1: And the way that I would do it, they might
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Speaker 1: roll their eyes and go, why the fuck do you
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Speaker 1: make that so hard? You go and definitely go on
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Speaker 1: the long way, or maybe the wrong way. And for
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Speaker 1: them that was true. And if they had have done
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Speaker 1: it the way that I did it, it wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: made sense because they weren't me and I wasn't them.
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Speaker 1: And so I have spent my life in many ways
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out not what is the best protocol,
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Speaker 1: but what is the best protocol for me? What is
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Speaker 1: the best protocol for me with my brain, with my
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Speaker 1: cognitive capacity, What is the best work out for me
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Speaker 1: with my genetics and my body. What is the best
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Speaker 1: kind of relationships for me, not for the average or
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Speaker 1: other person. What's the best kind of career for me,
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Speaker 1: what will work for me. I'm not lazy. I want
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Speaker 1: to work, but maybe having a nine to five job
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Speaker 1: won't work for me. And so not only not only
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Speaker 1: learning how to leverage off my own mediocrity, and not
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Speaker 1: only learning how to optimize what I do have to
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Speaker 1: work with, but also understanding who I am in the
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Speaker 1: middle of all of the things that I am, not
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Speaker 1: all of the people that I am not. What will
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Speaker 1: work for most people might not work for you. It
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Speaker 1: might not work for you. There are lots of things
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Speaker 1: that a lot of people do a lot of and
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Speaker 1: they are not bad things or good things. They're just things.
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Speaker 1: And clearly that works for them, not always, but in
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Speaker 1: general terms. But there are a lot of things that
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Speaker 1: a lot of people do that for me don't interest me,
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Speaker 1: they don't stimulate me, they don't grow me. And that
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Speaker 1: doesn't on any level mean that I'm better or worse
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Speaker 1: than them. That just means that I am not them.
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Speaker 1: And so I have always been very excited. I'm still excited.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm sixty one. You know that most of
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Speaker 1: you know that I'm sixty one, and I'm excited about
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Speaker 1: what I'm going to do be create, learn, and unlearned.
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Speaker 1: Do be create, learn, and unlearn over the next four years.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what's happening when I'm sixty five.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in getting better. I'm not interested in hanging
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Speaker 1: on by the skin of my teeth and trying to,
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Speaker 1: you know, decline at a minimum. I'm actually at a
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Speaker 1: minimal rate. I'm actually interested in getting better. I'm interested
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Speaker 1: in getting cognitively, emotionally, mentally, socially, and maybe even physically better.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if all of those things are possible.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know that if I don't try,
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Speaker 1: they're definitely not possible. They're definitely not possible. And so
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Speaker 1: I've got some questions for you that I ask myself
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Speaker 1: about leveraging, optimizing what I do have to work with.
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Speaker 1: And so these are Craig coaching questions. For Craig. This
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Speaker 1: is literally what I ask me. And this is not
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Speaker 1: this is not you know, pseudo self help fluff. And
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Speaker 1: some of these might work for you, they might not,
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Speaker 1: They might be relevant, they might not, But this is
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Speaker 1: what I ask myself. So Number one is what do
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Speaker 1: I need to get better at? And that's just a
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Speaker 1: really simple question. And you can preface that with in
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Speaker 1: relation to communication, what do I need to get better
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Speaker 1: at in relation to optimizing my genetics? What do I
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Speaker 1: need to get better at in relation to using my
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Speaker 1: time effectively? What do I need to get better at
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Speaker 1: in relation to the way that I connect with this person?
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Speaker 1: What do I need to get better at in relation
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Speaker 1: to being a great problem solver, a great leader, a
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Speaker 1: great manager, a great coach. What do I need to
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Speaker 1: get better at in relation to being a better managed
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Speaker 1: manager of money? Right? These are and so like, we
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Speaker 1: can't get better at the things that we can't acknowledge
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Speaker 1: or we can't identify. I believe, and you've heard me
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Speaker 1: say this. I believe a lot of us just fucking
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Speaker 1: go through life unconsciously, and we kind of hope that
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Speaker 1: at the end of twenty five it'll be better than
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Speaker 1: the end of twenty four where we're at now. But
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Speaker 1: we don't really have a concrete plan. We haven't really
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Speaker 1: identified our weaknesses, we haven't really leaned into our strengths.
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Speaker 1: We haven't really put our current operating system on the
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Speaker 1: metaphoric hoist and walked around and had a good look
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Speaker 1: at that operating system and said, what am I doing.
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Speaker 1: That's currently fucking stupid. What am I currently doing? That's
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Speaker 1: a form of self sabotage. What am I currently doing?
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Speaker 1: That is a waste of me and my time and
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Speaker 1: my genetics and my energy and my potential. What am
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Speaker 1: I doing? We need to live consciously and intentionally, and
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Speaker 1: that means being aware of what we're doing and what
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Speaker 1: we're not doing, being aware of our choices and responsible
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Speaker 1: for our choices and also lack of choices. When you
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Speaker 1: don't make a decision about that thing that you know
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Speaker 1: you should make a decision about, or you're making a decision,
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Speaker 1: It's like when I talked to somebody about a bad
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Speaker 1: habit and they're like, look, I don't want to make
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Speaker 1: a decision about that yet. Well that's your decision. Your
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Speaker 1: decision is you're not going to address it. So question
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Speaker 1: one is what do I need to get better at?
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Speaker 1: And that kind of is the catalyst for a decision,
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Speaker 1: that's the catalyst for action, that's the catalyst for a
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Speaker 1: different operating system or approach or paradigm. Do you have
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Speaker 1: a plan, do you have a strategy, do you have
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Speaker 1: a system or are you just kind of bumbling along
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Speaker 1: doing the thing that doesn't really work well. Well, if
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Speaker 1: you are not consciously and intentionally observing your own behaviors
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Speaker 1: and choices and outcomes, then you're doing life on a
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Speaker 1: form of autopilot. That doesn't work. And if I said
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Speaker 1: to you, do you want to produce better outcomes than
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Speaker 1: you are currently with your body, with your whatever, relationships, money,
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Speaker 1: relationship with God, spirituality, lifestyle, whatever it is? Do you
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Speaker 1: want to get better? Do you want to do better?
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Speaker 1: Do you want to create better? Nearly all of you
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Speaker 1: will say absolutely, I do cool? What's the plan? What
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Speaker 1: does better mean? What needs to stop? Stop? Not? Oh soon?
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Speaker 1: No fucking stop? Is it uncomfortable? Yes? Is it hard? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Is it inconvenient? Probably? Do you want like just deep down?
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Speaker 1: Do you you know? Like? Do you want to? Ah?
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Speaker 1: How much? Like? Here's the thing. You can listen to
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Speaker 1: a million of me. You can listen to Tony Robbins and
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Speaker 1: Oprah and Deepak and the Dalai Lama and read everything,
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Speaker 1: But it still comes down to what the fuck will
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Speaker 1: you do? Really? What the fuck will you do? Not?
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Speaker 1: What do you know what? Not? Not? What do you intend? Not?
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Speaker 1: What do you want? Not? What are your goals? Not?
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Speaker 1: What's your plan? But what the fuck will you do?
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Speaker 1: Because what the fuck you will do determines what the
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Speaker 1: fuck you will create. Let that sink in next question
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Speaker 1: what matters to me? What matters to me? I'll do
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Speaker 1: questions two and three what matters to me? And question three?
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Speaker 1: What is success for me? So let me give you
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Speaker 1: a couple of examples for me success. There was a
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Speaker 1: period of time where it was all about building a
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Speaker 1: brand and business and money and all of those things.
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Speaker 1: And that's not good or bad. At the time, that's
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Speaker 1: what that's where I needed to be. And I did that.
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Speaker 1: I built a business, and I built a brand, and
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Speaker 1: I had lots of people working for me, and I
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Speaker 1: was making lots of dough. And that's not a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: That's in the context of my life. At the time,
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Speaker 1: that was good. But guess what, Over time, we evolve
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Speaker 1: and we change and we realize, hopefully we realize that
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Speaker 1: success isn't only about things. Success maybe isn't only about
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Speaker 1: our bank balance, or our car, or our house, or
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Speaker 1: our brand or what people think. It's not about all
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Speaker 1: the scene stuff. Sometimes success is about what no one
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Speaker 1: can see. Sometimes success is about your emotional and spiritual
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Speaker 1: and psychological bank account, Sometimes poverty has got nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with food or running water, or job or bank balance.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes poverty is an internal state. I know lots of
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Speaker 1: rich people who are living in poverty lots, I mean
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Speaker 1: fucking lots from the outside looking in razzle dazzle, but
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Speaker 1: the inside out, they are poverty stricken. They are socially, emotionally,
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Speaker 1: sometimes spiritually, mentally living in poverty, living in their own
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Speaker 1: self created prison. This is not a criticism, This is
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Speaker 1: an observation. And as long as we keep looking for
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Speaker 1: things for solutions and answers and nirvana and fulfillment in
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Speaker 1: the wrong place, we're always going to be trapped in
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Speaker 1: that in a turmoil, that inner bankruptcy, that inner poverty.
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Speaker 1: And it's not about one or the other. There's nothing wrong,
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Speaker 1: of course, with building financial wealth. I'm all for it.
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Speaker 1: Be rich, be richey, fucking rich rich. Somebody says to me, Craig,
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Speaker 1: we've got a corporate gig for you on Wednesday. We've
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Speaker 1: got two one's worth X and the other one's worth
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Speaker 1: ten X. Guess which one I'm choosing. But this is
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Speaker 1: not a you know, but these things don't need to
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Speaker 1: be mutually exclusive. But we live in such an externally
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Speaker 1: focused culture and mindset and society that we are all
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Speaker 1: about what we can see and what we can see
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Speaker 1: of others and what they can see of us. And
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Speaker 1: in the middle of all of this fucking preoccupation and
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Speaker 1: obsession that we have with things, we've never had more
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Speaker 1: broken people, We've never had more emotionally, psychologically, spiritually poverty
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Speaker 1: stricken people, because we think that all of that external
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Speaker 1: shit is going to make us happy. We think that
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Speaker 1: all of that and that alone equal success. So when
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Speaker 1: you are thinking about what matters to you, think about
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Speaker 1: what can be seen and what can't be seen. My
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Speaker 1: next one is how do I self sabotage? How do
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Speaker 1: I get in my own way? How do I get
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Speaker 1: in the way of whatever my genetic potential or intellectual
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Speaker 1: potential or academic or creative or sociological whatever that is right?
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Speaker 1: How do you get in your own way? What is
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Speaker 1: the thing or what are the things that you currently
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Speaker 1: do that is you creating an anchor for yourself? What
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Speaker 1: are those things like? Is it avoidance? Is it procrastination?
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Speaker 1: Is it massive self doubt? Is it fear? What is it?
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Speaker 1: And again, this is just an next size in self awareness.
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Speaker 1: It's cool. If you're scared of stuff, yeah, me too.
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Speaker 1: If you're an overthinker, me too. Like, here's the thing, though,
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Speaker 1: You can be scared and still take action. You can
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Speaker 1: feel like a fraud and still step into the unknown
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Speaker 1: and take a chance. You can be full of self doubt,
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Speaker 1: but nonetheless roll the dice knowing that there's going to
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Speaker 1: be an outcome and more than likely you'll be okay.
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Speaker 1: Whatever the outcome is. My next question is what's in
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Speaker 1: my control and what can I do? What's in my control? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So what's in my control is my mind for the
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Speaker 1: most part, if I try to manage it. Is my body,
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Speaker 1: is my nutrition? Is my exercise? Is the lifestyle I choose,
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Speaker 1: is the decisions that I make, Is the action that
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Speaker 1: I take? Is the way that I treat us? Is
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Speaker 1: the way that I waste or use? My potential is
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Speaker 1: fill in the blank. And based on all of that stuff,
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Speaker 1: all the stuff that I can control. Not not what
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Speaker 1: can't I change? Your control? But what can I control?
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Speaker 1: And what am I doing with that? What am I
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Speaker 1: doing about that? What do I have to work with?
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Speaker 1: Imagine if I optimized my potential. Imagine if in the
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Speaker 1: middle of my fear and overthinking and self doubt and
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Speaker 1: self loathing. Imagine if I went right. This is. I
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Speaker 1: know I've listened to a thousand podcasts and I've done
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Speaker 1: this and that, and i know it's nearly Christmas and
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Speaker 1: it's not the right time and I wasn't ready. But
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Speaker 1: what if you you? So I don't think about anyone
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Speaker 1: else listening to this. I'm just talking to you directly,
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Speaker 1: and I know that sounds weird, but just think about it.
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Speaker 1: What if you what if today you did that thing.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not trying to inspire you, I'm
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Speaker 1: not trying to motivate you. I'm literally asking you. And
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Speaker 1: if this makes you feel uncomfortable, maybe that's a sign.
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Speaker 1: What if today you did it, even though today's not
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Speaker 1: the day allegedly. What if if today you make a decision.
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Speaker 1: What if today you go fuck, I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: find discipline and self control. Anyway, this is uncomfortable, and
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Speaker 1: it's okay. This scares me, and it's okay, this is inconvenient,
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Speaker 1: and it's okay. This is this is and I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying I'm the high watermark, but this is how I
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Speaker 1: live my life. You know, a part of it anyway.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I still want to have fun and beautiful
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Speaker 1: relationships and be silly. But in terms of me optimizing me,
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Speaker 1: like you listen to this show at least in part
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Speaker 1: because you want to optimize you. That is why you listen.
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Speaker 1: You listen to me because you want to be better.
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Speaker 1: You want to think better, do better, choose better, create better.
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Speaker 1: That is part of why you listen, and for some
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Speaker 1: of you, it's all of why you listen. It's all
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Speaker 1: of why you listen. Well, here I am for the
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Speaker 1: millionth time I'm telling you there is no fucking magic.
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Speaker 1: There is no right time, there is no tap on
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Speaker 1: the shoulder from the Guardian angel. There is just you,
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Speaker 1: There is just now. There is just this moment. So
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Speaker 1: many people have an opportunity. Do you know when it's
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Speaker 1: an opportunity? When it's a day. Are you in the
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Speaker 1: middle of a day? Is it a new day? It's
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Speaker 1: an opportunity. Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's an opportunity?
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Speaker 1: Is it relevant for you? It's an opportunity. Can you
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Speaker 1: make a decision now? That's an opportunity. Can you change
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Speaker 1: a behavior or at least change a course of action?
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Speaker 1: It's an opportunity. Can you walk? Can you talk? Can
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Speaker 1: you think? Do you have a brain, do you have
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Speaker 1: a little bit of courage? Do you have a body
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Speaker 1: that work, walks and works, it walks and works. What
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Speaker 1: do you have at your disposal? What are your resources?
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Speaker 1: I know I get passionate about this. But the reason
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Speaker 1: that I'm so passionate about helping you is because most
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Speaker 1: people that I meet, and I do not say this insincerely,
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Speaker 1: most people that I meet, in general terms, I think
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Speaker 1: have more natural talent and ability than me. But people
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Speaker 1: don't want to believe that, because I'd rather tell themselves
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Speaker 1: that I'm somehow a bit special because of the stuff
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Speaker 1: that I do. But I'm not. But if you're more talented,
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Speaker 1: naturally talented than me, and I'm not a genius, of course,
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Speaker 1: but maybe you can go and do something fucking amazing.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter that you don't have a cheer squad.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter that the thing that you wanted
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Speaker 1: to do you haven't done. Maybe it doesn't matter that
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Speaker 1: your genetics aren't awesome. Maybe it doesn't matter that you're
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Speaker 1: forty or fifty kilos overweight. Maybe you can just start.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter that you lack confidence or skill
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Speaker 1: or understanding. Maybe you can build those things. Maybe you
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Speaker 1: can make a tiny decision today and create momentum. Maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe your mediocrity can become your superpower.