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Autism Problem Solving (Crazy Way To Write A Book) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspie world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  This is my handwriting. Terrible.
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  So I wrote a best selling book in two weeks, isn't it?
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  You're gonna like definitely how I did that and why it's related
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  to treadmills. Guys, do you ever like wonder
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  how long it takes to actually like tarmac or asphalt pave an
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  entire estate? Oh, that's crazy.
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  And we got my window like whoa, like how long does it take these
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  dudes dude? AHD I'm always thinking, oh,
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  what's going on everybody, welcome back to the channel.
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  If you are new around here. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, AHDOCD and a dyslexia and I'm making weekly
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  videos all about my experience on my journey and stuff like
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  that. So if you want to join me on the
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  journey, then remember to hit the subscribe button by clicking
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  the notification bell down below.
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  Hope you are awesome guys. So I wrote this book.
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  This is my book, Autism for Adults, an approachable guide to
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  living excellent in the autism spectrum.
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  This book wasn't easy to write in a way of conventional ideas,
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  and I'm going to get into all of that right now, but I basically
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  wanted to write a book for a while on autism.
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  I got the opportunity to, so I'm going to dive right into that.
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  OK, so about a year ago, I get this call from a publisher and
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  they're just basically like, hey, we love the work you're
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  doing, Dan and blah, blah, blah. Have you ever thought about
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  writing a book? And I'm like, well, yeah, I
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  thought about right now maybe this is the time to do it.
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  So yeah, the book publisher pretty much said, OK, well, this
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  is the terms. This is how you do it.
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  Are you interested? And I was like, dude, I'm like,
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  totally interested. OK, so this is where it kind of
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  gets a bit kind of bit crazy. So having a dyslexia and OCD and
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  ADHD and being an autistic person, I was kind of like,
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  well, how on earth am I supposed to write a book?
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  Like I have no, I've had a book rewritten before, but I use a
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  ghostwriter. But I was like, how am I
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  supposed to do this? Like how am I as a dyslexic
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  dude? How am I going to turn this into
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  a thing? So basically I googled, I went
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  on Google and I was just like, hey, how do you write a book?
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  What's the kind of like premise of writing a book?
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  I mean, I've written like a dissertation before, but I was
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  like basically playing Minecraft when I did my chemistry degree.
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  I made these tools. So it wasn't really the, the
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  same as writing like a book that people are going to go to the
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  store, pick up and buy and be like, oh, this dude knows what
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  he's talking about. Because like, you know, I'm like
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  super hyperactive. Like I can just sit in my desk
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  and just like type away like some kind of like, you know,
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  typical author by candlelight. And this like hyperactive ADHD,
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  autism dude who like has dyslexia.
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  So like my, my handwriting is Terry.
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  I'll see my handwriting. This is my handwriting terrible.
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  So I was like somewhere there at a loss where like, Oh my God,
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  what do I do? What do I do?
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  I decided to out Google it, find out, you know, typically how do
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  people do it? And and those things weren't
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  really, you know, accustomed to me.
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  I couldn't do it in those traditional ways.
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  Regardless, Simon Tideway for no man.
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  It was fast approaching. The publisher had already said,
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  hey, Dan, here's a bunch of money, go and write the book.
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  So I was like, Dan, I have to actually do this.
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  The clock is ticking, Dan. It's almost November and I
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  haven't had anything written down.
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  This is crazy. So I was like, I have to do
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  this. I have to do this some way and I
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  have to do it fast, right? It just has to come.
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  So I did it, You know, I, I, I thought to myself, OK, I'll sit
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  down, I'll grab my keyboard, I'll sit down on my computer and
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  I'm going to be this like creative monster.
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  I'm going to sit down and be like, oh, we can do this.
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  And so I sat down and I tried to, to do this, but that counts
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  it still. I'm like getting up and walking
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  over there and I'm like, you know, hey, what's this just
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  going to do? Like, dude, I can't see it still
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  for like 10 minutes. Like I can't do it.
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  So to sit down for hours on end writing a book, it's never going
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  to happen, dude. So I was like, holy.
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  So regardless of that, I decided that I would try it.
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  It didn't work. I failed miserably.
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  I tried doing it and like, seriously, I'm not kidding.
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  I have to get up and start jumping about every like 10-15
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  minutes because that's kind of the typical idea.
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  Like, you know, if you have autism, you have ADHD combined,
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  you're going to be susceptible to things like this.
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  It's going to be hard to concentrate.
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  You know, I do take, you know, things like brilliant and stuff
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  like that that help with my focus on concentration.
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  But in terms of actually just sitting down and doing this one
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  thing, I'm not going to lie to you guys, it was a challenge.
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  OK, So I'm like, look, I'm a cover guy.
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  I can sort this out. Like I can figure this out
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  somehow. How am I going to do this?
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  Then I realize something very interesting when I am wanting to
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  learn something like I learned loads of stuff and I love
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  listening to audio books because I'm just like, it's hard to read
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  books even though I do push myself to try and read because
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  obviously reading the more practice makes progress yet.
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  But then I was like, okay, I'm just going to figure out what I
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  do when I read. Well, when I read, I listen to
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  audio books because I learn through running, right?
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  So when I'm outside running, I'm like, outside, I listen to
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  audiobooks, things are great. I'm having tactile feedback.
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  My legs are giving me feedback. I'm, you know, the lens of my
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  hair. Everything's great because I'm
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  physically feeling something sensational as the data is going
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  in. So I was like, hey, maybe I
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  could do this the other way around.
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  Maybe I could like turn this around, like reverse the
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  process. Maybe I could like talk to my
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  iPhone right whilst I'm out on a run and that's how I'm going to
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  write my book. And that's what I tried to do,
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  but it didn't work quite as I planned.
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  You see, as I was learning and, you know, listening to books,
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  there was something vitally different going on to when I was
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  actually trying to create a book.
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  When I'm listening to a book, there's no microphone input,
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  which means I can go out on all weathers and everything's cozy
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  and great. There was this big issue.
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  It was November, it was dark, it was raining and it was windy.
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  So I'm going to, I'm like running outside, speaking into
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  my and it wasn't happening. All the muffled stuff from the
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  air around me was muffling the iPhone and the iPhone couldn't
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  hear me. So it failed miserably.
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  But the idea was there like, you know, I went out on A5Q run and
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  I tried to open my phone. I got half a page of
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  gobbledygook because it was just kind of crazy, but it worked.
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  Like the idea was there. So I was like, Dang, like, how
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  am I going to finish this? So I came home, you know, I feel
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  miserable and it's still November.
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  The clock's still ticking and I'm like, Oh my goodness, like
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  how am I going to do this? Then I realized I have a home
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  treadmill. I could just like run on my
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  treadmill for like an hour every day for the next 8 days and have
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  this book completed because there's no outside noise.
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  It's insulated. Like I could talk to my
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  microphone. I'm still running, I'm still
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  giving that tactile feedback. And that's what I did.
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  I, I basically got on my treadmill and I ran for 8 hours
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  basically over, over a period of eight days or one hour every day
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  for eight days in the evening. So whenever I kind of chilled
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  out and the kids had gone to bed and I did it, I, I sat there and
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  wrote my book. So the result was that basically
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  I had this book I've written within two weeks, I'd had a
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  completely manuscript or as good as manuscript to give to my
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  editors. I was like, which looks I did, I
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  win. This was just ground breaking
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  for me because I never really kind of come across a solution
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  where I was like this is it? OK, So Part 2 of that, because I
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  had to come back down, I had to sit back down at my desk and I
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  had to use an AI app called Granoli.
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  So I got all the text and I dumped it into the AI app and I
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  said, you know, make this grandly correct and, and
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  punctually correct. I was home free.
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  The book was written and it was punctually kind of like it was
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  there. This was groundbreaking for me.
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  And I, I really felt kind of like quite an achievement from
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  this, like, you know, you know, from coming from this crazy
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  experience of setting sail thinking I'm going to be able
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  to, you know, I have to write a book.
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  Am I going to be able to do this to becoming a best selling
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  author in three countries in, in the genre of autism, that was
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  the USAUK and Canada. And I did that all within two
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  weeks of writing this book or dictating this book, which was
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  just crazy fascinating. So what can we take away from
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  all this? You know, the feeling of
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  awesomeness that I felt was almost overwhelming.
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  Like I was living proof that like, you can literally do
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  anything if you put your mind into it.
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  Can you figure out a way around this?
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  So now, like I'm going to apply the same principle of problem
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  solving my way around everything in life that I do anywhere when
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  life lays out a problem to me, right?
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  And now I'm going to implement this approach.
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  Now I can actually teach you this approach.
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  I can teach you everything that I know and how I've done this
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  through my entire life. And if you want in on this, I
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  actually have a program coming out soon called Chaos to
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  Confidence. And it's actually very limited.
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  It's only 200 spaces available. It's going to be available very
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  soon though. If you want in on this on the
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  waiting list, please click the link in the description down
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  below to pop your e-mail address in the waiting list and you'll
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  be first to know. I'm also going to pin it to the
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  comment of this video. If you can apply anything like
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  this to your life. And just remember, like, if I
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  can do this, like literally literally anybody can do this.
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  OK guys, see you in the next one.
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  Peace.