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Outsmart Your Smartphone: Training Your Mind to Be Your Ultimate Power Tool with Rob Yonover · The Purpose and Progress Podcast Show

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Dr. Rob Yonover:: I've been an early adopter being against
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phones. It was 2007 when the Apple phone came out, and
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everyone thought it was the greatest thing. I'm like, no,
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this is horrible. This is going to ruin everything. And they
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thought I just said that to be an outlier. But it's true. It
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was true 20 years ago. It's more true now. And it's very scary. I
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sell streamers through Amazon. I use social media. We're doing a
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podcast through the internet, Wi-Fi and Zoom. All these things
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are great, but they're tools. They're not the end game. The
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big tool is your brain. And if you don't use it, you lose it.
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And that's what we're seeing. The whole society losing their
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minds because the shit does it for them. They they don't do
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their own thing.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Hello, I'm Dr. Jim Price, and welcome to The
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Purpose and Progress Podcast. This is the place where we
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explore how purpose can guide our actions, and how growth can
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become a part of our everyday lives. On the show, I talk with
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amazing guests, from educators and creators to everyday people
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with extraordinary stories about the challenges they face, the
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lessons they've learned, and how to keep moving forward. My goal
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is to share conversations that inspire you to live
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intentionally, embrace growth, and take meaningful steps to
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your own purpose. Let's get started.
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Hello, welcome everyone. Once again, this is Dr. Price, host
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of The Purpose And Progress podcast show, where we share
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inspirational, motivational stories that inspire others,
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inspire change through all different kind of industry,
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leaders and stuff like that. And today is no different. We have a
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fabulous guest today. He is a scientist, innovator,
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adventurer, and author whose extraordinary journey combines
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caregiving, innovation, and resilience. For 19 years, he
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cared for his wife with MS while raising young children and
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developing survival gear used by the military, with Ph.D.
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volcanologist, and fellow of the Explorer Club. He has explored
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extreme environments, surfed Hawaii's North Shore for nearly
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4 decades, and made deep sea dives aboard the Alvin
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submersible. He's also appeared on Shark Tank, and has been
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featured by CNN, Discovery, PBS, CBS Innovation Nation, and other
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major media outlets. Today, we're happy to have Dr. Rob
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Yonover. How are you doing today?
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Great, thanks. Thanks for the intro. Appreciate
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that.
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Dr. Jim Price:: And it's just such a pleasure and blessing to
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have you on the show. I know we were talking a little bit like,
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you're in Hawaii. And otherwise, we're dealing with a lot of
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different things and stuff. But it's just a pleasure blessing to
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have you on the show.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Thank you. Me too.
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Dr. Jim Price:: I wanted to start off with, in terms of your
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journey, your inspiration and your influence, where did that
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kind of begin on your journey?
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: I was a little kid growing up in Miami, and I
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fell in love with science and the outdoors. My parents wanted
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to get me away from the other kid members, and they put us,
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put me on the other side of the house. So because I got up at
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5:00 in the morning and just went out in nature, and I'm
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still doing the same thing. And then I went to school, and I
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learned that if you did well in school, you kept getting
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rewarded. And my friends were not really upstanding citizens,
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but it didn't matter because I got all A's. And then I got into
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surfing. And then in college, I took a geology class. And one of
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my great professors piqued my interest on volcanoes and never
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looked back. And then I got to Hawaii, and got to work on
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submarine volcanoes. And then seems like I'm always on the
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edge of dying, so I invented some survival gear. That's quite
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simple, and it's just a simple device, but it works really
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well. And it's been adopted by militaries all over the world,
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and it saved lives. And it's been quite a journey.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Wow, that's incredible. I know I'm kind of
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adventurous myself. I've done the thing when you're on the
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water ski, I think that's what you call it, when you're on the
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little thing and you're riding the water.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Oh, jet ski.
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Dr. Jim Price:: I'm pretty adventurous too. I try to
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venture out and do the things when I get hands and stuff.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: For me, it's all about self-reliance back in
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the day. So when I go into nature, I go deep. When I fish,
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I go on 6, 8 foot seas, 25 miles out. You can't even see the land
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anymore. Surfing big like 20 or 30 foot face waves, and you're
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just all alone. So you have to rely on yourself, and I think
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that's where I got the survival bug, and started using my brain
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to apply it to try to think of devices that'll save me
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potentially. But others also that are in that position.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Yeah. Wow, that's amazing. I'm sure when
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you're doing the deep sea dives, I'm sure you see some absolutely
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incredible things. A lot of people are not even able to even
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imagine sometimes something.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: It was incredible. Just for reference,
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a Navy sub goes about a half a mile. That's the limit. But the
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deep sea submersible Alvin that found the Titanic goes down two
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miles. So I went to two miles. It took 2 hours to float, sink
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to the bottom. 4 on the bottom, and 2 to to go back up. And just
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weird creatures down there. I'm not a biologist, but it looked
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like an eel with a monkey's skull, and you could see through
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it. All the innards are all fluorescent, and it looked like
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it was snowing down there with bioluminescence, fluorescent
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green. And then we took lava samples with the arms, and then
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I analyzed them at University of Hawaii, NASA - Johnson and MIT
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also. So that was part of my PhD work. So it was a crazy, crazy
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opportunity.
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Dr. Jim Price:: That is amazing. Sometimes, people are scared to
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step out the box of what they're comfortable with. Sometimes, it
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causes them to miss out on wonderful opportunities to be
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able to expand, grow and nurture themselves and stuff like that.
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Exactly.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: That's why, for me, it was school and
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getting good grades in school was the opener because that kept
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opening opportunities. I'm a public school kid. Only did
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public school my whole life> But every time I'd finish a degree,
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there were more that offered me. And my master's and PhD were
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full scholarships, academic scholarships, and I got to go
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all over the world with it. I ended up in Hawaii for 42 years
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and counting, and it's been incredible. And I think for all
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the listeners, people think school is not a big deal, but it
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really is. I enjoyed a lot of it. But parts of it, I didn't
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enjoy. But there was a means to an end, right? And that was
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really the end is what you see and what what I've been able to
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do in my life, which has been fantastic. I'm really lucky.
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Dr. Jim Price:: And it's interesting. I like how you
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connect it with how important education is.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Absolutely.
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Dr. Jim Price:: I do the middle school counseling thing, and I'm
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always saying that education is the foundation of what you're
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going to build on for the rest of your life. So you get through
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high school, whatever. That's the foundation. That's the base
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foundation, and you build on that foundation to grow, nurture
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and build on that foundation.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Well, I hear a lot of gripes over the years
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saying, what are you going to do with geology or geochemistry? My
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PhD. I'm like, it's a means to an end. It taught me how to
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think. It taught me how to attack problems. It taught me
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how to write critically and question things. And I use that
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every day. I'm not going up on a volcano everyday, but I'm
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attacking a problem, small or large, everyday. And there's a
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famous, not famous, but I used to go to the Bahamas from Miami.
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We used to go on little surfing missions, and there was a song
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that said, don't be no fool. Stay in school, let your mind
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become a tool. And I was like 20 when I heard that. I'm like,
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yeah, I want my mind to be the massive, big, powerful, sharp
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tool that can get me out of trouble, and can get things to
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happen for me.
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Dr. Jim Price:: That is the foundation. The college thing,
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sometimes it get into a major. And then all of a sudden, you
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you do that. But then you end up doing something else aside of
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maybe what you originally were planning to do. And you never
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know what path you're going to go on, and where life is going
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to take you in that way.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: But you just want to finish and follow
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through. My whole thing is you could change directions, change
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major, but put a feather in your cap. Every time you finish
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something, complete it, whatever it is. And it could be
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unrelated. I tell kids all the time, my two favorite classes in
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high school were photography and typing, and they're the ones I
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use the most. And everyone was kidding me in high school. What?
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Are you going to be a secretary? I'm like, I don't know, but I
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can type 90 words a minute now. So anyway, it is strange how
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these paths lead you to places you don't know where they're
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going to go.
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Dr. Jim Price:: And in terms of like, we talk about the
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education and stuff. I know sometimes people don't always
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see the success, of course, and they don't always know the story
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behind. So on your challenges maybe that you felt like that
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you kind of stick out to you, challenges that you faced on
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your journey or obstacles.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: I'm a lucky middle class kid. I had
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everything. Great parents, great school, great colleagues, great
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teachers. But when my kids were 4 and 7, my wife was training
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for a marathon, and she started limping. That turned into a
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limp, a cane, a walker, a wheelchair within a year, and
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then she was completely paralyzed for 19 years. And that
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was a massive challenge financially, socially,
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emotionally, for the family, professionally, and that was
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where I think all the training I've ever done, in in terms of
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resilience, brought us to that stage. She was an overachiever
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also. We had to dig deep to try to keep doing that for 19 years,
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and keep the kids going, and keep the business going, and
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that was really by far standalone of the biggest child
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I've had. She passed about 10 years ago. I think about it, and
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as hard as it was, it's still gratifying to have seen it
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through and got through it. It's a feather in my cap. And the
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kids got to see that, so they're better people from living
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through that, and watching how their parents dealt with that.
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So adversity sometimes is a positive. You don't wish it on
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yourself or anyone else. But when confronted with it, and
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even in science, like for me, it's like, okay, here's the
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problem. What's the solution? Hypothesis, test, retest. I did
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that every day for 19 years because there are problems
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everywhere on every level when it came to that.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Wow. And that is so true. When you're in the
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midst of dealing with adversity, it just can be heartbreaking and
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just really draining emotionally, physically,
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mentally. And being able to understand in some way that that
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diversity can actually help you grow personally, and learn so
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much more about yourself personally, and understand about
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yourself and about others too when you're going through things
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like that.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: While you're in it, no one says, this is
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really going to be good for you in the future. But you don't
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think that way. You're like, this is horrible. Why is this
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happening? But you just have to play the long game, which is
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what I do on every front. Even my invention, I thought of 40
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something years ago. I'm still working it, and it's 42 years
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later. I'm like the tortoise and the hare. Because to switch the
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military's mindset on what's accepted signaling technology,
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float, smoke, flare, C-DI marker, to switch them to
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thinking a simple piece of plastic with struts in it, so
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it's like a centipede, it won't twist up, was a big ask. I got
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lapped by the hair. The race to tortoise, and he kept taking
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naps. So I'm still going, and in life too. All my friends, my
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family, people die. You can let it get you down. And it does. It
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gets me down sometimes, but you got to keep going. I'm not an AA
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person, but I know a lot of people that are in AA. It's
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like, one day at a time, one step at a time. So to break
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things into little packages and get through this hour, this day,
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this month, this year, whatever it is, you got to get through
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it. It's a tough one, but they're great life lessons.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Wow, that's amazing. You're definitely very
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accomplished in so many areas and stuff like that. I admire
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you in all those areas. And if you were to say in terms of
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achievements and things that you've accomplished, at least if
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you were to name like one or two, what would you feel are
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some of the greater accomplishments or things that
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you feel like achievements and stuff that you really hold on to
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dearly?
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: I still think taking care of my wife,
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surviving that situation, and raising great kids and great
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humans is right up there with this invention, my Sea Rescue
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Streamer invention, that not only has enabled me to survive
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this financially, this crazy road we were on, but it saved
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lives. I've had guys come up to me and thank me for saving their
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lives. So that was like right in my face. That felt great. And
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one of my secrets to how I built it, I didn't have any money, is
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I worked through the media. So things like Shark Tank, or CNN,
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or Discovery Channel. So those are fun things to have. It's
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good validation. Because sometimes, the people close to
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you don't tell you how great something is, or encouragement.
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You need it from a third party. I just I think that I also like
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to share my ideas and kind of try to inspire people,
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especially kids when I go out to schools. So I get a real kick
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out of that when someone comes up to me and says, I had you
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came to our class when I was a little kid, and I still remember
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And that's always good when the kids remember. Even with my
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counseling gig, kids will move on. I do middle school, so kids
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will move on to high school and beyond. You're somewhere out in
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the community, and all of a sudden, hey, you remember me?
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Usually, if they talk to you, that means that you must have
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had a positive influence. Because if you didn't, they
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didn't want to talk to you.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: That's right. Well, there's so few jobs and
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careers in the world that help people. And teaching,
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counseling, inventing, survival. There's so few that I really
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respect people that do something. It's not just about
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making money and pushing numbers around, but people that give
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their lives or part of their lives to help others is huge.
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And even my late wife, she was a counselor and a social worker,
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so she was really right in there from the beginning. And one of
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the things that attract her to me, it's very gratifying when
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you make human to human connections and you see your
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work in that result. And you see kids, you see their eyes light
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up, that's what I go for. Because kids and adults, they're
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scrolling to death. They see all this media, it's hard to connect
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to a human and get them excited about something non-video, not
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real analog,
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Dr. Jim Price:: That's the truth right there. Today, society is
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just so different. I look at even Google.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: We got lucky. We got lucky, ironically. And
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that's why one of the things I do to the kids, I go, okay, I
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got a PhD. I got 20 patents. I've been on Shark Tank, I saved
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a bunch of lives, and here's what my phone looks like. I
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don't have a smartphone. I have a dumb phone. That's not a prop.
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That is my phone. And even now, I got a warehouse where I store
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some stuff, and they're switching over the parking to
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you and got to scan it with get a QR code. I'm like, I can't do
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that. I'm not buying a smartphone just for that. But I
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might have to bring my iPad in my car and open up a gate, which
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is ridiculous. But it's the world we live in.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Yeah. Technology has taken over everything. Like
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my daughter, she's 15 now, and about to be 16. She was showing
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me about the BBB chat or whatever that thing is. You know
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the thing, I guess it tells you stuff. I don't know.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: ChatGPT. You said BBB, I thought it was
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Better Business Bureau. ChatGPT or that's one of them. Or AI.
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Any AI, Artificial Intelligence, which is making people even
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dumber. Like the smartphone and social media didn't make them
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dumb enough. Now, it's going to think for us. No way. I'm
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totally against that too. And I've been an early adopter of
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being against phones. It was 2007 when the Apple phone came
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out, and everyone thought it was the greatest thing. I'm like,
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no, this is horrible. This is going to ruin everything. And
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they thought I just said that to be an outlier. But it's true. It
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was true 20 years ago. It's more true now, and it's very scary. I
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sell streamers through Amazon. I use social media. We're doing a
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podcast through the internet, Wi-Fi and Zoom. All these things
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are great, but they're tools. They're not the end game. The
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big tool is your brain. And if you don't use it, you lose it,
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and that's what you're seeing. The whole society losing their
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minds because the shit does it for them. They don't do their
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own thing.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Yeah. They're not forced to really think too
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much. Everything's given.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: And that part of the the journey is the
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struggle. The journey is the lesson. And even even my hard
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journey in caregiving, that's fine. But just a normal journey
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of going through dealing with your parents, dealing with
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school, dealing with a job. I used to root for my kids to have
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a bad experience, or a bad boss, or a bad teacher because I'm not
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going to defend you. You go deal with your teacher if you think
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they're bad. You have a bad boss? Work it out. And this is
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part of becoming an adult and becoming autonomous. And that's
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the problem. If you keep pushing buttons to solve problems, it's
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horrible.
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Dr. Jim Price:: I know you're also an author. Touch upon the
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books like yeah, sure, and you know, like well,
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: That typing class enabled me to type 90
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words a minute, made my connection from my brain to my
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fingers good. I wrote a book on inventing called Hardcore
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Inventing. I wrote a book on caregiving called Caregiver
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Survival Guide, which was really unique because most of the New
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York publisher couldn't find a picture of a man pushing a woman
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in a wheelchair, because all those pictures were the other
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way around, and they ended up just using no picture. And I
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wrote Hardcore Health, which is the compendium to caregiver
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survival guide. Meaning, I couldn't afford to get sick
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because everything was relying on me. I surf really big waves.
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I'm always on the edge, so I'm a health freak. I eat, exercise,
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all that stuff. Everything I do is like an inventor's mind,
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science mind. So I analyze it, and break it down to simple
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terms. And then more in your line, I saw some of your books.
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I wrote a children's book called Brainstorm Islands. It's kind of
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like Curious George, he's a surfer with a dog. We get into
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trouble, and we invent our way out. So that was a lot of fun. I
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love it. And I got grandkids now. It's funny because I'm
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reading the books to them that I was read to, Dr. Seuss and and
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Curious George, all the classics, and they still hold
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up.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Absolutely. Basically, people don't always
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know. That's so interesting that, not just in the aspect of
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making books that are helping them, but also involving
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children's aspect too, with the children's books and stuff like
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that.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Absolutely. I value that the most. To me,
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these kids are beautiful, incredible creatures that are
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really smart, great bodies, and then we just destroy it becoming
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an adult and consumed by social media. And it's okay. That's the
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way life is, and it's fun. I scroll to, but I really enjoy
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that blank slate of a child's mind where you can go with them
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and fire those neurons to get them thinking creatively and
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just wondering. It's all really storytelling when it comes down
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to it. I love a good story, and I love telling a good story.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Same here. I love that too. It's just a joy
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to always be able to use your creative minds and creative
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juices to kind of come forth with something, and create
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something.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Exactly. Something out of nothing. And
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that's why even as a scientist, it didn't hold me back. But I
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always knew that academia wasn't for me because I couldn't be
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creative enough. I want to do inventing. I want to invent
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something new. And in academia, you're kind of building on
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what's been done, and it was great training. But I just think
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that we're all creative geniuses, and you just have to
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figure out which you're good at, but don't rely on it. I tell
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people, don't quit your day job. You can write books and be an
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inventor, and be a musician. Do that on the side. First of all,
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you won't lose the passion you have for it because it doesn't
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force you to have to make money from it. because you don't want
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to lose the passion. And even if it's just a hobby, more people
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on their deathbed should say, I wish I should have done that. I
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wish I should have done that. I wish I should have done
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anything. I try to do everything, if possible.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Life is short.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Absolutely.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Experiences and enjoying the journey as we go
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through it, and sharing those experiences with others, family,
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friends, and things of that nature. It all collaborates with
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that idea of resilience and connection with others.
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Definitely. I'm totally down with that, and
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I think it's all we have, really. But the creativity and
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human connection, that's what you got. Those are the two
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pillars of life. How you deal with that or neglect it, that's
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on you. And they're pretty simple rules. Creative is pretty
23:32
easy. Turn everything off. Go out in nature and think of
23:35
stuff. Human nature connections. Respect your parents. Respect
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your kids. Respect other people. Learn from them. Everyone has
23:45
something they can teach you, and it might be a nonverbal
23:49
nuance. Just a little thing they do, you might pick up, and it
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just makes you a better person.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Absolutely. I'm definitely connected with that
23:57
message and idea. That purpose of growth, personal growth, and
24:02
through love, self awareness, learning about self care and a
24:08
lot of these things, it all kind of entails it in that way. You
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: You got to respect yourself, and revere
24:12
know what I mean?
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yourself, and your body, and your mind and say, look, I'm
24:18
taking care of this, and I want to use it. Use it as much as I
24:22
can, and experience as much as I can before it's over. And every
24:26
time someone dies, it just reminds me that when you get
24:29
older like me, you see people dying all the time.It's like,
24:32
oh, man. And you look at their lives and say, oh, they missed
24:36
out. They were talking all the time about doing this, writing a
24:41
book or spending time with their grandkids, but you have to
24:44
prioritize. And that's why I say in your spare time, you can't
24:50
get too enamored with stuff that doesn't pay your bills. Because
24:55
you got to pay your bills. They never stop. Exactly, that's for
24:59
sure.
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Dr. Jim Price:: So in terms of all your books, how can our
25:03
audience connect to buy them?
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Just go to Amazon and put my last name in,
25:09
Yonover, and you'll see them all there. And my invention, Sea
25:12
Rescue Streamer, has a website, but it's also sold through
25:15
Amazon. And social media, I kept it simple. Just Google my name,
25:20
Rob Yonover, and that's my name for Instagram, Facebook,
25:25
LinkedIn, YouTube, all that. I'm not the greatest. I don't really
25:29
spend a lot of time on there, but I post a lot of stuff. It's
25:33
not as personal as people probably would like, but it's
25:35
just professional and creative stuff that I try to do. And
25:39
podcasts when I have one. So it's a lot of fun.
25:41
Dr. Jim Price:: Yeah. And this has just been such an incredible
25:45
and amazing cover, such a lot of plethora of such a wide array of
25:49
things and stuff. The audience always like to have some nuggets
25:55
of knowledge and stuff like that. Can you share tips?
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Dr. Rob Yonover:: Okay. First of all, put your phone down. The
26:06
best tip of all. That's number one in terms of parenting, or
26:11
caregiving, or relationships. I have three words, ignore and
26:15
distract. So you ignore behavior. Bad behavior
26:21
That's another one. I've got a million things of how to do
26:24
that. But the main thing is you got to earn it. And respect your
26:30
time you put into something. And even if you don't succeed, you
26:34
tried, you went for it, you put the time in, and no one gives
26:38
you anything. Everyone thinks that because I'm kind of very
26:41
light and fluffy in many regards, and I live in Hawaii,
26:45
and I'm a surfer, I don't shave that much, but it's real easy
26:49
for me. I outwork everyone, so you don't see it, and it's been
26:54
my whole life. I just like, okay, here's the challenge.
26:57
Here's what it takes to get the challenge completed on an
26:59
excellent level. I'm putting the hours in. You've got to earn it,
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and people don't want to earn it. They all want to be given
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stuff. So earn it. That'll feel better.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Such great nuggets of wisdom right there.
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But it is about that persevering through obstacles and
27:15
challenges, and overcoming. And I think this whole conversation
27:19
definitely resonated with all those elements to try to help
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motivate and influence people to want to do better, and want to
27:26
be better in general and stuff like that. So definitely, it's
27:30
been such an honor and pleasure to have you on the show, Dr. Rob.
27:34
Dr. Rob Yonover:: Thanks, Dr. Price. Appreciate that. It was a
27:37
blast. Thank you.
27:38
Dr. Jim Price:: Absolutely. So like I always say when we close
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out, I always like to say to be motivated, be influenced. Know
27:45
that personal growth can happen in your life if you take the
27:48
steps, take those actionable steps to be moved toward that
27:51
and stuff. Nothing happens if you don't take action to make a
27:54
plan toward it. So taking that first step, making that first
27:57
step toward making a reliable plan is the way that you can
28:01
change things within the dynamics of your life. And
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that's what we try to encourage all our people to do through
28:07
these interviews. I always say, stay encouraged, stay prayed up,
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and stay blessed. And once again, this is The Purpose And
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Progress podcast show. I'm your host, Dr. Jim Price, and we'll
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see you next time. Thank you.
28:21
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28:24
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28:28
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28:31
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