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

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  This is my handwriting. Terrible.
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  So I wrote a battling book in two weeks in this video.
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  Exactly how I did that and why it's related to treadmills.
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  Guys, do you like wonder how long it takes to actually like
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  tarmac or asphalt pave an entire estate?
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  Oh, that's crazy. And we got my window like whoa,
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  like how long does it take these dudes?
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  Dude, ADHD. I'm always thinking, oh, what's
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  going on? Everybody, welcome back to the
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  channel. If you and you're around here.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHDOCD and
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  dyslexia, and I'm making weekly videos all about my experience
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  on my journey and stuff like that.
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  So if you want to join me on the journey and then remember to hit
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  the subscribe button by clicking the notification bell down
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  below. Hope you are awesome.
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  Right 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 excellently 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 down 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 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 handwrite, dude, my handwriting is Realty my
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  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 I would Google it, find out, you know, typically
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  how do 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 couple should already said,
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  hey, Dan, here's a bunch of money.
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  Go and write the book. So I was like, Dan, I have to
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  actually do this. The clock is ticking, Dan.
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  It's almost November and I haven't had anything written
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  down. This is crazy.
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  So I was like, I have to do this.
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  I have to do this some way and I have to do it fast, right?
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  It just has to come. So I did it, You know, I, I, I
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  thought to myself, OK, I'll sit down, I'll grab my keyboard,
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  I'll sit down on my computer and I'm going to be this like
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  creative monster. I'm going to sit down and be
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  like, oh, we can do this. And so I sat down and I tried
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  to, to do this, but that counts it still.
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  I'm like getting up and walking over there and I'm like, hey,
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  what's this just going to do? Like dude, I can't sit still for
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  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 realized something very interesting when I am wanting to
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  learn something. Like I learned loads of stuff
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  and I love listening to audio books because I'm just like,
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  it's hard to read books even though I do push myself to try
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  and read because obviously reading the more practice makes
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  progress yet. But then I was like, okay, I'm
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  just going to figure out what I do when I read.
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  Well, when I read, I listen to audio books because I learn
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  through running, right? So when I'm outside running, I'm
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  like, outside, I listen to audiobooks, things are great.
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  I'm having tactile feedback. My legs are giving me feedback.
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  I'm, you know, the lens of my hair.
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  Everything's great because I'm physically feeling something
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  sensational as the data is going in.
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  So I was like, hey, maybe I could do this the other way
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  around. Maybe I could like, turn this
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  around, like reverse the process.
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  Maybe I could like talk to my iPhone right whilst I'm out on a
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  run and that's how I'm going to write my book.
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  And that's what I tried to do, but it didn't work quite as I
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  planned. You see, as I was learning and
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  listening to books, there was something vitally different
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  going on to when I was actually trying to create a book.
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  When I was 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 grey. 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 was I had to
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  come back down. I had to sit back down at my
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  desk and I had to use an AI app called Grammarly.
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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 punctually
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  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 really felt kind of like quite an achievement from this.
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  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 the genre of autism that was the
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  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 like 200 spaces available. It's going to be available very
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  soon. 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.