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Impossible First: The Inspiring Journey of Colin O'Brady – A True Legend’s Story · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I have to descend now because I'm stuck with this windstorm.
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  Speaker 1: Painful because it's a clear sky. Some it feels like
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  Speaker 1: it's just right there, but we're just getting blown around.
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  Speaker 1: Way too much here, way too dangerous to risk going
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  Speaker 1: on the lips the top. Right now, we returned back,
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  Speaker 1: We regroup and some of the energy to try again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that there's a feeling in our
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  Speaker 2: lives when we are at a certain moment, especially when
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  Speaker 2: it's bad, we have this feeling like it's always gonna
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  Speaker 2: be that way, like that's just the human condition, Like
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, I made a bad investment and I
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  Speaker 2: lost all of my money. I'm gonna be broke forever,
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  Speaker 2: right or I'm burning a fire, I'm bandaged from the
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  Speaker 2: waist down, I'm never gonna walk again. Normally, this is
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  Speaker 2: how it's always gonna be. But I choose to look
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  Speaker 2: at it a little bit differently, and I certainly learned
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  Speaker 2: this over time. I'm big into meditation, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a Buddhist you know, very old Buddhist mantra which
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  Speaker 2: is you know, commonly used, which is this too shall
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  Speaker 2: pass or this too shall change, meaning like we're never
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  Speaker 2: in a permanent state, and once you can realize that,
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  Speaker 2: it realizes that you can open up the vastness of possibility.
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  Speaker 2: Just like, yeah, in this moment, like this sucks, or
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I lost all my money or the
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  Speaker 2: person I love broke up with me and my heart
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  Speaker 2: is broken or whatever that is, but also leaning into
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  Speaker 2: like this is not a permanent state, so I can
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  Speaker 2: build back, I can grow, I can evolve, I can
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  Speaker 2: learn from this moment.
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  Speaker 3: My name's Colin O'Brady.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a ten time world record holding explorer. I've done
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  Speaker 2: things like walked across Antarctica solo and fully human powered.
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  Speaker 3: I was the first person to do that in the world.
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  Speaker 2: The climb Mount ever is twice and standing at the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of Mount Everest and you look up at the
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  Speaker 2: tallest mountain in the world and you think to yourself, like, man,
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  Speaker 2: like that's so far. How am I ever going to
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  Speaker 2: get there? I don't have them with me right now now,
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  Speaker 2: but they're in the other room. I have these two
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  Speaker 2: small rocks from both times I've summited Mount Everest. I've
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  Speaker 2: taken them from the summit and I carry them. I
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  Speaker 2: keep them close to me. For the reason is is
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  Speaker 2: that It's a reminder that even Mount Everest, the largest
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  Speaker 2: mountain in the world, can be broken down to its
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  Speaker 2: smallest incremental parts. Mount Everest is actually just a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of small rocks stacked on top of each other. You know,
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  Speaker 2: many steps leading to the summit. And I think we
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  Speaker 2: can apply that in our own lives. These big goals,
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  Speaker 2: they seem so big, they seem mount ever size.
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  Speaker 3: How could I ever get from the first.
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  Speaker 2: Day I open my business to having, you know, one
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  Speaker 2: hundred million dollar business.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what it is. You stack the small.
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  Speaker 2: Rocks day by day by day by day, and before
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  Speaker 2: you know it, you have a mount ever size. You've
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  Speaker 2: achieved the summit of a mount evercise book. It starts
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  Speaker 2: with awareness, right, It starts with actually finding a way
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  Speaker 2: to sort of listen to your inner voice. For me,
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  Speaker 2: that's been through a meditation practice, but that can be
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  Speaker 2: through any sort of thing mindful this, yoga, meditation, anything
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  Speaker 2: where you're kind of just observing your mind. And look,
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  Speaker 2: that could be five minutes a day. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to become like a monk or something like this. Right,
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  Speaker 2: Once you can tap into that that awareness of self,
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  Speaker 2: it's amazing how much more, how much less reactive. You
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  Speaker 2: have to be in certain moments, like you can kind
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  Speaker 2: of detact yourself and look at yourself almost as a
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  Speaker 2: third party, looking in on your in your own thoughts
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  Speaker 2: and going, oh, that's my negative voice, you know that
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  Speaker 2: that's my that's my voice that's afraid or full of
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  Speaker 2: doubt coming to hang out with me. And I I've
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  Speaker 2: kind of I kind of someone say, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: my darkest moments or in Antarctica or wherever. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like I'm throwing a party and both my angels
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  Speaker 2: and my demons are all all invited.
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  Speaker 3: They're both on you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, sitting on my shoulders, you know, chirping at me,
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  Speaker 2: talking to me. We are the stories that we tell ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: If you wake every up every single morning and you
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  Speaker 2: just tell yourself, like, you know, I saw, I'm never
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  Speaker 2: gonna reach that goal.
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  Speaker 3: No one's gonna love me.
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  Speaker 2: My business is gonna fail like whatever that is, Like
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  Speaker 2: that's the most likely outcome, because you're you're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna be this. I'm the guy who always has
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  Speaker 2: bad luck. I'm the person who never succeeds. Like you're
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  Speaker 2: you are actually manifesting or creating that but guess what,
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  Speaker 2: it's not anybody else telling you that it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: what anyone else says. You're talking to your own self.
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  Speaker 2: Your own consciousness is hearing this, and so you actually
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  Speaker 2: have the choice to tune into once you have this
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  Speaker 2: awareness being like, wait a second, why am I beating
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  Speaker 2: up my own self? Like I'm literally doing this to
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  Speaker 2: my own self right now. But I have the power
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  Speaker 2: to rewrite the story I tell myself. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: control over external things, other people's perceptions, other people's projections.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know, bad luck If if you're driving
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  Speaker 2: down the road at the perfect speed limit and somebody
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  Speaker 2: just comes out of nowhere and hits your car like
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  Speaker 2: you didn't. You didn't have any control of that, that's luck.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, sometimes you have bad luck. But
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  Speaker 2: what you do have complete control over is a how
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  Speaker 2: you react to that and b how you speak to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Life is hard enough already, Like life is just hard.
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  Speaker 2: Other people are gonna challenge you and beat up on
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  Speaker 2: you whatever. You don't have to pile onto that with
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  Speaker 2: your own voice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so not a runner, Like I could never
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  Speaker 3: do that. I'm not a runner. I'm not a runner.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a runner.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, if you keep saying that yourself every
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  Speaker 2: single day, like you're you're not going to be but
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  Speaker 2: like you might not be in great shape, but you
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  Speaker 2: put your running shoes on and you run one block
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  Speaker 2: around your block. You might not be an Olympic level runner.
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  Speaker 2: But you can say to yourself, I'm a runner, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a runner, and the next day you run two blocks,
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  Speaker 2: the next day you run three, the next day you run,
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  Speaker 2: you know, three miles.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever that is.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you have the ability to actually say, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not this right now, but I can become this. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's about rewriting those stories and actually embedding that
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  Speaker 2: in your identity. I am a runner, I am the
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  Speaker 2: person that's going to succeed. I am strong, I am capable,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that looks like in the moment, you get to
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  Speaker 2: talk to yourself.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that that's very powerful.
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  Speaker 2: We are constantly growing, we are constantly evolving, We are
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  Speaker 2: constantly changing who we are and hopefully for the better.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just because you reach the one mountaintop doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean there's not another mountaintop. That said, there's certain things
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  Speaker 2: that we look for, like more money, for example, was
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  Speaker 2: a common Oh I sold my company, now better sort
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  Speaker 2: of company that's even bigger next time than I sold it. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I've had some you know, financial success over the course
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  Speaker 2: of my career that I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Very proud of. But the end goal isn't always.
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  Speaker 2: More and better and harder, And can I walk across
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  Speaker 2: and even longer or further continent or whatever it's Can
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  Speaker 2: I consistently grow and evolve to become a better and
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  Speaker 2: better version of myself? And so I like to say
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  Speaker 2: we can explore the outer space, the external, so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: but I think there's infinite ways.
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  Speaker 3: To explore and grow internally.
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  Speaker 2: And whatever your creative expression is, I like to climb
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  Speaker 2: mountains and freeze my ass off walking across continents and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. And most people watching that, like that's
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  Speaker 2: not your thing, totally get it. But there's masterpieces to
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  Speaker 2: be continually painted on the canvas of your own choosing,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's relationships, entrepreneurship, love, music, art, creativity, like a pocket,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, it doesn't matter what that medium is.
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  Speaker 2: And so to me that that lifelong learner, that continual
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  Speaker 2: curiosity is what fuels it, not as the external one upmanship,
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  Speaker 2: because I think that that's a fallacy of a game
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  Speaker 2: to be playing over and over again. But I do
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  Speaker 2: think we can constantly become better versions of ourselves through
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  Speaker 2: curiosity and growth, and I think that's that's ultimately very value.
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  Speaker 2: You hang around with four millionaires, you're likely to be
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  Speaker 2: the fifth. You hang around with four rogue people, you're
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  Speaker 2: likely to be the fifth. You know, And look, it's
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  Speaker 2: not about money. That's an oversimplified example, but it's like
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  Speaker 2: surround yourself with the type of people that you yourself
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  Speaker 2: want to be.
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  Speaker 3: What motivates me. It's a very good question.
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  Speaker 2: I've used the word a few times, but I think
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  Speaker 2: curiosity is really at the top of.
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  Speaker 3: The list for me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I guess because it's been the most publicly
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  Speaker 2: aware thing I've done.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, exploration. They're crossing an ortica solo.
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  Speaker 2: But I've done a lot of different things in my life,
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  Speaker 2: from from business to Hollywood. It's you know, the fly stuff,
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  Speaker 2: to relationships to you know, all sorts of different mediums,
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  Speaker 2: and each one of those, the through line really is curiosity.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm curious about life. I'm curious about this
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  Speaker 2: human experience that we're all having, and I'm curious to
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  Speaker 2: have the richest life experience which is full of it all.
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  Speaker 2: So what motivates me and keeps me going is to
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  Speaker 2: continually be curious in all the different things that I do,
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  Speaker 2: to kind of squeeze all the jews out of life,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. We can unlock that potential, we can
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  Speaker 2: unlock that reservoir of vast potential inside of all of us,
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  Speaker 2: and really the choices up to us and how we
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  Speaker 2: switch our mindset, assass