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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 besseling book in two weeks in this video.
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  You're like definitely how I did that and why it's related to
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  treadmills. Like, wonder how long it takes
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  to actually, like tarmac or asphalt, pave an entire state.
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  Oh, that's crazy. And we got my window like.
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  Whoa, like how long does it take these dudes dude, ADHD, I'm
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  always thinking whoa, what's going on everybody, welcome back
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  to the channel if you and you're around here.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia and I'm
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  making weekly videos all about my experience and my journey and
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  stuff like that. So if you want to join me on the
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  journey and remember to hit the subscribe button by clicking on
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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, a approachable guide to
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  living excellently in autism spectrum, right?
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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.
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  But I basically wanted to write a book for a while on autism.
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  I I get, I got the opportunity to, so I'm going to dive right
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  into that. OK, so about a year ago, I get
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  this call from a publisher and they're just basically like,
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  hey, you know, we love the work you're doing down and blah,
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  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 writing. Maybe this is the time to do it.
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  So yeah, the book publisher pretty much said okay, well,
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  this 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, Okay. So this is where this is where
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  it kind of gets a bit kind of bit crazy.
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  So having dyslexia and OCD and ADHD and being an autistic
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  person, I was kind of like, well, how on earth am I supposed
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  to write a book? Like, I have.
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  No, I've had a book rewritten before, but I use a ghost
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  writer. 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
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  into, you know, a thing? So basically I googled, I went
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  on Google. I was just like, hey, what do
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  you, how do you write a book? What's the kind of like, premise
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  of writing a book when I've written like, a dissertation
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  before? But I was, like basically
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  playing Minecraft when I did my chemistry degree.
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  I made these tools. So it wasn't really the the same
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  as writing like a book that people are going to go in 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, super
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  hyperactive. Like, I could just sit at my
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  desk and just, like, type away like some kind of, like, you
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  know, typical author by candlelight.
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  I'm just like, hyperactive ADHD, autism dude who, like, has
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  dyslexia. So like, my, my hand, like,
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  dude, my handwriting, he's terrible.
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  You'll see my handwriting. This is my handwriting.
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  It's terrible. So I was like, somewhere there
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  at a loss where like, Oh my God, what do I do?
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  What do I do? I decided I would Google it,
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  find out, you know, typically how do people do it?
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  And and those things weren't really, you know, accustomed to
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  me. I couldn't do it in those
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  traditional ways. Regardless.
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  Simon Tideway, for No Man. It was fast approaching.
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  The publisher had already said, hey, Dan, here's a bunch of
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  money, 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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  But this has to come. So we did it.
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  You know, I I, I thought to myself, OK, I'll sit down.
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  I'll grab my keyboard. I'll sit down my computer.
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  And I'm going to be this like, creative monster.
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  I'm going to sit down and be like, yeah, we can do this.
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  And so I sat down and I tried to to do this, but I can't sit
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  still. I'm like getting up and walking
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  over there. I'm like, you know, hey, was
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  this just been a deal? Like, I dude, I can't sit still
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  for like 10 minutes. Like I can't do it.
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  And so to sit down for hours on end writing a book, it's never
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  going to happen, dude. So I was like, holy soul.
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  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
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  kidding. I had to get up and start
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  jumping about every, like 1015 minutes because that's kind of
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  the typical idea. Like, you know, if you have
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  autism, you have ADHD combined, you're going to be susceptible
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  to things like this. It's going to be hard to
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  concentrate. You know, I do take, you know,
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  things like brilliant and stuff like that that help with my
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  focus on concentration. But in terms of actually just
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  sitting down and doing this one thing, I'm not going to lie to
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  you guys. It was a challenge.
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  OK? So I'm like, look, I'm a clever
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  guy. I can sort this out.
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  Like, I I can figure this out somehow.
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  How am I going to do this? Then I realized something very
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  interesting. When I am wanting to learn
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  something, like I learned loads of stuff and I love listening to
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  audiobooks because I'm dyslexic. It's hard to read books, even
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  though I do push myself to try and read because obviously
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  reading the more practice makes progress.
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  Yeah, yeah. But then I was like, OK, 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 a listen to audiobooks, because I learn
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  through running, right? So when I'm outside running, I'm
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  like, outside and listen to audiobooks.
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  Things are great. I'm having tactile feedback.
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  My legs are giving me feedback. I'm, you know, the lens in my
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  hair. Everything is 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 and that's how I'm
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  going to 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, you know, listening to books, there
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  was something vitally different going on to when I was actually
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  trying to create a book. When I'm listening to a book,
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  there's no microphone input, which means I've gotten all
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  weathers and everything's cozy and grey.
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  There was this big issue. It was November.
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  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 my.
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  And it wasn't happening. All the muffled stuff from the
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  the air around me was muffling the iPhone and the iPhone
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  couldn't hear me. So we failed miserably.
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  But the idea was there, like, you know, I went out on A5Q run
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  and I tried to open my phone. I got half a page of gobbledy
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  goop because it was just kind of crazy.
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  But it worked like the idea was there.
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  So I was like, Dang, like, how am I going to finish this?
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  So I came home feeling miserable and it's still November.
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  Clock still ticking. I'm like, Oh my goodness, how am
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  I gonna do this? Then I realized I have a home
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  treadmill. I could just run on my treadmill
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  for like an hour every day for the next 8 days and have this
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  book completed because there's no outside noise.
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  It's insulated, like I could talk to my microphone.
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  I'm still running. I'm still giving that tactile
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  feedback, and that's what I did. I I basically got on my
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  treadmill and I ran for eight hours, basically over over a
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  period of eight days or one hour every day for eight days in the
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  evening. So whenever I felt like 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'd written within two weeks I'd had a
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  completed manuscript or or or as good as manuscript to give to my
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  editors. I was like, whoops, I did I win?
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  This was just ground breaking for me because I'd never really
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  kind of come across a solution where I was like, this is it.
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  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 Granaly.
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  So I got all the texts and I dumped it into the AI app and I
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  said, you know, make this Grammarly 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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  that 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 in the genre of autism that was
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  USA, UK and Canada. And I did that all within two
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  weeks of writing this book or or dictating this book, which is
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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
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  anywhere when 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 in
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  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. You can apply anything like this
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  to your life. And just remember, like if I can
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  do this, like literally, literally anybody can do this.