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10 Minutes to Start Your Day Right: Push Yourself to the Next Level · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Life can throw you some curves. And it's not just
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  Speaker 1: the things that you see coming, But sometimes it's the
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  Speaker 1: things that you didn't see coming that hits you out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere, that sets you back in such a way
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  Speaker 1: that it seems like you can't get over.
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  Speaker 2: I was in my comfort zone. I was doing just
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  Speaker 2: enough to get by. It's working on a job. They'd
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  Speaker 2: be just enough to keep me from quitting, and I
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  Speaker 2: worked just hard enough to keep from getting fired. I
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  Speaker 2: was parsed. I knew I could do more, But when
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  Speaker 2: my mama died, it took something out of me. When
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  Speaker 2: I went through a divorce, it took something out of me.
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  Speaker 2: When my best friend died, it took something out of me.
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  Speaker 2: I parked and somebody said that life is like an onion.
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  Speaker 2: You have to peel it one layer at a time,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes you cry. Life's gonna happen to you when
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  Speaker 2: you have a dream, you're gonna get slapped around. And
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  Speaker 2: don't take it personally. Don't ask why did this have
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  Speaker 2: to happen to me? Why not you?
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  Speaker 3: Who would you suggest?
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  Speaker 2: You want to give us some name, some email addresses,
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  Speaker 2: don't tell everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Eighty percent don't care and twenty percent glad as you.
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  Speaker 2: It's called life.
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  Speaker 1: Suck it up and move on.
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  Speaker 2: Get over it.
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  Speaker 3: No one's coming to save you. No one's coming to
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  Speaker 3: save you.
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  Speaker 4: The only person that's gonna make a drastic change in
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  Speaker 4: your life, whether that's.
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  Speaker 5: Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, the only person that is going
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  Speaker 5: to dig you out.
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  Speaker 3: Of your holes who you. You have to do it
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to become courageous to stand up within yourself,
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  Speaker 4: to face it and step forward. Continue to do those
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  Speaker 4: things that you know that work for you. After you
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  Speaker 4: have it, evaluated yourself in the situation, continue to move
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  Speaker 4: Stay busy, Stay busy, stay busy. It's not easy, but
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  Speaker 4: through practice and practice and practice, practice makes improvement.
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  Speaker 3: You have absolutely nothing to do with what happens to you.
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  Speaker 2: It's not your faults.
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  Speaker 3: But if I come back a week later, you still
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  Speaker 3: on the ground. If I come back a year later,
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  Speaker 3: you still on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: That's your fault.
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  Speaker 1: If you get knocked down, there's nothing you can do
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: For getting back up.
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  Speaker 1: Has every single thing that's doing with you, And you
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  Speaker 1: will promise me that from this day forward, you will
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  Speaker 1: not be defeated.
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  Speaker 3: All of the people that I know who have become successful.
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  Speaker 6: In any way use a structured means to organize their time.
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  Speaker 6: They have lists of things to do, like they have
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  Speaker 6: every day, there's a list of things to do that day.
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  Speaker 6: Every week there's a list of things to do that week.
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  Speaker 6: Every month, there's a list of things to do that month.
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  Speaker 6: You know, at every level of temporal resolution, there's a
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  Speaker 6: sequence of plans, and those plans are implemented on a
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  Speaker 6: day to day basis.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot be and successful isn't the right way of
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  Speaker 3: thinking about it, because I'm not thinking about you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really thinking about rising up the corporate ladder,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And that's sort of what
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  Speaker 3: success has come to mean in our culture. That isn't
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  Speaker 3: what I mean. You can have a life that you're
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  Speaker 3: going to find acceptable without that, because you need the
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  Speaker 3: vision and the plans to give you purpose and direction.
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  Speaker 3: That's where all your positive emotion comes from. All your
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  Speaker 3: motivation is laying out plans that are worth attaining and
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  Speaker 3: then observing yourself moving towards them. That's the source of
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  Speaker 3: most positive meaning. And then also without that structure, you're
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  Speaker 3: so lost that you're going to be anxious and overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 3: It's really like being in a foreign country, like isolated
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  Speaker 3: that alone with no map. I don't know where the
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  Speaker 3: hell I am. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the rains are going to come, the storms
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  Speaker 3: are going to come, and maybe it's winter, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know where I am or where I'm going.
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  Speaker 7: If you want to bail a winning attitude, you need
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  Speaker 7: to take time. And this is probably going to surprise
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  Speaker 7: you based on what you've heard me say so far,
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  Speaker 7: but you need to take time to be quiet. You
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  Speaker 7: need to do it at least four or five times
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  Speaker 7: a week. A lot of people say, well, I guy
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  Speaker 7: keeps talking about time for this and time for that.
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  Speaker 7: I don't have time for all of these things. Let
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  Speaker 7: me tell you how you can create an extra three
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  Speaker 7: hours every day of your life. Guaranteed over seventy percent
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  Speaker 7: of all the time I'm spent watching television, you're watching
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  Speaker 7: things you have no interest in watching. Let me encourage
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  Speaker 7: you to do this. Take a slow, lazy, drifting, absolutely
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  Speaker 7: meaningless walk. Just almost go to sleep on the walk.
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  Speaker 7: Not an exercise walk you need to do those too,
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  Speaker 7: but a very quiet walk. Pick out a place in
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  Speaker 7: your home. Where you can be absolutely quiet. On occasion,
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  Speaker 7: if you have to get up thirty minutes earlier, that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why, but I seem to wake up
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  Speaker 7: earlier in the winter months than I do in the
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  Speaker 7: summer months, and when I get up it's pitch dark.
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  Speaker 7: I have a nice little office. I go in there
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  Speaker 7: and I turn on the guest log and I sit there.
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  Speaker 7: And every time I do that, without exception, I have
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  Speaker 7: the most exciting day of my life. I simply run
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  Speaker 7: through my mind the things I'm going to be doing.
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  Speaker 7: As you plan the day, as you think of all
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  Speaker 7: things we've got to be excited about, it really does
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  Speaker 7: renew your energy and it gets you excited about the day. Now,
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  Speaker 7: let me tell you something, this is going to be
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  Speaker 7: one of the toughest things you'll ever do. When you
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  Speaker 7: sit down saying well, I want to set perfectly quiet
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  Speaker 7: for twenty or even thirty minutes, you will think of
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  Speaker 7: twenty eight hundred and sixty eight reasons or things that
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  Speaker 7: you've got to do. You try to decide, do I
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  Speaker 7: raise the window or lord, do I turn the heat
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  Speaker 7: up or down? Do I cut the hair conditioner or
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  Speaker 7: or do I turn it more full of glad. Do
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  Speaker 7: I really need to go to the bathroom? Am I
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  Speaker 7: gonna get me a cup of coffee? What is that
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  Speaker 7: noise against the earth? Maybe I better check up on that.
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  Speaker 7: Resist the temptation, spend a few minutes in quiet, reflective thought.
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  Speaker 7: It does make a difference. Take time to be quiet.
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  Speaker 8: We actually have a biological instinct for meaning that orients
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  Speaker 8: us in the world, and that instinct manifests itself when
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  Speaker 8: we place ourselves in a position in the world where
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  Speaker 8: we're competent, where what we're doing is working so that
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  Speaker 8: we're not too terrified and anxious, but also while we're
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  Speaker 8: simultaneously advancing ourselves and improving our ability to cope with
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  Speaker 8: the world. So, for example, if you watch an athlete,
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  Speaker 8: a high level athlete who's at the peak of his
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  Speaker 8: or her performance, you see someone who's extraordinarily practiced at
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  Speaker 8: what they're doing and has developed the expertise necessary to
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  Speaker 8: do it. But then you also see them push themselves
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  Speaker 8: on that developmental edge to make themselves just that much better.
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  Speaker 8: And that function is associated with an intrinsic sense of meaning,
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  Speaker 8: And whenever you see anyone manifest that, you are automatically
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  Speaker 8: drawn to it. You see that when an actor pushes
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  Speaker 8: him or herself beyond their limits. You see that when
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  Speaker 8: someone speaks extemporaneously and manages it extraordinarily. Well, and I'm
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  Speaker 8: trying to help people understand that this meaning is a
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  Speaker 8: true phenomenon, It's not a secondary thing. And also to
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  Speaker 8: point out that most of the time that meaning is
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  Speaker 8: associated with the adoption of responsibility.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, there are remarkable people who come into
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  Speaker 9: the world from time to time, and there are people
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  Speaker 9: who do find out over decades long periods, what they
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  Speaker 9: could be like if they were who they were, if
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  Speaker 9: they said, if they spoke their being forward, and they'd
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  Speaker 9: get stronger and stronger and stronger.
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  Speaker 3: And we don't know the limits to that.
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  Speaker 6: We do not know the limits to that.
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  Speaker 10: I think one of my greatest inspirations or things that
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  Speaker 10: I would feed off of, basically was just obviously people
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  Speaker 10: not believing in the you know, the cloud of doubt.
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  Speaker 10: They kind of I felt hung over my head and
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  Speaker 10: wanted to just prove everybody wrong, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 10: I wanted to make it and I was gonna make
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  Speaker 10: getting regardless of what anybody said.
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  Speaker 2: I outlaughed the bang when I was sleeping in those
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  Speaker 2: abandoned buildings.
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  Speaker 10: I kept telling myself, one day, you'll be a homeowner
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  Speaker 10: every time I walked into that abandoned building.
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  Speaker 5: My greatest moments are probably the moments where I hit
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  Speaker 5: rock bout it, where everything was against the wall, where
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  Speaker 5: I failed and I had a fine intestinal fortitude, when
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  Speaker 5: no one around and picked my ass up, and we
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  Speaker 5: face what knocked me down this time being it. It's
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  Speaker 5: those moments in life that would be the character. It's
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  Speaker 5: not the titles. It's not when the crowds are cheering.
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  Speaker 5: That's when no one's cheering.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you