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DORIAN YATES – THE POWER OF A TROUBLED PAST – Build a Stronger Future Through Your Struggles · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: Some people who've had a rough starting life, they seem
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: to be able to go to another level. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of options, and I felt I had
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  Speaker 2: to fight for everything. That was definitely a driving force,
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  Speaker 2: and I had to grow up and look after myself
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick. I got to look after myself. There's nobody
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  Speaker 2: else that I can fall back on. So you know
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  Speaker 2: that gives you kind of you're either going to make
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  Speaker 2: it or you're gonna You're going to fall. You're building armor.
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  Speaker 2: You're putting on a suit of armor, and everybody will
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  Speaker 2: then treat you differently because you have some you know,
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  Speaker 2: you look stronger, you look bigger. When I was in
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  Speaker 2: the detention center, it was like a crossroads. It's like
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  Speaker 2: which which way do want to go?
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  Speaker 3: Here?
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  Speaker 4: You've had a taste of this a large I don't
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  Speaker 4: belong here.
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  Speaker 3: M h.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have a team. I didn't want to. I
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  Speaker 2: want to do it myself. And if I win, it's unresponsible.
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  Speaker 2: If I lose, I'm responsible. And I'm not saying I
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  Speaker 2: didn't listen to anybody, to any advice or any information.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get some from here, some from here, some from you,
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  Speaker 2: some from him, and then I would shift through it
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  Speaker 2: all and see what made sense and ultimately what works.
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  Speaker 2: I want to spit on the floor and growl and sweat,
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  Speaker 2: and I've got to go back to the ghetto. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, go back to my roots and that energy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whatever it takes, I don't know. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: conscious about it. I'm going to push myself to the limit.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're doing that, you're probably gonna make some
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  Speaker 2: nice Yeah. You brutalize yourself for a very short period
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  Speaker 2: of time and then you let your body recover and
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  Speaker 2: overcompensate and grow.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the process.
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  Speaker 2: You don't enter this gym unless you're here to train,
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  Speaker 2: all right, Nothing else down here.
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  Speaker 4: Just waits, machines, no saunas, nothing fancy follow it.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I love the training and I love to find the
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  Speaker 2: best way to train and her passion for it. So
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  Speaker 2: every workout from nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 2: I logged every single workout.
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  Speaker 4: Are you prepared to do that? Can you do that?
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  Speaker 2: And ultimately your genetics is like it's a limited to
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  Speaker 2: how far you can go. You know, I could practice
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  Speaker 2: basketball and play basketball all day long from ten years old,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll never be a basketball player. With bodybuilding, everybody
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  Speaker 2: can improve.
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  Speaker 1: I really seen bodybuilding from a different point of view
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  Speaker 1: from some of the other people that are involved in it.
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  Speaker 1: I believe, you know, it's one hundred percent a sport,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a way.
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  Speaker 4: I look at it. And I an an athlete.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to achieve the best of the can as
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  Speaker 1: an athlete, and I'm not really interested.
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  Speaker 4: In the glamor and the glitz and everything. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that I'm a superstar and going to
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood and earning that kind of stuff. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: just see myself as a regular guy, a bodybuilder like
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  Speaker 1: anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: I had the theory of hi T training from Arthur
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  Speaker 2: Jones from Mike Mensa appealed to me because it was logical,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the way my brain works. It works in
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  Speaker 2: logic and mathematics and straight lines. I analyzed it, and
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  Speaker 2: I've noticed if I train more frequently, if I do
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  Speaker 2: a bit too much, you know, my progress was just stopping.
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  Speaker 2: And then I was cutting back for this contest and
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  Speaker 2: training even less. I'm probably doing a total.
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  Speaker 1: Of maybe three and a half hours a week in
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  Speaker 1: the gym of actual weight training and some of my
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  Speaker 1: competitors are doing probably that much every day.
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  Speaker 2: I remember seeing Mike Tyson's son and the pads and he,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he looked a bit tyson esqu you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and that's Tyson, you know, where you make a champion.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, no way, Like why not because he hasn't
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  Speaker 2: lived My life has been comfortable, so it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do it's not going to have
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  Speaker 2: that inside him.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You start as a fan, right and I'll look forward
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  Speaker 2: to watching these vhs that's came that road to Olympia
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  Speaker 2: and the different training and I'm like, is this the
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  Speaker 2: reallyd way they're training? I don't think so. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: getting inspired by this. No sport is clean. Sports are
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  Speaker 2: about winning with highly competitive individuals and they will do
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  Speaker 2: whatever it takes to win. Competitive sports is concerned with
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  Speaker 2: only one thing, and that's winning.
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  Speaker 5: M m.
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  Speaker 4: M m. I used to think I was like a
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  Speaker 4: warrior doing in the German.
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  Speaker 3: You just got to save these weights.
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  Speaker 2: You know, instead of being you know, on a battlefield
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  Speaker 2: of the sword, and I'm in the German.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the weight of my kind of opposition, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to bury them.
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  Speaker 2: The more weight you lift in strict form or a
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  Speaker 2: number of reps are related to how big the masters are.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to get bigger, you've got to get stronger.
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  Speaker 3: M m hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: It's about change and evolution, and you have to be
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  Speaker 2: willing to change in life other ways as you get
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  Speaker 2: stuck in a mold. To change, sometimes you have to
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  Speaker 2: be uncomfortable and you have to do and try things
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  Speaker 2: that's outside your comfort zone in order to.
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  Speaker 4: It's a crowl in the fall. You can only hear
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  Speaker 4: music and smell slack.
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  Speaker 3: He grunt Taka fights back.
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  Speaker 5: A.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was just me, stubbornly being me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and not being able to be molded or manipulated. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't get it. Why I'm not that guy that's always
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  Speaker 2: wanted the attention. Why I'm not telling everyone how great
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  Speaker 2: I am and all the time and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of introvert. I didn't like the limelight.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's part of it. You're going to go
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  Speaker 2: on stage and do it, but that's just once a year, right,
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't I want to show people what I
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  Speaker 2: was doing, and the guys in the gym that they're trained.
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  Speaker 2: The Temple Gym they'll tell you. Even the guys that
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  Speaker 2: trained with me, my training partners, they never saw me
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  Speaker 2: without a top one. They never saw me without a
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  Speaker 2: top one. We're going to failure, So we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to stop just because we've got two number whatever.
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  Speaker 4: The body doesn't know about numbers. It knows if it's
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  Speaker 4: like gone, that's what it's used to.
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  Speaker 2: The last set is going to be like like somebody's
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  Speaker 2: got a gun to your little baby's head and he's
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  Speaker 2: going to pull the trigger unless you fucking give one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: It's life from death. One set, it's not.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you're ready. It's going to be rough. Like
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  Speaker 4: I said, it's blood and guts.
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  Speaker 2: It carries some risk and I saw people sacrifice and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I actually put a deadline on myself. I said, all
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing all this. I'm British Champion. I'm pro.
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  Speaker 4: Now technically I can compete. It's pro.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to Night Champions my first pro show. If
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  Speaker 2: I don't get in the top five, I'm finished. I'm
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  Speaker 2: finished with competitive bodybuilding. You know it's fluid, right, you
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  Speaker 2: should be always trying to learn more, evolve more. That's
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  Speaker 2: why we're here, right, We're all here for an experience,
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  Speaker 2: to learn lessons, to have experiences. I wasn't starting thinking
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  Speaker 2: I need to do this because I'm small, or I'm weak,
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  Speaker 2: or I don't have a good body. I was doing
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  Speaker 2: it because this is a route to change my life.
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  Speaker 4: You can't then give that up. It's almost like addictive.
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  Speaker 2: But what if I go back to be that little
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  Speaker 2: skinny guy that you were, or you think you were
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  Speaker 2: in your mind, nobody will respect me anymore, nobey do
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  Speaker 2: love me anymore, or you know something like that. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's it. So people get caught in that mold.
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  Speaker 2: I call it being crystallized, and I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: happens with a lot of bodybuilders. I'm a bodybuilder. I'm
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  Speaker 2: this guy. I'm mister Olympic, I'm this muscle guy, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm comfortable there because I know that.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just a bodybuilder.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to do and try things that's outside
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  Speaker 2: your comfort zone in order to.
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  Speaker 4: Grow and evolve.
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  Speaker 2: Do your research, have a look into it. Don't just
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  Speaker 2: blindly follow and do what you're told.
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  Speaker 4: Speak your truth. That's it, whatever it is, relief.
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  Speaker 2: This is the only vehicle you've got to experience your life.
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  Speaker 4: I got a whole regime for my health.
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  Speaker 2: I do breathing exercises, I do meditation, I do stretching,
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  Speaker 2: I do cardio exercise, I go in the sun. So
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  Speaker 2: many things I do to look after myself.
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  Speaker 5: Johns done N. What's it about stuffs yes to you,
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