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🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | I was saying to you before we got started, I really have noticed in myself as I've spent more time creating content and talking about challenges in life. |
0:11.2 | I've started to gravitate toward the people that I listen to or the sorts of topics that I used to consume when I very, very first started. |
0:18.6 | These are people like yourself, Oliver Berkman, Alandebotton |
0:23.4 | from the School of Life, you know, people that really see the human condition with all of its |
0:29.0 | challenges, all of its shortcomings, all of its foibles, and the sort of very unashamed, unabashed, self-reflection of, look, we're irrational, |
0:42.1 | we're shaven chimps on a rock, we didn't ask to be here, we don't know how to be here, |
0:46.3 | we're living in an environment that's hopelessly mismatched with the genetics and the biological |
0:50.3 | predisposition that we were given. We've got technology that's moving way quicker than even |
0:53.7 | our brains can keep up, let alone our evolution. It's tough and it's okay. And maybe this |
1:00.4 | comforting sentence will help. Like that's kind of the center of where I'm at at the moment. And |
1:08.9 | I think you slot very nicely into that. |
1:12.5 | Yeah, thank you. |
1:13.2 | I mean, you broke it down really beautifully. |
1:14.6 | And it's like, hopefully this sentence builds a little bit of self-awareness, right? |
1:20.1 | Because we're highly imperfect. |
1:22.5 | We're bound to make mistakes. |
1:24.4 | But the reality is that in the process of accepting how imperfect you are, |
1:29.7 | it's almost like you take your power back and you're like, okay, well, I know what I'm good at |
1:33.0 | and I know what I'm not good at. So let me try to build some new, you know, some new skills along |
1:39.2 | the way. Yeah, I think there's a few different ways that you can do it. Maybe people that are more |
1:45.3 | disposed towards positive affect or extroversion or like high energy, perhaps they would default |
1:52.9 | to kind of laughing it off. You know, they make a joke out of it. It's not so big of a deal. |
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