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That's it.
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Some belief, not just belief in God, but I think it's in short supply.
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And I think more of us need it.
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And if we don't have more of it, doubt's going to win.
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If doubt wins, we all going to lose.
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And uh we got stuff out there to believe in.
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I think people are looking for it.
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I know I am.
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I don't want it just because I get it.
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Hang on a minute.
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Right.
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What is it that I really want?
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What is it that I really would like?
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I want to be scared of the role
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that I'm going to take on cuz I'm not sure where it's going to
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go,
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but I'm going to trust that I'll come up on the other side.
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We have to define success for ourselves.
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And then we have to put in the work to maintain it.
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>> And there are a lot of men
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that I know who are looking for
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that definition that feel like I've been told what it's not.
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And then now I don't know what it is.
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Let's say someone has been kicked in the nuts a good bit by life.
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How do you advise them to sort of become the hero of their own
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story again?
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>> Man, that's a tough one.
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That's a great question.
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You know, I sit here with a life where I have the the luxury
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to project,
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to ask myself and ask others, no, make a sacrifice today.
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Sacrifice a plastic ring today for a gold crown tomorrow.
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Sacrifice something today for more freedom tomorrow.
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Sacrifice something today for a possible healthier future for your kids.
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I understand that's a luxurious position.
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I'm not going to apologize that I'm in I'm in it.
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But I understand to someone in misery, they're going, "Good for you, man.
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I'm trying to feed family tonight.
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I'm not thinking past that.
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I can't think past that."
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What do you ask them to do?
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My indirect thing I would say and understand is well,
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if you don't have the hope or believe in something,
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you're going to end up you're going to definitely going to remain where you
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are.
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And if you have hope and faith in something,
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I'm not saying it's 100% get out of jail.
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You're going to absolutely get out, but you got the best chance to.
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>> Yeah.
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The book's about belief.
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That's what I'm pedalling here.
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I need more of it.
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I personally believe in God
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but the whole thing is not for people
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that just believe in God.
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Believe in trying to pursue your better self transcendent self.
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If you believe in the future, you believe in your kids,
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believe in the past, something.
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Don't know what that is, ask yourself what you die for.
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Start there.
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Everyone kind of believes in something.
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There's an argument that even Niles do believe and nothing.
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Nothing's even something.
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I I I I've never been able to really live with by hook
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or by crook.
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I'll get it how I can get it.
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I'll lie, cheat, and steal to get it.
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I got the prize and I'm still okay.
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I got it.
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My own shadow chases me down in the middle of the night.
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And those nightmares do become my own daymares.
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I have to I think I I naturally come back and look,
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I I I hustle.
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I'm a hustler.
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I I I'm not puritanical.
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I'm not making not I'm not trying to preach a absolute straight
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and narrow way to go things.
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I bullshitted my way into things and faked my way into making things,
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pulled off stunts.
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Wait a minute now.
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So, we're saying if success is the key,
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if success is the measurement and you can get it by lying, cheating,
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and stealing and still be rewarded the gold medal.
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We That's what's happening.
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Are we Are we Are we ready to say that's okay?
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Are we ready to say that's just how it is?
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We have leaders in positions now that are saying, "Yeah, just win."
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Well, ju just just win.
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Just succeed.
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But yeah, I don't care how you get there.
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You did it.
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Congratulations.
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Come to the front of the line.
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So, what are the ethics?
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I don't know.
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What' the winner do?
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Well, but they Wait, what about What about rules?
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Oh, yeah.
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By the way, the rules, if you follow them, you're a sucker.
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Uh, I started to find myself going, "No, wait a minute.
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I'm not ready to wave that white flag.
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Are we ready to wave that white flag and go,
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we can see that's what it is."
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Cuz there's many reasons to do so.
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And so, I'm looking around at people and going,
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I'm not finding things people to believe in,
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and I'm finding it harder to believe myself.
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that although those people might get to the front of the queue
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and be awarded the medal,
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the medal it that you're awarded
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or the queue that you get to the front of might not actually give
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you what you want.
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And you you start by sort of reframing success,
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which I think is a really important thing, especially for a young generation,
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especially for men who are, you know,
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the first to want to get to the top of the pyramid in certain
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pursuits in life.
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Okay, you can get to the top of the the pile
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or you can get the gold medal,
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but be careful what that medal represents.
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And a medal in what, >> right?
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>> And relevant for what?
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We all want to be relevant.
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Okay.
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Like relevant for what?
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We want to succeed, >> but when we succeed, do we act?
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Is it worth it if we don't profit?
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>> Yeah.
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You said, Yeah.
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>> You know what I mean?
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>> If more we we're we're trained to go the quantity >> is the
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is the is the goal.
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That's it.
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Well, then if that's sacrificing quality, >> yeah, >> or value, what we actually value,
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>> what are you really winning?
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>> Sometimes you can do everything right
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and still not get the result
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that you wanted.
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And that seems like a really tough pill to swallow for people.
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I think that's why people become uncomfortable with fully feeling their emotions.
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>> Yeah.
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>> So, where do you go?
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What do you think
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when I really I I gave it my all
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that I bared myself
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and I still got kicked in the nuts?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Not only did I feel like I deserve it,
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I feel like I earned it and I still didn't get it.
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>> Wait a minute.
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But you said that's the playbook and I followed the playbook.
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You said these were the rules and the regulations.
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I followed it and I was good at it.
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I still didn't get it.
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Is there something that you tried to remember about the upside of a crisis
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during a crisis or do we just need to ride
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that out?
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Zooming out would be
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so beautiful and in retrospect
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if only you could give yourself the gift of distance of time.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah.
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And yet you know something hard is going to come again
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and you're going to be swept away by the wave.
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I mean, for me,
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I it's it's an obvious dance of the both
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because you can't jump to the objective right away
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and go,
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"Inshallah, oh, fate will have it.
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This two shall pass.
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I'm all I'm fine."
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No, cuz then you don't deal with the the crisis.
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Um, I do have a good I do have a pretty quick threshold for
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being able to laugh,
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like, honestly, start giggling
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when I'm in the
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because I found that I'm able to handle the better.
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If I just start the quicker I start going, "Are you kidding me?"
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I'll get objective and remind myself things like you going to die mak
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which gives me that ah
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so what this is not
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as big of a deal
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as I thought the result
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which we know there isn't really one
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and we cannot imitate someone else's exact result.
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We're going to have our own thing way to get there.
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Um the the approach is all I think that's that's that's the best our
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life can get is one constant approach
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or and with many different approaches
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but knowing we never there is no result.
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>> You know the story of Seisophus man gets cursed I think he was
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a demigod gets cursed to roll a boulder up a hill it's heavy heavy
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boulder he rolls it uphill
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and just as he gets to the very top he stumbles
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and it falls down
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and crushes him.
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Okay, >> he needs to walk back to the bottom, turn around,
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pick it back up.
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And Alakamu's famous line is, "We must imagine Cisphus happy."
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>> That this pointless pursuit.
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Uh that he finds joy in the process of doing it.
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>> So I grew up only knowing sort of the courage of the persistence.
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You're resilient, endure, get up, dust yourself off, go.
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The problem with that,
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the Achilles heel with
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that is if you get up
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and you have the courage to keep on going every time
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and get up and dust yourself off,
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you make the same mistakes each time around cuz you never backed up to
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have what I've now learned
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and still learning is the courage to go,
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"No, I'm going to let some people pass me in the race right now
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cuz I'm going to look at why I keep stepping in
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that damn same pothole
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and twisting my ankle.
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The same spot. why I keep failing
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when I try to get
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that next spot in this relationship
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or failing in this place to get this product of my craft to the
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next.
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>> Would that be uh the relinquishing of the romcom era in in a
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a small part for you?
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>> Small part?
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Yeah.
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>> Yeah, it was definitely courageous.
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I did I did honestly think I'd written myself a one-way ticket out of
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Hollywood. people close to me.
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Basically almost everybody besides my wife was like, "What is your major malfunction,
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little brother?
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You got it made.
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Why Why are you throwing a jack knife in this?
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You're tripping yourself running downhill, man.
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You You You did it."
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And I had my wife
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and myself to remind myself of
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that 4:00 a.m. clarity
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that I had in tears
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when I was like,
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"No, I'm I'm I'm I'm rolling the dice.
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I'm sticking with it."
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Yeah, man.
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I did think I wrote myself a ticket out of Hollywood.
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I did look at other vocations, become a teacher, a wildlife guide.
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I seriously looked at those things.
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But over time, and it was about 20 months, it was gone long enough.
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Had found anonymity enough.
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Was not in your living room in a theater in a romcom.
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You didn't see him on a beat shirtless.
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Where is he?
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Turning down the $14.5 million offer.
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Many people go, "Oh what's he up to?"
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They don't just you don't just step out of Hollywood
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and unless you get you turn
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that down cuz you got a plan.
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You got somewhere you want to go.
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And I think that made me more attractive as a new novel idea.
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But that was yeah
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that risk took a I think it's fair to say
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that took a fair amount of courage from me.
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>> We often see resistance
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as a form of failure
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and something that we should endeavor to avoid.
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You think about the avoidance of like people building families
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or even many people consider
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that we're living in a bit of a comfort crisis.
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This is slightly a different sort of analogy
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but most of the diseases
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that we have today whether they're diseases of I don't know the mind like
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you know people feeling lonely
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and isolated or physical diseases 80% of Americans getting back pain
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but no one in the Had tribe in Africa getting back pain they're all
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a consequence of us continually choosing comfort >> y >>
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which is a short-term friend
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but long-term enemy and resistance I think is um is something increasingly we can
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choose opt out of >> oh
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and and we we've outconvenienced oursel What's AI going to do to us?
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Talk about convenience.
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How much, and I want to keep hearing studies.
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I wonder if you have an opinion on this.
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How much of you coming up with an idea
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and then writing and rewriting it,
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thinking about it.
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No, no, no, no.
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That's not ex Oh, no.
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This is what I really mean.
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And how to get How much of
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that is really valuable to get it beyond just an intellectual idea?
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more valuable than just going ah there it is
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because what comes out of it incredibly impressive my hunch is
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that yeah we can use it for like signpost to help us oh that's
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good organ that oh help thank you for helping me organize
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but there's a value to us going through the sweat equity of learning something
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>> but I mean yeah I mean for through history people like Richard Fryman
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the physicist has said the best way to learn something is to learn it
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and and then to go through the pain of writing it,
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condensing it down to a simple truth like you do
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so often in your new book poems
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and prayers and then sharing it with the world
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and then getting the feedback
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and if if the world understood it like you meant it like
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that poem you just shared you you understand it that's evidence
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that you get it >> right >>
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so I think AI is going to be great for me saying something to
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you but not learning something myself
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and I think if you know
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if you want to defend creativity
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and innovation and the ability to think you actually have a huge opportunity
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which is to go left
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when everyone's going right.
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>> Well, now we're going into I have that I got that thing in there.
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I said, "What what's better?
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Take eight.
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Take eight eight big risks in life.
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Sin once, miss the mark once, but get seven, achieve seven,
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seven out of eight or take a 100 risk >> and achieve eight of them."
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My hunch is that there's a God,
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he's saying go for the hundred
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and get eight >> rather than eight
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and get seven.
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Mhm.
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>> Is you're not take
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if you're not taking enough risk to sin
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or miss the mark,
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which is what sin means to fail.
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>> What are you doing?
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Don't come back with even money.
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Come back with a safe bet,
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which that can become a sort of recessive peace, namaste.
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No, it's a it's a it's almost a it's I don't think it's what
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the mystics meant when they were like be disattached.
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M think go embrace
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but for highs and lows
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and pains and pleasures understand
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that those outward things are not the things to be attached to for your
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own identity.
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It's got to be inward first.
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Enjoy those.
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Partake, but don't become attached to those for your measure without complacency.
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Trust that time is on your side.
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>> What do you mean that?
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>> Yeah, man.
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Don't get ahead or behind it.
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and then I can get in a rush
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and I haven't found look
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and I know how to hustle
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and let's go.
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The clock's ticking.
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We're all behind.
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All hands on deck.
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We got to bust ass.
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No time for pause.
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There's no sleep, no nothing.
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Get the caffeine out.
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Let's go.
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>> Sometimes we got to do that.
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But that is usually
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because an unforeseen circumstance has happened
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that there's a crisis we got to deal with
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or we've uh procrastinated
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and I put myself in
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that position where I got we got to cram.
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But it's not those two circumstances.
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We got to watch oursel getting ahead of time and it's on your side.
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It's a little what I mean about the living longer and living more quality.
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Time's on our side
14:47
and we're forced to think
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and feel especially today with how fast things move
14:53
that more productivity,
14:54
faster pace, more information, faster pace, it's better.
14:57
We're we're we're ahead of we're ahead of of time a lot.
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It's the John Wooden, a great basketball coach for UCLA.
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Be quick, but don't be in a hurry.
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That was his note to the his basketball players.
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Like, be quick, but don't be in a hurry.
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You will miss things.
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You know, it's it's it's it's the Lego set, man.
15:17
And you sit there and you get in a rush.
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You don't read the directions.
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You get to the end and you've got 12 pieces left and you're like,
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"Shit."
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Because you got in a hurry. you got ahead of time instead of just
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that feeling of I've checked out what I need to do
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and it's all adding up
15:30
and this thing's built right
15:31
and the foundation's right
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and boom there's the last piece
15:33
that fits voila was with time's on our side it's not an enemy the
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end death is not the enemy I do believe
15:43
that part of you know not in a rush to get there
15:46
and we can stave we want to stave it off sometimes
15:49
and that it can be a screaming fight
15:51
and partially denial can help us get there.
15:54
I understand that.
15:54
But still, it's on her side.
15:56
It's going to happen.
15:57
And since it's going to happen and there's that's non-negotiable.
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Might as well go, well,
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I'm not going to rush to try
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and make more of it than there is.
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I want to try
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and spend the time I got
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as well as I can produce succeed,
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achieve all whatever those things are,
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but also at a pace
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that I'm me that I
16:23
that I that I like I like the dance to.
16:25
I I I like the give and the take.
16:27
I like the reverb.
16:28
I like the the the the cause
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and effect of how things are happening at this pace.
16:33
Like start now.
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That doesn't mean time's on my side.
16:36
Yeah, dude.
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Inchy.
16:39
When it happens, it'll happen.
16:40
No.
16:41
Like, wake up.
16:44
The clock's ticking.
16:46
It's on your side now.
16:47
Just move with it.
16:48
Dance with it. put some soul with the the facts.
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