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00:00:00 ◼   ► I'm Ike hi are you ready to be proactive [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► and sharpen the saw to synergize our [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► win-win solution today's the day today's [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► the day seven Habits of Highly Effective [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► People there was there was a couple of [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► things that I was interested in talking [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► about today one was you're surprisingly [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► compelling 24-hour death stream oh did [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► you like that yeah I did like that very [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► much [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► so you had a new video in the CGT be [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► great doom and gloom series that came [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► out I think of it in my head I feel like [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► it was very optimistic but okay the idea [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► of living forever I'm not sure if it was [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► supposed to be in a way that I was [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► completely comfortable with but you you [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► going alongside this video was a 24 hour [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► livestream of an accurate representation [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► of how many people died on earth in a [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► day and it was fascinating it was like [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► on in my house for like 45 minutes just [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► in the background like I started [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► watching it and then I just kind of [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► walked away from the TV and it was [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► playing and like I look back it's like [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► 5,000 I was like oh no that's enough it [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► was it was too much to come back and see [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► the numbers just getting bigger and [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► bigger a little pile of skulls getting [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► bigger and bigger yeah it was good that [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► was a great idea it's one of those [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► things that actually it end up coming [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► out of a technical limitation so I have [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► this idea originally of like okay I like [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► this idea of this 24 hours of death as a [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► visual representation of what's occurred [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► like how do you how do you convey the [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► magnitude of this thing because if you [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► just you just say a big number like it [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► means nothing [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► to people whereas I feel like oh but [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► together a little video like this it has [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► more of a chance of having an impact you [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► know any exactly that way that that you [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► say like you start watching it and then [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► you come back later and it's like oh my [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► right eye well while I was watching the [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► dish's 10,000 people died right yeah and [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► so it's it has it has an impact it drove [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► it home right that it was like I could [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► just watch this mesmerizing animation [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► where someone was getting their head cut [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► off every time every second and they [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► were bursting into flames I think this [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► is what was occurring oh my apologies [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► let's get the clothes of deaf correct I [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► guess yeah but say I had this idea like [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► okay I wanted to do this and you know [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► we're like putting together like this 24 [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► hour long file and go to upload it to [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► YouTube and I get a great great YouTube [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► error message which is surprise videos [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► are not allowed to be longer than 12 [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► hours mm-hmm it's like huh [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► that's interesting because I know for a [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► fact that there are videos on YouTube [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► which are hundreds of hours long like [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► there's there are definitely videos that [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► are super long but it turns out that at [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► some point in the past YouTube made a [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► decision that they had enough of this [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► tomfoolery with long videos and they [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► decided to reduce the the absolute limit [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► down to 12 hours which is also longer [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► than any video and YouTube should be [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► twelve hours is too long like why I mean [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► I know you've found a reason for it [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► right I was gonna say I have a very good [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► reason why I would like a video that's [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► longer than twelve hours thank you right [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► but it shouldn't be because no one's [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► watching that but actually I'm [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► interested to know what your retention [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► graphs are like on those videos well we [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► can get into that later but so anyway I [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► was I was super annoyed about this [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► because I was like goddammit like I [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► don't want to I don't want to break a [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► thing up into two parts like I know that [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► I'm going to have to break it up into [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► two parts but then I feel like that it [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► makes it not as as good when you're [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► uploading it for the first time and so I [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► was spinning this around in in my head [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► and then like talking with some people [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► a few people mentioned the suggestion of [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► actually like hey can you get around [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► this by live-streaming the thing and I [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► was like wait a minute yes there is [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► there is no limit on how long a live [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► stream can be so that's what I ended up [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► doing was okay I can get around this [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► technical limit by making it live and [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► then as soon as I realized that I [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► thought oh it actually works better if [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► it's live it's way back because people [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► can't skip ahead alright like people [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► can't just jump and it's buzzy yeah [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► right there is this thing that this is [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► what I found so compelling about it [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► there was a thing on the internet that [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► was showing me how many people were [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► dying like it's morbid but like a car [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► crash television right like you kind of [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► you know it's there you can't help but [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► look [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► mmm-hmm right and I kept checking in [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► every now and then just to see how big [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► the pile of skulls was like it was you [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► know and like and I kind of had it in my [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► mind to make sure to look before I ended [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► right like I kind of I knew it sighted [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► it around like 11:00 a.m. my time or [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► something so kind of it was like 10:30 [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► or whatever and I just checked it and it [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► was like old man but like it it kind of [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► had that effect of it of like there is [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► this thing that's happening which is [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► showing this how can I not [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► at least look at it so I think they [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► worked really well it's a great idea [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► well yeah I'm pretty pleased with the [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► way that came out in the end I think [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► that ended up being like much more [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► interesting than the video itself in a [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► way I was just doing this this live [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► stream so I'm pretty happy with the way [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► it with the way it came out yeah I liked [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► the video but I was more interested in [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► the in the live stream part like that [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► was more exciting to me [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► yeah the live stream part is definitely [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► the more interesting part and and yeah [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► so it was I'm still annoyed that I [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► wasn't able to upload the whole thing as [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► one continuous file so I did have to end [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► up uploading there like the final [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► conversion has two pieces I thought you [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► could set a live stream as a video like [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► you can just have it available you can [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► but it will only save the last four [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► hours oh that's silly yeah so we just [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► also interesting when I realize like I [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► know people do 24 hour long like charity [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► fundraisers and it's like oh okay so [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► there's just no record of that there's [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► only a record of the last four hours of [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► that because yes that was originally my [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► thought was I was like hahaha [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► fooled you YouTube like I'll just save [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► the live stream and then ended like no [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► it's not gonna work it only saves the [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► last four hours but yeah so anyway this [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► is just an interesting case of a an [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► annoying technical limitation that I [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► still genuinely wish wasn't there but [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► that nonetheless ended up turning into a [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► thing that is more interesting than it [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► would have otherwise been so I feel like [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► that it worked out in the end yeah [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► because if you published the video I [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► would just skip to the end right yeah [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► everybody would have yeah but speaking [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► of the audience retention graphs there's [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► a there's a very funny thing in those [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► audience retention graphs because there [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► are little Easter eggs throughout the 12 [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► hours I think there's something like 20 [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► little Easter eggs that occur and when I [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► loaded up the audience retention graphs [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► you can see the spikes no areas where [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► all the Easter eggs are how are people [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► finding them [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► well I think what's happening is someone [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► sees it and then they jump back a couple [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► seconds to say hey what did I just see [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► that thing that I thought I saw right [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► which then double counts the audience [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► retention in that spot and then people [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► leave comments I just saw Nicole are [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► jumping to those locations but it is [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► hilarious on the audience retention [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► graph you can see spikes for exactly [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► where every single one of the little [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► Easter eggs are so that's one morning [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► like there's like hey why the one at [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► 5:57 have a hound and why 7:51 did they [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► have a briefcase I like the supposed to [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► really needed to like they were upset [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► right like why why the why questions are [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► great and it is funny cuz when the [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► livestream first went up I did I didn't [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► enjoy all the comments where people were [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► saying things like what does it mean [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► like what does it mean I'll leave that [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► for you to speculate speculate away [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► about what if that's on you to work out [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► it's very profound but you've got to [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► figure it out yourself I'm looking at [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► these now I've got sucked into the [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► comments I want to see these two eggs [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► like we got a podcast a record last year [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► unless we record for 24 hours which I [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► don't think it's a good idea remember [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► then we won't be able to post it on [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► YouTube unless we live stream at 24 hour [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► long cortex which is not gonna happen [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► Mike do you know that you have become an [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► animated character on the internet [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► finally right finally yeah that I have [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► waited for a cartoon for years finally [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► there is a cartoon of me since I was a [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► kid I wanted to mike the cartoon and we [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► have it now there's a fantastic I found [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► this in the cortex subreddit um the [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► person who created this video posted it [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► hm butit is their YouTube channel I'll [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► put a link in the show notes and they [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► are putting together some fantastic [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► cortex animated videos which I am [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► enjoying immensely and I wanted people [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► to see them because I think it's really [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► great and that there's one of the [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► previous episode there's one of some [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► classic moments from all the episodes [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► and I love seeing stuff like this and [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► they really make me laugh and I enjoy [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► them immensely and you really like being [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► a cartoon character I love being a [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► cartoon character this person has an [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► almost spooky ability to capture [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► movements that I think I [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► make the way the way they animate my [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► movements when talking to you is a lot [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► of how I imagined they actually are so I [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► think it's brilliant the one of these [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► that I think is probably the best [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► version is from I think it was our very [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► first episode where we're talking about [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► the screen screens and home screen icons [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► and the the way they animate you when [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► you're when you're asking about what I [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► think about your home screen I think [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► it's just it's just perfect yes people [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► should go take a look at it like I think [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► if there's but whether or not the way it [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► is animated is the way it happens like [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► it adds something to the audio which [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► makes it sound like that's the way that [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► it happens so it's it's really well done [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► I'm always incredibly impressed by the [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► way that people make these types of [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► videos like I watch some for some of my [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► favorite shows mm-hmm you know that [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► there are some fantastic animated videos [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► for my brother my brother and me oh yeah [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► and it what I love about these types of [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► videos is the way that people hear a [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► thing they hear a thing but the way they [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► interpret it adds so much more to it [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► mm-hmm [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► and I fit such it is such an interesting [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► skill that people have to be able to [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► hear a sentence and pick out specific [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► words and make a joke about those words [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► in a way that was never originally [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► intended like it's it's so interesting [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► to see that and also like the the [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► kinetic nature of the videos is very [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► interesting to me the way that people [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► make the movements and they adjust the [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► audio to fit but it's I find it a very [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► interesting skill mm-hmm and I'm really [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► pleased to see something for our show [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► too because I love watching them for the [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► shows that I enjoy so I don't know it [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► means a lot to me that people make this [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► little stuff so one of the thing that [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► person and encouraged that people watch [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► them because they're really really fun [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► yeah it's it's it's great stuff it's [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► it's a huge amount of work I can't even [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► imagine oh yeah oh yeah I can't imagine [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► how much work it is and it is always a [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► funny experience especially to see like [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► a good joke added to a thing that you [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► yourself have said I was like oh I'm [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► watching a thing that's an animation of [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► something that I have said and then here [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► is this extra layer that is put on top [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► of it which was not intended to be there [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► so it's it's good stuff it's a good [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► stuff so gray I've mentioned that I'm [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► going to be traveling a bunch [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► before the end of the year hmm and one [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► of the things I'm doing is pod con which [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► is odd cast version of VidCon which [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► maybe maybe just spark in many of our [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► listeners Minds what this is but it's [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► like a celebration of the creation of [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► podcasts and there's gonna be a lot of [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► live shows and panels and things like [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► that I'm gonna be there I now have a [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► here's where you'll find Mike Hurley [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► schedule so very excited I can put in [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► the show notes because I'm doing a [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► couple of things I'm doing some panels [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► and some roundtables and stuff like that [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► as you should be your big men on podcast [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► campus pod campus I think it would be [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► called the campus yeah sure I just [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► wanted to mention one thing that if [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► people are gonna be there I'm gonna be [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► doing a signing at pod Con oh yeah so [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► you're gonna be there at a booth yeah [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► both people are gonna bring up things [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► for you to sign maybe I don't know what [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► that would be I guess what do I sign [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► Mike Hurley merchandise people's iPods [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► yeah so I'm gonna be their sign their [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► beards I don't know how that works yeah [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► I guess I'm beard oil I don't know but [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► December 10th it's gonna be at pod Con I [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► think you have you have to be an [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► attendee to be there and I am looking [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► forward to it does look like a really [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► interesting event like the whole shit [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► was something now but I'm gonna be at a [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► booth in the signing area and everything [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► and I wanted to just let people know [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► about this I've never done anything like [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► this before [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► is is what I'm getting it here and I [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► don't really know it was Mike kind of I [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► don't really know what to expect so I [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► want to make sure that if you're gonna [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► be a pod con and you want to come and [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► see me please do and I'm gonna have I'm [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► gonna make this poster print for people [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► that come there will be a poster that I [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► will sign and give to you are you [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► bribing the people Mike it sounds like [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► more of an incentive oh it's an [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► incentive incentive there will be a [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► poster that I'm currently working on [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► with a very talented artist and I may be [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► able to share the artwork beforehand [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► just because I think it's probably gonna [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► be amazing it's this person's awesome I [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► don't think you should I think you [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► should keep the artwork secret for the [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► people who are going to be showing up to [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► see I was thinking about like taking a [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► picture of it in such a way that you [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► couldn't use it for anything like my [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► hand is there right but [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► say you know the amazingness that is [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► gonna be bestowed upon you right that [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► you will get okay I'm gonna suggest a [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► different tack uh-huh you should take a [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► picture that just shows them a corner of [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► the poster yeah that's good I like that [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► so you can understand how great it's [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► gonna be but you don't get it I'm trying [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► to help you I like it [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► bribe the people to come Mike so this is [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► this is my suggestion show a corner of [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► the poster I will do that but yeah I'm [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► genuinely very excited for pod con [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► because this is a thing that I've wanted [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► to exist for a while and the schedule [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► looks great and I'm excited to go as an [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► attendee and as somebody who's gonna be [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► involved in a few things so mm-hmm but [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► yeah if you're gonna be there please [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► come to my signing you'll get a poster [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► and it will make me very happy signings [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► man like if you have a dollar signing [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► you have write something like that [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► technically yes that there was there was [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► there's one case where I ended up doing [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► a thing that was kind of assigning but [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► it was it was a very special set of [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► circumstances it was though [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► yeah the random acts of intelligence [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► show down in Alabama it was like I think [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► that it was like a very elite group of [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► people who were there so that is that is [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► the one that is the one time I've done [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► it but it also I I have I have great [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► sympathy for you Mike because in that [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► situation you didn't have the nerve of [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► like is anyone going to go to the [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► signing because there were just five of [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► us there and it's like these people are [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► here to see us so we know that if we go [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► outside and do signings we're not gonna [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► look like sad sad OHS who are just all [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► are on our own but if you're at a big [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► conference it's a very different thing [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► and like you don't know how much of your [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► audience is going to be at like the [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► core-tex [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► audience like you know it would be a [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► long line if everybody was was going to [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► a mic signing but the question is how [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► many are going to pod con and so I [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► that's understand right like I can [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► understand cold sweats in your hands [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► right where it's like like mic mic could [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► fill a stadium full of people that we [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► got all the core-tex people there but [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► how many go to pod con right [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► knows like what it's going to look like [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► so I I completely understand your your [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► desire to bribe slash encourage people [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► to go so I think that I think that's a [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► good method tease the people with the [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► excitement of what they get it a mic [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► signing and to any cortex listeners if [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► you go into pod con make sure to see mic [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► make sure to bring your beard oil this [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► episode of cortex is brought to you by [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► fresh books hey freelancers you know [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► Homer point is to make smart decisions [TS]

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00:15:59 ◼   ► also want to save time too well by [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► simplifying tasks like invoicing [TS]

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00:16:24 ◼   ► then open it and do anything with it [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► this puts an end to the guessing games [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► of whether somebody has looked at an [TS]

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00:16:38 ◼   ► can see how quickly things happen when [TS]

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00:17:05 ◼   ► have to do is go to fresh books complex [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► and enter cortex in the how did you hear [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► about a section so they know that you [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► came to them from this show just before [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► I recorded this [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► I was actually sending some invoices [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► with fresh books I really love this [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► system if you send invoices to anybody I [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► thoroughly recommend it to you and I [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► really really really insist that you [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► give it a go fresh books calm such [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► cortex thanks for fresh books for their [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► support of this show and really have [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► them all right gray I think that we're [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► effectively warmed up at this point to [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► discuss the book the cortex book club [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► the seven Habits of Highly Effective [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► People [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► now I have had this on my list since the [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► very beginning of our show right this [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► has been something that I have wanted to [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► talk about I've never read this book [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► before but I like many people are very [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► aware of this as an idea that there is a [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► book called the seven Habits of Highly [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► Effective People I'm pretty sure I've [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► had some of it mentioned to me during [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► management training courses back in my [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► old life right like this is I mean [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► what's it like 20 million 15 million [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► copies sold or something I was looking [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► it up this morning and yeah it's it's 25 [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► million copies sold and it's something [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► like one of the top 20 best-selling [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► business books of all time it's it's a [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► it's a mammoth giant in this field this [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► is the one when it comes to these types [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► of books you know like like we spoken [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► about the e-myth revisited right like we [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► spoke about the only I think that all of [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► these books are just trying to be the [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► next seven Habits like this is like an [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► entire empire there are many spin-off [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► books there's like whole business up [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► around it like it is it is a big thing [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► yeah there's like seven Habits for the [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► teenage chicken soup soul like there's [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► met you know a whole mini there's many [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► spin-offs of this my favorite one the [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► eight habit as I uh hang on a second how [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► many are there is there an infinite [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► amount of habits now well people keep [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► buying books yes there are an infinite [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► number of habits yeah yeah yeah sure [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► what I want to do is I want to go [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► through each of the habits and give a [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► very brief outline of them and then we [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► can talk about if and how they apply to [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► our working lives even you know before [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► or after but I wanted to kind of talk [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► about the book and the abstract a little [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► bit more so you had read this before [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► right they keep this isn't your first [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► time this is my first time with the book [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► but it isn't yours right yeah no this is [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► not my first time at this rodeo and it's [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► and it is why when we were mentioning [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► that this was coming up in the last [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► episode I think I think people could [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► hear that there was some hesitation in [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► my voice to finally committing to doing [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► this thing that you have been bugging me [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► for years to do yeah so I I read this a [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► long time ago and [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► I was charming I kept trying to remember [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► but I'm pretty sure that I read this [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► book along with a bunch of other books [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► in the genre before I ended up finding [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► getting things done which was the book [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► that really worked for me you were [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► looking for something right and none of [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► these books gave you that yeah like I [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► remember reading a book about eating a [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► frog there's a whole bunch of books that [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► are like these well-known things and and [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► this was one of these books and yeah I'm [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► 95% sure that I read it before I read [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► getting things done a long time ago [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► back when I was a very different person [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► so yes I I have read this book and upon [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► rereading it much of it came rushing [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► back and and so much of it was [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► surprising and new let's let's say that [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► so yeah reread the book finished it not [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► 30 minutes before we started recording [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► today so I finish it yesterday [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► yeah just like just like homework in [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► real life where if a thing had to get [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► done I was gonna do it in the class [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► before the class when it was due that is [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► essentially what I did this morning is [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► like man I timed it right down to a 30 [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► minute buffer of when I could finish [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► this book and I got it done just on time [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► let's just pull back the cone a little [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► bit more we're recording this episode [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► like three days later than we were [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► supposed to I wouldn't have got the book [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► done in time so I was kind of pretty [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► happy about that yeah yeah that is that [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► is also the case I had some last-minute [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► travel plans that messed up our [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► recording schedule but it was also a [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► thing I like happy for her and they ever [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► gonna finish this book in time I had [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► like seven hours to go Davis it's long [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► it's really long it's really long I want [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► to say though right this book was not as [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► bad as I thought it was going to be I [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► will say that like it is frustrating at [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► times and I want to talk about some of [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► those frustrations in a bit more detail [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► but I was not infuriated listening to [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► this book like I was the e-myth [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► revisited which by the way if you've [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► never heard that episode of the show [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► it's one of my favorites [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► yeah yeah it's it's it's a it's a really [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► good one to start with if ya if you're [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► like recommending people come to the [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► show like I think that's probably a [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► great starting spot even if people [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► haven't read the book I'll put a link in [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► the show notes to that episode it was [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► episode 21 January of last year I [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► thought it was longer than that but yeah [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► journey of last year episode 21 the myth [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► revisited I recommend that one if you've [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► not heard it I'll actually say if you [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► recommend someone for the show but [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► anyway I actually found this book [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► interesting at times and sometimes [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► useful in a way that like a myth I took [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► one thing from it there was one thing [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► and I think this book it has more to it [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► than that I can actually was reading it [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► can be like okay I know why this got as [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► popular as it did like I have a lot of [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► problems with it [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► but on the whole there is good [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► information in this book and it isn't it [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► isn't infuriating like I wasn't [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► screaming at my phone like I was when I [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► was listening to e-myth yeah you you [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► were really frustrated I hated that book [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► it was it was everything I don't like [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► about that type of thing that book had [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► oh but like you know I couldn't I would [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► have to take breaks right like if I was [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► gonna sit down and listen to it for [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► three hours I had to take a break like [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► every 45 minutes cuz it there's just [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► only so much of this I can take [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► right like I feel like it's just my [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► brain is being filled up with mostly [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► nonsense for a while right and I can I [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► haven't it to like chill for a bit but [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► I've found this one I was like going [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► like I'm making more notes than I [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► thought I would make mostly for me so um [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► this book I can see why it is a big [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► thing I can see why it why people really [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► really like what it has to say hmm [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► that's interesting to hear because part [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► of my memory of the book and one of the [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► reasons why I didn't feel like I wanted [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► to read it again is because my my review [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► when people have asked me about it has [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► always been it's one good idea in a [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► thousand pages this this was my memory [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► from having read the book the first time [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► and so it was is interesting to like [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► read it again and see like does this [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► hold up or does this not hold up and [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► upon rereading this book [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► I feel like this book defeated my soul I [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► feel really huh beaten down from reading [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► this book so I feel like we're having a [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► little bit of opposite reactions with a [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► myth and this one because a nemeth I [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► felt like like I kept was defending [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► e-myth I'm like yeah that's crazy but [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► there's some good ideas in here right [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► whereas whereas with this one like I [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► think you could play the audio book of [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► of this as a method of torture right to [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► just make people divulge information by [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► just looping it in their cell over an [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► interesting okay I will say like there [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► is a huge chunk of this book that I [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► think is pointless yeah I mean as with [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► all these books it could be dramatically [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► shortened oh yeah oh but more but more [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► than that like so even though this book [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► totally defeated me I also have the [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► understanding of like I I can see why [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► this book was such a such a mammoth book [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► but my takeaway is this book is almost [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► like like a Rorschach test like people [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► will it's so they in so many places that [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► you can I think people can just kind of [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► read into it their own their own [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► situations but that like the amount of [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► actual actionable material struck me as [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► like incredibly small and and when I [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► felt like I was reading was a like a [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► Productivity book Markov chain like like [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► this is just like an automatic AI [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► generated endless string sentence of [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► words in a Productivity book that your [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► brain is constantly struggling to pull [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► meaning out of and to find connections [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► to and it just never ends okay just goes [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► on forever and when I say that this book [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► defeated me that the thing that was has [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► like I started reading the book and I [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► like read up to habit number two which [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► is sort of most of what I had remembered [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► from from before and then I realized [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► like I'm reading this book but the [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► reading is in quotes where I'm just [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► pressing forward on the Kindle like not [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► not even skimming but it's just like [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► flip flip flip because my brain is this [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► like trying to get through this thing [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► like hey [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► just let's just turn some pages and then [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► we'll focus on the words in a little bit [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► and it's like a pickup at another spot [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► it's like oh god I can't stand this so I [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► always make fun of you for reading the [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► audiobook but I had to buy the audiobook [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► because I was aware that at a certain [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► point like I I physically cannot read [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► this book there is there is no way I can [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► force my eyes to look at the words and [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► have them and have the meaning go into [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► my head it was just completely [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► impossible so I switched to the [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► audiobook which I never recommend people [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► do for this kind of boto and then I felt [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► like I was being brainwashed for six [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► more hours so it's like I I feel like I [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► have come out of an experience somewhat [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► traumatized and I'm gonna I'm gonna give [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► a no recommend to this book but I'm very [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► happy to talk about some of the habits [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► and the ideas that are contained inside [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► of it but I I cannot think of a book in [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► the genre that I can now say that I like [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► less than this book a kiss book is the [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► worst book it's put a pin in that for [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► one second because I have a theory but I [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► wanted to say about the audiobook mm-hmm [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► I know that the audio books are torture [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► but the reason I do it is because I can [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► integrate it into my life right yeah [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► yeah I don't have to like take the time [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► to sit and read the book because I don't [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► do a lot of sitting and reading time in [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► this way right but like I can be [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► traveling as I have been and listen I [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► can be playing stardew valley and listen [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► so that's why I do this right like I I [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► do that because it I can integrate the [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► audio book into my working life and [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► personal life [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► easier than I can the physical book or [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah I completely understand [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► that and that's what I was doing as well [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► like I've been I've been traveling a [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► whole bunch and so it's like okay great [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► while I'm standing on line at security [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► right I can hear about how we're gonna [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► synergize our plus-one ideas and it's [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► great [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► but I also found that at a certain point [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► just like I was no longer reading the [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► book I was simply not listening to the [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► audiobook and so what I ended up the [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► final the final stage in my journey of I [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► have to read this so I can talk about it [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► at least a little bit on a podcast was [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► no joke [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► listening to the audiobook while looking [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► at the Kindle version was was the only [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► news it was like the only way I could [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► force the words to mean things in my [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► head because I was aware I guess after a [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► while even with the audiobook it's like [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► I can't I can't listen so I had the [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► weird experience towards the end of [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► audiobook cranked up to like two and a [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► half X which is about my reading speed [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► and then like quote reading through the [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► book while the audiobook is playing in [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► my head so that that's how I finished [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► the book this morning so here is my [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► theory I have a theory about this which [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► I kind of decided on pretty early and it [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► helped me get through this book okay [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► this book was published in 1989 right my [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► theory is part of the reason that at [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► first I was finding it infuriating and [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► why I believe you find it infuriating is [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► this book feels like you take every [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► other productivity book ever written put [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► it into a blender and seven habits pops [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► out and I think it's the reverse of that [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► this was the book the start at a lot of [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► this stuff so so many of the things that [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► feel like tropes of terrible business [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► books because you've heard them a [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► million times because of this one so [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► like as when I started thinking about [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► that I approached this book differently [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► I was giving it more leeway because this [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► book isn't trying to be annoying I am [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► annoyed by this book because every [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► marketing book business book a [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► management material ever made since 1989 [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► is trying a ripoff the seven habits and [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► when I kind of this is my theory when I [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► was able to accept that I was able to [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► give this book more leeway and that's [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► why I think I wasn't someone oyd about [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► it ya know you're totally right about [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► that IIIi think that that's not a theory [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► that that might as well just be like an [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► accepted fact in the universe right that [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► this like when you this is this is the [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► book that had to introduce the idea of [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► like paradigm shift into the into the [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► language right this is this is the book [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► that that raises the idea of synergy in [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► the language right it's the first book [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► that starts talking about all of that [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► stuff and Mike if my comparison for this [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► is is the example I always use but I [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► think of the the animated version of [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► ghost in the shell as a move [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► which is very hard for modern modern [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► audiences to watch because it's set up [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► every single science fiction trope for [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► the next thirty years so when you watch [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► the original it feels like this thing is [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► incredibly unoriginal because you've [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► you've seen all of the spin-offs and all [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► of the versions for the next 30 years on [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► it like without a doubt seven Habits [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► reading it now has that problem and [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► you've read so many more of these types [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► of books than I have so you have read [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► this book a hundred and fifty times but [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► my problem with it isn't that like it [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► isn't it isn't just that it's like yes [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► this this is this this endless blender [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► of random sentences from other books [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► because I was also thinking that very [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► much while I'm reading it it's like okay [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► this is the foundation of it but it [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► still felt like even even with that in [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► mind like when he's talking about these [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► various things there's just so little [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► there or the like the ideas don't even [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► make sense like his his whole chapter on [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► I just I pick up pick up on synergy just [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► as an example right because this is like [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► idea that has infected the business [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► world or people are always synergizing [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► their global strategies right but even [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► even that whole chapter is like even [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► here his eye his concept of synergy it's [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► not like oh the original person had a [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► great idea and it has it isn't it has [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► since been distilled down to a [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► meaningless jargon word it's like no it [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► was born as a meaningless jargon yeah [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► like he's using it wildly and [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► consistently in a way that makes no [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► sense across a whole bunch of different [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► analogies so so that's why I don't feel [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► like ah this thing was the thing that [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► started it and it got mutated over time [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► it's like it was it was born in this [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► inconsistent horrific way yeah so yeah [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► there are so many buzz words and phrases [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► in this book he creates the by the end [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► of it you feel like you're in a bowl of [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► soup like so I've this is this is from [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► habit 7 this was a note that's this at [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► the end right so I've made this note and [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► I say by the point in this book there [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► are so many buzzwords that he uses that [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► it is almost impossible to distinguish [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► them from each other right yeah so I'll [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► give a few of these when we may talk [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► about them emotional bank account PC [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► balance intra dependence interdependence [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► personal renewal daily private victory [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► synergize win-win solutions by the end [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► of the book he is throwing these words [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► like candy and to the point that you're [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► like does this word actually exist I [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► believe by the end of this book that the [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► word intro dependence existed because [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► it's like I've heard it so many times [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► now that it must be true and it is the [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► intro dependence is the idea of working [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► with others so instead of being [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► independent you're interdependent [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► it's either inter or intra I also [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► couldn't understand it because here's [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► another thing I have a problem with [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► basically all business books I'm almost [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► convinced this is my lover of my [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► theories coming out of this book I am [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► always convinced that audiobook [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► narrators are the people narrating [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► audiobooks this one is narrated by [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► stephen r.covey the guy who wrote the [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► book that they pronounce words weirdly [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► just to make sure that you're paying [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► attention yes yes there's a few of those [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► in here or it's like this is a normal [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► word dude in a way I've never heard [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► before he goes rooms it's like the [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► longest word with a V in it it's like I [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► don't understand what you're doing like [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► they said some words that nobody says [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► them like this I am convinced that they [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► do this just so you pay attention [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► because you're like I don't understand [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► the word that he just used it's my [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► blowing a couple of months so I'm now [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► getting worked up now so here a couple [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► more frustrations about this book the [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► first habit begins at two hours and 22 [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► minutes in I have the unabridged it's [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► again don't know why I do this but my [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► version includes a foreword which is [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► mind blowing Lee just up in the [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► stratosphere where he's talking about [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► his son and I just can't believe it's [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► true like like with many of these [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► stories there are many stories in this [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► book where I'm like okay coffee that [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► does that didn't happen something like [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► that may have happened but that didn't [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► happen and the idea is that his son was [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► failing in everything he was terrible at [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► school [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► terrible F athletics just couldn't get [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► anything right in his life they started [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► to apply the seven Habits to him before [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► they became the seven Habits right like [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► they just tried to change their behavior [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► and he ended up being the most popular [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► kid in school homecoming king twice [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► grade-a valedictorian and the captain of [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► the football team right anyone the Nobel [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► Prize [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► no I did a little bit of investigation [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► and his son was a successful American [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► football player mm-hmm but I don't [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► believe the rest of it like I can't [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► maybe he was all of those things but [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► beforehand was not failing unpopular and [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► couldn't run but like I just can't in my [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► mind believe that this is true and the [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► thing is they may be true if it is [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► whatever but when you read these books [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► you like this can't be because you know [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► there are lies throughout this book he [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► also found a magical hotel by the way [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► which is like well oh my god yes I have [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► that highlighted we can get to that [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► later [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► but yeah this is one of the things that [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► I didn't remember about the book at all [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► and I was astounded on there on the [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► reread is everything relates to his [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► children and his family it's it was [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► astounding how much of this book is [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► focused around marriage yeah so many [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► things like this is a business book but [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► like honestly the major focus of these [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► seven habits is applying them to your [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► family life and I was like what is this [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► book like this was it was so different [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► to what I was expecting in that way [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► everything is to do with his family even [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► like delegating his son to mow the lawn [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► right like oh my god the mowing the lawn [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► story yeah but but this this is exactly [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► the kind of thing where it's just like I [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► don't I don't believe these stories that [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► you're telling about your children like [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► oh yeah because they're he's always [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► telling stories about some kind of Leave [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► It to Beaver perfect family where [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► they're just they're having [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► conversations and then people just [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► realize oh I understand everything now [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► and and like stuff just works out [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► perfectly fine even when it doesn't [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► there's something's I'm like it's the [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► stories are crazy there's one that I [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► highlighted as to me a perfect example [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► like I'm sorry the this story didn't [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► happen where I don't know if you [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► remember this one but he's talking about [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► not wanting to go see Star Wars with his [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► daughter and yeah and and the daughter [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► says Oh dad all right I know you don't [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► like Star Wars you've slept through [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► before right you don't you don't want to [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► see this movie and then and then his [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► daughter was like how old is the [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► daughter in this story which [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► she says quote but you know why you [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► don't like Star Wars it's because you [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► don't understand the philosophy and [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► training of a Jedi Knight right what I [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► said you know you know the things you [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► teach dad those those same things you [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► teach are the training of a Jedi Knight [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► and then I said really let's go see Star [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► Wars and we did she sat next to me and [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► gave me the new paradigm I became her [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► student her learner [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► it was totally fascinating and I could [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► begin to see out of the new paradigm the [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► whole way a Jedi Knights basic [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► philosophy and training is manifested in [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► different circumstances right it's like [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► this didn't happen this there's no way [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► that your daughter's like let me tell [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► you about the philosophy and training of [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► a Jedi Knight because also like this [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► movie is taking place in the 80s like [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► this is this did not happen there is no [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► way that your daughter was like let me [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► explain to you how what Jedi Knights do [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► is exactly what you do dad you're just [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► like a Jedi company or a Jedi yeah we [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► wanted to be a Jedi as well this is all [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► about I read that story because that one [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► is particularly yeah but but just [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► imagine like every single page there is [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► some quick story about his family and [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► like learning things from his children [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► or or teaching things to his children in [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► ways that when you're on the 100th one [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► of them like this is not believable like [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► this is crazy I think the worst one for [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► me is this is towards the end of the [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► book he's talking about how him and his [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► family took a year away to Hawaii oh my [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► god yeah [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► and he talks about how you know the kids [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► would go to school and then he would [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► pick them up on like it's got like a [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► honda trail master or something trail [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► cycle which is a motorbike where he said [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► to all four of the family got on the [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► bike and would drive like i would sit on [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► my wife would sit behind me kids been [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► between us and one of them when my knee [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► is like wow no it's like you circus [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► performers what are you doing well that [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► that kind of description to me reads [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► like a thing where when you're a [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► psychologist and you start to unwind [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► with someone false memories that they [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► have knows like oh yeah we were all [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► yeah it's like no that can't possibly [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► have been the case right let's let's [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► start comparing this against real-world [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► things like there's no way that you were [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► doing this in the way that you're [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► describing and then he would talk about [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► how they would sit on the beach and just [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► talk for hours right like that every [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► single day and then he's talk telling [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► the story about how his wife would only [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► buy Frigidaire appliances which it's a [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► company right they make like white goods [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► and stuff mmm and if this was apparently [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► a sore spot in their marriage because [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► she would insist on these Frigidaire [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► appliances and for some reason this [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► caused huge problems with tons of [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► emotional baggage that because every [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► time they needed to buy an appliance [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► they had to go to the next town and they [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► both were just dreading this [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► conversation was coming and every time [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► it came it was like the end of their [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► marriage and they had so much trouble [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► with it and then she happened to [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► remember that her father's business was [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► saved by Frigidaire how would you not [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► remember that [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► how would you why would you know you had [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► this like undying love for this company [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► and not remember it was because your [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► dad's business was saved by their [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► financing of their appliances yeah [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► and that again is an example of like [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► okay let's say that that story is is [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► true this is also like almost a classic [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► example of your wife is probably just [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► manufacturing a memory about a thing [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► that might have happened when she was [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► like it's so it's so weird it's so [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► strange so many and so like suffers from [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► this thing that all these books do why [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► give one example when you can list 20 [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► yeah yeah well give one example when you [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► can list why there now again I will [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► slightly in defense say that that in my [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► memory that the thing which we'll get to [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► it which I think was the one idea is the [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► one place that I think benefits from a [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► bunch of examples but most of the time [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► it totally doesn't and the the the [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► problem with a whole bunch of the [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► examples is they are all these just so [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► examples right it's like let me tell you [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► a thing and then [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► here's an imaginary story about how how [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► it perfectly solved this situation right [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► and it's like it's not a it's not a [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► real-life example of what to do like [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► just to contrast with getting things [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► done which again I will say I don't [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► think is a book which really holds up [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► anymore but one of the things I always [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► find hilarious in that book is David [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► Allen talks about the problems and [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► projects that you have and his problems [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► and projects are always like hilarious [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► rich person problem so he talks about [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► like like what's the first step to [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► building your next orchard right and [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► it's like well you know you need to you [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► need to do all it like it is there's [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► literally an example in the book at one [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► point right but but what I were like [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► what I will appreciate about that is ok [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► he may be giving a bunch of examples but [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► he works through like the specifics of [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► this thing of like here's here's a thing [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► like let's break down the way that [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► you're supposed to think about this [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► whereas this book feels like a like a [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► whole bunch of like parables about an [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► imaginary family that are vaguely [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► related to the ideas that he's pushing [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► in the book and it's like okay this is [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► my feeling throughout it is like there's [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► no action and if if you read the book [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► what you can also see and and what [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► really started to bother me is his [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► philosophy which there's a very weird [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► and very brief afterward which we [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► emphasize is this idea but I didn't [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► listen today afterward I got today on [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► that 7 haven't also come done I'm out [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► yeah but his philosophy in large part he [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► talks about like he's constantly talking [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► about making decisions to say to stay [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► constant with your principles right like [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► this is this is like over and over this [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► is the drumbeat is like this the secret [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► to living a good life is to have good [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► principles and stick to them all right [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► and and my frustration with that is like [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► yeah that's the whole problem right like [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► that like that's the hard thing to do is [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► to make the right decisions but so many [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► of these things are like you need to set [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► out some some ideas and then just stick [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► to them it's like dude just sticking to [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► them is the hard part and what I [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► absolutely love is in this ridiculous [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► story where he talks about having his [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► son mowing the lawn it is the author's [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► once in the entire book where he [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► explicitly not [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► like doing something is hard because his [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► kid promises to mow the lawn and then [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► doesn't and then when he calls his kid [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► out on it his kid cries and says oh dad [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► it's so hard and his in his internal [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► monologue he says like oh what's so hard [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► like you didn't do anything and then he [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► has one line in the whole book where he [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► says well the hard thing is sticking to [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► the principles right and then just blows [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► right past it and it's like you've got a [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► thousand pages upon which every page is [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► just like the secret to making good [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► decisions is to make good decisions and [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► it's like there's nothing here like [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► there's nothing here to talk about and [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► it's as weird thing about choices and [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► there is there is a moment which blows [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► my mind in the afterword at the very end [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► of the book which really sums it up [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► where he's talking about choices and he [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► literally literally just says something [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► like if your parents abused you as a [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► child that does not mean you have to [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► abuse your own children right you can [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► choose not to abuse your children and [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► it's like oh oh is that the problem like [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► people are just making them it's it's on [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► my grizzy alright like oh okay it's like [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► thank thanks for solving like these [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► these systemic societal problems by [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► telling people who do bad things not to [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► choose to do the bad things right it's [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► so yeah there are more examples of this [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► so one of the one of the many examples [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► of relationship advice in this book [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► there is somebody who came up to him at [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► the end of a conference many people come [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► up to coffee at the end of his speaking [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► engagements two stories oh my god yeah [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► was this the woman the nurse like who's [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► working with the old man or is this [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► another one it's guys like me and my [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► wife we don't love each other anymore oh [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► I have that highlighted too oh my god [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► it's a joke just love them but it's like [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► but we don't get a you just a lot you [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► just keep saying over and over again [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► just love them just love them and [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► they're saying that you know love is a [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► thing that is constructed by books and [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► it's not a real thing and all you have [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► to do is be attentive and it's it's like [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► okay the advice like there's probably [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► some interesting stuff in this advice [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► but the way that he gives it it's just [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► so we [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► like we just love them like he's that is [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► his advice just love them you just keep [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► saying over and over again until the [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► scales fall from the person's eyes and [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► they can finally see as part of coffees [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► teaching I think this is worth reading [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► word for word this this weird like how [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► to love how to love your wife thing it's [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► like okay listen there's like strap in [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► for a moment here yeah okay you got a [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► wild ride okay so so here's relationship [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► advice from Stephen Covey at one seminar [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► where I was speaking on the concept of [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► productivity a man came up and said [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► Stephen I like what you're saying but [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► every situation is so different look at [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► my marriage I'm really worried my wife [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► and I just don't have the same feelings [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► for each other that we used to I guess I [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► just don't love her anymore and she [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► doesn't love me what can I do love her I [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► replied I told you the feeling just [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► isn't there anymore love her you don't [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► understand the feeling of love just [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► isn't there then love her if the feeling [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► isn't there that's a good reason to love [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► her but how do you love when you don't [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► love my friend love is a verb love the [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► feeling is the fruit of love the verb so [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► love her end of chapter but like but [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► that that is another version of the same [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► story that gets told too many times [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► which is like just choose to do the [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► better thing and it's like okay thanks [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► thanks man I'll be sure to do that it [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► that that one is that one is is just [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► astounding yeah but there's many people [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► at conferences and children and like [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► these these are all like tropes of this [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► genre but this one has so many weird [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► ones and it's like by the end I start [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► feeling almost personally offended by [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► the constant refrain of just do the [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► thing that will make your life better [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► and it's like screw you buddy like that [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► is that is not an answer like that is [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► not an action right you can't like the [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► way to love your wife is just love her [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► right like okay [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► let's talk about the habits I have more [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► of these things to talk about as we go [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► through by when we start talking about [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► the habits Liz if we don't start talking [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► about the habit whenever we will never [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► stop but we'll never get to them so let [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► lets let's go through that again [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► I wanted to state my position I am [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► infuriated by all of these things I'm so [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► angry about the things that happen in [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► this book like that but I didn't find [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► myself just losing my mind like I did [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► with the e-myth because I feel like a [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► nemeth they were just brittle endless [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► and I feel at least there was some [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► breaks here where he was talking about [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► some interesting stuff and I do believe [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► that this book has more than just one [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► thing to take away from it today's show [TS]

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00:51:01 ◼   ► this show the habits are broken down [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► into two and a half categories the first [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► three are classified as private victory [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► and or independents and then four to six [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► were classified as public victory or [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► interdependence which is working with [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► others and the seventh habit is just [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► about renewing all of the sixth so is an [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► interesting structure and I actually [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► quite like the structure so the first [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► three are classified as proactivity [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► beginning with the end in mind and [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► putting first things first so habit one [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► is productivity and the idea and there's [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► a great summary on Wikipedia for each of [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► these and I pulled some of that out just [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► to try and give a concise explanation [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► for them so be proactive is in [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► understanding a circle of influence and [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► your circle of concern so the things [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► that you can influence about yourself [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► and the people that you need to be [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► concerned about the things that you need [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► to try and change and not to just sit [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► and wait in a reactive mode waiting for [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► problems to happen before you take [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► action you should be out there and [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► taking action and a lot of it is about [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► understanding the language that you use [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► and the way that you think about things [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► so I really liked this one example of [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► saying things instead of I have to do [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► something you say that you choose to do [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► something or instead of I wish I had [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► done this too I can be this or I can't [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► do this and I really like this as a [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► start because it was like saying to me [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► the the reader think about yourself [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► think about the way that you approach [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► problems think about the way that you [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► approach opportunities and how you refer [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► to them and try and understand the [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► things that you are able to change and [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► the things that you are able to kind of [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► influence to change and I found it to be [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► an interesting way to start off and it's [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► something that I know that in my life I [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► have gotten better about over time but [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► there was definitely a period of time [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► for me when I was in [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► branch management where I was not being [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► proactive and I was more focused on the [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► fact that these bad things are just [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► happening to me and I'm not you know and [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► there's nothing I can do about it [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► rather than what I ended up working out [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► later was like why am I doing this I [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► don't like this I need to go out and [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► change something so I did actually quite [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► like this it felt like a good start it [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► was just a shame that it started at 2 [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► hours and 22 minutes yeah just a small [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► note before we move on well you did note [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► that the first the first habit comes in [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► at 2 hours and whatever minutes when one [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► of the remarks that I have here in my [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► highlights is the first promotion of the [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► Stephen Covey business starts at exactly [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► one minute until there was a little bit [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► of a thing to notice that yeah it's [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► interesting because in the actual book [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► there's not a lot of it right because [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► he's talking more about being a teacher [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► because that's what he was when he was [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► writing this book mostly but the [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► foreword is after this book has changed [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► his life and he is now a management [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► consultant right so he's doing these [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► seminars and stuff which he mentions in [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► the book but like if I'm reading it [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► correctly like it wasn't what it ended [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► up becoming mm-hmm like he doesn't make [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► reference to the Covey business empire [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► builds based upon the 7 habits during [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► the book because doesn't exist yet [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► but forward is full of it right which is [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► hilarious right the Clio comes right out [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► of the gate but I just I thought that [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► was just kind of funny and I know it's [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► whatever but I also I also agree like [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► the first chapter it was interesting and [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► I'll say like in fairness to the book I [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► think if it catches you at the right [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► moment in your life I genuinely think [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► that that first chapter can open up a [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► bunch of people's minds to the way that [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► they think about things yeah purely the [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► language stuff like that surely the [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► language stuff the most interest one of [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► the most interesting things of the [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► entire book actually for me because yeah [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► really made me think about huh [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► how do I say this stuff and why do I say [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► it that way yeah you know like I have to [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► do this why do I have to do anything I [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► can choose right right and I found it [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► really interesting yeah it was and it [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► reminded me of a little language [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► which of court was like a totally [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► hopeless lost cause as a teacher but but [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► when I used to have kids come up and say [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► like Oh like I gave him a bad grade like [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► I would always use the language of like [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► no you earned that grade [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► right or like I didn't give you a bad [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► grade like you earned a bad grade just [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► because again it's good paper that I [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► ended up changing until it became bad [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► right like that bad when you gave it to [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► me [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► yeah and just like like just just [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► changing a little bit of the language [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► around that it's like you you are an [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► active participant in this process all [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► right you're you're not just sitting [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► there and I'm handing out grades like [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► there's a thing that's happening between [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► the two of us and I do I do like I said [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► I think if you're at the right stage in [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► your life that this might this might [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► just catch you in the in the right [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► moment and I don't know I don't know [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► what the timeline of this is but um I [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► was just wondering because a lot of this [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► reminded me of I have a relative who is [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► a psychologist and works with like [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► people who've been through some trauma [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► and unwinding them about that and and [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► talking about the process of teaching [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► people to interrupt their own thoughts [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► like teaching people to catch themselves [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► thinking in terms of the world is doing [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► something to them versus you are an [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► actor in the world and and there's just [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► this variant like I talked to her about [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► like it sounds very interesting like the [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► way that she she works with people to [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► say like if you have a fear of heights [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► like how do you work someone out through [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► that and and part of it is like this [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► change of you are you are an actor in [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► the world like you are not the result of [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► all of the actions upon you so it was [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► just kind of reminded me about this [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► thing which as I've gone through some of [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► that sort of stuff and read some of his [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► cognitive behavioral therapy like I [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► guess that's what the times in my life [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► like when I was struggling with some of [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► my work stuff this was a great help to [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► me was was going through some of this [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► stuff because there are some very [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► valuable things in that right like the [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► the idea of understanding that like you [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► can't control everything [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► things happen and how do you react to [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► them and like how do you change the way [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► that you think and say stuff to be [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► better in the world like it's it is a [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► very powerful thing [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► and when I was reading this part this [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► well.when habit one was being read to me [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► by mr. Covey himself I was reminded of a [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► lot of these types of lines and it was [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► like okay this is good that's [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► interesting okay so you saw the [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► similarities to that too yeah I've only [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► just heard about this in like a [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► secondhand way and I just think like [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► okay this this sounds like a very [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► similar idea and at least talking to my [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► family member who does it seems like if [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► you've got serious business about [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► behavior change in humans this seems to [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► be one of the most effective ways to go [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► about it like as far as as far as we [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► know right now I also I did just really [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► like the I think there is a way that he [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► phrased something which is a better way [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► of phrasing an idea that you and I have [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► sometimes spoken about like how we don't [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► really follow the news right orient or [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► intentionally not following a whole [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► bunch of things and I'm always I'm [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► always trying to encourage people to [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► just sort of I don't really like be less [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► aware of the world but in a sense I kind [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► of been like focus on the things that [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► you can do but I did really like his [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► phrasing of this idea that that [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► everybody has this circle of things that [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► they're concerned about and that circle [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► is larger than the things that you can [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► influence and I did think that language [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► change was is an interesting way to [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► frame it because it's like oh of course [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► people get trapped and caught up in [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► constantly thinking about the things [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► that are inside their circle of concern [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► but that are outside their circle of [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► influence and I just I thought like [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► that's a really interesting way to [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► differently frame this idea and I think [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► that is also again like maybe for a [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► person at the right moment that idea can [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► be really liberating to recognize that [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► like yes there are there are many things [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► you may be concerned about over which [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► you have absolutely no influence and so [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► you have to make a decision about not [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► obsessively thinking about that stuff or [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► working to expand your circle of [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► influence so that you can actually do [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► something about it [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► that is no longer out outside of your [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► power so I I thought that was also like [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► a [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► a good way to frame this concept of like [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► selective ignorance in a way habit 2 is [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► begin with the end in mind now I thought [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► that this habit went off the rails [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► incredibly quickly but turn me around so [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► this habit is about envisioning what you [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► want in the future so you can plan and [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► work towards it [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► work towards it [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► and to be effect and the idea is to be [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► effective you need to act based on [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► principles and constantly reviewing a [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► mission statement that you create so [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► there are two main things in this part [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► which is one the envisioning of the [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► future and then the second is the [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► mission statement now [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► I it was really interesting to me [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► because these things were both [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► introduced and my mind was changed about [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► each of them in a 180 so the first is [TS]