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Speaker 1: Bobby Capuccio, Welcome back to the you project, my.

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Speaker 2: Friend, welcome back to the self. How bad to do it?

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Speaker 1: Craig going, Hey, it's going good, buddy, life is good.

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Speaker 1: It sounds a bit cheesy, right, Sometimes I feel like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't want to sound trite, but

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Speaker 1: I am very grateful. I'm very I don't know whether

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Speaker 1: or not it's genetic or it's something that I've developed,

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Speaker 1: but I haven't. I do really have an ever present

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Speaker 1: sense of gratitude for how good my life is. And

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Speaker 1: maybe it's because I talk to a lot of people

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Speaker 1: whose lives are not great, and maybe I pay attention

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Speaker 1: to people around the world whose reality is nothing like mine.

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Speaker 1: I feel very through no effort or work or sacrifice

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Speaker 1: of my own. I feel just very privileged because I

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Speaker 1: think I was born at a good time in a

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Speaker 1: good country with good parents, and yeah, so that's how

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Speaker 1: I feel. Do you feel that ever? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know your childhood wasn't mine, and you've had some shit,

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Speaker 1: But do you feel grateful?

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Speaker 2: Quite often? Quite often? I mean, you know, sometimes I'm

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Speaker 2: just like in the midst of complaining some yeah, sometimes

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Speaker 2: over trivial things. Yeah, you know, it's probably my enlarged amigdala,

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Speaker 2: But very often I do feel quite grateful. The other

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Speaker 2: day I thought, oh, you know, I'm in my house

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Speaker 2: right now with my wife. We're both relatively healthy, We've

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Speaker 2: got a roof over our head, We're alive, we've got

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Speaker 2: a cat. I know he's relatively okay but very healthy.

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Speaker 1: Has he given you toxi Plesmoses.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, we were concerned about that. If I

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Speaker 2: start engaging in any inexplicably high risk behaviors, we're going

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Speaker 2: to drive me down to urgent care check me out. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, he's he might be infected with it, either

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Speaker 2: that or just I don't know, got bumped on the

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Speaker 2: head one too many times.

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Speaker 1: But I love them.

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Speaker 2: I just want to start out, you know, and this

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Speaker 2: is this is a very important conversation around gratitude. I

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Speaker 2: just want to start out recanting a statement that I

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Speaker 2: made that was highly inaccurate on I think our last

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Speaker 2: podcast or the one before that. I had just got

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Speaker 2: back from Australia. And I'm not trying to blame this

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Speaker 2: on jet lag. Actually, yes, that's exactly what I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to do. I'm trying to blame this on jet Lag

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Speaker 2: and I had said that there were two hemispheres and

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Speaker 2: they were split from east to west. But there's actually

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Speaker 2: an eastern and western hemisphere. Like, how did I not?

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Speaker 2: How did that not come to mind? It split right

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Speaker 2: down Greenwich in England. Oh really Yeah, Like seventy percent

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Speaker 2: of London is in one hemisphere, the other bits are

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Speaker 2: in another hemisphere. I didn't know my hemisphere. It's literally

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Speaker 2: the center of the world.

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Speaker 1: When you start talking about two hemispheres, I thought you're

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Speaker 1: talking about the brain for a moment, which is what

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Speaker 1: we talk about way more than the world now.

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Speaker 2: But this time we were talking about global hemispheres and

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Speaker 2: we said it was north and south divided into two.

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Speaker 2: But it's literally four hemispheres. So take everything I say

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Speaker 2: with a grain of salt, because I'm a couple of

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Speaker 2: the hemisphere.

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Speaker 1: Short, Why do we always talk about the northern hemisphere

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Speaker 1: the southern hemisphere, but never eastern norwestern? If that is

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Speaker 2: I know, it's like I think it's I think it's

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Speaker 2: just like a bad pure team. Whoever the marketing team

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Speaker 2: is behind the northern and southern hemispheres. I think they're

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Speaker 2: they're crushing it. Where the eastern and Western hemisphere, they

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Speaker 2: need to think about making some organizational changes.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you've cleared that up, because all of

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Speaker 1: our listeners will sleep better tonight knowing that and Northwestern

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Speaker 1: very great conversation started to Oh, dear, I was listening

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Speaker 1: to this thing the other day. Two dudes talk and

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Speaker 1: I can't remember they're both pretty educated, but one was

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Speaker 1: talking about the fact that when we get you know,

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Speaker 1: like when we've got lots of crap going on, lots

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Speaker 1: of problems, lots of challenges, and you know, we're not

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Speaker 1: having a great time, and all we want is we

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Speaker 1: want the problems to be resolved, things to be fixed,

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Speaker 1: then he either he'd done some research or he's talking

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Speaker 1: about some research where when people get to the point

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Speaker 1: let's just pretend they've got a quarter of the problems.

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Speaker 1: So instead of having twelve problems, they've now got three.

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Speaker 1: But what they do is they just self regulate in

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Speaker 1: you know, practically they're life is better. Experientially, it's just

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Speaker 2: That's interesting. Durkheim said the same thing on a societal level,

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Speaker 2: that if a society arrives at a point where it

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Speaker 2: has resolved many of its existential problems, it will go

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Speaker 2: ahead and create them. Will overreact to the slightest provocation,

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Speaker 2: Like you know, the supermarket used to have four brands

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Speaker 2: is completely unacceptable, and of course Karen's going to want

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Speaker 1: Can you not mention Karen? I feel like poor Karen

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Speaker 1: gets a hard time.

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Speaker 2: It isn't you know. It's been a rough few years

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Speaker 2: for Karen's everywhere. I apologize in my sessions. I don't

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Speaker 2: know how I landed on this right Well, you.

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Speaker 1: And a few million others, Poor Karen.

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Speaker 2: Karen thing I'm just repeating because somebody identified that a

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Speaker 2: woman named Karen there was the perfect archetype. They imagined

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Speaker 2: a woman or someone they know named Karen, and that's

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Speaker 2: how it came to be. But for me, it's Jill.

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Speaker 2: Whenever I'm doing a workshop, the person in the office

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Speaker 2: who is an absolute nightmare is Jill. And I always

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Speaker 2: sheepishly will raise their hand, like after I've completely assassinated

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Speaker 2: their character, and I have to go to Jill. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: clearly we're not talking about you. It's that other Jill,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, you just I think we need a name

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Speaker 1: I tend to use Brian because I think I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's safer to use a dude than a fema

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Speaker 1: a lady, because just I feel it's safer. But then

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Speaker 1: it's not really safe to use. But one of the

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Speaker 1: things that people like, I put up a post a

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Speaker 1: week ago and it says, the best predictor of future

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Speaker 1: behavior is past behavior, which is broadly speaking true. Right,

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Speaker 1: It's not it's not guaranteed, but it's pretty good predictor.

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Speaker 1: And then I wrote, you may or may not have

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Speaker 1: read it. So if Brian was a C word the

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Speaker 1: last four hundred times, he'll probably be a C word today, right, So,

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Speaker 1: and then all these people sent me a message and

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Speaker 1: go my brother's Brian. He's great I and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: not really a Brian. This is me just telling a story.

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Speaker 1: But it's like people were coming to the defense of

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Speaker 1: other people called Brian. I'm like, well, I wasn't saying

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, it's an example. It's not like every Brian. Now,

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Speaker 2: if your name happens to be Chad.

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Speaker 1: Well, then definitely that's all Chads. Yeah, of course, of

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Speaker 1: course that goes without saying no. But it's it's funny that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to get myself in trouble,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like people actually proacts. Look, fuck, they

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Speaker 1: look for reasons to be offended, and if there's not one,

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Speaker 1: obviously this is a fictitious character. And I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about people broadly speaking who have that name. No, my

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Speaker 1: brother's names and I want you to know he's one

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Speaker 1: of the nicest people. And I'm like, I'm sure he is,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we sold your on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I can't even dive into the topic because I will,

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Speaker 2: without question, get myself into trouble. Me and you doing

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Speaker 2: So yeah, well, thank you for attending another episode of

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Speaker 2: the You Project and the self help Antido. Might as

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Speaker 2: well wrap it up right here.

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Speaker 1: You're telling me before we went live that without throwing

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Speaker 1: you under the bus, but you'd been dealing with a

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Speaker 1: few challenging things today and a few you know, a

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Speaker 1: bit of stress going on. What's your kind of You're

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Speaker 1: in a leadership position, You're a coach or a teacher.

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Speaker 1: You kind of manage individuals, lead people, all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: well more in a leadership capacity, I guess than a

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Speaker 1: management role per se. But how do you approach? And

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Speaker 1: I know there's no three step plan or generic kind

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Speaker 1: just call it what it is, metaphorically losing their shit

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Speaker 1: for a good reason or not a good reason, doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: What do you do? Like, how do you what are

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Speaker 1: like more and more of us are around people at

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Speaker 2: This came up in a seminar I was giving yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Actually a question came up where I'm like, ooh, that's

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Speaker 2: I think that's above my pea greed. But there are

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Speaker 2: just experience empathy, but will experience emotional contagion. Well, will

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Speaker 2: with my wife to be really candid, you get into

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Speaker 2: more motivated to act on their behalf to help lessen

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Speaker 2: acutely aware of my own emotional impact listening to their story.

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Speaker 2: So the first thing is grounding, like if I know

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Speaker 2: not know you're gonna go into a high stakes conversation?

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Speaker 2: It's just the peers in the national natural flow of

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Speaker 2: the dialogue. I try to find grounding, like yeah, feet

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Speaker 2: flat on the floor, Like what am I feeling? An attack?

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Speaker 2: Highle way? Second is inter reception. What is the physical sensation?

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Speaker 2: Because before you know exactly what you're feeling, you identify

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Speaker 2: that something has physiologically changed, and your experience a sensation

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Speaker 2: that's coupled with elevated emotional arousal. So where is that

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Speaker 2: Is it a constriction? Is it like a tensing sensation?

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Speaker 2: Where is it? Is it in my chest? Is in

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Speaker 2: my jaw? I try to I lean into that a

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Speaker 2: up with someone, or someone just broke up with me, yeah,

432
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 2: and they're talking about, you know, how they feel, and

433
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 2: it's like you reflect back. Wow, that that rejection. It's

434
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 2: so isolating, you know, it's like you you gave your

435
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: whole self to someone, you were so open, Yeah, and

436
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,719
Speaker 2: it feels like they threw that away. If it feels

437
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 2: like you've been thrown away, Yeah, it's devastating. It's just

438
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 2: you know, all you all you're experiencing right now is

439
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 2: your pain that is sitting in it with someone. Yeah, sympathy.

440
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 2: I'm more focused about how this conversation is making me

441
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 2: feel it's like, oh my god, I remember when I

442
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: was broken up with It was the worst day of

443
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: my life. I thought she was the one, and I'm

444
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 2: just trying to manage the situation because my feelings are overwhelming.

445
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, Craig, you know you're a good looking guy.

446
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 2: What are you talking about. It's like, she wasn't the first,

447
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 2: She's not going to be the last, and you know,

448
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: I start solving your problem for you. That's I mean,

449
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 2: it's fresh, it's raw. It might not be fresh maybe

450
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 2: like this happened two months ago, but it really sucks

451
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 2: still for this individual. They don't need your autobiography and

452
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 2: they don't need your solution for their life. It's kind

453
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 2: of it's kind of offensive too, because you know, empathy

454
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 2: speaks from the place of I am here with you

455
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 2: in the pain and discomfort, where sympathy is like, you,

456
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 2: poor bastard, you're either incapable or unwilling to change your situation.

457
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 2: It's it's really it's a demeaning way of looking at

458
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: so disguised as something altruistic. Sympathy kind of sucks.

459
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, okay, you know, like with the whole yeah,

460
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 3: all right, yeah, yeah, I think we spoke about this

461
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 3: a week or two ago, that that video It's not.

462
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: About the nail. Do you remember that?

463
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 2: Yep?

464
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: You know where that?

465
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 2: Oh wait, that was that us? Because I talk about

466
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 2: that all the time.

467
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if well i've spoken about that.

468
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: I know exactly what you're talking about.

469
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we won't ruin it for you, and we

470
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: have spoken it probably once or twice. I've definitely spoken

471
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: about a couple of times over the two thousand episodes.

472
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you want to go and see something

473
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: which is hilarious but also insightful, it's a video on

474
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: YouTube called It's Not about the Nail but it kind

475
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: of so. So to that point, without giving the video away,

476
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: do you think that's like trying to fix things for

477
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: other people? What? What is that? Where does that come in?

478
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: Like?

479
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: Is that ever helpful? Is that? Is that something that

480
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: we should never do?

481
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 2: Very rarely? I think if you're at the if somebody

482
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: comes to the point where they acknowledge as well, it's

483
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: evident not just to you but to them that they

484
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 2: have reached the ends of their resources, right yeah, or

485
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 2: the end of their knowledge, it might be appropriate to

486
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: respectfully say, you know, Craig, I'm I think I'm hearing this.

487
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: I think you're wanting this, and this is kind of

488
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,959
Speaker 2: a barrier. You know, do I have permission to like

489
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: maybe share something with you or how would you feel?

490
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 2: Is it okay if I share something with you that

491
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 2: is directive, but it might it may be helpful, Yeah,

492
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 2: because I think that's a respectful way of saying no,

493
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: it's not this hierarchal relationship where I possess something that

494
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 2: you need and off. If only you thought like me,

495
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: knew what I knew, saw the world the way I

496
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 2: saw the world, did what I did, you'd be fixed.

497
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 2: That's kind of that's a little bit fucked up.

498
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: First of all, that's pretty among other things.

499
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 2: If anybody does make a change, it's not sustainable. So

500
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 2: who we're really doing that for? But if I come

501
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: to you respectfully and I frame it like that, person

502
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 2: might go now, you know, I don't know if I'm

503
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 2: ready for that, or they might go, oh yeah, go ahead.

504
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: And I always make it clear this might not really

505
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 2: be relevant to you. You know, this might not fit

506
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 2: your situation or you know what it might It might

507
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: be the exact thing you're looking for, but not right now,

508
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 2: I don't hold any expectation that you're going to do

509
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 2: anything with this. So what you're doing is saying I

510
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: respect your autonomy.

511
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, in a way, you think this is what

512
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: we do every episode, Like we share thoughts and ideas

513
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: and stories and experiences and insights.

514
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have an expectation. Nor wouldn't we get

515
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 2: offended if it's like I told a story about my

516
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: auntie Sally. I'm making this up. I don't have an

517
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: auntie Sally, and that's that's always bothered me. Actually, but

518
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 2: my auntie Sally did something, and you know, like I

519
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 2: think everybody should do that. And if a listener didn't

520
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: go ahead and like, I don't know, get into real estate,

521
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: I'd be somehow offended or slated or felt like, oh

522
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: what a waste of time this episode was? It's just

523
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 2: that would be pathological, wasn't it.

524
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: Yeah? What about if we uh turn it around? Now?

525
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: What about you? Like? How how how much do you

526
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: want to open the door to other people about your

527
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: own stuff? Or how often, if it all, do you

528
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: seek advice or feedback or just a sounding board.

529
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 2: I see sounding boards quite a lot because I have

530
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: a lot of voices in my head, not meaning they're

531
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 2: not out loud and audible.

532
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: It's not yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.

533
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 2: Not a crisis. But we all have different versions of

534
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: myself and of ourselves, and my versions talk quite a bit.

535
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 2: So for me to sit down with somebody and talk

536
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 2: through what I'm going through, it just helps me get clearer.

537
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: And just expressing that and having somebody listen is enormously valuable.

538
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 2: When I say to someone explicitly, what are your thoughts

539
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 2: about this? I really want to know what their thoughts

540
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: are if I say hey. As a matter of fact,

541
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: I feel like I've gotten a little bit cross with

542
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 2: people in the past when I was like, all right,

543
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 2: tell me where I could have done better in this

544
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 2: situation or talk to me, and they didn't and they

545
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: sugarcoat it. It's like, God, I'm either not worth the discomfort,

546
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: right or I was imposing upon you. You're like, shit,

547
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: Bobby's got an issue he wants to talk about now.

548
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: I was just kind of hoping we'd go grab a

549
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 2: beer or you know, or maybe you didn't think that

550
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 2: I would be able to handle it. But for whatever reason,

551
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 2: that was important information and I didn't get it. Yeah,

552
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 2: it's just as offensive as I didn't ask you how

553
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 2: to fix my life and you emphatically laid out your

554
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 2: blueprint for it. That's kind of not what I was

555
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: asking for either. I think respect for the individual and

556
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 2: understanding where they're at and being curious and open, but

557
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 2: also kind of having a belief in that individual and

558
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: you're talking to that they're were sourceful enough to figure

559
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 2: things out. And if you're curious and you ask a

560
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: question that maybe they'd never asked themselves, or you freeze

561
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: it in a way where it lands differently than the

562
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 2: ten times they've asked themselves that same question, I think

563
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: that's a much more productive conversation, you know, with friends.

564
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, I think it's like it's tricky

565
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: because like just as a sounding board or whatever. Yeah, fine,

566
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 1: if somebody goes here my thoughts, what do you think

567
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: of this? From you know, I had this experience. What's

568
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: your take on that? But that's different too. I want

569
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: you to give me external objective, as objective as you

570
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: can be, feedback about me, don't sugarcoat it, don't tell

571
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: me what I want to hear. I feel like people

572
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: want that until they get it, you know, And.

573
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: Oh, I think that's the case a lot of the time. Yeah,

574
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 2: if you ask for it, be prepared for the answer.

575
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think, truthfully ninety nine percent and people

576
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: will not provide that feedback because they're scared too for

577
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: a range of reasons. And I don't blame them, but

578
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think, like a lot of times when

579
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: people say, oh, yeah, I love feedback, what they mean

580
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: is I love praise, I love accolades, I love endorsement,

581
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: I love acceptance, and yeah, tell me what, tell me

582
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: what you think, Beau, as long as it's what I

583
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: want to hear, I mean it's and I'm not I'm

584
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: no different, like I reckon, you've given me feedback over

585
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: the years, which was which was definitely on the money

586
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: that probably in the moment I didn't love and maybe

587
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: vice versa. I'm not sure, but definitely like that's for

588
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: me been. One of the challenges is to try and

589
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: I guess ergo my PhD, but try and understand the

590
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: Craig experience for everyone except Craig, you know, like what

591
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: is it like, what does it really like being around me?

592
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: What does what is this behavior or this kind of energy,

593
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: like what does that show up? For up like for

594
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: everyone else, and that because you know, there's that that

595
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: old chestnut, the false consensus of effect where we just

596
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: think that how we think is how they think, and

597
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: what we see is what they see, and our intention

598
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: is their experience and all of that kind of you know,

599
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: very egotistical kind of thinking about reality is that my

600
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: reality is theirs. But then you kind of dig deep

601
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: and you go, no, the only person in the world

602
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: who sees this exactly like me is me. The only

603
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: person in the world remotely in my reality is me.

604
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: You know, So being able to really humbly go all right,

605
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: what is this like? Even just what does this look

606
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: like for you?

607
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 2: I think where that comes from a little bit. And

608
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 2: this is on the part of both parties, the person

609
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: asking and the person giving feedback. There is a very

610
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 2: big difference between a behavior, a pattern of behaviors, and

611
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 2: an identity. So let's say it's like, look, how come

612
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: we don't how can we don't hang out anymore? And

613
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 2: I'm just making stuff up off? Yeah, do you really

614
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 2: want to know? Yeah? Tell me. It's like, well, I

615
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 2: don't have a lot of time, and you're important to me.

616
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 2: I enjoy hanging out with you, but you're constantly late,

617
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 2: and it's become an issue if I say something like that.

618
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 2: I did not say, because you are always inconsiderate right

619
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: of people's time. You had been late a few times, right, Like,

620
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 2: that's a fact. We were supposed to meet at seven.

621
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: You consistently rock up at about you know, half past

622
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: or beyond. I've tried to bring it up. You've gotten defensive.

623
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: You know, there's like emotions were running hot. I do

624
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: not mean that you are irresponsible, and this is who

625
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 2: you are as a human being. And that's why I

626
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 2: think people get like, no, I'm not like, it's not

627
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 2: an identity criticism. Like I would trust I would trust

628
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: you to like, let's say, babies for me. You know,

629
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: I would trust you like I would leave three hundred

630
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 2: dollars on the counter walk away. Totally responsible, totally trustworthy.

631
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 2: It's in this one specific area. So separate, separate the

632
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 2: behavior from the person. Avoid absolutes like you never listen

633
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 2: to me. You always do this very rarely do people

634
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 2: always or never do anything. I think that's important. Stick

635
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: to what's observable and stick to the impact for you.

636
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 2: So when this happens, here's what I here's how I feel, right, yeah,

637
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 2: and here's kind of what I need in this relationship.

638
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 2: And what I what i'd like to request is this.

639
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 2: That's a much healthier type of conversation. I think is

640
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 2: that going to eliminate that now? Because some people, You're right,

641
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: what they're looking for is tell me exactly what it

642
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 2: is that I want to hear and we've talked about,

643
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 2: or when somebody tries to tell you what your motivation was,

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Speaker 2: I think that's that is a dangerous conversation to get into.

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Speaker 2: And I think if somebody gets angry, they have every

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Speaker 2: right to get angry because you're suggesting that you know

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Speaker 2: something about and people do this all the time. Oh

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Speaker 2: will you think that?

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Speaker 1: How do you know what?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm thinking half the time? How

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Speaker 2: do you know? Oh? Well you will you feel this? What?

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Speaker 2: Don't tell me how I feel? And that's different ball

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Speaker 2: the way, because this came up in a workshop than

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Speaker 2: reflecting how someone's feeling. If someone buyings on the table

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Speaker 2: saying I can't bull, I can't believe they you know,

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Speaker 2: they cancel the project, It's like, Okay, you're you're frustrated

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Speaker 2: because you're not telling someone how you're feeling how they're feeling.

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Speaker 2: You are reflecting an observation, you're actually empathizing. So those

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Speaker 2: are two totally different things with different intentions.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh I could do this for a lot

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Speaker 1: longer than forty minutes, but today forty minutes is our time. AH.

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Speaker 1: Always appreciate you, buddy. How can people find you? Of

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Speaker 1: course for self help. Antidote is your podcast. Where else

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Speaker 1: can people catch up with you?

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Speaker 2: Find me on LinkedIn or at Robertcapuccio dot com.

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Speaker 1: Perfect. Thanks buddy, love your guts.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Greg,