Speaker 1: I get a team. Hi. Happy whatever day it is
Speaker 1: for you. It's nine o two on a planet me
Speaker 1: nine o two in the am. It's the nineteenth of
Speaker 1: the third, which makes it a Wednesday. And just got
Speaker 1: back from the cafe talking to a few people, went
Speaker 1: for a bit of a stroll through suburbia. It's going
Speaker 1: to be warm today in Melbos, a thriving metropolis. I
Speaker 1: always default, or periodically default into radio. Don't I ever
Speaker 1: notice that I do a station idea and a time
Speaker 1: check and a weather update. All we need to do
Speaker 1: is go to Brian and the helicopter for a traffic report,
Speaker 1: and we're fucking radio again. Nonetheless, it's not radio, it's podcast.
Speaker 1: I have been thinking about this thing I want to
Speaker 1: talk about for a while, and I wrote something over
Speaker 1: the last few days. I often, this is my process.
Speaker 1: I often to have an idea, I'll write. The idea
Speaker 1: could be a few words, it could be a sentence.
Speaker 1: And I think there's something in this my creative process
Speaker 1: and my cognitive process for anyone who's interested. And it
Speaker 1: might be like I've been working on this thing. Notice
Speaker 1: how my mind goes in seven directions. Once I've been
Speaker 1: working on this thing, for about a week, and it's
Speaker 1: I want to do whether or not it's going to
Speaker 1: be an article, whether or not it's going to be
Speaker 1: a podcast, or whether or not it's going to be
Speaker 1: a me and someone else podcast or a solo But
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the myriad of variables around
Speaker 1: being overweight, obesity and all of the physiological, psychological, emotional,
Speaker 1: sociological stuff around that. Now, of course that this is
Speaker 1: fraught with danger in twenty twenty five to talk about
Speaker 1: such things. So my process is I write down a
Speaker 1: sentence or two, I write an idea, and then I
Speaker 1: think about how do I be honest and truthful but
Speaker 1: also sensitive and aware, and how do I talk as
Speaker 1: the exercise science guy who's trained thousands of people and
Speaker 1: got vast, vast experience, but also as the once upon
Speaker 1: a time fat child, fat teenager, and fat adult and
Speaker 1: integrate all of that in a way where I can
Speaker 1: share some thoughts and ideas around a topic. Then that
Speaker 1: can be polarizing, but that's my process. And then it
Speaker 1: might take me a week of jotting down things and
Speaker 1: revisiting that page or that document on the computer, or
Speaker 1: writing shit on the whiteboard or taking notes in my phone,
Speaker 1: I'm off and out for a walk. I'll have an idea.
Speaker 1: I put it in my phone or I either write
Speaker 1: it or record it audio, and it might take a
Speaker 1: month of fucking around back and forth until that initial
Speaker 1: idea becomes a living, breathing for one of a better
Speaker 1: term podcasts, post or conversely, sometimes I'll end up with
Speaker 1: something that's kind of wordy, and I think this is
Speaker 1: all as best I can tell, insightful and interesting and
Speaker 1: as far as I know true, But it's way too
Speaker 1: fucking long. People are not going to read all this,
Speaker 1: or people are not going to listen to all this.
Speaker 1: So sometimes I go the other way. I start with
Speaker 1: something big and then I distill it into a twenty
Speaker 1: or thirty word whiteboard message, which becomes a post on Instagram.
Speaker 1: By the way, Instagram's going off like a frog and
Speaker 1: a sock on Planet Jumbo. But anyway, so that is
Speaker 1: my creative and cognitive kind of writing, thinking, recording process.
Speaker 1: It's not very systematic, it's not very slick. It's not
Speaker 1: something I would recommend, But as I always say, we're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what works for you, what works
Speaker 1: for you optimally, what's your best way and so for me,
Speaker 1: it seems to be that like if I sometimes if
Speaker 1: I think, for example, I'm going to write an article
Speaker 1: or I'm going to write something about it doesn't even matter,
Speaker 1: pick a topic. But then I go, I'm going to
Speaker 1: write that, and I'm going to city for sixty minutes,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to write it till it's done and
Speaker 1: it's going to be good, and then I'm going to
Speaker 1: read it or share it or talk about it. And
Speaker 1: the truth is that sometimes seven minutes into that process,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about breakfast, or I'm distracted with something else,
Speaker 1: or the phone rings, or and so it doesn't always
Speaker 1: work out the way that you want. Where I'm going
Speaker 1: to sit at my computer right now and for I'm
Speaker 1: just going to turn on this creativity switch. I'm going
Speaker 1: to turn it on. The tap is going to flow
Speaker 1: for two hours. It's going to be brilliant, and then
Speaker 1: at midday I'll we done and bibbity bobby boo, the
Speaker 1: world will be graced with my journeus. It doesn't work
Speaker 1: like that, right, it doesn't work like that. So anyway
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about up the value or lack thereof,
Speaker 1: that was a long precursor wasn't it the value or
Speaker 1: lack of value, the benefit or lack thereof the signs
Speaker 1: or the bullshit, the truth or the untruth. Get to
Speaker 1: it harps of self help, of what we call self help.
Speaker 1: When I say self help, I'm talking about all the
Speaker 1: stuff that gets shared, books, posters, memes, social media, Facebook, Instagram, snapchat,
Speaker 1: whatever that is. No, that's not it is. What's the
Speaker 1: other one? Bloody TikTok? You know, all of those various
Speaker 1: mediums and platforms, stuff that comes from a stage, stuff
Speaker 1: on television, stuff on radio, stuff on YouTube, stuff of course,
Speaker 1: on podcasts. And some of that is some of that
Speaker 1: is potentially transformational, Some of it is pseudoscience. Some of
Speaker 1: it is based in ideas and thoughts and philosophies that
Speaker 1: are thousands of years old, like stoicism, and some of
Speaker 1: it's kind of almost just pop culture garbage. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that because I think sometimes
Speaker 1: something gets said or shared or written, and then people
Speaker 1: who maybe don't understand the complexity of a certain topic
Speaker 1: or challenge or idea and the totality of what it
Speaker 1: takes to address that thing, or change that thing or
Speaker 1: create that thing, buy into an over simplification of something,
Speaker 1: and then don't get the results or the outcome that
Speaker 1: they thought they would following this simplistic, overly simplistic, often
Speaker 1: misleading pseudoscience, and then they're devastated. All right, So this
Speaker 1: is what I've written over the last few days. I
Speaker 1: want to share it with you. I'll kind of commentate
Speaker 1: as I go. I've called this the shadow side of
Speaker 1: self help. Sounds sinister, doesn't it. The self help industry
Speaker 1: promises transformation, happiness, and success through simple formulas or more accurately,
Speaker 1: formulae and positive thinking yep, yep. Beneath the shimmering surface
Speaker 1: lies a troubling reality. Much of what passes for self
Speaker 1: help is actually a hodgepodge of feel good platitude, pseudoscience,
Speaker 1: and oversimplified solutions that can often do more harm than good.
Speaker 1: Many popular self help teachings rely on the seductive but
Speaker 1: scientifically dubious law of attraction good oh law of attraction,
Speaker 1: the idea that positive thoughts magically and mysteriously attract positive outcomes.
Speaker 1: This concept ignores the complex reality of systematic barriers, privilege,
Speaker 1: the randomness of inherent life, and a myriad of other
Speaker 1: intersecting and complicating and impacting variables, and when someone fails
Speaker 1: to manifest their desires despite thinking positively, they're often left
Speaker 1: blaming themselves, feeling shitty self loathing, rather than recognizing the
Speaker 1: flawed premise on which they're operating. So, in other words,
Speaker 1: they blame themselves. It's not the principle or the idea
Speaker 1: or the magical concept that's the problem. It's me. I'm
Speaker 1: the problem. I'm not doing it. So this is why
Speaker 1: I say, sometimes self help, or what masquerades its self help,
Speaker 1: is actually not only is it not helpful, it's damaging.
Speaker 1: It's potentially harmful. It's potentially creating problems where there weren't any.
Speaker 1: The self help industry thrives on creating problems, or some
Speaker 1: of it does, on creating problems where none exists, and
Speaker 1: then selling solutions to those fictitious problems. Normal human emotions
Speaker 1: like occasional sadness or anxiety are pathologized as defects requiring intervention.
Speaker 1: This commercialization of discontent creates an endless cycle of seeking
Speaker 1: and purchasing cures for being human. A lot of self
Speaker 1: help content promotes a dangerous indo digitalism by suggesting that
Speaker 1: all problems and all solutions lie within the self. This
Speaker 1: perspective conveniently ignores social, economic, and political factors that profoundly
Speaker 1: impact and shape our lives. Social support, community connection, and
Speaker 1: systemic change are frequently sidelined in favor of individual mindset shifts.
Speaker 1: And while managing our mind, I think is the ultimate
Speaker 1: challenge for us humans as we navigate life on the big,
Speaker 1: big blue revolving ball. Put your teeth back in harps.
Speaker 1: There are a bunch of, as I always talk about,
Speaker 1: external out of our control variables that are going to
Speaker 1: impact us as well. So we need need to navigate
Speaker 1: both that internal world of us and that external world
Speaker 1: that we inhabit. Perhaps most concerning is how self help
Speaker 1: can function as a form of gas lighting. And when
Speaker 1: people facing genuine hardship are told their circumstances result from
Speaker 1: negative thinking or insufficient gratitude, it trivializes their struggles and
Speaker 1: deflects attention from addressing real injustice. True personal growth often
Speaker 1: involves embracing complexity, sitting with discomfort, and acknowledging that there
Speaker 1: are no universal solutions. It requires critical thinking and discernment,
Speaker 1: precisely the qualities that many self help gurus discourage In
Speaker 1: favor of unquestioning belief and that whole kind of three
Speaker 1: steps two five steps two. You know, here's my solution paradigm.
Speaker 1: Join the thought cult, believe me by the idea, by
Speaker 1: the program. You know. And while there are great programs,
Speaker 1: there are great you know, presenters, there are great books,
Speaker 1: there are great teachers. Just like in any field, there's
Speaker 1: also the opposite. And as you know, I suggest here
Speaker 1: all the time that Craig Harper is not the solution
Speaker 1: to anything. In fact, I'm of myself, I'm no value
Speaker 1: to you. I'm not the solution, but rather the guy
Speaker 1: that is trying to steer you towards a solution, like
Speaker 1: the conduit to ideas and strategies and information and resources
Speaker 1: and perhaps knowledge and awareness and insight, none of which
Speaker 1: is me. I'm just pointing towards that stuff. And if
Speaker 1: I get, if I get to the point where I'm
Speaker 1: trying to convince you that I'm the answer for you,
Speaker 1: which I'll never get there. But if somehow I did,
Speaker 1: you should definitely unfollow, unsubscribe, and not listen anymore. While
Speaker 1: there are evidence based approaches to improving well being, they
Speaker 1: really come packing in the simple marketable formulas that dominate
Speaker 1: best seller lists. Real help might be less glamorous than
Speaker 1: its self help counterpart, but it offers something far more valuable.
Speaker 1: A significant portion of self help content is designed to
Speaker 1: be emotionally uplifting rather than practically useful. And while it's
Speaker 1: good to have a little bit of a emotional or
Speaker 1: motivational or inspirational inputs, we still need to be strategic.
Speaker 1: We still need to be able to solve real world
Speaker 1: problems with real world practical strategies and solutions and phrases
Speaker 1: like just believe in yourself or think positive, or I
Speaker 1: can be all you can be, or you can do
Speaker 1: anything you achieve. It sounds great, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: just not helpful. It's inspiring, but it doesn't. It doesn't
Speaker 1: add any real value or substance. And while mindset NOTTIM
Speaker 1: is a matter, they're not on their own. They're not
Speaker 1: magic bullets. The oversimplification of complex psychological, emotional, sociological, interpersonal,
Speaker 1: and behavioral changes leads people to believe that motivation alone
Speaker 1: is enough, when in reality, meaningful change requires effort, discipline,
Speaker 1: self control, strategy, and sometimes professional guidance. Many self help
Speaker 1: gurus make bold claims without scientific backings, pseudo scientific ideas
Speaker 1: psychobabble such as rewhyre your brain instantly, really or raise
Speaker 1: your vibrational frequency to attract success, misleading audiences to thinking
Speaker 1: that there are shortcuts to personal growth reward without work,
Speaker 1: getting to the top of the hill without doing any climbing.
Speaker 1: And while neuroscience and psychology provide evidence based strategies for change,
Speaker 1: these also take time and effort and consistency. It's not
Speaker 1: some instant rewiring of the brain or mystical magical energetic shift.
Speaker 1: Even widely accepted self help principles, like the idea that
Speaker 1: it takes twenty one days to form a habit, that
Speaker 1: it's not true. That's based in myth. There's no research
Speaker 1: around that. There's no rigorous studies or science around that.
Speaker 1: The reality is that behavioral change varies significantly among individuals
Speaker 1: and depends on multiple factors, including reinforcement, environment, and psychological conditioning.
Speaker 1: And think about the idea that you know, we go
Speaker 1: twenty one days to form a habit. And also, I
Speaker 1: think they say some people say break a habit, Well,
Speaker 1: what if the habit I'm trying to break is a heroine,
Speaker 1: a heroin addiction or whatever. It's that I should swear
Speaker 1: less or whatef. It's that I should cut back on
Speaker 1: my coffee from five to two a day. I mean
Speaker 1: the idea that there is an arbitrary number of days
Speaker 1: to form a habit or break a habit. I mean,
Speaker 1: even just thinking logically, when we think of the myriad
Speaker 1: of variables around the different types of addiction that exist
Speaker 1: or habits that we want to make or break, and
Speaker 1: then you think about the other variable of the individual,
Speaker 1: like we are all psychologically, emotionally, energetically, biologically, physiologically, neurologically different. Now,
Speaker 1: of course you know, of course you and I will
Speaker 1: not change the same habit or create the same habit,
Speaker 1: or eat the same food, or do the same thing
Speaker 1: and produce the same outcome in the same amount of time,
Speaker 1: because we ain't the same. And so this this idea
Speaker 1: that pervades in you know, this pop psychology, self help
Speaker 1: personal development space of you know, the three five seven
Speaker 1: step plan to anything creates more problems and disappointment and
Speaker 1: frustration for people than it does happiness, joy and long
Speaker 1: term success. I guess another dangerous aspect of the self
Speaker 1: help world is toxic positivity. So that's the idea that
Speaker 1: you should always be happy and grateful and optimistic no
Speaker 1: matter what. And while fostering a positive outlook and you know,
Speaker 1: being the solution focused person is beneficial, but suppressing or
Speaker 1: ignoring negative emotions can lead to emotional repression, increased stress,
Speaker 1: and even a decline in mental health. So we're we're
Speaker 1: of the problems. Like real self help acknowledges struggles and
Speaker 1: successes and doesn't pretend that life should be all fucking sunshine, affirmations,
Speaker 1: Disney movies and puppies. So where yep, life sometimes is
Speaker 1: a motherfucker. It's messy, it's uncomfortable, it's unfair. Bad things
Speaker 1: happen to good people, you know, people that we love die,
Speaker 1: people that we love get sick, you know, all of
Speaker 1: that stuff that you know. But in the middle of
Speaker 1: all of that, the variable that we're trying to control
Speaker 1: as much as possible is our thinking and choices and
Speaker 1: behaviors and actions and reactions. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we're human. We're going to have good days and bad days.
Speaker 1: We're going to get grumpy, we're going to get happy,
Speaker 1: We're going to get sad, We're going to get pissed off,
Speaker 1: We're going to get joyful, where we're going to find solutions,
Speaker 1: we're going to obsess about problems that don't yet exist.
Speaker 1: And then, as I always say, it's lunchtime. So this
Speaker 1: is the part out of the human experience that you know,
Speaker 1: I think we need to acknowledge we're not chasing perfection. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: we're chasing improvement and growth and development in an intelligent,
Speaker 1: maintainable way. I think also, you know, the self help industry,
Speaker 1: if that's the right word, it can subtly suggest that
Speaker 1: if you're not happy or you're not successful, then that's
Speaker 1: your fault. Well, again, so many different factors that influence that,
Speaker 1: and this kind of thinking can lead to unnecessary guilt
Speaker 1: and self blame, and then the process ignore systemic environmental, financial, practical,
Speaker 1: and psychological factors that influence all of us and our
Speaker 1: well being and our mindset and our happiness and our
Speaker 1: day to day, moment to moment experience. And not only
Speaker 1: there is some self help advice misleading and doesn't lead
Speaker 1: to a good outcomes or positive change. But sometimes it's damaging,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's harmful. So advice like quit your job and
Speaker 1: follow your passion, well, I think people should try and
Speaker 1: find something that feels less like work and more like
Speaker 1: a passion. I do think that, But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I don't think we need to make that decision on
Speaker 1: Monday and leave the job on Tuesday. If we're not
Speaker 1: in a financial or practical situation to make that work.
Speaker 1: And while it sounds appealing, it can be financially reckless.
Speaker 1: But what we can do is we can take that
Speaker 1: idea I would like to do something else. I would
Speaker 1: like to get out of this job, or this industry
Speaker 1: or this situation, and over time strategize and create a
Speaker 1: pathway towards something that's much better than what we're going
Speaker 1: to what we're currently doing. But stepping out of it
Speaker 1: having an idea at twelve o'clock and throwing in the
Speaker 1: toile at one pm probably not a great plan. Having
Speaker 1: said all of that, I'm not saying that all self
Speaker 1: help is bad. I literally live in the self help,
Speaker 1: personal development, human behavior space. I like to think, you know,
Speaker 1: as somebody who's falling towards the finished line of a
Speaker 1: doctorate in psychology, I'd like to think that the stuff
Speaker 1: that I share is hopefully use a friendly and it
Speaker 1: makes sense, but it's also pretty sound in terms of
Speaker 1: its scientific rigor. But as always, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: believe something that I say because it seems to make sense.
Speaker 1: Don't automatically believe it because of that or you like me,
Speaker 1: But maybe consider it and take it for a test drive.
Speaker 1: As I always say, if I say something that to
Speaker 1: you seems like a good idea, then perhaps put it
Speaker 1: into practice for a minute or a moment or an hour,
Speaker 1: and then see what happens and do your own research.
Speaker 1: So there's a valuable guidance out there, grounded in psychology,
Speaker 1: behavioral science, real world kind of application. But I think
Speaker 1: it's it's crucial that we all approach self help with
Speaker 1: a critical mindset. So I've got a few questions that
Speaker 1: I think are pertinent that we should ask ourselves as
Speaker 1: we consider taking on a piece of advice that we
Speaker 1: get from wherever it is, whether it's from a podcast
Speaker 1: or a whiteboard post or someone else's ig or whatever
Speaker 1: it is Facebook doesn't matter. The question one is is
Speaker 1: this evidence based or just anecdotal? Now, just because something,
Speaker 1: just because there isn't research on something, doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: that anecdote might not be valuable or insightful. But it's
Speaker 1: good to distinguish. It's good to know that just because
Speaker 1: old mate Craig doesn't eat lunch, and just because Craig
Speaker 1: gets good results on two meals a day, and just
Speaker 1: because Craig does X, Y and Z, right, Well, that's
Speaker 1: all anecdotal, that's all lived experience, that's all my experience, right,
Speaker 1: And while that's evidence based in the one of one sense,
Speaker 1: it's not broadly representative of everybody. So back to that.
Speaker 1: You know, this is what I do, and this is
Speaker 1: this is my protocol, this is how I did it.
Speaker 1: These were the outcomes based on these outcomes, this started
Speaker 1: these results, this is my interpretation, this is what I did,
Speaker 1: this is why I did it, and this is what
Speaker 1: I got. Right Now, we can also do a deep
Speaker 1: dive into the science and we can look at broader
Speaker 1: research and we can see what's happened on mass or
Speaker 1: we can see what the science tells us about certain
Speaker 1: protocols or certain treatments or certain programs or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But it's always good to you know, even if somebody
Speaker 1: that you like and respect gives you a bit of
Speaker 1: advice that seems to make sense, it's always good to
Speaker 1: do a little bit more research. Inform yourself, or maybe
Speaker 1: even if you want to be really boring, go and
Speaker 1: read a few papers and a few studies. If you
Speaker 1: don't know how to do that, it's probably not a
Speaker 1: terrible thing to do to go into somewhere like Google scholar,
Speaker 1: which is a really good starting point Google scholar to
Speaker 1: be able to start to get an insight into reading
Speaker 1: some kind of first hand research. And what's really good
Speaker 1: about now is twenty twenty five. Now is you might
Speaker 1: read something that and so much, especially that kind of
Speaker 1: high level academic research paper stuff is mumbo jumbo. Well
Speaker 1: it's true, most of it's true, but it's in language
Speaker 1: that's very hard to decipher and understand sometimes. But you
Speaker 1: can literally download those articles in the chap GP or
Speaker 1: Claude or whatever AI you use, if you use AI
Speaker 1: and say, can you explain this ten page report or
Speaker 1: this ten page journal article in one page of user
Speaker 1: friendly language, and it'll do it for you. So there's that.
Speaker 1: The next question that we might want to ask in
Speaker 1: terms of thinking critically about self help is does this
Speaker 1: piece of advice offer real solutions to real problems, to
Speaker 1: real complicated, real world problems and or challenges, or is
Speaker 1: it a drastic over simplification that just sounds good. The
Speaker 1: next question is does this piece of advice encourage self awareness,
Speaker 1: self reflection, critical thinking and action, or just passive agreement
Speaker 1: and conformity, like I think anything that doesn't make you think,
Speaker 1: Like hopefully this little extravaganza right now makes you think
Speaker 1: and it gets you to do a deeper dive, because ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, the world's your classroom. Every day is a
Speaker 1: lesson you're the student. But also you know you need
Speaker 1: to choose who your teachers are, who you're going to
Speaker 1: listen to, and that you know that's a myriad of
Speaker 1: people and a myriad of resources. But you need to
Speaker 1: be discerning in terms of who you pay attention to
Speaker 1: because there's you know, so much stuff available and perhaps
Speaker 1: even more discerning I should say about who you trust.
Speaker 1: Next question is is this information backed by you know, experts, science,
Speaker 1: legit information or is it just is it a sales pitch?
Speaker 1: Is that marketing? Is it clever marketing thinly disguised as
Speaker 1: some kind of science, And there's so much of that,
Speaker 1: so much of that. My next question is what is
Speaker 1: my data telling me? What are my results, my outcomes
Speaker 1: telling me? Because you and I are always producing results,
Speaker 1: and if we're smart, we'll pay attention to those results.
Speaker 1: We'll correlate the results back to our behavior, and will
Speaker 1: correlate our behavior back to our intention and our goal
Speaker 1: setting out, and then the data will tell us what
Speaker 1: is working, what is not working, what is efficient, what
Speaker 1: is inefficient. And so I think sometimes some of the
Speaker 1: best lessons and the best insights and the best moments
Speaker 1: of awareness and awakening is not to listen to Craig Harper,
Speaker 1: but to listen to yourself, to listen to your body,
Speaker 1: to listen to your own data. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: just while all of this stuff is, you know, not
Speaker 1: all of this Some of this stuff is informative and
Speaker 1: interesting and potentially helpful and supportive and inspirational. Your life
Speaker 1: is the project, like your life is an ongoing research process.
Speaker 1: If you make that. That is why, of course I
Speaker 1: call this show that you project is because, and I've
Speaker 1: said it many times, but on Planet You, you are
Speaker 1: the project. The project. On Planet You is the person
Speaker 1: in the mirror. You're trying to manage your mind and
Speaker 1: your emotions. You're trying to manage your choices, You're trying
Speaker 1: to manage your actions and reactions. You're trying to manage
Speaker 1: your energy and your emotions and your feelings and your
Speaker 1: doubts and your insecurity. You know, you're trying to manage relationships.
Speaker 1: You're trying to manage your talent and resources. Like that
Speaker 1: is you every day showing up to the cold face.
Speaker 1: That is you trying to manage you. You know, you
Speaker 1: are the project. You are the study. You are the researcher,
Speaker 1: and you are the participant. You are the n equals
Speaker 1: one on planet you. Yeah, real personal growth. It's not
Speaker 1: about shortcuts or magical thinking or relentless positivity. It's about
Speaker 1: It's about you, understanding you. It's about self awareness. It's
Speaker 1: about effort. It's about work. It's about being the calm
Speaker 1: and the chaos. It's about being the solution person. It's
Speaker 1: about being able to deal with the unfairness, the bullshit,
Speaker 1: the mayhem, the good days the bad days. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all that. It's all that. It's all that real world,
Speaker 1: practical stuff that is not necessarily holding out a hand
Speaker 1: for money. It's not necessarily someone trying to manipulate or
Speaker 1: coerce you into another program or product or something. And
Speaker 1: it's really it's just ultimately, it's universal wisdom and insight
Speaker 1: that we can all tap into if it's the right stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like I rambled there. You know. You know
Speaker 1: when you get to the end of your thing, this
Speaker 1: is what I do. I'm just going to ramble now,
Speaker 1: fucking you know when you get to the end of
Speaker 1: your thing and you go, fucking now, I was going good.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to give you my honest self assessment. Now.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was going good then for a while.
Speaker 1: Then I got a bit waylaid and distracted. This is
Speaker 1: the problem with me. This is the problem. This is
Speaker 1: a learning moment for me and maybe few This is
Speaker 1: the problem. When I freestyle, things are clearer and I
Speaker 1: don't get tripped up. Like right now, I'm freestyling. There's
Speaker 1: nothing written down. I didn't plan to do this. But
Speaker 1: when I go, oh, I'm going to write something, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to share that shit that I've written. And
Speaker 1: then as I'm reading to you, as I'm going through
Speaker 1: my dot points or my paragraphs, I realize as I
Speaker 1: say it out loud, eh, this fucking reads better than
Speaker 1: it sounds, you know. Um, But anyway, I will solder on,
Speaker 1: I will keep doing I like you. I will keep
Speaker 1: doing my very best to be better for me and
Speaker 1: also for you. I will do my very best to
Speaker 1: be a better teacher and coach and mentor and podcaster
Speaker 1: and you, for better or worse. While I was going
Speaker 1: to say you will, you will be part of my
Speaker 1: fuck up. So you may not. You may go not
Speaker 1: last episode. I'm out. Don't blame you anyway. Let's see
Speaker 1: how much of this stuff we can get through together.
Speaker 1: Love your collective guts is. Have a good day. It's
Speaker 1: now nine thirty eight. I'm a little peckish. See you tomorrow.