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Speaker 1: interesting and I've spoken to people about this before. And

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Speaker 1: what's interesting is Alex Hemosi has this habit, which some

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Speaker 1: think it depends on how it's used and when it's used.

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Speaker 1: But he was talking about the propensity that people have

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Speaker 1: without trying to be hurtful or hateful, of course, but

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Speaker 1: one of the things that one of the examples I've

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Speaker 1: given over the years is there's been many times where

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Speaker 1: people have said to me something like, hey, mate, we're

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Speaker 1: going bowling on Friday night. Do you want to come?

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Speaker 1: And the true answer to that is I do not

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Speaker 1: want to go bowling. I don't really enjoy bowling. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to go bowling. And so I will say

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Speaker 1: to them, no, I don't. And some times, oh, are

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Speaker 1: you busy? And I go, no, I'm not, and people

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Speaker 1: look at me like what do you mean. I go, well,

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Speaker 1: you said, do I want to go bowling? And the

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Speaker 1: truthful answer to that is no, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: go bowling. I'd literally rather stay home by myself and

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Speaker 1: do something else. Now, let's not confuse I don't want

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Speaker 1: to go bowling with I don't like you? Do I

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Speaker 1: like you? Yes, I do. I probably happily have a

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Speaker 1: meal with you. Maybe well, I'll catch up with you

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Speaker 1: for a coffee or have a meaningful dialogue or I

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Speaker 1: don't know, something that we'll both enjoy. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to go do something that I don't want to

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Speaker 1: do just because you want to do it. Now, there's

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Speaker 1: a caveat to that. Before people go, you're so fucking

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Speaker 1: single and selfish. I get it, I get it. There's

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Speaker 1: a caveat, and that is if I was in a

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Speaker 1: relationship with somebody who really wanted to do that, I

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Speaker 1: would definitely go. I would do that for them because

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Speaker 1: my partner wanted to do that, And I think having

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Speaker 1: an awareness and a purpose and a kindness bigger than

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Speaker 1: for myself, of course. But my point is when we

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Speaker 1: spend our life being a form of a people pleaser,

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Speaker 1: saying yes to things that we really perhaps want to

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Speaker 1: say no to. I'm not talking about being selfish here.

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Speaker 1: I'm just talking about not wasting time and energy doing

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Speaker 1: things that you really don't want to do when you

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Speaker 1: could be doing something that is far more valuable for you.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps what's more valuable for you, depending on the situation,

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Speaker 1: is a night off. Maybe it's a meditation class. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's line on your bed watching Netflix. Maybe it's going

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Speaker 1: to the gym and doing a workout. Maybe it's hanging

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Speaker 1: out with your mum. Maybe it's hanging out with your dad.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's maybe it's listening to a podcast. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what it is, but this compulsion that people have

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Speaker 1: to say yes to everything just because they can't or

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Speaker 1: won't say no, it's a problem. It's a problem. And

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Speaker 1: again my asterisk, my caveat here is no, we're not

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Speaker 1: trying to be insensitive. And there'll be times when, of course,

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Speaker 1: because of a relationship we have, we're going to go

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Speaker 1: do something which wouldn't be our priority, but we want

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Speaker 1: to love someone and take care of somebody else, of course,

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Speaker 1: But I just think it's okay sometimes to be able

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Speaker 1: to say no, look, really, it ain't about you. But

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Speaker 1: that is just not I don't want to go spend

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Speaker 1: three hours doing that. If you want to know the truth,

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Speaker 1: the answer is no, I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: But thanks, we don't always have to explain ourselves. We

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Speaker 1: don't need permission from people. We're all grown ups. There's

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Speaker 1: a way to look after you while also being kind

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Speaker 1: and thoughtful and aware of others. All right there it is.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully there's something in that for you that's valuable, maybe

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Speaker 1: even something that you can take out of the theory

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Speaker 1: of my words and put into practice in the real

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Speaker 1: world reality of your life tomorrow