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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I am Dramas and this is the Street

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Speaker 1: Stoic Podcast, bringing your daily dose of timeless stoic philosophy

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Speaker 1: remix for the hip hop generation. Now, with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: let's get things started with your daily shot of inspiration.

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Speaker 1: Now today we are going to be focusing around the

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Speaker 1: stoic idea of momentomori or remembering that one day you

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Speaker 1: have to die. And I know that sounds incredibly dark

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Speaker 1: and depressing, but it is an inevitable truth of life

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Speaker 1: and it's one that we should use as motivation. And

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Speaker 1: it's all that stuck out to me was from Meek

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Speaker 1: Mill and it's a record call stuck in my Ways.

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Speaker 1: And the line that I pulled from that that I

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Speaker 1: thought was really fitting to this idea is when Meek says,

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Speaker 1: I don't got time to be wasting my time. And

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Speaker 1: to me, when I hear this this line right here,

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Speaker 1: it's someone who's declaring the value of their time, right

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Speaker 1: And when you value your time, you become very careful

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Speaker 1: of how you spend it. You set boundaries, you know,

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Speaker 1: you draw a line between what is and isn't important,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you decide what is actually you know,

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Speaker 1: and moving the needle and getting you closer towards your

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Speaker 1: goals and your vision for life. And what is something

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Speaker 1: that is maybe you know, just kind of feeding your

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Speaker 1: ego in the moment, but does nothing for you in

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Speaker 1: the long run. Right like, when you are aware of

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Speaker 1: just how precious and important your time is, your mind

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Speaker 1: is always trying to optimize, you know, the way that

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Speaker 1: you spend it. And this leads me to a quote

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Speaker 1: from Marcus Aurelius, one of the Stoics, and he says,

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Speaker 1: don't behave as if you are destined to live forever.

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Speaker 1: The truth is as dark and scary as this sounds.

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Speaker 1: As you are listening to this podcast, you are inching

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Speaker 1: closer and closer to death. And you can either be

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Speaker 1: depressed by that or you can use it as a

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Speaker 1: wake up call to take charge of your life and

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Speaker 1: do your best to not waste any of these precious

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Speaker 1: moments that we are are given. You know, and you

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Speaker 1: got to think about, you know, your day right as

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Speaker 1: a whole. I think that's kind of where it starts,

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Speaker 1: and how you spend your time, you know, and the

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Speaker 1: things that you do during this time and the way

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Speaker 1: that you spend your your day, you know, it should

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Speaker 1: reflect the fact that you are very well aware of

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Speaker 1: you know, time is fleeting and your moments on this

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Speaker 1: earth are are going by very quickly. And to me,

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Speaker 1: I relate this in so many different ways in my life,

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Speaker 1: but I think more recently when it comes to my

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Speaker 1: career and more so my creative work, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like career just has like this dirty connotation of money.

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Speaker 1: But for me, I have so many different ideas that

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Speaker 1: I want to bring to life, so many different things

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Speaker 1: that I enjoy doing. And if I'm not focused on

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Speaker 1: how I spend my day and paying attention to where

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Speaker 1: the hours go, like, I'm not able to get any

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Speaker 1: of the things that I want to get done, you know.

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Speaker 1: And for me, I've adapted this, uh you know, this

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Speaker 1: methodology and this practice of time blocking. You know, where

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Speaker 1: I look at my entire day, hour by hour, and

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Speaker 1: I block out even the most minimal tasks, even if

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, you know, sending an email that's

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Speaker 1: I put it in my calendar. I know at three

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Speaker 1: PM I'm going to go and send that email. I

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Speaker 1: know at three thirty I'm gonna go send this email.

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Speaker 1: Right my day is accounted for, so I can get

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Speaker 1: the most out of my time. So I'm making sure

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Speaker 1: that I am making the most of my day, and

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Speaker 1: I'm prioritizing the things that get me closer and closer

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Speaker 1: to what I hope to achieve and what I hope

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Speaker 1: to produce as a as a creative, you know. And

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Speaker 1: this is how I'm able to do two podcasts and

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Speaker 1: doing a TV show, and how I wrote a book,

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Speaker 1: and how I run a studio a lifestyle brand, amongst

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Speaker 1: a handful of other things that I haven't even announced yet,

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Speaker 1: right like, the only way that I'm able to do

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Speaker 1: all of this, the only way that I'm able to

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis do things that I love doing

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Speaker 1: and bring, you know, so many different ideas to life.

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Speaker 1: It's because I'm very conscious of how I spend my time,

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Speaker 1: even down to the day, down to the hour, all

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Speaker 1: of it. I try to be Accountablefore, I try to

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Speaker 1: be very intentional with it, and knowing that life goes

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Speaker 1: by incredibly fast, and if we are not disciplined with

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Speaker 1: how we spend our time, we will end up wasting

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Speaker 1: so much of it as a result. Now we have

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Speaker 1: heard the words of Meek Mill, we have heard from

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Speaker 1: how I'm incredibly aware of this stoic idea of a

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Speaker 1: mental moor or the fact that one day, you know,

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Speaker 1: we will be gone, you know, and in each passing

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Speaker 1: moment we're getting closer and closer to that. Right, So

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Speaker 1: we've talked about how all of these people's quotes and

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Speaker 1: my own story, how they relate to that concept. Now

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Speaker 1: let's talk about how you can make it your mantra

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Speaker 1: for today. But first let's take a quick break and

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Speaker 1: then we'll be read back. All right, So we've heard

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Speaker 1: the words of meek Mill, We've talked about Marcus Aurelius,

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Speaker 1: one of the stoics. You've heard my own, you know,

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Speaker 1: awareness of the stoic idea of a mental moor, the

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Speaker 1: idea that you know, we're all a man getting closer

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Speaker 1: and closer to our our last days on this earth

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Speaker 1: with each passing moment. Now, let's talk about how you

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Speaker 1: can make it your mantra for today. Now, first and

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Speaker 1: for almost I want to make it clear that you know,

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Speaker 1: of course, we are not machines, right, we are human

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Speaker 1: beings and we need to have balance in our lives.

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Speaker 1: I'm not telling you to work yourself to the bone

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Speaker 1: to make yourself sick because you're not taking the proper

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Speaker 1: time to rest. You know, or or you know that

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Speaker 1: you should be losing, you know, all the people around

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Speaker 1: you that are important to you because you want to

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Speaker 1: be chasing some sort of dream or goal. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that, you know, I think quite the opposite. Of course,

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Speaker 1: life is all about balance. But with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: you do have to learn how to optimize your limited

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Speaker 1: time here on this earth. Right like, you cannot say

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Speaker 1: that you want something if you aren't delegating the proper

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Speaker 1: time towards it. And that's something you know. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: just have to be a goal, of course, it could be.

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Speaker 1: It could be something career related and achievement you want

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Speaker 1: to be able to do, right, but it also could

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Speaker 1: be just maintaining a relationship with a loved one, right like,

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Speaker 1: that takes intention, That takes planning. You know, you want

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Speaker 1: to be there, you know, for someone that you care about,

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Speaker 1: you know, an important moment in their life. You know

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Speaker 1: you have to carve out the time in your schedule

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Speaker 1: to make that happen. All of that requires intention and awareness,

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Speaker 1: have those days, you know, we're like, man, I have

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Speaker 1: no idea where the time went. Today, just flew by.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you slow down and you map

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Speaker 1: out your days and are present to how you spend

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Speaker 1: your time time, like I was talking about with the

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Speaker 1: time blocking, you begin to have less and less those

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Speaker 1: days where you feel like time just got away from human.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that's the goal here. We want

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Speaker 1: to be able to be accountable for the time that

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Speaker 1: we spend each and every day, because of course it

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Speaker 1: is limited. Our time here on this earth is limited,

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Speaker 1: and we must make the most of it. Now to

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Speaker 1: recap all we've talked about, you know, Meek Mill making

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Speaker 1: a declaration that his time is valuable, right, he says,

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Speaker 1: I don't got time to be wasting my time. And

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Speaker 1: you have to look at the way that you spend

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Speaker 1: your minutes, your hours, your days this same exact way.

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Speaker 1: Your time is a valuable commodity because it is quickly

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Speaker 1: fleeting and onto the stoics. Marcus Aurelius. You know, don't

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Speaker 1: behave as if you're destined to live forever. You cannot

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Speaker 1: put off things for tomorrow because tomorrow is not promised. Again,

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Speaker 1: don't work yourself to the bone, but within reason. Try

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Speaker 1: not to leave things for tomorrow. Try not to leave

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Speaker 1: things unsaid. And for me, it's all about creating discipline

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Speaker 1: and maintaining my jeal, my calendar, and being on top

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Speaker 1: of each and every minute, every hour, every day, and

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Speaker 1: trying to be on top of how I spend it,

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Speaker 1: you know, time blocking all the things that I want

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Speaker 1: to do. And for me, it's changed my life and

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Speaker 1: it's allowed me to be so much more productive because

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Speaker 1: I'm aware of the way that I'm spending each moment

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Speaker 1: in my day and allows me to optimize the limited

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Speaker 1: time that I have here. So all of that in

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Speaker 1: mind again, remember one day you will be gone. Your

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Speaker 1: time right now is fleeting. You need to make the

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Speaker 1: most of it now. With that in mind, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for checking out the Street Stoke podcasts. Do

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Speaker 1: your best to apply these concepts that we discussed today

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Speaker 1: into your everyday life, and I will catch you next time.

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