Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is that if lots of other people can
Speaker 2: do something, the odds are reasonable that you can do
Speaker 2: it too. So no need to get intimidated by what
Speaker 2: are truly normal activities just because you have never done
Speaker 2: them before. So I lived in New York City for
Speaker 2: nine years in my twenties and early thirties, but I
Speaker 2: never drove in the city while I was there. Partly
Speaker 2: that is because I didn't own a car and I
Speaker 2: didn't really need one, so the opportunity seldom arose. But
Speaker 2: even after we left New York City and I bought
Speaker 2: a car and I sometimes needed to go back into
Speaker 2: the city, I would always take the train. It was
Speaker 2: more familiar. In driving in the city with all the
Speaker 2: traffic and commotion just seemed intimidating to me. But last
Speaker 2: summer I needed to be somewhere in Harlem that wasn't
Speaker 2: going to be easy to get to from Penn Station,
Speaker 2: and then I needed to travel somewhere north of the
Speaker 2: city that also wasn't easily served by public transit. So,
Speaker 2: after pondering this, situation. For a while, I realized that, well,
Speaker 2: I owned a car, I have a driver's license, and
Speaker 2: more importantly, thousands of people drive in and out of
Speaker 2: New York City every single day. These people are not
Speaker 2: all more competent or experienced drivers than I am. I
Speaker 2: could probably do it. So I drove over the George
Speaker 2: Washington Bridge into the city and I survived. Indeed, it
Speaker 2: was straightforward enough that I have now driven into the
Speaker 2: city several more times, which has been convenient when I
Speaker 2: needed to go somewhere and the trains weren't running at
Speaker 2: convenient times for some reason or another. Now, you might
Speaker 2: not be intimidated by urban driving. Maybe that's just my
Speaker 2: particular thing, But perhaps there is something else that you
Speaker 2: have built up in your mind as being a big
Speaker 2: and scary deal for some people. It might be international
Speaker 2: travel with the need for passports and to go through
Speaker 2: customs and all that. Or maybe it's the idea of
Speaker 2: going on the job market after a decade or more
Speaker 2: at the same place. Maybe it's buying a house, maybe
Speaker 2: it's starting a business. What's all this discussion of LLC's
Speaker 2: and such. But here's the thing. Some stuff is truly
Speaker 2: hard to pull off. I am not planning on winning
Speaker 2: an Olympic medal at any point in this lifetime. But
Speaker 2: thousands of people travel internationally every day, Millions of people
Speaker 2: switch jobs in the US each year. There were about
Speaker 2: six million homes sold in the US in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: which suggests that buying or selling one is probably a
Speaker 2: doable endeavor. If lots of other people are able to
Speaker 2: do something, then most likely you will be able to
Speaker 2: do it as well. Other people don't have some secret
Speaker 2: ability that the rest of us don't have. They are
Speaker 2: probably just more familiar with the process because someone explained
Speaker 2: it to them or they decided to figure it out.
Speaker 2: You can do that too. You might feel a little
Speaker 2: anxious the first time. I know I did, as I
Speaker 2: figured out the correct exit from the George Washington Bridge
Speaker 2: that I'd only seen other drivers take what I'd been
Speaker 2: a passenger before. But again, thousands of people do this
Speaker 2: every day. They really aren't all better drivers than me.
Speaker 2: I could make it work. So if there is something
Speaker 2: you have been intimidated by, consider trying it out. It
Speaker 2: might not go perfectly, but if other people can do it,
Speaker 2: most likely you can do it too. And it really
Speaker 2: is nice to know that if I want to go
Speaker 2: into the city in two hours, I can be there.
Speaker 2: Everything just seems a lot more accessible in the meantime.
Speaker 2: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 2: the most of our time.
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