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I think people severely underestimate
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the effect that they can have on the
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world in fact it's almost like the
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disease of the Modern Life uh people
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have this perception they have this idea
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of the world as just being a bunch of
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forces Beyond My Control there
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historical forces there are uh I don't
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know all these trends that I can't
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helpfully you know I I can't resist I
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just have to go along with them and
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ultimately I have no control over my own
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life and I think that that could not be
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when you eventually in your own life
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realize that that is not the case it
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might be too late so now uh I've I've
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done a video before I was going to say a
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little bit ago it's probably a couple
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years ago now um talking about like the
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the kind of implicit scop in Television
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right why if you especially if you have
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this kind of a TV show where everything
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resets at the end of the show right you
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know people do stuff they they make
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friends they win money they do whatever
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and at the end all resets back to normal
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because you have to get ready for the
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next show that implicitly tells you
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something about life it tells you that
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life is the way it is and you can't
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really do anything about it but I think
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talking about TV is a little superficial
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a way to make it a little clearer is
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that all of us in the modern world have
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basically gone through what is a kind of
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brainwashing to make you surval to make
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you accept that basically everything is
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beyond your control and um really that
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that's basically formal education and
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what I mean by that is like formal
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education is not like the real world you
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know the real world you have basically
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infinite possibilities and if you do
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something un unexpected or valuable or
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new that is something that is going to I
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mean that's the best thing you can
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basically do you know you can be a
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little entrepreneurial you can uh I
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don't know like u i don't readjust how
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people perceive things you don't have to
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follow a strict assignment you know what
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I mean you don't have to uh whereas in
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formal education obviously the goal is
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all of the thing all of the trials you
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deal with are contrive trials they're
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they're like they're like little games
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you know here's an assignment do it this
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way color in the lines you know spell
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the right way etc etc and um anything
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outside of that is is basically a waste
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of your time and you know normal Normy
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psychology like mainstream psychology
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obviously even they have this concept of
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learned helplessness right and that's
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the idea that eventually if you put a
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person in a position where their actions
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don't really affect the direction of
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where they're going they learn
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helplessness they become basically
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depressed like Depression more or less I
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mean Depression more or less is like
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people who are in a life position where
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they don't feel like their actions make
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an effect on what they're doing right so
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everything that they they don't want to
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do anything they just sit around they
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don't feel like they can affect the
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world you know and that that is kind of
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the disease that so many people have you
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know um um what's even worse is we have
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this mindset in the modern world
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especially in let's say the post
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Enlightenment world that this is a
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justification for all of this right so
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you have um this idea that everything in
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the world is just kind of a natural
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Trend right that you ultimately cannot
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arrest you cannot stop uh it just has to
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be how it is you know um now this is
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very this is very ubiquitous and like
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polish ICS and stuff like that you know
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you're told this is just how it is you
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know there there's nothing you can do
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about it you can't have an effect this
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is just a
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natural uh a natural end result of
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what's going on and uh this is you know
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we have sociologists we have economists
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we have um you know all these political
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theorists who will tell you this is how
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it has to be you know uh and this isn't
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me endorsing some kind of utopianism but
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I am saying that people need to
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understand there have been so many times
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in history uh in fact not just different
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discreet times at every moment in
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history history can be defined by
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individual people okay I'm very much a a
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fan of the whole great man theory of
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History I think um that's really the
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most accurate way I mean it's the the
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oldest basist and most traditional way
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of describing history really you know
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you look at the country of France okay
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why does why do French people speak
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French okay because Julius C Caesar
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Millennia ago invaded Gaul he installed
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the Roman Empire or the the Roman
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Republic in that area and those people
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speak that language because of this one
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man you know what I mean that that's
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just what kind of I'm getting at and
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there are many domains now like it would
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be stupid to say you know figures
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nowadays I mean let's say people are
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talking about Trump because he got
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reelected but it would be stupid to say
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that Donald Trump is not a significant
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figure you know we don't exactly know
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how he's going to be significant we
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don't know but either way what it's
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stupid to say and this is this is what
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the the kind of the point of what I'm
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getting yet it's stupid to say something
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like there are just natural tendencies
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in the world there's nothing we can do
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to do to stop them therefore if any one
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person does this that or the other it
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doesn't really matter therefore if I do
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this that or the other it doesn't matter
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and again you're taught this you know
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again in formal education uh implicitly
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it's not like your teacher sit down and
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say I'm going to brainwash I'm going to
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sigh out this little kid but they just
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accidentally do it because you know it
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is it necessarily is this um Affair of
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putting a kid in a box like teaching him
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to do something simple but also making
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sure he doesn't expand past that box you
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know and uh even online like I will note
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like there are a lot of guys you know
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they'll mail me or email me or like
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they'll write a comment saying hey Luke
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I I I want to make money on the internet
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I want to do this I want to blah blah
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blah what should I do and it's like even
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then when people want to be
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entrepreneurial and this is unfortunate
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when they want to be entrepreneurial
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where they want to take that extra step
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they still almost have this reflex to
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just ask someone what do I do step by
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step explain it explain it to me that's
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what I need and that quite literally is
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like not how it works um I think what's
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more important especially for like uh I
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think younger guys like I think it's
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more important for them to sit around
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and have kind of real world experiences
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with like kind of how the world actually
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works you know like to to unlearn your
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learned helplessness to see like oh I
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can very easily have an effect on this
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um I can uh I can do this I I mean just
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an example I was I was only told like uh
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last month you know there's a the the
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guy who made the uh what is it the
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Yankee Candle Company right so like uh
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in America they sell these like scented
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candles all this kind of stuff it's a
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massive the guy who who started he has
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this massive Mansion he like remade I
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think his the house he grew up in just
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made it like I don't know like a uh very
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beautiful architecture I you should look
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it up but either way the guy who started
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that you know he basically made candles
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when he was 16 just as he wanted to get
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his mom something for Christmas and she
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liked it and he turned it into a
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business and the rest is kind of history
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and obviously it's not like this guy has
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changed the direction of the universe uh
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but he's changed like what you find in
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like Gift Stores because now you have
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this new Option and other companies uh
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imitate it and all this kind of stuff
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and it changes the vibe of houses and
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all this but that's how that's like
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really what you really need to realize
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is like everything is like that there
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are no like there's no like um I don't
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know uh materialist uh uh uh like thing
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that led that guy to to reach this
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particular entrepreneurial solution um
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and that's like the entirety of our life
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like every little business that started
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or every invention is something like
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this it's often people who happen upon
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something and there might be many things
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that are just laying there that we don't
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know you know it it'd be kind of like if
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imagine if we had well actually there
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have been many human societies that have
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read you know reached the level of
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complexity that don't have something
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basic like the wheel you know the the
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inan Empire they didn't have wheels you
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know um they were great they expanded
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over a lot of territory and you can
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argue why they don't have it but like
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imagine being an like the Incan Emperor
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and then being introduced oh we could
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like invent a wheel and do this that or
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the other that's kind of how it is and
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we're in that same position where
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there's so many opportunities we don't
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know of for I don't want to say like
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even entrepreneurial actions because
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it's not I'm not really saying this to
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make money or to make businesses or
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anything like that that's not really my
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objective in saying this what I am
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saying is that individual people
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obviously have way more of an impact on
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the world than they expect and people I
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think the the
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error uh if you look at the world as
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just being something um that's what
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other people are doing I'm just an
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observer you know that that is such a
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negative worldview uh because it really
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consigns you to be a cog Cog in the
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machine right because if that's truly
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how you think of things you really can't
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do anything other than be an employee
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right and that actually just as a side
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note about that you know I talked about
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this in kind of the the BS jobs uh
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podcast or whatever but like people
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nowadays have this assumption that just
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that's how the world works you have to
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be an employee and you work yourself up
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in the uh corporate a ladder and you
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make more money and you're a bigger
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employee you're a bigger slave to some
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kind of company and you know obviously
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throughout human history most people
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have just not been employees you know
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even if they're living simple lives as a
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farmer like they have a level of
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Independence that people just don't have
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nowadays you know and now unfortunately
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in so many cases like people get so good
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at following orders as employees and
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they get so emotionally attached to the
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comfort of having a certain job and a
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certain income that um you know if it's
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hard for them to even switch uh to to
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some other job you know to to like
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change their life orientation because
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like so much is writing on something
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almost so inconsequential and all of
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this like the the slavishness of modern
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man I really think I mean there are a
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lot of things that cause it but I I
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guess the one I'm thinking today is this
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kind of like this this concept of formal
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education that or which is tied in with
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this idea of there are being Trends in
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history that we can't stop there are
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they just Tendencies you know uh it's
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kind of like the the old thing where if
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an economist is walking on the ground
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and sees a $100 bill he says no that's
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not there because if there were a $100
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bill on the ground someone would have
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already picked it up right um that
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that's kind of the mindset like it's
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it's like good things happen to them and
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they can't they have to explain why it
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can't happen or why I can't do this why
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I can't blah blah blah and that's when
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you're in the domain of like pure coping
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you know um I I did a video on like free
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will and stuff like that and I said like
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people often act like you know it's a
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big red pill to believe that there's no
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free will actually it's just the
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opposite it's actually uh it's very
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comforting for people to not believe in
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free will because that ultim ultimately
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means like I don't have to be
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responsible for what I do or don't do
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okay I don't have to worry about oh like
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um I've been sitting around working like
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a a simple job uh that doesn't matter
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I'm just an employee oh I couldn't have
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done anything else you know I I'm I'm
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safe where I am I'm the best I could
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possibly be and you know it's a
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frightening feeling no matter how I I
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guess like impactful you are that like
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you're you're not there you know what I
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mean you're not 100% I'm not 100% you're
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not 100% like what you could be doing um
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and so you know just remember that when
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you're I don't know hustling or whatever
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either way that's it I got to go
