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The paradox of self -awareness.
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So everyone understands that actions are more important than words, right?
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You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
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And there's this line from Hamlet, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all." never read any Shakespeare.
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I can barely remember even going through it in school, but I came across this line again and did a deep dive on what it means.
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Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all.
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This line comes from Hamlet and it's usually misheard as an insult.
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It's as if Shakespeare is sort of sneering at morality,
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saying that, um, Ethics soften us, or thought drains courage from the body.
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I don't think that's what's happening.
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Shakespeare isn't attacking goodness.
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He's pointing at self -awareness and naming its cost.
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It's in the to be or not to be soliloquy and Hamlet isn't really weighing life versus death.
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He's circling a more practical question.
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Why do humans hesitate to act even when action would clearly relieve their suffering?
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Like, why do we endure situations we don't want?
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And why do we tolerate lives that we could in theory change?
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Well, Pain isn't the only obstacle.
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imagination is, and by conscience, Shakespeare means something closer to consciousness.
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It's the ability to think ahead, to judge ourselves, to simulate futures before they arrive.
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It's to see the consequences coming.
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and experience them emotionally, in advance.
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And unfortunately, that ability cuts both ways, because the very capacity that makes you reflective and ethical and intelligent,
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also makes you hesitant.
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We imagine worst case scenarios so vividly that we treat them as if they're already real.
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So, Courage isn't defeated by fear.
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It's defeated by simulation.
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We rehearse embarrassment.
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loss, rejection, and moral failure in advance, and then our bodies respond as if those things have already happened.
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Your heart rate rises, your muscles tighten.
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Avoidance feels sensible.
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and inaction feels like safety.
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Hamlet describes what follows.
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Thought, he says, puzzles the will.
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Thought puzzles the will.
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reflection drains us.
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Not because thinking is bad, but because it multiplies potential outcomes faster than our actions can deal with them.
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I think that's so cool.
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Thinking isn't bad itself, but it's able to generate more realities than our actions can solve.
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Animals don't suffer this, right?
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They just act when a threshold is crossed.
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Humans linger, and by the time that the moment to move arrives, we feel as if we've already lived through its inevitable failure.
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So we wait.
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This is the deepest psychological point that I think Shakespeare is making.
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And I'm aware that a guy that basically didn't read Shakespeare is just reverse engineering what I think he said.
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But I do think that this is a cool interpretation, right?
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Our intelligence doesn't just protect us.
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it also inhibits us.
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We learn quickly from mistakes that we make.
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but we almost never feel the cost of mistakes that we avoid.
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The humiliation of speaking and failing leaves a scar, but the decades -long erosion of never speaking leaves nothing that you can point to.
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which, explains why people stay in the wrong job.
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the wrong relationship, the wrong version of themselves for years.
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Not because they don't know better...
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but because action demands stepping into an unrehearsed future.
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Hamlet names the real enemy.
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which is uncertainty.
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Not pain or effort, but just...
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The Unknown.
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Our minds would rather endure a familiar misery than gamble on an unfamiliar freedom.
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Even suffering becomes tolerable once it's predictable.
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But, People would rather spend years in misery than risk a few days of pain.
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And this is why modern life, despite being safer than any previous era, often feels more paralyzing.
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Because our nervous system has evolved to avoid death and lions,
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and now we use it to avoid embarrassment and misjudgment and reputational damage and identity fracture.
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And here's the final uncomfortable implication Shakespeare leaves hanging.
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Self -awareness is not a pure good.
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right beyond a certain point, Self -awareness actually inhibits agency.
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less reflection can mean more peace.
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Less certainty can mean more movement.
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Less conscience can sometimes mean more life.
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Courage isn't about thinking clearly.
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It's about moving while things are still unclear.
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You know, there's that famous line, "the unexamined life is not worth living", but A life can be deeply examined, and still never lived.
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This paradox of self -awareness, the fact that the deeper you think, sometimes the less you're able to act.
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If your mind is able to generate realities more quickly than you are able to come up with solutions
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or move through them, you kind of have this weird cost - benefit imbalance or maybe like a cost profit,
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your balance sheet is offset where the overheads are higher than the revenue.
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And this sort of puts you in a negative equity in terms of your ability to move forward.
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And that can freeze you in place.
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You don't want to do something because you think...
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Look at all the ways that could go wrong.
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And.. the more ways it could go wrong, the less ability I'm going to have to act.
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And what if this thing occurs and that thing occurs?
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And over time, conscience makes cowards of us all.
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Uh...
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It's weird because most people probably need to be more thoughtful.
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They need to spend more time, be less rash, act less impulsively.
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But there is a cohort of people that are the opposite and the people like me and maybe you too. And other people who...
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think more than they should.
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talk themselves out of more things than into them and actually move more slowly.
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They get less done in life due to their thought than more.
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Now they'll make way fewer mistakes and that's great.
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But again, the mistake of omission is different to the mistake of commission.
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So what's the People make commission errors if they don't think enough.
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People make omission errors if they think too much.
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Like if you overthink, decide not to go up and speak to
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that girl that's been in the cafeteria at work for six months, she gets a boyfriend, would have been the perfect partner for you.
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And you decide to not make the move because you've talked yourself into and out of it so many times.
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Your mind's ability to show you what could go wrong is greater than your actions ability to fix it in reality.
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That is an omission error, but we don't see it in the same way because it's not as obvious.
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For instance, I chose to not bring a number of guests on this podcast in 2024.
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And Maybe that's leaked out of me in a couple of other vlogs or whatever, but I didn't make a big song and dance about it.
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I basically never spoke about it.
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I'm never going to get credit for the things that I didn't do.
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And in the same way, you never pay a cost, for the things that you don't do.
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I mean, look, if you leave a person to bleed out on the side of the street without calling the ambulance, that's a kind of omission error, but it's pretty obvious.
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A much more quiet omission error is, I was scared of building the business because my mind taught me all of the different ways that stuff could go wrong.
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So I didn't do it.
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And I'll never know the pain of not fulfilling my dreams, but I avoided the pain of failure.
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And the pains of failure are much more prevalent in our mind than the pain of, fuck, what if this doesn't go well?
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So there's this great...
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audio book from Tony Robbins.
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It's 30 years old.
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George Mack sent it to me.
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I don't even know how to find it.
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I'll try and find it and put it in the links, but it's basically an hour and a half worksheet, Awaken the Giant Within.
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It's an audio book.
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And all he does, it's basically one long exercise to try and front load the pain.
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as much as possible.
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Look at what this situation you're in now has cost you in the past.
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Look at what it's costing you right now and look at what it will cost you in the future.
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and he tries to get you to sit in the discomfort as much as possible.
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It's horrible, awful exercise.
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It's like the mental equivalent of an ice bath.
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And then, He gets you to try and do the opposite.
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Look at what would have happened in the past if you'd made the change that you want to, that you think is right.
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If you'd improved this thing, look at what would be happening now and look at what would happen in the future.
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And he tries to sort of get you to use, he calls it the pain and pleasure principle.
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motivate your behavior through pain and pleasure and uh The type of pain?
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that you can front load with Look at what not starting this thing.
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has cost you in the past and now in the future.
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You have to be much more conscious.
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Like the, um, commission errors come naturally to us, but the omission errors are much more hidden.
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So you need to kind of, you need to do an exercise.
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You need to consciously bring omission errors in like, fuck, like I've always wanted to be a standup comedian.
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I've always just wanted to do, I've always, I want to do an open mic.
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I just really want to do an open mic and you've put it off for Decades, you never did it.
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You never closed that loop and you might hate it.
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Here's the other thing.
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The thing that you're putting off from doing, you might absolutely hate.
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at least once you realize whether you like it or you don't, you go up and speak to the girl in the cafeteria and find out she's got horrible breath and she's an asshole.
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There you go.
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Loop closed.
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You don't need to think about it.
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But the what if after the fact will kill you.
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But the what if before the fact is really hard to determine.
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So yeah, I think this conscience does make cowards of us all.
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That is my...
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  • cut both ways: 두 가지 면을 가지고 있다 (예: "The ability to think ahead cuts both ways." 미리 생각하는 능력은 장단점이 있다)
  • puzzle the will: 의지를 혼란스럽게 하다 (예: "Thought puzzles the will." 생각은 의지를 혼란스럽게 한다)
  • simulate futures: 미래를 시뮬레이션하다 (예: "We simulate futures before they arrive." 미래가 오기 전에 시뮬레이션한다)
  • drain courage: 용기를 빼앗다 (예: "Reflection drains courage." 성찰은 용기를 빼앗는다)
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현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때have already happened · we've already lived · has evolved
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