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here's a quote from steve jobs the founder of apple
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he said the only way to do great work is to love what you do
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and what do i love to do this hey tableau
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hey tableau today i'm gonna talk about the quotes that affected me
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or the quotes that i like and go through some of the famous,
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greatest quotes of all time that are on the internet and maybe discuss some of them.
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Because quotes are a great way to not read a book and still learn something.
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The first quote that I mentioned, Steve Jobs, the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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I totally agree with this but it is still possible to do great work even if you hate it
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because sometimes we got to do work like we fucking hate right for example i love making music
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so i'll do great work i love doing this podcast
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so nine times out of ten i'll do great work i love making content
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so epikaze will be great most of the time right
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but sometimes i have to clean the house i do not love it at all there's no aspect of it
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that i love but
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because my wife will yell at me if i don't do a good job i will do a great
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job i will do great work even though it is not something
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i love to do let's look at some more quotes oscar wilde the writer said oh
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this one is quite often quoted you'll all know
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this one be yourself everyone else is already taken be yourself everyone else is already taken
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you know it's a beautiful way of saying everyone is unique everyone is special in their own way right uh
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but also i take from this quote don't envy the lives of others
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because no matter how much you envy it you will never be able to live it right
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and let me just tell you you don't want to a lot of people come up to me
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and they're like dude it must be
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so fun like shooting just you know shooting youtube
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and like goofing around with your friends and putting it online
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and millions of people are watching it that must be awesome you do not know what goes on behind the scenes
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okay you don't know what it's like to have two fans
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and an ice pack on the computer at 7 30 p .m
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when the upload is at 7 30 p .m okay
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and in the comments people are like where the is the episode two weeks in a row
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you're fucking late right and we're like we're like shitting bricks the timer says
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that there's at least 30 minutes left for this to for this to process
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and the computer is dying okay
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we have to literally have an ice pack on it go on my Instagram
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I shot the video of it right it was so crazy okay and
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that is almost every fucking day every day something goes wrong
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okay we'll work on a we'll work on an epic as
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a video for like for like a whole fucking week right
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and it's completely done we've done like 19 edits
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it's final final final final final final final final please this one final final
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and it's done and we're like okay it's Wednesday upload is on Thursday let's schedule it
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and then we'll be on time
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we don't have to worry about a thing right very last moment somebody on the episode calls
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and is like I don't like I don't like
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that one angle right the angle is fine but
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if they don't like it we don't want to we don't want to you know
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if they're a guest
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or something we don't want to put in a like a like a shot
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that they don't like right but
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if they tell this tell us this like three hours before the upload we have
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that ice situation right but i swear to god this happens every day
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every day okay so what i'm trying to say is be yourself everyone else is already taken
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and if the life that someone else is living seems awesome it's
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because you're only seeing the awesome parts like you're only seeing
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the final final final final final final final final final please last one final for real final no more
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you're only seeing that one right and you're not seeing
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that person going through the first draft second draft third draft fourth draft of of their lives
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you're not seeing the works in progress so be yourself not just
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because everyone else is already taken be yourself
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because you you don't want to live as anyone else trust me everyone else
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even if they have great seemingly have great lives they they have like dark aspects that they don't discuss.
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And at least the things that you're going through, you're aware of it.
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At least like you're used to it.
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At least you're in control.
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Like at least you know what to do.
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Here's another quote.
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Abraham Lincoln, in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
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it's the life in your years okay okay I was like huh okay so what he's saying is even if you live
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20 years
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if you lived it to the fullest
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it's better than living a life of a hundred years where you were just meandering right
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but you know you know there's a lot of quotes like this
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in the end it's not the years in your life
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that count but it's the life in your years you know this format
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you know that one that was online recently don't love your job job your love that clip from some podcast
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don't love your job job your love
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right but if you think about it if you think
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that person was like ridiculed for like months online as an example of why there are too many mics
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and too many podcasts but
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if you think about it it's actually the exact same quote
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as the only way to do great work is to love what you do
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or in a way in the end it's not the years in your life
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that count it's the life in your years right
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it's same thing don't love your job job your love let me uh take
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you back to an episode we did a couple weeks ago how to write better
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even if you're saying the same thing you gotta say it right job your love is crazy
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but i agree i agree with the sentiment uh another one by oscar wilde this guy okay
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if you search greatest quotes
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or like great quotes
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this guy like takes half of them he's like the Kendrick Lamar of the quote game he's like Michael Jordan
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or LeBron James of like this this quote ball okay to
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live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist
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that is all I don't know I think he's a little too overconfident.
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What the fuck do you mean most people exist?
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You exist too.
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I mean, no one's just existing.
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Okay, here's a quote that's attributed to Henry Ford, but it's not.
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It's not Henry Ford.
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A lot of these famous quotes aren't actually from the person that it's attributed to.
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But I really like this quote.
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You know how he made cars, right?
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So, not the movie, not the Pixar movie Cars.
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He made automobiles, okay?
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His quote is, if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
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Okay, because before
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Cars, people were on like wagons with horses, right?
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And then Cars happened basically if you ask the customer
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or the audience hey what do you want
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I'll just do what you want they'll say faster horses in order to innovate
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and to create something new you have to create something
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that people don't yet know they want for example
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we were totally fine with these dumb phones we used to use okay phones
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that didn't even have screens like all we needed was to see the phone number
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and we were totally fine but they gave us a computer in our hands no one asked for it
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honestly i'd like to go back to when we didn't have these smartphones but what i'm saying is If, for example, Apple asked people,
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hey, what do you want?
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Can we have the screen a little bigger so we can have more numbers is what people would have said, right?
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Or can we have like color?
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You know, the iPod went from.
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black and white to color and people were like amazed right
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but they couldn't imagine having all of
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that in a single device in your palm right a smartphone just wasn't wasn't imaginable in fact
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when it was first announced people kind of made fun of it they were like why would anybody need
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that like why why would we need a touch screen why would i want an ipod
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and like the internet it
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and a phone like in one one device why would I want
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that okay that sounds like a nightmare emails all day in my pocket I don't want
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that right I like that quote I like it but it's not
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Henry Ford it's like I don't know who said it
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but it's a great quote okay I'm not gonna agree with every quote
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that we discussed today okay let's just get what we need out of it um Theodore Roosevelt said uh believe
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you can
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and you're halfway there uh we get
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this quoted a lot right like a similar kind of quote from parents right yeah starting is half the journey
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I call bullshit because a lot of people will be like okay I started so I'm halfway there
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i think i'm good with half
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i'm gonna try something else
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and then you're like no no you gotta dude you gotta finish
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it no no i'm i'm like i'm satisfied with half though
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so i'm gonna start something else and then they keep starting things
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and not finishing anything or like this quote believe you can
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and you're halfway there what
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if you're like okay i believe i believe i can i believe
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i i i can uh get an a on this test i'll have to study for it uh
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which is the other half but um i'm good with half
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bro i think i'm like content with half then you're gonna get an f so i don't totally agree but
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you do have to start shit let me just tell you
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like let me just go on a tangent for a second this is something
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that I keep forgetting but I try to remember
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when I write songs or like when I write stories I always you know stumble
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or have a word like writer's block
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if I try to create something perfect like at once it's much better to just have 20 different things that are shitty
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and then you work on them to make them you know great uh
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if you're just sitting there trying to come up with
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that one great song it just doesn't happen
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so like i always try to remember that but i keep forgetting
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and it takes me like a month to like come up with something
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that i i really want to do right
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i should just like sometimes just mindlessly do a bunch of crazy
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you know stupid like you know make a stupid song
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that can be turned into gold i think that's a much better way
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so if you can't get started doing something uh
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that you want to do like just just try a bunch of different things
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and just leave them as rough drafts and come back to them later because starting is half the journey.
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If you believe you can, you're halfway there.
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Eleanor Roosevelt, she's the wife of Theodore Roosevelt,
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said, the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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Okay, it must have been wild living in the Roosevelt family.
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right like you're sitting there yeah the dad is like believe you can son and you're halfway there
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and your mom's like the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
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and they're just speaking in quotes and you're like my life uh george adair i have no idea who who this is.
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Anyone know?
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He said, everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
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I think it's hilarious that his name is George Adair.
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Dare.
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Adair.
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George Adair.
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And he's basically daring you to get on the other side of fear.
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Yes, everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
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Okay, fear prevents us, yes, prevents us from trying new things or trying new ways, right?
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And when you get across that fear, you're able to accomplish things.
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that you didn't imagine were possible.
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But also, you know what else is on the other side of fear?
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Death.
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What?
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If you're climbing a building and you're scared as hell, don't cross to the other side of that fear.
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Sam Levinson don't watch the clock do what it does keep going okay
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this was supposed to be me like
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going through quotes that changed my life or like that affect me
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but I'm just now going to be shitting on quotes okay
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does sam levinson realize that clocks have batteries you know clocks stop right
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if you hear this quote don't watch the clock do what it does keep going
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and you looked at your clock
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and it happened to be dead you're gonna be like okay
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so i just do nothing now until someone comes
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and changes the battery c .s lewis you're never too old to set another goal
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or to dream a new dream i agree um
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it's okay to be late late in the game some of the greatest shots in basketball
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or in football and by that i mean soccer uh happen uh buzzer beater right
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It happens at the very last moment when most of the team,
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the crowd, and even the coach and everyone involved is thinking that it's too late and it's over.
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They're calling the game.
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But until the game is completely done, it's not done.
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So even if you get a goal in the last second, that's a goal.
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And I think I mentioned it in a previous episode, like on a previous episode, like people who started their dreams late.
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Samuel L.
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Jackson, he became well -known very late into his game.
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He had already done a ton of movies, right?
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So late -blooming is still blooming, is what I'm saying.
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Arthur Ashe, I think you guys might know him, but he's a famous tennis player.
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He was one of the first great tennis players.
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Arthur Ashe said, start where you are.
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Use what you have.
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Do what you can.
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Well, sir, obviously.
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I mean, where else am I going to start?
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What else am I going to use?
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What else am I going to do?
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Mark Twain said, the secret of getting ahead is getting started okay
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that's another way of saying starting is half the journey man
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a lot of people said the exact same thing in different ways
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but yeah like I said I agree
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you gotta just like sometimes you just gotta just throw out any like brainstorm ideas
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you know like just throw it out on paper and someday it'll become something amazing
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Ralph Waldo Emerson said the only person
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you are destined to become is the person
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you decide to be sir mr emerson um i decide to be handsome
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but it's not gonna happen
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i decide every morning before i step in front of a mirror today i'm gonna be handsome
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and i look in the mirror and I nothing has you know my decision has no effect on actual reality sir
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Confucius say Confucius said it does not matter how slowly
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you go as long as you do not stop yes consistency I think consistency beats talent to be honest
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and I think consistency is talent like being able to just do one thing over
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and over again you know
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you know how they say like insanity like the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
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and over again and expecting different results but I don't agree with
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that quote because that's what being a master of something is.
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You just do the same thing over and over again, and the result you're expecting is to just be better at it, right?
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For example, Michael Jordan, you know, he was already at the top of his game, but every day he went to the gym and,
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you know, shot three -pointers or, like, two -pointers or whatever, right?
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It's not like he's fundamentally changing the shot.
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There's only – you can only get three points, right?
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but he did it over and over
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and over again um just just simply to be greater
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and that's what a lot of masters do that's uh how you get to become like you know instinctively great
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norman vincent peel okay i do not know most of these people let me just say
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i think their quotes sometimes their quotes are more famous than the actual person
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that said it but um if
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if any of these quotes are not actually by the person that's mentioned on this site I'm sorry
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and if any of these people that I mentioned today are somehow problematic
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or did something fucking wild it's we don't know
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we don't know these people okay Norman Vincent Peale said change your thoughts and you change your world
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this um this i do kind of subscribe to um it's very hard to do
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but if you force yourself to think in a positive way
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or to to actually but you have to actually believe it uh even
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when you're going through absolute shit you're you physically feel better i think
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but it's of course it's hard to do right the very definition of being down in the dumps is
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that you're unable to do that you're unable to see the positive
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but if you force yourself to do it and actually really believe it
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that that you're gonna be okay i do feel like physically like your brain tells your body
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to to to be a better version of yourself so i think humans underestimate the power of their own minds.
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Like, our minds are far greater than we think our minds are.
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Like, I think our minds can affect our realities.
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Walt Disney said, if you can dream it, you can do it it's beautiful sentiment
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but um here's one like trap of looking at like great quotes
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or famous quotes by great
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or famous people right did they say these things before they became great
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or famous or like successful or did they say them like way later right
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when they were being like interviewed because man I have said things in interviews
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that I didn't even mean sometimes it's just like sometimes you're like put on the spot
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and they're like you know they're they're first they're like asking
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you about like what's your favorite food have you tried the
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food here in New York like you know they'll say something like that
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and then all of a sudden they'll hit
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you with can you can you say something to young people
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who are you know who are struggling with achieving their their dreams
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and you're like wait you were just asking me about like whether or not i like spicy food
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and my brain just and i know that like you know the mic
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and the camera is like in my face i don't what to say
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so i'm like i'm like if you believe it and and
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and decide and and to start is halfway journey right
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but what i'm trying to what i'm trying to say is um after these people became successful
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or like somebody worthy of like giving a quote you know they'll they'll say something
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that that worked for them right and
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and they're in the position where they can say it
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but it might not be totally helpful right
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because they would have said something else it was
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if they were interviewed before
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they became successful right like sir can you give advice to
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young people who like are trying to do what you're doing right
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but if you're
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if this is before pre -success you'll be like yo fuck I get it holy shit I'm hungry oh so my
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Producer here, Rosemary, started, like, texting me her favorite quotes, I guess.
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Seneca.
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I guess you read Seneca.
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Seneca apparently said, we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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I agree.
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People who worry a lot just have, like, a very healthy imagination, like a very lively imagination, right?
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Just be dull.
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I'm kidding.
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I'm kidding.
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But yeah, like, because you're thinking of too many different possibilities and how, you know, all those possibilities can go wrong.
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You're pre -suffering, right?
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And like I said, you know, this podcast has mentioned everything,
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but we said, what's the point of pre -suffering when like 90 % of the time, whatever you're imagining is not going to happen,
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right? you just have a great imagination okay maybe maybe don't in times
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when you're like hurting yourself for no reason with with you
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know the worst possible outcomes in your mind okay Nietzsche said
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he who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow
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if you have a reason for living
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you'll figure out what what to do to to achieve the life
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you want right first want to do it then you you
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can do it is basically what this quote is saying here's
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the thing like starting is half the battle uh like you must love what you do to do it um
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if you decide to to be something
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you can be it i know these are like really to be honest it's like just mundane now
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because almost everyone successful says that right but also
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if all of these people throughout history essentially say the same thing maybe
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it is a cheat code right maybe like it is real right
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so um i don't know laotsu wow you sent me seneca nietzsche
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and laotsu wow you just went straight to the classics huh
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if you're depressed you're living in the past
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if you're anxious you're living in the future
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if you're at a peace you're living in the present
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I'm pretty sure Lao Tzu didn't even say this like this right
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this is a kung fu panda quote right yeah this I mean they could have
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but I'm not sure like this quote sounds I'm not gonna totally agree with it
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if you are at peace
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you are living in the present sir have you seen my
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present what do you mean at peace in the present have you seen our present sir
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you know Mithra recently called me at like 1 a .m.
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no he texted me at first
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but the text was dude props for what you went through like taking haru to like volleyball games
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that was that was a whole text
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and i was like huh he's like i i have great respect for you is what he said
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i was like what so i call him i'm like what's up and he's like
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so my son eden likes soccer now and joined like this team
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and he just won't stop and i was out in the Sun for six hours
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because he played four different games and I'm fucking dying right I just got home
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and I'm dying so let me ask again mr. Lao Tzu
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have you seen Mithra's present I'm pretty sure the only piece he's gonna to find is thinking of the past
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or the future maybe
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that can be the title ruin your favorite quote day okay
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uh jrr tolkien of lord of the rings said not all those who wander are lost
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very fitting since um you know he wrote a like an entire you know series about wandering true
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you know you know gap year you get into college
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and you just you don't go for a year like you defer
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um for a year there was like a kid that did
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that and all of us thought he was crazy
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because we were like what you're not gonna just go straight to college
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and try to graduate and like you know
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and then live the rest of your life like why would you why would you delay
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that but um while we were saying
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that like we like at least
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i did i i thought maybe he's the right one maybe
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he's he's the knowledgeable one maybe he's the wise one right
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because uh i don't know how his life turned out after
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that because i simply did not care
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but what i'm saying is he decided to wander for a year
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and i think wandering is is a great way to sometimes find yourself
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so you are not lost if you're in the process of finding yourself, right?
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Oh, here's Socrates and Aristotle.
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Socrates, the unexamined life is not worth living.
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I mean, sir, it is still worth living.
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I mean, a life is still worth living.
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Jeez, a bit serious there, sir.
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imagine imagine tableau in like ancient greece
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and socrates is up there teaching right i'm sitting there with like a bunch of other students
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and socrates is like the lesson for today the unexamined life is not worth living
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And everyone's like, you know, I'm like, I mean, it's still worth living.
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Next class, Aristotle.
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We are what we repeatedly do.
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Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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and Anthony next to me is like shut up shut up Tableau
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and I'm like but what if I have terrible habits what
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if I just pick my nose and slip it under the table what
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if I have a habit like that and I repeatedly do it.
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You're saying I can be excellent doing that?
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I'd be hung.
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Robert Frost.
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In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life.
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It goes on.
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Actually, sir.
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in three words i can sum up everything i've learned about life it does not
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we are mortal sir
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we we we live finite lives sir okay this this episode has fully devolved into me ruining great quotes.
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This was not my intention at the beginning, okay?
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But my personality got the better of me.
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Albert Einstein said, imagination is more important than knowledge.
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To which Seneca said, actually, Albert, we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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Okay, this quote by Albert Einstein I love.
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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Why are adults so against fucking changing?
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Like, oh my God, why do they fight it so much?
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Why can't they accept the fact that they're not perfect and
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that they have faults and it doesn't matter how old they are, it doesn't matter if they raised a kid,
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There is something you're doing that is terrible, and it's hurting the people around you.
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All you have to do is stop doing this one thing.
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You don't have to say things in such a mean way.
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You can just not do that.
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It's not that hard, right?
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And they're like, and then your brother or somebody will be like, you know, what do you expect?
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They're too old to change.
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Why?
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Why are you ever too old to change?
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I don't understand every day I'm being told by people
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that I love that that some part of me needs to change and I change it
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Okay, it's that easy.
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I just you just stop doing it
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Sometimes I'm told to just just change like physically.
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They're like, can you change your clothes?
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Those pants do not match your shirt and I will change it's that easy
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What I'm saying is it's that easy
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if you cuss too much in front of like I don't know in front of your kids
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and your wife is like don't do that.
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Just don't do
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that don't be like I'm fucking 60
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I'm not gonna change what do you mean what do you mean just change it it's not
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that hard but you know you know like why do we give older like you know like elders
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or whatever why do we give them
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so much leeway why do we let them like why do we give them
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that excuse like because they're old
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and set in their ways they can't change don't expect them to why
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if you're hurting people fucking change geez and also change your clothes
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walt whitman poet said keep your face always towards the sunshine
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and shadows will fall behind you so have a positive mind
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and the dark darkness and the shadows and the negativity will fall behind you
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but also if you keep your face always towards the sunshine you'll get skin cancer
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so you have to you have to have sunblock on
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Mr. Woodman we can't keep our face always towards the sunshine
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sometimes we have to go inside
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sometimes we sometimes we have to be in the shadows
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we have to be in the shade one person's shadows is one person's shade
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tableau 2026 keep your face always towards the sunshine and you'll get skin cancer
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no but seriously sunblock is
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so important you know i didn't start using sunblock until like maybe a year ago
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i didn't even like use lotion on my face like moisturizer i just thought
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that was like just bullshit like I thought it was like a myth I swear no I swear I
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because when we were like the when we were kids growing up in Korea
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that like no nobody did that like you know
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if you got sunburned you got sunburned like they didn't like nobody was educated enough in
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that respect and then I you know I got married
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and my wife was like you know you know what these are right there they're like moisturizers
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and toner like you put it on your face you got to put it on your face
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and I'm like why I'm fine I'm fine right
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and then like three days later we're like in Hawaii
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or something and I'm like ah I have my face hurts my skin hurts she's like that's
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because you didn't put on sunblock.
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I told you to put on sunblock.
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You didn't put on sunblock, did you?
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And I was like, no, because it just feels, I don't like putting stuff on my, that's why you're sunburned.
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And then slowly I started listening.
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And what I mean by last year, like a year ago, is that I started putting on sunblock like religiously.
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Anyways, Mr. Whitman, thank you for the quote, but I understand what you mean.
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This is a quote, an anonymous quote.
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Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
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I agree.
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I agree with this.
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Recently, my fans asked me, like, why I don't have hobbies and, like, why I don't golf or anything like that, right
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and i was like you know i just i just uh
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i have like two hobbies i have like the work i do like music i like no not just music
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but like creating things i like making things telling stories that's one hobby
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and that involves watching things too like that's just my hobby uh
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and then i like you know just like laughing you know like none of my hobbies cost money
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or like require me to go anywhere and I think the reason for
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that is I'm just really grateful for just
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that that's just like it makes it enough like
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if I'm just sitting there and I'm like laughing
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and I'm you know able to like exchange jokes with somebody like I don't need to have champagne
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I don't need like a steak I I can just have nothing like I'm totally fine
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And I'm so grateful to be able to do that with friends.
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So it's just enough.
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Gratitude is a skill, I think, that needs to be mastered over, like, repeated.
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Let me do a couple quotes from movies, like great quotes from movies.
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Because all these quotes are, like, supposedly by famous people or actual people. But, like,
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let's look at some, like, fictional quotes because there's some lines in movies
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that like affect your life right damn this is not gonna work
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because the first quote
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that came up frankly my dear i don't give a damn okay
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it's not gonna help us i'm gonna make him an offer
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he can't refuse uh from the godfather yeah that's not gonna help us
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it's from a movie yeah oh shit i think i know what it is oh yeah i've seen this
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This is from a movie called Bulletproof Monk, 2003.
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So I figured it out.
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Why hot dogs come in packages of 10 and hot dog buns come in packages of 8?
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See, the thing is, life doesn't always work out according to plan.
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So be happy with what you've got because you can always get a hot dog.
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i believe this is like the final line of this movie like you gotta see the video it's fucking crazy
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but here's the thing this is this is often quoted as the worst quote in a movie right
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but i get it it's actually kind of beautiful like look at this
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so i figured it out why hot dogs come in packages of 10
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so there's 10 hot dogs right like wieners and then wait am i not all as you say, wieners.
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They're called wieners, aren't they?
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And buns, hot dog buns come in packages of eight because life doesn't always work out according to plan, right?
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So you have eight buns, but you have 10 hot dogs.
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Why?
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Because out of those 10 hot dog wieners, two might either burn or you might drop two of them,
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but you can still make eight hot dogs.
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Do you see what I mean?
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so so it's giving it's giving you eight buns
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but 10 10 hot dog wieners just in case things don't go according to plan right
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and two of them like get burned
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so be happy with what you've got even if you even if you you burned your okay
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oh my god i almost said even if you burn your wiener
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wait is there another word i can use other than wiener
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okay even if you burn your sausage that makes it worse okay even if you burn your hot dog
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without the bun even if you burn it be happy
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because you can always get a hot you can still get a hot dog
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because you can just throw it out
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and there's still nine left eight left right I think
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that's what this writer screenwriter was trying to say let me just say
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that this writer clearly thought this was way more profound
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and amazing then then it turned out to be and I'm surprised
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that like the actor like the director
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and the many people on set like nobody fucking pointed it out
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that this this is gonna be the worst quote ever
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but i do understand if you
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if you swap out words like hot dog hot dog buns it like
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and i and i just i just told you guys
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that it's it's a quote by seneca
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or socrates you would have believed it like
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if I was like this is why pebbles come in packages of 10 and pebble buns
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come in packages of eight see you next week on Hey Tableau Hey Tableau
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Feeling LOST? These quotes may save your life”. This video has 525 sentences and 6020 words to shadow. The speech runs for 44:38. The speaker talks at a steady 135 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| bun noun | /bʌn/ | A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced. |
| package noun | /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/ | Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. |
| imagination noun | /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/ | The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images. |
| halfway adverb | /ˌhæfˈweɪ/ | Half of the way between two points. |
| clock noun | /klɑk/ | A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day. |
| hobby noun | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. |
| shadow noun | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
| sunshine noun | /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/ | The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun. |
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| wander verb | /ˈwɑndɚ/ | To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. |
| physically adverb | /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/ | In a physical manner. |
| habit noun | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | An action performed on a regular basis. |
| consistency noun | /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/ | Local coherence. |
| upload verb | /ˈʌpˌloʊd/ | To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet. |
| soccer noun | /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ | Association football. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. | |
| fall behind verb | To be late (for a regular event) | |
| shut up | /ʃʌt ʌp/ | Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)… |
| sum up verb | To produce a total by adding. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| come up to verb | To approach. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I mean, where else am I going to start?
- What else am I going to use?
- You're saying I can be excellent doing that?
- They're like, can you change your clothes?
- You didn't put on sunblock, did you?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if this is before pre -success you'll be |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is already taken · can be turned · are destined |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've done · you've ever wanted · have said |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | those who believe · people who started · people who like |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 249 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, myth /mɪθ/, godfather /ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/, shade /ʃeɪd/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
- Long words — get the stress right: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, repeatedly /ɹɪˈpiːtɪdli/, insanity /ɪnˈsænɪti/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like bun, package, imagination.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.