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Called me at 7 36 p.m.

I remember the number Hey pop.

Hey, what's up monkey man?

So this can talk about something sure Dad I Don't want to go to law school anymore.

I Want to go to film school little beat of sweat starts

go down the back of my neck I'm like here it

comes you want what I thought he was gonna go and know this stuff about Like my you know, man, you know that could be a hobby,

but yeah, that's not a drill job I thought all this was coming.

And after about a five second pause, he goes, I hear this.

Are you sure that's what you want to do?

Yes, sir.

And I hear, well, don't half-ass it.

In the way he said don't half-ass it was also, okay, let's go big boy.

Own that.

Get some leverage, get some horsepower behind where you're going.

Go do it.

If you're going to do it, do it.

Say what you can do.

Do what you say.

If you can't do it, don't say you can do it.

Don't over-leverage yourself.

Don't over-leverage a decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe.

I think I'll try it out.

No, think if you're going to try it out beforehand, but when it's time to go, dive.

Finish it.

Find out.

Come out the other side.

Don't leave it and go, If I just would, uh-uh.

That keeps me up at night.

I think it keeps a lot of us up at night.

When you half-assed something you just don't know whether you failed

or succeeded got what you want or didn't get what you want finding out

and looking in the mirror and going I

Didn't have I said I went all the way I found out

and that ain't for me or I found out and you damn right that is for me

That's a great place to get to let's go to the dream.

Let's flip that script.

I Always have gone from nonfiction to say let's make that the dream just keep living art emulates life

So I flipped it and said let's go to dreams, let's go to prayer poems, prayers.

These are pursuits of an ideal beauty.

These are in between the lines.

This is in between the math.

This is not academic.

This is not intellectual.

These are ideals that we pursue.

The beginner's mind that we have as a child before we know worse.

And I don't want to be ignorant.

I don't want to be foolishly optimistic.

Let's look to those and believe that we can still make those real.

I grew up only knowing sort of the courage of the persistence persistence.

Be resilient, endure, get up, dust yourself off, go.

The problem with that, the Achilles heel with that is

if you get up and get the courage to keep on going every time and get up and dust yourself off,

you make the same mistakes each time around because you never backed up to have what I've now learned.

I'm still learning is the courage to go.

No, I'm going to let some people pass me in the race right now

because I'm going to look at why I keep stepping in that damn same pothole and twisted my ankle, the same spot.

Why I keep failing when I try to get

that next spot in this relationship or failing in this place to get this product of my craft to the next.

There is a unique sort of circle of hell

that is reserved for when you keep on making the same mistake over and over again, that you've done it, you've had to pay the penance,

say that you're sorry and then arrives straight back at the same place.

Yeah.

I think there's a hell in the mirror.

Then I think it can become a living hell.

Like I kept that poem in there, Daymares.

I love that one.

I do too.

You know, nightmares suck, but at least you wake up.

And they're over.

It's the ones that stick with you when you wake up and go through your day that are right there.

Those are the ones.

That's the living hell.

You repeat a fin enough, word gets out.

The circles gets out.

People doubt you.

on your approach, you're like, yeah, but don't do this.

I mean, all of a sudden, you're going places, you gotta look over your shoulder.

You gotta see who's there that I didn't pay back.

Who do I owe?

What bridge did I burn?

What person did I betray to get where I am?

That's a life, that's a living hell.

Well, forget that, that in the modern world, you can move from city to city.

At least you can, in some regard, leave your reputation behind.

However, if you lose your reputation with yourself, If you no longer trust you, I don't keep my own words.

I know that I'm not a trustworthy person.

I keep making promises to myself and to other people and I keep on breaking them.

I keep doing something that hurts other people or the same person.

They don't trust me anymore and oh, I don't trust me anymore.

If I said I can't, my dad's teeth would just start to go, Excuse me?

You sure you're not just having trouble?

I remember this one time.

I was going out to do my chores Saturday morning to mow the lawn, and I couldn't get the damn lawnmower to start.

Checked everything, couldn't get a start.

I'm going inside, I said, Dad, can you help me?

I can't get the lawnmower started.

And he turned around, I saw his mow this, and went.

And he got up, walked with me through the kitchen, through the garage, out the backyard, went to the lawnmower, messed around, pulled a couple things out,

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da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, after about 10 minutes, boom, I cranked it.

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And while the lawnmower was running right there, he came over to me and bent down and looked me at it.

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He goes, see son, you were just having trouble.

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Be less impressed and more involved.

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More involved, yeah.

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What did you mean by that?

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And where did that come from?

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It came from, we grew up hardcore on gratitude.

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I'm a very thankful guy.

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And being thankful and having gratitude's very important.

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But you can't stop there.

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Because too much just, oh, I'm so happy to be here.

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You're so impressed to be here.

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Thank you for having me, which we should have, but if you live only there,

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we can't be present and be involved in whatever we're doing and do it as well as we want to do it.

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You gotta go, no, thank you for letting me be here and I'm supposed to be here.

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Now let's go.

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If I'm even talking to you, if I'm here going, man, I'm so happy to be here.

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If I'm just happy to be here and go no further than that, I can't have, we can't have this conversation.

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I'm not, I won't be there yet.

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I can't be grounded enough to have it right here.

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I'd be like, I'd anticipate my thoughts.

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I'd say something that may, is only the pretty stuff and not the ugly stuff, or oh, don't wanna be mean.

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So to be involved allowed me to be more honest and have more courage.

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When we're involved, we're more honest and have more courage to do what we're fashioned to do.

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How life was nothing but green lights and we didn't have yellows and reds, things that make us pause, hardships, crises, times for introspection,

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then what the hell would it all be for?

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We need the yellows and the reds.

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That's how we evolve.

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That's how hopefully there's some ascension to our being.

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That's how we give some credit to time and growing older.

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If we were the same person today that we were 20 years ago, then what the hell are we doing?

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If anything, I would say to my 15-year-old self, go fail more.

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If anything, I would say to you, go fail more.

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Forget them.

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Those people on the sidelines that are saying the thumbs down or calling you something or being snarky.

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They're on the sidelines for a reason.

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You've got this great line where you say

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so many people are obsessed with how to live longer instead of how to live better.

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Yeah.

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How do you come to think about that?

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I'm for it.

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The longevity.

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I'm for it.

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But in the pursuit of it, are we measuring quality of life along the way?

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Some people aren't.

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and I personally don't want to have the highest number, but then go, well, that wasn't any fun, or I didn't enjoy that, or that sucked.

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Profit measures quality with the quantity.

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So I'm saying real success is when you have profit.

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Well, really great longevity would be for those quality years, quality time left in this life.

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I also say that because while I'm not looking forward to it, I'm not really afraid of death or dying.

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Not looking forward to it.

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I'm not shaking my boots if I'm face to face with that great wife.

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You know what I mean?

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I'm not looking forward to it.

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But I see it as a, obviously it's inevitable, and obviously I personally see it as hopefully a comma.

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Not a period.

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Tomorrow is not today's measurement when the misery is bad enough.

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right?

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These people don't have to the suffering consideration.

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It's a privilege, man.

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I'm trying to put food on the table right now.

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I'm paying my rent tonight.

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You want to talk to me about investing in my future?

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And I say, and that's part of what faith and religion are for,

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to help those in misery hang on to a hope that will most likely not be served them in this life, to sell them belief and faith that they will be served in the next.

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And what if there is nothing there man?

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What if there's nothing to hope for?

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What if there's no next?

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I don't know

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But either way in misery here or without a heaven there not having any hope

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or faith in anything is a certain way to remain where you are

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forever But if you can find something that you can keep going

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Something that no matter how small to look forward to

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and continually have faith in and chase well then your life here is gonna be better now heaven or not.

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What about love?

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We always knew we were loved.

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There's never a question that we were loved as loving each other, loving mom and dad, being loved by mom and dad,

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and mom would always keep on making sure you're loving yourself.

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I remember breakups, heartbroken.

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She'd let us mourn.

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She was a great ear, very sensitive ear to that kind of, to pains like that, broken hearts, but only for a day.

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After a day, she'd crank up the ACDC, man, and go like, now, skid up.

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You're worth it, her loss.

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Come on, get out of bed.

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Uh-uh, come on, uh-uh, quit moping, lift your head up.

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Come on, come on, buddy, we got this.

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Uh-uh, her loss.

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Give you the day, no more than that.

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Hustle, hustle, hustle.

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Sleep was sin in my household.

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Sin, I saw my dad asleep one time in my life.

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There's a fierce sense of independence.

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Power, 30 minutes of TB a night, max.

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Mom would always say, why are you gonna watch someone doing something

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when you can go out in the world and do it yourself?

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Turn that damn thing off, get outside.

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Had to be outside.

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Like, go get out, the world, go hustle.

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Figure it out, be home and dark.

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And I was like, time to become a man.

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Walk forward, peripheral vision, get it.

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Own yourself, walk forward with more courage, and start becoming the man you wanna be instead of acting like it and putting it off.

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I think in life you want to be finding people that believe in you more than you believe in you.

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That hold you to higher standards.

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I think that's the definition of a good friend.

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I think that's the definition of a good partner.

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It's the definition of a good husband, wife.

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You know, they remind us of the best of ourselves.

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They shine that light and remind us because we do.

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I know I do.

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I put the blinds on it and I don't see it.

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What do you wish more people knew about the price of success? in life.

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Success has taken on different definitions over time.

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It used to have to do with integrity.

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Actually, I think it was a word that was in the definition in 1901 or 11.

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And now, you know, money, fame, that's your definition of success. So

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it seems to be that

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and always has been to some extent whoever has more is

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most successful more access more money you're the winner i'm not

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saying it's a it's it's a race to the red light

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but i am saying the fourth quarter of

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that being your goal the residuals decline on quality of life i've met many more very rich men who chase

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that dollar to be successful and to be relevant for having the most money that the last 15,

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20, even younger years were bewildered, lost, had no relationships, didn't have purpose.

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Chasing the dollar, they just did it.

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They were good at it and made it happen, but they didn't feel what they were doing.

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They couldn't even necessarily say what they were really good at.

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Just good deal makers or made the right calls in certain mathematics.

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But that's That's the definition.

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It's also why I wasn't surprised when Trump first got elected.

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It's fame.

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It's money.

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We sell that every day in the West as this is how you make it.

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It's America.

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This is what you do.

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That's America.

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That's America.

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If success is the key, if success is the measurement, and you can get it by lying,

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cheating, and stealing, and still be rewarded the gold medal, We that's what's happening.

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Are we are we are we ready to say that's okay?

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Are we ready to say that's just how it is we have leaders in positions now.

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They're saying Yeah, just win Would you just win just succeed?

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But yeah, okay you get there you did it congratulations come to the front of the line So what are the ethics?

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I don't know what the winner do well, but they Wait, what about what about rules?

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Oh, yeah, by the way the rules if you follow them You're a sucker.

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I started to find myself going, oh wait a minute.

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I'm not ready to say.

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That's just how it is.

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I'm interested in so many things that my hunch is to not take on more campfires,

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but to keep putting logs on the fires that I've built.

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And to do that, the clouds that come with fall just nip ambition in the bud in the bud, just a little bit.

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They put a little bit of a roof.

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I kind of like, I'm not as big of a fan of the 30-foot vault ceiling right now.

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I like that 10-footer, that eight-footer.

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I feel ambitious looking laterally instead of, oh my God, the four-dimension.

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I'm looking for the dreams and the poems and the prayers to become the reality.

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And I like a little bit of shade.

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What's the difference between a nice guy and a good man?

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A nice guy gets along.

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Yeah, I'll do that.

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Yeah, I'll do that.

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They don't necessarily have discernment or judgment, not sure what they stand for or stand against.

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It's like, yes, yes, yes, sure, yeah, hey.

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A good man has ideals that they stand for and they'll stand against, and when they're tested, a good man is not a nice guy.

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I didn't want to keep forgiving myself on Sunday and then repeat and do the same again Monday to Friday, And then go, oh, now I can be forgiven.

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I was like, no, man.

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Forgive me, Father.

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I know what I'm doing, and I keep doing it.

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Cut the , McConaughey.

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Quit giving yourself that out, that parachute, even though you may have it, even though word says grace of God will forgive you.

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I need to strong arm myself, put my damn hands on the wheel, look in the mirror and go, it's on you, because it is.

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And if you forgive me, and you believe that I mean I'm truly sorry.

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I'm...

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Do my best not to ever do that again.

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If you believe that, and then you forgive me.

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First order of business is for me to change the behavior

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that I have so I don't have to come say sorry to you again.

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That I think we miss sometimes.

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Sometimes people go, I'm sorry, I'm forgiven.

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Oh, cool, we're even.

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Alright, back to it.

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And all of a sudden you're like, you did it again.

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Dude, have a little reward.

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I thought you were gonna course correct.

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You know, I've got a course correct.

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The offender's, the first order of business for the offender to go, I'm gonna do what I can not to have to say I'm sorry to you again.

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I gotta forgive that deed, that person for that deed, and again, not necessarily trust him,

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but do my best to forgive him.

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And that can take me a while, and I think who it takes me the most time to forgive the betrayal is me.

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Me, when and if I betray myself, forgiving myself.

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We forgive too quickly, we dust resilient, we hop up and dust yourself off and go, forgive you, let's do it again.

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We do become repeat offenders because we didn't take time to put ourself

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or feel the guilt of the wrongdoing and pay a little penance to look at and go, I don't wanna feel this again.

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I don't wanna do that action again to make myself feel this way.

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I don't, it doesn't feel like me.

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I don't want that person to have that sadness or anger with me again.

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Or the world to have that sadness and anger from this, I don't want to feel that again.

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And that takes some pause.

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What's better?

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Take eight big risks in life.

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Sin once, miss the mark once, but get seven, achieve seven.

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Seven out of eight.

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Or take a hundred risks and achieve eight of them.

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My hunch is that if there's a God, he's saying, go for the hundred and get eight.

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Rather than eight and get seven.

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If you're not taking enough risk to sin or miss the mark, which is what sin means,

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to fail, then what are you doing?

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Don't go back with even money.

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Go back with the safe bets.

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Life's mystery going forward is science looking back.

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When you look back, we can all connect every single dot.

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It's mathematical, scientific how we got to this table right here.

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We've got plans for this afternoon, but we're not sure what's going to happen.

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But everything looking back, it's all connected if we go back and look at it.

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And there's a whole lot of, I thought that was the end.

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Well, it was the end, but it was the beginning of this thing.

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Or I caught that red light

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and therefore made me 60 seconds later to get to

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that cafe where I met that movie producer or that woman who became my wife or whatever that is.

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It don't make sense at the time, but looking back, it's all a science.

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Where I said self-reliance, it's on me, man.

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Forget fate, I'm not relying on God.

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I ain't praying for nothing.

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It's on me.

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Responsibility, self-reliance.

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I believe that when I came, and you need both.

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And we, yes, there's a time for it, inshallah.

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God willing, there's a time for it.

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Well, if it's supposed to be, it will be.

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Thank you.

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