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You know, we all have our own strengths and that's something to really be proud of.

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The various talents and gifts that we have pretty much make us who we are.

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But what if you found out that someone else has the exact same talents that you have,

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you know, that you thought made you special?

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And not only that, but what if they were better than you at those things?

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How would that make you feel?

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How would you react?

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Well, today we're going to look at how one character handles that exact feeling of inferiority

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and how he uses that feeling to go further than he ever has before.

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And of course we're talking about the primitive sorcerer, Chrome.

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Hey what's going on guys, my name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation.

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A show will help you break the chains that are holding you back here in life by connecting

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some biblical principles from themes from your favorite anime.

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And hey guys, before we go into the main points today, I just want to thank each and every

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one of you for tuning into today's episode.

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Honestly, your support means the world to me.

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And if I can help out one person every week with these episodes, then hey, I feel like

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I've done my job.

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So yeah, without further ado, let's get right into it.

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So Chrome, Chrome is a funny guy.

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Again, like I kind of covered a little bit with Senku last week's episode, Chrome is,

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I guess for lack of better terms, I guess is the stone age version of Senku, as in he's

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a scientist in a world that doesn't really have science.

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So he was the de facto expert in his field because no one else really understood how

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science work, how things were things work the way they did.

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And so Chrome initially thought, you know, he was, he was the man, right?

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You know, he was the head honcho in terms of, you know, this whole science thing until

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this weird guy with celery hair just pops up and completely blows them out of the water.

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And initially this hurt Chrome's ego, understandably so.

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I mean, when you think you're the best around mainly because you have no other kind of competition.

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And then this random dude just shows up and completely dominates you in the field you

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thought you were an expert in.

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I mean, I think that that would do a number on any of our egos, right?

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And Chrome, you know, is just initially taken aback by this, right?

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And as we see throughout the story, I think his journey with Senku, I mean, he grows to

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respect them and aspire to be more like Senku.

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And you know, I know that that journey seems to be kind of fast in the, in the context

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here of Dr. Stone, but I know in real life, not everyone gets to that point or not.

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Honestly, not everyone can even see that opportunity to see the opportunity to grow, to get better,

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to learn underneath this person that's better than you at, you know, this skill, this job

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or whatever that you thought you were a master of, you know, and it takes a lot to humble

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yourself and just admit, hey, maybe I'm not as good as I thought it was.

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And let's see what I can learn from this guy.

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But we're going into too much deeper for Chrome's aspect of it.

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I want to cover this verse in its Proverbs chapter 18 verse 15.

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And it's the mind of the discerning, the mind of the discerning acquires knowledge in the

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ear of the wise seeks it.

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And essentially what it is, it's the title of this episode is just keeping an open, an

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open mind, really don't get so tied down and bogged down into what you think, you know,

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and then now you come to find you'd really don't know as much as you thought you did.

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And there's so much more wealth of knowledge and wisdom out there just for the taking.

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But if you are, if you're content or you really think that you know it all already, then I

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hate to break it to you.

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That's not the case.

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And that case was broken, was broken to Chrome.

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So again, come like how I already touched on Chrome has this key.

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He has a gifted intelligence, right?

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He is smarter than most of the other villagers in the stone village.

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That's not to say that they're dumb.

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He's just he he's just he has a gifted intellect, right?

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You know, that's like how it is in life.

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There's you know, you we all know that one person or a couple people in class that are

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at the top of the class, every, every test, every project, every everything.

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And it seems like it's it's effortless for them, right?

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That's how it looks from the outside looking in.

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And then that may be true.

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They may not be true.

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You don't know how much work they're putting into these things.

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But what I want you guys to understand is that just because they're good at, you know,

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schoolwork or doing getting good grades, things like that, that doesn't mean that you aren't.

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That doesn't mean you aren't good at these things.

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It just means you have to put more work into it.

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And that's the difference between not being good at something and not working hard enough

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to, you know, to really get there.

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If that makes sense, kind of talking over myself.

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But again, it's like the whole hard work versus talent type thing.

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Just because someone's talented at something doesn't mean you can't be as good at that

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thing as they are.

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Especially if they don't work hard at it.

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I know a lot of people think just because they're good at something naturally that they

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don't have to work on it, they don't have to hone it and really sharpen it.

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And someone who's not as skilled at it as they are naturally, they can outwork them

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all day and then next thing you know, they're running circles around them.

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because you're good at something doesn't mean you don't have to work hard and just really

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be on the lookout.

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So and that's kind of what it was with Chrome here.

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So Chrome calls himself a sorcerer.

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Again, because they don't understand the concept of science.

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So he just calls himself a sorcerer.

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And because he's been able to discover just different chemical reactions and other experiments

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just throughout his young life.

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try out different things.

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He has a very hands on approach when it comes to science.

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And that's how he sharpened his natural talent.

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He's good at these things.

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So he keeps doing it.

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And over and over time, he just gets better and better at it.

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So I just want to ask, so what are some things that you are good at?

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And how can you leverage that strength?

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You know, if it's, you know, speaking, maybe you're maybe you're maybe you're a chatterbox,

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right?

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You just love talking to people you love.

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Because learning more about people, you know, telling your stories, things like that.

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If it deals with talking to somebody, that's you.

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You're there.

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You're in it.

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And how can you use that to, to, you know, how can you leverage that strength?

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How can you use it to, you know, lift other people up?

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How can you use it to brighten someone else's day?

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How can you use it to brighten your own day?

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Now, what are some things?

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What are some ways that you can use to really, you know, pump up this, this gift, this innate

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gift that you that you have?

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And if you can't think of any ideas, go back to the Blue Lock season, where I really covered

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into the different gifts and talents that we all have and how the characters there honed

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them.

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But so back to Chrome, right?

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So again, Chrome is a natural gatherer.

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He's naturally inquisitive.

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He likes to he just likes trying out different things.

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And then the humbling comes right now.

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Again, Chrome wasn't as arrogant as for say, like someone like Vegeta or a borrow like

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He wasn't arrogant by any means.

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the longest time.

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So naturally, that kind of inflates your ego just a little bit.

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knows what you're talking about half the time.

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But when Senku comes around and comes to the village and Chrome realized this guy's actually

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a quote unquote threat to my authority as a science leader here.

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He initially challenged Senku to a battle of wits.

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And we as the audience know how this is about to go.

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But Chrome thinks he actually has a chance.

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And of course, he was defeated.

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But in this defeat, Chrome actually, he gained a very valuable friend in Senku because now

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for the first time ever, he has someone who not only who he can talk to about, you know,

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this thing that he called sorcery, but in terms of find out science, but he also has

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someone who's who can mentor him in the same field.

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And it's one thing to have somebody who shares similar interests with you that you guys can

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discuss and kind of just talk about it and just enjoy the love of it.

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But there's another thing to have that and to have somebody who can essentially show

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you the ropes, right?

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Who can show you the areas that you you may have just neglected because you weren't aware

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of them, you know, just show you show you where you are now and what's the next level

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is something that you can aspire to go towards.

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And for me, it's it's really, really just always is awesome.

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I can think of a better word, saving is awesome.

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If you love something so much and you know, there's another level that you can go and

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you have somebody who has that same passion, the same drive, that same everything.

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And they're already at the next level that you want to be yet.

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And they're willing to help you, man.

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That's a done deal.

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That's a that's a done deal.

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And when it comes to it's like mentorship and just being open back to the whole thing

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of having an open mind.

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I want to talk to both generations of people.

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You know, the older generation and the younger ones, I guess, I guess all three in the ones

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and currently in my generation, right.

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The the 20, the 20 year olds, the ones younger than us and the ones older than us.

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And I don't know how many times I've just seen and observed in my young life, you know,

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whether it is at home, whether it's at work, you know, or just out and about where the

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young young kids think they know everything because, you know, we've all gone through

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that same phase and hormones are kicking in.

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And then on the other hand, you got the adults who have experienced more life, who've gone

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through, who've lived much longer than any of us have sometimes.

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hand, the young people, they can't be told anything because they think they know everything

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because, you know, they feel invincible.

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they think they know everything because they've experienced more life.

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And it's like, I think we just both sides just take the time to sit down and have a

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discussion.

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We can have more opportunities for mentorship like Chrome does with Senku.

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If we put our our egos and just, you know, the bravado away and aside and really have

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that open mind to have those type of discussions, it's like, OK, you know, only generation,

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just because the young generation haven't experienced as much life as you have doesn't

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mean they haven't experienced at all.

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then when you were their age.

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The world has changed drastically.

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And I'm just I'm just thinking now, you know, my my young sister, our age difference is

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so huge.

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Her like now than when I was her age.

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And we're we're still technically in the same generation, I think.

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when I was her age.

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So just imagine that, you know, 10, 20, 30 years ago from our parents, grandparents,

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things like that.

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grew up in.

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And now that doesn't discount that doesn't discredit anything that you've gone through.

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I think there's a wealth of wisdom there.

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And I do believe that.

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And now but that also doesn't mean that you can't learn something from the kids that are

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coming up now, you know, because they're again, the world is just different.

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The things are way more advanced than it was back then.

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And things some things have changed for the better.

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Some not.

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But I think if we have the open mind enough to listen and to talk and to really understand,

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then I think I think your message will come across better to the younger generation and

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younger generation.

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And again, just because you guys are living in this, you know, technology, the technology

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world, everything super advanced, you know, everybody own every kid in school and has

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an iPad for some reason.

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You just don't.

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We know I'm closer to you guys and I am some of the older generation.

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So we don't know everything.

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There's a lot of the world that we have not seen and that we haven't gone through.

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And honestly, I pray that we don't go through that some people in the older generation have

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in order for us to have the things we have now.

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And I think the point for us to take a step back and just kind of really understand the

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sacrifices that had to be made in order for us to have the quality of life that we have

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now.

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And and again, just to really, really, you know, all of this kind of just comes down

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to having a conversation, right?

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Just be able to to sit down, you know, with your parents, with your grandparents, with

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your teachers, your mentor, whoever you feel comfortable with, who experience more life

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than you and who you know is has an open enough mind to be able to listen.

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Because again, listening goes both ways.

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It's not hearing each other, but listening and just, man, I just I just know if if we're

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able to have open dialogue with, you know, again, the different generations that have

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they've come before and wanted to come and get now, I mean, this this world will be it

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wouldn't be in as much chaos as it is now.

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I truly believe that.

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And because there's a wealth of knowledge and wisdom from both sides that we can learn

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that we can learn from each other and pull from.

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And again, and it's pretty much exactly what happens with Chrome and Senku, because even

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though physically they're the same age, more or less, Senku is thirty seven hundred years

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older than Chrome, right?

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And again, Dr. Stone, they've they've been petrified for almost four thousand years.

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So this pretty much perfectly has this example where, you know, the super old generation

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and the new generation is coming up.

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And again, after the initial kind of bruised to the ego, Chrome was like, you know, this

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dude knows more about this stuff than I even knew was possible.

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So let's see what I can I what can I learn from it?

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What can I gain from this from this relationship?

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And like I said earlier, he gained a valuable friend in Senku and then vice versa Senku

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and Chrome, because these two guys together honestly are are kind of like the dynamic

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duo when it comes to scientists or science in general, because Senku has a lot of the

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theoretical and some of the practical knowledge to of how things work in in how to build it.

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Chrome has the real life experience of gathering the materials, knowing what to look for and

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honestly just in improving a lot of the stuff that he may need.

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I mean, he broke himself out of jail.

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Spoiler.

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But he broke himself out of jail after being captured by Tsukasa's people because of the

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experiments him and Senku went through.

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And he uses his brand of science, as he calls it, you know, which is just gathering up materials,

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seeing what he has and then making the best out of it.

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And honestly, it's those two together showing that how, you know, you can you can know a

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lot about your own domain, a lot about your skill set, a lot about your area of expertise.

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But there's still more that can be learned, even if it's not new knowledge, it can be

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a new application to the knowledge that you already have.

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And so I kind of I can raise these questions like how do you react to being challenged

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in your own domain?

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When you like not so much when you're just starting off and when you've you've been established

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a little bit, let's say I use martial arts as an example.

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Let's say so you're not you're not at the lowest level anymore.

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You're just say you're about midway.

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You're you're midway through and you're kind of the top of the top of your class.

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Let's say that and you're your sensei or whoever comes in, you know, challenge you, pushes

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you harder than they push you beforehand.

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You know, like the training gloves are off now.

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You've experienced more of the style.

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So now you can handle more.

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How do you react to that adversity?

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And I know maybe martial arts isn't the best example because you're taught that from the

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beginning that you need to expect adversity in order to improve yourself.

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But it's the same it's the same type of concept.

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So whatever skill, whatever domain that you're in, just think about how you react to somebody

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who comes in and really challenges you on what you know.

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I'm not saying like these these fake gurus or something like that who you can tell immediately

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they don't know what they're talking about.

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But somebody who really does know more than you and they're pushing you to just broaden

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your horizons, really to think outside of the box because we have a tendency.

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Once we get familiar with something, we get comfortable.

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And once we get comfortable, we we start pigeonholing ourselves into a certain way, a particular

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way of doing things.

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And that's kind of how we get to the whole that's how we get stagnant, really.

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So we need someone else from the outside who can push us, who can really challenge us to

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remember what it is back at the basis, back when we started to think outside the box,

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to open our minds to different possibilities.

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And that kind of leads the next question is, are you are you a know it all or are you humble

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enough to admit that there are people out there who are better than you?

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Right.

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Because, you know, whether you admit it or not, that that's the case.

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Right.

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There are people out there who are better than us and in on the end in everything.

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You know, it's just, you know, some people who are out there who make more money than

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us.

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Some people out there who can lift more than us in the gym.

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Some people out there who can sing sing better than us.

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Some people out there who, you know, can get hundreds on all of their tests while we can

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only get ninety nines.

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Right.

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Things like that.

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There's always someone out there who is better than you.

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Not be and sometimes it's not because it's an inherent thing.

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Sometimes they just outwork you.

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They just work harder than you or they work more efficiently than you.

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I think that's the best way.

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That's a better way to put it is that they work more efficiently, not necessarily hard

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because hard work isn't necessarily smart work.

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Right.

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You can you can be you can be busy, busy, busy, busy bodies.

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Because I think right now in this day and age, we glorify being busy over being productive.

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You know, I think it's like a badge of honor saying that we have, you know, like from I

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shouldn't have I shouldn't have a nine to five on Saturday.

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Like if I'm not working, but literally from nine in the morning to five in afternoon,

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I'm doing something all day, like these little different projects and stuff like that.

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You know, that's not and it's not really accomplishing anything.

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It's not.

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No, it's crazy.

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It's insanity.

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Because that's why I made a clear distinction in my own life between being busy and being

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productive because if I'm doing something that is of a of a benefit, right, if I'm not

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just doing busy work, I'm doing things like I mean, like recording, honestly, recording

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this podcast episode, writing up the outlines for the podcast episode, watching the anime

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for the podcast, which, you know, that's my favorite part of this, this whole thing.

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It's just watching a different anime and like, yeah, yeah, I'm making content.

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But no, seriously, it's it's again, just the whole idea of, you know, just open your mind

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up to the different possibilities, different avenues of, you know, what's out there.

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None of us know everything, but we all know something and it's about how we can use what

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we already know to what what we don't.

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Right.

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And how can we go about learning what we don't know, right, whether it's getting a mentor,

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doing more research, getting creative with the things that we have at our disposal is

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really keeping your mind open to the possibility.

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I can't can't stress that enough because I because I know, you know, we all heard the

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saying about being set in your ways.

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You again, when you get older, you get comfortable, you get familiar and then you get stagnant.

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And then at that point, it's almost it's almost too late.

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But I do believe as long as you have breath in your lungs and a functioning mind, you

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were all capable of change, were all capable of improvement, which is the whole goal of

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this entire this entire thing.

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The otaku liberation is to be free of these type of things that are going to hold us back

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from our potential and hold us back from who we were called to be by God.

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Right.

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And really is again, just keep a discerning eye, keep an open mind, keep an ear, keep

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ears open to to just everything because you never know.

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You never know where that next big idea is going to come from.

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So in summary, just kind of going over Chrome's gifted intelligence and his his ability to

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be taught.

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Right.

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It is open.

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His open mindedness is kind of aligned with this whole idea of going back to basics.

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Right.

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And that's where it's highlighting the significance of recognizing and utilizing our own natural

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strengths or the things that we've worked on, the things that we've cultivated over

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time, as well as being open to experiencing new things, to learning things from other

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people.

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Right.

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That's kind of what all this means in a nutshell.

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So yeah, that's pretty much it.

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So again, just want to thank you guys for tuning in to today's episode.

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And I pray that you get what you needed out of it.

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And hopefully you learn something new about yourself.

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And if you got any value out of it, feel free to subscribe and share this episode with anyone

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who you think would benefit from it.

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Seriously, I mean, if you guys have, you know, listened to me this thus far, right.

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And you really think you really like the content I'm putting out, the idea that I that I'm,

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you know, saying, then feel free to share it to people who you think would like it to.

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Right.

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Even not at first.

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Who knows?

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But that now is at the worst of it.

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They may just start watching anime, which is again, it's what it's what the real mission

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of this whole podcast is to get more otakus out there.

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But hey, come back next week because on next week's episode, we'll be taking a look at

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someone who takes the kiss method.

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Keep it simple, stupid to heart.

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Bonus points for anyone who gets that reference.

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And it's someone who shows that progress doesn't have to be complicated at all.

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And that of course is Taiju Okie.

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So again, come back next week, guys.

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And always remember, you are the main character of your story.

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And that story doesn't end until he says so.

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All right, be blessed.