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My friends welcome to the sheep get shared podcast.

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I'm your host Austin Creed and I had a very interesting

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idea my friends and I wanted to run and buy you

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so my job consists of a lot of Contracting work

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and Storm chasing is what we call it in the business

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where it's a hail of storm It's a hurricane and

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we go out there and we assess the damage we do

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the work. We make sure that the customer is happy

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But what's interesting to me is I've been working

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this one small town and I got here back in May

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and school was just funding out at the local

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high school one of those all -american towns

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where As soon as the high school lets out they

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got all the pickup trucks and it's in the middle

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of town and it's on the nexus of the entire town

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And now that we're half Labor Day You're going

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back to school there when that guy here they

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were just came out of school that made me realize

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every single part of our lives there's a season

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to it life is a series of seasons and the only

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way you're going to truly survive in this life

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is to understand that with every season there

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is something you must learn something you need

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to take away from it don't just autopilot through

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life like most people do most people are schmedericks

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and what they do is they go through life wondering

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oh why am i not winning or why am i not richer

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why isn't my wife not hotter this kind of mentality

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and they go by and they're like i'm not making

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this much money i want to make so it's got to

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be somebody else's fault right because at the

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end of the day i'm doing what everyone told me

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to do i went to school i i bought up my house

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even though i can't afford it because i'm not

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a boomer and my year's salary doesn't pay for

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my house Don't even get me started on that one.

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But they went down the normal path of life and

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they're not getting where they want to go. And

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the same way that nobody who was in high school,

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middle school, elementary school, even college

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wants to go back to school. They want to keep

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partying. They want to keep enjoying their summertime.

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I know I did when I was in school. Oh yeah. I

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didn't want to go back to school. I don't want

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to go back to waking up early, going to school.

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Dealing with all the garbage with the people

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Talk talking about stuff. I didn't care about

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picking on me trying to get ahead of me I mean

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who could put up with that garbage every single

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day But a lot of people got to do it and it only

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gets harder when you become an adult. Let me

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tell you that But that season of what I got here

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they started they were ending school and now

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they're starting school as We're going into more

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of hurricane season. It made me realize that

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life was really no different than what I've seen

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over the last couple of months. There are ups,

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there are downs, and for every season, there's

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some level of growth that happens. You learn

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new things, you meet new people, you have new

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experiences, and you hopefully learn new skills.

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If you're not learning new skills, well, then

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there's a whole other problem, which is You're

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either a in a bad environment or B. Maybe you're

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maybe you're not forming good habits Good habits

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are gonna lead you to being able to achieve more

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to be more successful to be happier You know,

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I think we needed to spell something If you go

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to public school if you if you go through school

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You're told that you're gonna be happy if you

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do what you love, but that's such a vague concept.

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It's so vague It's not achievable. What do you

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mean do what you want? What if what you're doing

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is dumb or it takes a lot of upfront cost? For

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example, say you want to be a streamer. Well,

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that's a lot of upfront cost. You're going to

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have to get an audience. You're going to have

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to be good at the game or at least be entertaining

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to some extent. And my friends, it's not easy

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to do anything that's worth doing is not easy.

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The same way that this summer is not been easy

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for me. I'm sure I've seen the high school kids

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They go out the lake and have fun. They should

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have fireworks They they drive their trucks around

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like a bunch of jackasses cutting me off I've

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seen it all summer long But I mean you realize

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that their adults are no different sometime we

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have adults instead of going around and partying

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what we do instead is worse we do with a bare

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minimum and if you You know who you are when

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you know the bare minimum if you have one scream

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of income you're doing the bare minimum if You're

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not trying to gain a new source of income whether

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you have one two or three. You're lazy You are

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not trying My friends the only way for us as

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adults to get ahead in this life is To use what

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God gave us which is right between our ears And

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every season of life, you're going to gain a

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new skill. You're going to learn something about

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yourself. You don't have one about myself for

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the past three to four months. I've learned that

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I need to do, I need to get back to my roots.

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I need to get back to focusing on winning instead

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of just getting lost in the sauce of the bureaucracy

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of my job. I need to focus on one of my goals.

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How am I actually achieving them? Not just saying

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I'm pursuing things, not just faking and watch.

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you know walking through and not doing that nonsense

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what am i actually doing in my 20s i could not

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sleep last night you know why because i was i

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was up all night all night last night thinking

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to myself oh my gosh i'm 25 years old and i'm

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not a millionaire yet i should be a millionaire

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yesterday why am i not a millionaire yet why

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am i not having more streams of income why am

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i not doing better for myself this is not acceptable

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and i was sitting up and i was thinking to myself

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how How can I make more money? How can I earn

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more money? How can I give more that I can get

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some in return? How can I do it? What should

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I be doing? Am I not doing enough? Should I change

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my job? What should I be doing? It was causing

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me a lot of distress. I thought to myself, I've

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been on X for a little while. I haven't taken

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off as fast as I want to. My podcast hasn't taken

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off as much as I want to. But you know what?

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I realized, you know what, nobody owes me clicks.

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Nobody owes me, oh Austin, you're so brilliant.

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Oh Austin, I watch every single second of every

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show you do. Nobody owes me that. You know, the

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people who think they're owed things, the schmucks

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who make the Disney content, they think, oh,

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I'm gonna put a lesbian kiss in here in front

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of all the kids, and if you don't like it, well,

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it's your fault for not liking my content. It's

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your fault for not liking what I want in the

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storyline. No, that's not how you create content.

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That's not how you appeal to an audience. That's

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not how you grow your business, your brand, your

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message. That's not how you do that. Nobody owes

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you anything in this life. Nobody. I don't care

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if they're related to you. I don't care if they

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work with you, if they owe you a favor. They

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owe you nothing. You ever loan somebody money

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and they never pay you back? Yeah, I've done

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that. That's not fun, by the way. But again,

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it's a lesson that needs to be learned. Just

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because you're not seeing a return does not mean

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you stop investing. It doesn't mean that you

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stop striving. You know what the conclusion was

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on my arrest list episode I had last night? I

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said, I need to take more risks. I'm 25. I still

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have. little bit of my 20s left I need to continue

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to invest I want to be the guy who's 40 I have

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a goal for myself that I mentioned on this show

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before I want to be 40 years old and on my 40th

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birthday I want to have a billion not a million

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with an M a billion with a B and a net worth

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now that's quite that's quite the goal isn't

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it yes it is but guess what I have a long way

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to go I'm a very long way to go. But instead

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of being discouraged, I'm going to say I can

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do more and I will do more. Why? Because I know

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I'm capable of it. I know I can do and that's

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what I've learned in this season of life, just

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because one investment is not panning out the

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way you want. Say, for example, you're hitting

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the gym, right? And you watch these influencers

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on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, right? And. they

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seem to grow all this muscle and they look so

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good and you're like I'm gonna hit the gym too

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and you go for a couple months to a year and

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you look at yourself in the mirror you think

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wow I don't look like Chris Hemsworth I don't

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look like Hugh Jackman I don't look like Alex

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Eubank I don't look like Craig Doucet I don't

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look like these guys who are super buff who look

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super good no homo and why do I not look like

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these guys I'm gonna stop working out I wanna

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go eat that pizza instead. No, I'm gonna go get

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that tub of ice cream. I'm just gonna have it

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because I feel bad for myself. My friends, how

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many of us are guilty of that? How many of us

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are guilty of that? And you know what? There's

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no shame in it. There is no shame in being discontent

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with where you are in your life. I don't care

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if you wanna make more money. I don't care if

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you wanna look better. I don't care if you want...

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to have more property. I don't know what your

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goal is. Have more kids. I don't know what your

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goal is. But at the end of the day, my friends,

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there is no shame in thinking to yourself, I

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should be farther along than I am right now.

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I feel it every single day. But you know what

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there is shame in? There is shame in giving up.

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There is shame in saying, I guess you can't do

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something because you know what? You can do things.

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You can do more. You won't do it overnight. But

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you shouldn't be focused on the return. You should

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be focused on the investment. And what are you

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going to give for what you want? I know this

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might sound cheesy, and I say, Austin, you've

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done this show before. You talk about this all

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the time. But no, I want to keep this focused

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in the increments. So those of you who don't

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know, I'm interviewing to potentially do, um...

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adjusting for insurance companies instead of

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working on the contracting side, because I'm

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considering and I think it'd be a good future

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start for me. And part of the interview process

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is they ask you questions about your career.

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They ask you questions about what your goals

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are. What are you trying to do? Are you going

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to be an asset to my company? And it makes you

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reflect on what have you done and what are you

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doing with your life? What is it you actually

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want? Not what other people want, what Should

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you want? No, what do you actually want? A lot

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of people, they can't answer that question or

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they'll give a vague answer that doesn't really

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have substance to it. But I had an answer. I

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want to learn more about this business and I

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want to be an asset to this company so that I

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can be a catastrophe storm adjuster. That's what

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I want. I want to help people. I want to be able

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to go out there, assess damages and write up

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for repairs. That's what I want to do. Why? Hey,

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there's a lot of money in it. But B, it's something

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I like to I like to travel. I like to go places.

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I like to be out and about doing things. My friends,

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what is it you want? This season in your life

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right now, we're going into the fall. They've

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rolled out the pumpkin spice at Starbucks. They're

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rolling out the spooky paraphernalia for Halloween.

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That's over almost two months from now. We're

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getting into the holiday season. We're getting

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onto the edge of fall into Halloween and Thanksgiving

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and into Christmas and Hanukkah. What is it that

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you want out of this season of your life? Because

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summer's coming to a close. What is it you want

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in this next season of your life? What is it

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you want by the beginning of next year? You don't

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know the answer to that question. You better

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find one and fast. I don't care if you're a man,

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woman, alien, dog. My dog sitting in the backseat

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right now, he's he's kind of listening. He's

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kind of not listening. Arthur, you listening?

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No, he's not listening. He he was the she listens

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to the show sometimes when I record stuff in

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the backseat. Probably thinks I'm crazy, probably

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thinks I'm talking to myself. But my friends,

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it's all about not just motivation, but it's

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about discipline. You know, that's something

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I learned in this last season of my life. I learned

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a lot of discipline when I was in the Air Force,

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but you know what? Recently, I've been dropping

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the ball. I've been more focused on trying to

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get more jobs, trying to turn in more things

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that I haven't been focused on being disciplined

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in my life. I really haven't. And that's on me,

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if nobody's fault but mine. But there's no shame

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in that. There's shame in saying, you know what?

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Screw it. I'm going to just keep doing what I

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want to do. I'm not going to be disciplined.

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I'm not going to be focused. because let's be

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honest here there are millionaires right now

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who are my age 25 they're pro athletes they're

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entrepreneurs and they're getting all the things

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I want and I don't have it that sucks a lot but

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you know it's like getting and instead of getting

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someone that you know oh screw those guys I hate

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capitalism no of course I'm angry but I'm gonna

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use that anger I'm gonna use the anger to go

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do something Instead of sitting here and complaining

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about the system not being fair. Who told you

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the system was supposed to be fair, you moron?

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Who told you that the system was designed to

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make you win? If you look at the Federalist Papers,

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as I did in college, maybe you didn't go to college,

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I did. I learned in college that Federalist Papers

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were written by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,

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Alexander Hamilton. They talked about how the

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government was founded when the rich consolidated

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their wealth to prevent the raiders, the marauders

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and competition from stepping in and taking what

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was theirs. That's what the government is meant

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to do. Now, of course we live in America where

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now because there's so many middle class to lower

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middle class poor people, the government has

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to pander to the poor people to get their votes.

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By giving them free things making them empty

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promises, you know, it works. It's basically

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paying playing chess with our lives and All the

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time reaching for our wallets We know this Part

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of this show as I mentioned over and over again

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is to understand how you're being exploited and

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one of the ways you're being exploited is you

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actually think that For example, I have to talk

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day and night about history and I will, you know,

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here and there, but you have to focus on your

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life. What you, yes, you listening to the show,

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hearing my voice right now, what you can do about

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your life to improve it. And the answer is not

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looking to politicians. It is not looking to

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them, to the market. It is not looking to other

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people to save you. I don't care if they're Trump.

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I don't care if they're Bernie Sanders. I don't

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care who they are. They will not save you. You

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must learn how to swim or you will drown. Unless

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you're a protected class of people and you know

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who you are, unless you are a protected class

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of people who could be used for political, economic,

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religious and social reasons, you are not going

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to be saved out here. And even then, not really

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going to be saved. You're more going to be prevented

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from losing too much. Actually, have I told you

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that story before? Where when I was in college

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and my economic was no, it was my public policy

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class. We were talking about public policy and

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I mentioned, I raised my hand and I said, you

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know, Mrs. Smith, I, I think the system is not

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for the rich to win, but for the poor not to

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lose. She looked at me, she went from looking

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at her or across the room. Look at me. And he

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said, you know what? I'm not so engaged enough,

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I can end. When I was like, oh, really? I think

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I struck a near because as you know, I don't

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care what college you go to. Educators are overwhelmingly

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more left wing because they don't live in the

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real world. They live in in tenure land where

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they get to say whatever they want in a hypothetical

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of what should be, not what is. And so when I

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mentioned that, oh, they don't like to hear that.

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No, I don't like that because that actually means

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that the system is designed Not for the rich

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to always win but for the poor not to lose because

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if they lose too hard They won't vote for the

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current administration. They won't vote for who's

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in power They have to at least pretend to care

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about you But people don't like to hear that.

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They like to hear they're for the little man.

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They like to hear, oh, they care about the little

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guy. They care about the working Joe Schmoe.

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No, they don't. No, no, they don't care about

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me. I'm not donating their campaigns. I'm not

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funding their reelection campaigns and funding

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their special link interest groups. I'm not a

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lobbyist. They don't care about me. They don't

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care about you. They care about themselves. They

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care about making money for the people who put

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them in power. That's why the news is so depressing

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because they're not actually reporters. They're

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prostitutes. They're whores for the people in

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power. And it's not always the people who are

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in the White House. It's the people who are in

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HR who sign their checks. People who are on the

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boards of their company who decides whether they

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can fire to promote it. That's who they care

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about. They don't care about us. And my friends,

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you might ask, well, how does this tie into seasons

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of our lives? How does this tie into what we

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started the show off on? As I said, there is

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something to learn every season, so maybe even

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listening to the show has helped you learn something

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about the season of your life and what you need

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to address in your life right now. Maybe you

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need to make a career change. Maybe you need

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to stick on the straight and narrow and remind

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yourself, hey, I'm doing what I'm doing. Well,

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I got to get back on the ground. I can do more.

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I can do better what I'm doing. Maybe that's

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it. Or maybe there's something about your life

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that you're not happy about and you're pushing

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it off because you're afraid to poke the bear.

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Well, don't be afraid to poke the bear. Let me

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ask you something. What do you have to lose?

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What do you have to lose? And sometimes it's

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a lot. If you're a married guy and you have kids,

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you got more to lose. If you're you can't take

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as much risk because you have more to lose. If

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you're a single guy. and you're young you have

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a lot of stuff to do even if you're a middle

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-aged older guy and you're single you still have

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a lot you can leverage you have more room for

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risk don't be afraid my friends fear is going

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to cripple you you know i mentioned in my last

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episode that well about anime waifus and how

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it's affecting the ditty marketplace that a lot

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of times it's Men are reluctant to discuss their

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problems with women, and in some cases, I would

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argue most rightfully so. But what's interesting

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is I've interacted with the AI program more because

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I think it's very fascinating. I asked her the

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AI program, that is, I asked her, hey, what's

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the difference between arrogance and ambition?

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And her answer was very interesting. I actually

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wrote it down. Her answer was arrogance means

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you arrogance acts like it's already one. Whereas

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ambition is scared. It's about to fail. I said,

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whoa, that's pretty damn insightful. If you ask

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me, how many of us are afraid we're going to

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fail in this new season of our life? Because

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it's the end of summertime, beginning of autumn.

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A lot of people are preparing for the holidays

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come up. You see schools just starting if they

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have kids. Layoff season's gonna start here pretty

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soon because you know they gotta cut people either

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before or after Christmas time usually after

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but I gotta start the lists now. My friends how

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many of us are scared for the new season in our

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life? How many of us are scared right now? Just

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forget about seasons, how many of us are scared

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right now? And the answer is probably more than

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we're willing to admit. A lot of us are probably

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scared. But don't let the fear rule you my friends

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because once fear rules you you end up making

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a lot of mistakes And the worst mistake in my

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opinion that you can make is to do nothing Let

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me know what you think my boss is calling me

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so I'm gonna have to end this here for right

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now But let me know what you think in this new

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season of your life. I'm out of here Pete