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Cary Prejean on Mastering Your Narrative and Achieving Satisfaction
23rd August 2025 • Voice over Work - An Audiobook Sampler • Russell Newton
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Cary Prejean:

if you're a banana, don't try to be an orange.

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You won't be a good orange.

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So people who like oranges won't

like you and people who like bananas

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because you're trying to be an orange,

aren't gonna like you be a banana.

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You're gonna attract people

who love bananas, right?

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Until you define what is

satisfaction, what will satisfy

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you, you will never be satisfied.

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The lesson out of that is,

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how do you wanna say it?

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Go where you're valued most.

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Right.

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to, go to environments, go to

people where you're gonna be in,

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in, you're gonna be valued most,

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Russell Newton: Hello listeners and

welcome back to The Science of Self, where

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you Improve your Life from the inside out.

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We have a guest with

us today, Cary Prejean.

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I hope I said that correctly.

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I've practiced it several times just

in the run up to the episode, uh,

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and is always the case.

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I'm not going to introduce our author

other than, or our guest today who is

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also an author other than give a name

and ask, uh, him to introduce himself and

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tell us what we should know about him.

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Cary Prejean: Okay, that's, that'd be me.

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Um.

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Well, uh, I'm trying to

keep it relatively short.

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Background is in accounting.

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CPA, uh, started consulting in 87

after working for several companies.

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And the big thing that got me going was

I noticed that business owners did not

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know how to use their financial data.

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They did not how to read

financial statements.

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Um, there were all very good at

possibilities and turning into revenue.

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They were very bad at managing

a business, scaling a business,

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building an organization, having

processes to run the business.

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They all became, I guess

they worked for the business.

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The business didn't work for them.

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They couldn't take time off, et cetera.

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So.

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Part of my, I guess, mission was

to educate business owners on how

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to quote, manage by the numbers

that they all talked about, but

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really didn't know how to do it.

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and, and the newer thing is they

all, everybody wants to take

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their business to the next level.

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And again, it's like, so tell

me what's the next level?

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And it's, well, more revenue.

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Well, okay.

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Um, but.

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So what I, the way I work with people

where I work with business owners is,

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um, we start with by helping them, and

I know this sounds like a bold claim,

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but we double net profits in a year.

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Secondly, we give you, we help

you structure your business

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so that now the business works

for you rather than you for it.

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The businesses run by processes.

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Um, we also get you actionable

financial data on a weekly basis so

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that you can manage by the numbers

and longer term, we help you design

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your business into the future.

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So that can be what's most beneficial

for you rather than the forces

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of the market and government and

competitors and everything else

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pushing your business somewhere

you probably don't want it to be.

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Russell Newton: Alright, Cary so you're

a business coach and you double profits.

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You deal with revenue and numbers

and all those, uh, very invaluable

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things for a business owner.

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But this is not a business

podcast, and our listeners are

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not looking for business advice.

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Of course, they're looking for,

uh, personal growth advice.

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So when my listener says, before they

tune out, what does this mean for me?

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What does this interview have for me?

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Can you draw some lines, draw

some connections there for us?

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Cary Prejean: Yeah, sure.

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Um, there's a discipline I use called

the ontology of language, which probably

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doesn't mean anything to anybody.

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I am a certified ontological

coach, but what that does is, well,

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let me back it up a little bit.

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of language has some claims, right?

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One of the claims is, is that what

makes us human beings rather than

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just homo sapiens, is that we have

language, not just have language.

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You can't escape language.

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There's always some perspective that is

telling you what you're experiencing.

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Like it don't like it,

good, bad, right, wrong.

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Makes sense.

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Don't make sense.

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Agree that, disagree with it.

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In fact, if you listen, you're

now telling yourself right now

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is, is this guy making sense?

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What the hell is he talking about?

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Oh, oh, yeah, okay.

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I hadn't really noticed that before.

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Something the fallacy of most human

beings is when we look out into the

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world or we experience input, You know,

slight sound, taste, smell, touch.

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We don't, yes, technically we see with

our eyes, yes, we hear with our ears.

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But I was talking with an audiologist

yesterday and I asked a question,

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do you really hear with your ears?

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And she went to this technical thing

like, yes, on waves and your nerves.

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And I said, okay, but what is

it that you really experienced?

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Do you experience this

sound waves with nothing?

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No.

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What happens is your N is telling

you a story about what sounds came

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through, what that means to you.

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And it's filtered through your perspective

of the way you see the world, So

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whatever your perspective is, it's

gonna have, you see certain things, it's

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gonna be empowering in certain ways.

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It's also gonna have

you not see some things.

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It's all going to be

disempowering in a way.

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that make any kind of sense at all?

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So what I do with business owners

are with people, and I've coached

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non-business people before.

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Is generally what, what they

come to me for coaching on is,

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is they're suffering in some way.

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And I don't mean like suffering, like

oh and pain and stuff, but there's

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some dysfunction going on, things not

working well, things aren't going right.

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And it's generally because their

perspective, their narrative, their

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language that they live by has

them see the world in a certain

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way that it's disempowering.

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Right.

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And they can't produce results, they

can't move forward, they're stuck.

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Um, they have, you know, they're,

they're in bad moods about it.

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Um, and generally the bad

moods, when I say bad moods,

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when I'm generally referring to

is resentment and resignation.

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And both and moods have a

language, they have a discourse.

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Right.

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And resentment resignation, both as a

foundational part of their conversation

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is I assess that X is happening to me.

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I assess that is negative

for me in my future.

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I assess as nothing I can do about it.

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And re, re resentment has the

additional and I promise to get even.

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So if you're living in that kind of

a narrative and there's nothing I can

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do about it, whatcha gonna do about

it, what you can do is you build

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yourself a very good victim story

about how so-and-so's doing it to you.

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And there's nothing you can do about

it as opposed to different moods or

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generally opposite moods, what we

call, um, accepting of certain things.

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When you can come to some acceptance

of what's so about where you're

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at as well as what's possible.

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You live more in moods of ambition

and, uh, well, several on the other

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side, joy, peace, gratitude, And

in those moods, the range of what's

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possible as well as the range of

possible actions expands enormously.

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When you can start thinking about what's,

in other words, rather than living

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by the assessment, there's nothing I

can do about it in different moods.

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Ambition and, and gratitude.

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There's all kinds of things

that become available.

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There's certainly a lot

you can do about it.

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Now, did the world change physically?

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No.

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But your perspective, your language

did, and now you're telling

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yourself a very different story.

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Does that make sense?

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Russell Newton: Absolutely.

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Cary Prejean: Okay.

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So how can people, I guess your listeners,

will, they benefit by, I guess, me

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talking about that kind of stuff?

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Hopefully one of the, one of the things

that I always work with people on is,

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well, let me back up a little bit.

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people walk through life kind of

sleepwalking actually with this narrative

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of, you know, if only my life were

more better or different, I'd be happy.

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But they never take the time to ref,

define what is more, better or different.

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You know, it's like, oh,

I wish I made more money.

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And, and also they kind

of refer to happiness.

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Like it's this thing that's out there that

hopefully will find them somewhat someday.

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Right?

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And happy is a very temporary

emotion that's about, I'm happy

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because I assess this positive

self is happening to me right now.

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Change the, what's happening

right now and the happy goes away.

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And maybe you get mad, maybe you

get sad, but I, I give examples.

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You know, you wake up, cough's

already made, you're happy.

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Um, you're driving to work, you get a

flat, you're unhappy, you get to work.

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Uh, this pile of stuff's,

this big project.

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You're not gonna have

news already been handled.

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Now you're happy.

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Um, one of your, one of

your key people quits.

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some misunderstanding.

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Now you're unhappy.

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So happy and unhappy,

come and go all day long.

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What's more, what I point to is

something that's more lasting.

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My question is, what is

going to satisfy you?

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by satisfy, I mean satisfaction.

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Lemme put this place.

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Satisfaction is defined

by what is enough action.

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So if, if, if you're saying you

want more, better, different,

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more, better, different what?

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You want more money, how much more?

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And if you just want more

income, here's 10 bucks.

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You happy?

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You satisfied?

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No.

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Okay, so define the number and here's

a, here's something I learned a long

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time ago from one of my mentors.

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Until you define what is

satisfaction, what will satisfy

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you, you will never be satisfied.

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You'll always have that, you know, if

following my life will be or different,

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and most people spend about maybe five

minutes thinking about what do I want?

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You know, what do I want outta my life?

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I.

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Um, than just, I get a job, I go to

work, I come home, drink a six pack,

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watch some tube, go to sleep and do

it all over again, and, you know, pray

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for the weekends so I can do even less.

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Um, there's no, for me anyway,

there's no satisfaction to that.

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I would be, I would be depressed.

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I would be resigned and resentful.

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And that's what most of these people

are resign and resentful and they're

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just flow through the motions, just

trying to get to the weekends because

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again, there's, there's that, and

there's nothing I can do about it.

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That, that the cement of everything.

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So when you begin to live in

different, different conversations,

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you get to live in different moods.

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the ambition, gratitude, joy,

peace, and you have all these now,

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your, your world is wide open.

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a much, you're a much happier person.

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I mean, if you are living in gratitude,

joy, and peace, you're going to be happy.

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of the time.

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And if you live in ambition where

you, there's all these possibilities.

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You know, ambition is about what's

possible and, oh, that's possible.

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That's possible, that's possible.

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Now you can begin to take

action towards what, define

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what is your satisfaction first.

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Then you can begin, begin taking

action to attain all that.

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The, is any of this making sense?

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Russell Newton: Absolutely.

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Yes.

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Uh, there's so much in here I want,

I'm making notes to get back to.

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But yeah, the, um, it's

making perfect sense.

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Cary Prejean: So, so for your listeners,

if you're feeling stuck, if you

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are unhappy with life, if you, if

you're in a relationship that doesn't

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work, begin to define what actions.

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And again, in relationships you can't.

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One of your things of satisfaction is

the other person can't make you happy.

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The other person can't make you sad.

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They can invite you to suffer.

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Right, but they can't.

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Happy and sadness and anger,

that's all self-generated.

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And it's all because

something gets triggered.

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And your discourse, your interpretations

of the world, your perspective tells you,

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be happy, be mad, be sad, be something.

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Your narrative is dictating how you react.

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You can have the same event and

have many different interpretations

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about it, which produce different

emotions and moods, right?

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I mean, the most common is

like put several people on a,

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on a, a roller coaster you're

gonna get different reactions.

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Some people are gonna love it.

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Let me go again.

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Somebody will be like, it was

okay once, but no thanks anymore.

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Other people will be terrified, right?

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I'm never doing anything

that's stupid again in my life.

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Um, so people can share events,

you can't have a shared experience.

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There's no such thing.

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Everybody's going to have a

slightly different experience.

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Make sense?

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Russell Newton: That's great.

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Cary Prejean: think about it

this way, if you were born in a

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different time, and let's just

go to extremes, a different sex.

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A different religion, socioeconomic

background, let's say 15 hundreds.

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And your family is

practicing Druids, right?

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And instead of being a male, you're

female, even though the essence of

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you, let's say your spirit, and again,

that's subject to interpretation,

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but your spirit, it's the same in

that body and that circumstance and

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that everything, you would be a very

different person because you would

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live out of a different narrative.

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You wouldn't have the distinction

of some of our modern day stuff.

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You know, you'd be fairly superstitious

of, know, whatever the woods, the sky,

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the everything, the moon, uh, all that

would have different meanings for you.

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And you would live out of that rather than

the language that you live out of now.

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So, yeah.

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So what there is to pay attention to

is what is a narrative that's driving

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you, what is your narrative saying a

lot of times, what drives you to suffer

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or your assessments about the world?

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Right, especially assessments

about you and you get down to it.

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And a lot of times it's in childhood

somewhere that we pick up different

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declarations about ourselves.

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I'm, I'm, uh, unlovable, or I'm stupid,

I was told my whole life, just me

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personally, my whole life in the high

school, my mother always told me,

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you were stu, you stupid and ugly.

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And I believed her, you know, until I

got to college and found out I really

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wasn't stupid and I really wasn't ugly.

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that conditioning, that conditioning

of my narrative, I held as the truth.

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there was some suffering

that went along with that.

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Um, and again, this isn't,

this isn't easy work.

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Right.

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And it's not something you

can really do with yourself.

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You need a good coach to be able to help

you examine your narrative and what's,

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what's, what you're suffering from.

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'cause your narrative's

gonna be right there.

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Your narrative has been gaining,

gathering evidence all your

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life to prove that it's right.

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And when you go to interrupt that

and change it, like no, no, no, no.

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What you just, you try something

different and it doesn't work.

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See, I told you so.

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I told you it's gonna fail.

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You are unlovable, you are stupid,

you are whatever, you know.

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so really, lemme, lemme put it

this way, why do the world's

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best athletes have coaches?

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Because you can't see yourself in

the performance of what you're doing.

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You can't, you can't see yourself.

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Michael Jordan, as great as he was,

could not see himself on the court.

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Now you can see films after, it, it takes

a coach that can tell you just little,

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little distinctions about, you know, make

this distinction, try this, try that.

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And next thing you know, your,

your game is up, is upped.

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just a little bit, but a lot.

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It's those, the fun of the distinction,

generally, the more powerful they are.

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Also, the coach should have been

around longer than you and knows

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different strategies and how to

use them in playing the game.

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Now again, the coach doesn't

play the game, right?

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The coach is there to help you up your

game level and come together as a team.

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And again, like the of of reading

something, it was yesterday and

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they're talking about these really

championship sport teams, you can

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buy all the best talent around.

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It's still gonna take that team probably

three to four years, five years maybe,

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to really gel together as a team.

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if you bring in a whole

bunch of superstars.

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You got a whole bunch of egos that

have to learn to work together.

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So again, this work is very rewarding.

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Um, but it takes time.

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It takes a coach and it takes, it takes

really becoming a lot more self-aware

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about who you are and the narrative

that you live by that drives you

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to experience life the way you do.

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Um, so if you want a much more

rewarding, world, rewarding

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experience of life, it's available.

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You just have to live with

that interpretation that yes,

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it's all these possibilities.

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Yes, I'm happy for, I'm

grateful for everything I have.

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I'm at peace with, you know,

okay, I'm 70 years old.

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I'm a male, I'm married,

I'm a grandfather.

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You know, all the facts of my life.

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I accept all of that.

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That's who I am.

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There's some peace that comes with that.

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the joy of, yes, I'm here.

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I've been, in my life

has got me to right here.

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This is still what's possible.

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And there's a lot of

joy about that, right?

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So, I don't know, maybe

I've gone on too long.

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I'll shut up now.

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Russell Newton: It's interesting, uh,

timing wise to me because I was narrating

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a book this morning, uh, that had a,

the section I did was on, uh, Marcus

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Aurelius and Stoicism, which is, uh,

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Cary Prejean: great

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Russell Newton: right in line

with what you are saying with

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whether you, uh, have studied or

embraced the cons stoicism itself.

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Is it something, uh, it

certainly in aligns as I see

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it with what you're saying.

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Is it something you've studied or, uh.

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Cary Prejean: haven't, I haven't

studied in great, great detail, but

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yes, I'm a big fan of Marcus Aurelius.

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Um, and the whole stoicism thing,

um, and yes, it, it is in line.

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Again, none of that was part

of my learning, the whole thing

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of the ontology of language.

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Uh, I've only discovered it

probably in the last five years

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and just, uh, yeah, I love it, but

I haven't studied in great detail.

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Russell Newton: one of the first concepts

I wrote down the ontology of language.

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Did I get that correct?

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Cary Prejean: Yes.

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Russell Newton: And, uh, you,

you had a, you went into some

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detail on there, but ontology.

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Expand on that choice of that word.

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Cary Prejean: Okay.

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It comes from two words, Antos,

which is Greek for being and all

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you the study of, so it's a study

of being in language, right?

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In other words, we're, we're not

just biological beings, we're

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also linguistic beings, and your

language actually lives in your body.

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How do we know that?

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Do you get flushed when you, when you're

embarrassed, Do you, do you, have certain

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body experiences depending on the, the

emotion of the mood that you're in.

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It shows up in your body and you

can do exercises about like taking

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an event and then changing your

narrative, about changing the story.

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Maybe it's a sad event.

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Okay, now tell a different story

that comes out, like, happy.

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excited or a bit like,

what'd you learn from that?

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And your body will actually, your,

your brain doesn't know the difference.

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Your body doesn't know the difference.

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Telling a different story, you'll, you'll

experience the positivity in your body.

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And I, and I've seen it over

the last, whatever, three

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decades, three plus decades.

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So yeah, it's a study

of being in language.

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And one of the other claims about it

is that language is generative, right?

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And what do I mean by that?

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It generates your reality, number one.

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It, you're not just describing reality.

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Your narrative generates your reality.

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So that's why I always say be careful.

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Your perspective is reality.

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Be careful who you allow to

program your perspective.

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So that's why people who watch, you

know, sit there and watch mindless

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TV and cat videos on YouTube and, you

know, cinema like that, you're, you're

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feeding your, you're feeding your

perspective, you're feeding your ontology.

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Um, you wanna be about that.

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You need a bunch of junk food, drink too

much alcohol, all that kind of stuff,

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you're gonna, you put all that into your

body, especially a lot of processed food

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that they're now coming out saying, you

know, there's all these chemicals and

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poisons and everything else, and you're,

you're not gonna be well long term.

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show up negatively in your body.

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Be careful what you feed it.

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because it doesn't know the difference.

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Um, it's also generative in

that our future that you and I

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are experiencing right now was

generated in the past in language.

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How, because your invitation to be on the

show, I accept that there's a promise.

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A promise we both show at the same time.

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This today was generated in the past.

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So if you don't like the

present that you're living in,

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have different conversations.

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Learn to make different offers,

different requests, which will

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result in different promises, which

will generate a different future.

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Does that make sense?

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Yeah.

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It's, it, it all happens in language.

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You know, if you're ha if you're,

lemme see if I can think of an example.

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If you're having conversations with

people about the value of your work,

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and let's say you're valuing your work

at, uh, do some random numbers here, 10

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bucks, you're going to be limited to that.

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Uh, let me say a different,

lemme better one.

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Education people who become teachers.

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Knowing that choice, you're going, you

have to be aware that that life is going

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to have some limiting factors to it.

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You're not gonna make that much money.

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And depending on the education system you

wind up in, it may not be all that reward.

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You may be fighting the bureaucracy

and students and, and parents

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and all that, that stuff.

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There's going to be some things with

that instead of having different.

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Conversations about you educate

people outside of the education

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system where you can make more

money, have more willing students,

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not have bureaucracy to put up with.

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It's all the conversations that

you have about what's possible are

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going to dictate your future life.

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So if you don't like what you're

doing now, learn to have different

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conversations, acquire some skills

maybe because you know the whole thing

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about people get all crazy about money.

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and again, let me, let me just back up.

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There was a, there was a guy who, a

man who gave his son a, an antique

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automobile when he turned 18.

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And he told the son, he said, look,

take it different places around town.

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Find out what they'll give you for it.

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Don't sell it.

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Find out what they gave for you.

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So he goes to a, a new dealer,

uh, a used car lot, and he, you

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know, they, they offered him 500.

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So he goes to a new dealership,

new car dealership, and they offer

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him a thousand as a trade in.

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Right incentive to buy.

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He went to an antique car dealer

and they offered him 5,000.

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He goes to a car club that specialized

in that make model and car.

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Somebody offered him 30 grand.

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So the lesson out of that is,

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how do you wanna say it?

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Go where you're valued most.

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Right.

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to, go to environments, go to people

where you're gonna be in, in, you're

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gonna be valued most, you know, nothing

changed about the car, it's just the

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perceived value when those who saw it.

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So

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that was supposed to leave me somewhere

about having different conversations.

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You're so what you need to, you

have to be clear about money.

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Money was, yeah, that was the thing.

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So what is money?

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Most people think money is the green

paper we find in our wallets, or the

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digital digits in our bank accounts.

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Right?

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Those are artifacts.

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Yeah, what is money for human

beings money or is a promise?

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So people who acquire wealth acquire

a whole bunch of promises that they

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can offer to buy what they want.

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Russell Newton: Okay.

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Cary Prejean: So when you begin to think

about money, it's, it's just a promise.

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And how do I accumulate promises?

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How do I make my promise more valuable?

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Or maybe I need to make my promise

to people who value it more than

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the people I've been talking to.

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Does that make sense?

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And I will get more of those promises

in return that I can accumulate, I

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can accumulate some wealth in terms

of the promises, the power of all

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these potential promises you can make.

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Um, so the whole thing about income,

I mean, the world is pretty abundant.

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Russell Newton: Right.

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Cary Prejean: if, if you know how to

tap into it, you know how to tap into

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the whole money conversation, um, and,

and valuing what it is you do and fi and

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listen, just because you can do something.

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Uh, doesn't mean it's valuable.

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What can,

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Russell Newton: Absolutely.

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Cary Prejean: what do you do

that's different from everybody

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else that's doing the same thing?

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Right?

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What is so special about you?

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And in my business consulting, it's

what is your market dominating position?

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can you tell the world about why

you'd be foolish to do any this kind

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of business with anybody but us?

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If you don't know that, in other words,

you don't really know what you're worth,

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you don't know the value of what you do,

don't expect anybody else to know it.

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If you're not clear on it.

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Believe me, the public, the, the

market you're trying to attract,

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the market you're trying to get in

touch with, they won't know either.

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That's why take successful ones anyway.

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Take a fair amount of time, energy, money,

whatever to differentiate themselves with.

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We're different.

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We're special.

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You need to come with us.

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And now again, some businesses

differentiate themselves as

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we're the cheapest in town.

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We're not the best.

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We're the chief, if you

want, just basic stuff.

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I mean, McDonald's on their board, their

sign say billions and billions served.

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They're not saying

they're the best burgers.

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They're saying we've been really

consistent over the years serving

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these mediocre hamburgers.

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And if you want to ha if you want

your, your, uh, not, they don't serve

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whoppers, your, uh, pounder pounder,

in Houston, as it will in Maine, as it

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will in London, as it will in Singapore.

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Very consistent.

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So again, they're not

trying to be the best.

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They don't advertise that.

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They're saying, we're very consistent.

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If you want cheap, fast food,

this place to come get it.

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And that's what different differentiate,

differentiate themselves about the

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market as opposed to like Burger

Smith and some of the other more,

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uh, I guess upscale burger joints.

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they're saying, Hey, we're better,

but if you want gourmet burgers and

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fries and you know, beer and whatever

else they have, we're the place.

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So, again, that's getting

clear on what your offer is.

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You have to be very clear about what

is your offer, what's so valuable about

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it, and if it's not that valuable, what

can you do to make it more valuable?

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What skills can you acquire?

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What can you add to it?

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all, again, all that happens in language.

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And you have to be able to not just tell

people about it, but they have their,

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their perspective, their narrative

has to see what you're offering.

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you present it in the wrong

way, they're not gonna see it.

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Russell Newton: You said you should ask

yourself or you, you ask businessmen,

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what is your, was it market domination?

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Cary Prejean: Yeah.

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Market dominating position.

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A a lot of people also

refer to as your, um Oh.

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It something, selling proposition.

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Isp.

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Is it ISP Oh, unique.

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Unique selling proposition.

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USP or your market do position.

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In other words, what is it that

you offer that nobody else offers?

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Think of it this way.

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If you look at a tree line,

you know, in the distance,

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what tree are you gonna notice?

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Pretty much to me, the tree

that's calling and the rest

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Russell Newton: A different one?

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Yeah,

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Cary Prejean: yeah, the different one,

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Russell Newton: I.

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Cary Prejean: Um, everything

else just looks the same.

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So you don't want to be in a marketplace

where you look like everybody else.

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need to find out what is your special

sauce as they say that people are gonna

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want to be a path to your door, you're

not gonna figure it out in a weekend.

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Okay?

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So be patient.

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It may take a while of experimentation,

some market research, asking potential

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customers what is it you're looking for?

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And again, in your life, it's

like, I'll give you an example.

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Uh, again, it's all about

the satisfaction thing.

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Um, I was married for about eight years,

got divorced and I was kind of, you know,

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I was kind of like lost for about five.

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Not lost, but I was just kind of like,

uh, I dunno if I'm never get married

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again, I don't, you know, I dunno what

kind of relationship I'm looking for.

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And so I took about six months of writing.

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Like, what, what, what relationship

look like, what would she look like?

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What would she be like,

where would she be from?

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I even got down, I had this big

thing in my younger days that I,

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I didn't want to date, um, bonds

and I didn't want to date Yankees.

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from the south, well, on

my list I put Yankees.

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Okay, blonde's.

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Okay.

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Guess all wound up marrying

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Russell Newton: Oh, uh, the obvious

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Cary Prejean: a blonde Yankee from

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Russell Newton: of course

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Cary Prejean: Been together 35 years.

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But again, she was in

my list of satisfaction.

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If I had never taken the time to do that,

you know, anybody would've done, and maybe

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it'll work, maybe it wouldn't have worked.

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But she fit much a hundred percent of

the things I wrote down about what I'm

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look, and not that she's gonna make me

happy, but just from the things we do

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together, some of the things she did,

some of her interests, all that kind

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of stuff, she pretty much fit the bill.

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And we've been happily

married for 35 years.

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Russell Newton: is this.

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Would you, uh, correlate the.

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The USP or the dominating position

along with the, on the, on the business

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side of things, and we'll as, as

you've done, and most of these, take

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it back to a personal level after

that and into a mission statement.

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Is that the, is the

mission statement, the,

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Cary Prejean: Yes.

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Yeah.

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In other words, what is special

about you as a human being?

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What is your offer to the world?

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And also be clear, you are not

going to attract everybody.

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Uh uh.

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That's I, I've said in classes I've taught

about using the ontology of languages,

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half the world thinks you're an asshole.

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I don't care who you are because of

your age, 'cause of your sex, because

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the way you come from, because of

the religion, you practice the way

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you look something, half the world's

gonna think, ah, but the other half

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of the world, what is it about you?

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That is, if, if you can be

your authentic self, right?

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And I know that that gets tossed around.

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And what is a authentic self?

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If you can be who you really are,

you're going to attract certain people.

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They're gonna be attracted to who you are.

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They're gonna be attracted to your

discourse, attracted to your conversation.

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They're gonna attracted, they're

gonna be attracted to you being you.

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Um, now this goes back in the seventies,

but I read a book by Leo Lus Scalia.

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I dunno if anybody knows him,

thing was, if you're a banana,

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don't try to be an orange.

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You won't be a good orange.

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So people who like oranges won't

like you and people who like bananas

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because you're trying to be an orange,

aren't gonna like you be a banana.

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You're gonna attract people

who love bananas, right?

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So, uh, again, in terms of your

personal, your personal offer to

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the world is be your authentic self.

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But you need to, you

need to be real clear.

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Who is that?

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You know, a a again, it comes

down to who are you in the world?

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What is your offer?

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Not just what can you get from people,

you're not trying to sell anybody

623

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anything, but what is your, I mean,

know, what, what are your interests?

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What do you do?

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What, why would somebody

wanna spend time with you

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and you're not, again, you're not

gonna answer that in a weekend.

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Russell Newton: Exactly.

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Cary Prejean: some time.

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Russell Newton: A person can't be

themselves until they get rid of those

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false perceptions and the false lens

that they put on the world, as you

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mentioned, that were presented to us

in our early life as children, uh,

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that color everything that we do.

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But you made an interesting point that

that narrative continues to change as I.

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Go through life.

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My personality, a person's

personality, I believe is, is

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set for the most part early,

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Cary Prejean: Your,

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Russell Newton: but there can be changes.

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I.

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Cary Prejean: Yeah, I, I agree.

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:

General temperament is probably at

birth, everything that happens to it

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afterwards, you know, comes from where

you grew up, the people surrounding

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you, where you grew up, you know, your

parents socioeconomic background, what

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you're exposed to, all that stuff.

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It all accumulates and

you begin developing some.

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about the world early on, and

then you spend the rest of your

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life gathering evidence that

those assessments are correct.

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The problem is we forget,

they're just assessments.

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It's just a story we told ourselves.

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We hold them like they're the truth.

651

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Not just the truth, but the truth

in capital letters, you know?

652

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And that those are generally the

places, especially the ones we

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hold very dear to our hearts.

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Those are the places where

people usually suffer.

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Those are the ones that

become dysfunctional or

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disempowering, for people.

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So it's a, it's being able, and

the, the reason it's work is so hard

658

:

sometimes is because it's because

they're so sacrosanct, you know?

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:

Oh my God, no, I can't, I can't

examine, I can't examine this one.

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This one's too precious.

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:

It's too much meat.

662

:

They can all be, they can all be examined.

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:

Um, I took a class with a, a

brilliant guy from Chile one time.

664

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He was a biologist, but his, his,

comment, I mean, it got him into

665

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this whole thing of language, right?

666

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But his comment was, the original

sin was probably reflection.

667

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Like, what if this is not some, you know,

what if there is no God, and I believe

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in God, I prove that He's, he exists not

in a, not in a third party objective way.

669

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No.

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But I, I sincerely believe

he exists or she, or.

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Whatever it, God is a, as a supreme

being creator of, of the universe.

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Yes.

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Um, but you have to be willing

to let go of those things

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and like just examine them.

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Is it possible that this is wrong?

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You know, is this just a story?

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Is this just an assessment I told myself?

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:

Um, there are very few, put

this way, there are very few

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quote facts in the world.

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And what I mean by that is a

fact is something that generally

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has social agreement, right?

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I'm sitting in a chair I can point

to some distinctions that make it

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true that this is a chair, it's got a

seat, it's got arms, it's got a back.

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Um, it's used for the concern of

sitting, go to some uncivilized, some

685

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undiscovered places in the world, the

Amazon jungle, Africa, wherever, that

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they don't have chairs this, they

wouldn't know what the hell to do

687

:

with this, especially if it's wood.

688

:

It'd probably be fuel for a fire.

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There is no truth.

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the truth, like all caps.

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This is a chair for our, for

our agreement, for the concerns

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of sitting yes, is the chair.

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from those assertions, we start

making declarations and declarations

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designed the future, like this

country was declared into existence

695

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by the Declaration of Independence.

696

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Now we had to follow that up and

use military power and some luck to

697

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establish yes, we're separate from

United Kingdom or England at the time.

698

:

you know, we had to make,

we had to validate our, our

699

:

declaration by using force.

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:

There's a special kind of

declaration called assessments.

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:

And assessments is most

of what we live in.

702

:

The good, bad, right, wrong,

like it don't, like it.

703

:

Makes sense, don't make sense.

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:

Agree to disagree with that.

705

:

So, assessments about this chair,

it's a, a comfortable chair.

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:

Depends on your standards for comfort.

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:

It is a good looking chair.

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:

Depends on your standards for

what's good looking, you know?

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:

Um, uh, he's old.

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:

Well, you know, if you're comparing

to people, uh, a lifespan of say

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:

dogs, yes, I'm extraordinarily old.

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You compare to a lifestyle of, uh,

what, what some of these sea turtles,

713

:

they live into their hundreds.

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:

Now I'm about middle aged,

you know, you know, am I tall?

715

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I'm six foot two compared

to the standard of pygmies.

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:

No, I'm a fricking giant to the

standard of the, the average NBA player.

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:

I'm too short for the game.

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:

again, whatever your assessment

is, there always has to be some

719

:

standards that you're comparing it to.

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:

And there has to be some, some actions.

721

:

Like you couldn't say

I was tall or not tall.

722

:

If you had know I was six foot

two and you, you didn't know what

723

:

standards you're comparing it to.

724

:

Does that make sense?

725

:

Russell Newton: Yes.

726

:

Cary Prejean: So, and that, again,

the whole thing of interacting with

727

:

other people, you're trying to.

728

:

We're not meant to be alone.

729

:

I mean, there are some people who choose

that, but we're not meant to be alone.

730

:

We're meant to be very societal people.

731

:

We're almost like herd animals in a way.

732

:

We're have an limbic

system, the herding impulse.

733

:

That's why you see in financial

markets, people tend to buy

734

:

at the top and south bottom.

735

:

And it's, it's all this greed

rushing in, oh God know.

736

:

Like they said, when the depression,

when the shoe shine, boys were trading

737

:

stocks, it was time to get out.

738

:

And everybody that gets out at

the bottom because of rampant

739

:

fear, it's a societal thing.

740

:

There's even a a, there's a, an

analysis tool called Elliot Wave that

741

:

can measure, know, where we're at

in different cycles of the market.

742

:

Um, Proctor, I think what he, he

runs, uh, uh, Elliot Wave Principle.

743

:

Um, uh, you can see it in fires.

744

:

You know, most people who die in a fire,

they die jammed up at the exit door.

745

:

I.

746

:

insulation.

747

:

Same thing with financial markets.

748

:

Everybody's trying to get at the

same time, there's no buyers.

749

:

They all die at the egg.

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:

We're, that's that hurting impulse.

751

:

Um, so the whole thing about

assessments is you need to, they,

752

:

they're either grounded or ungrounded.

753

:

You can only use assertions

to ground an assessment.

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:

You can't use other assessments

ground an assessment.

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:

In other words,

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:

See you girl.

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:

She's good looking.

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:

you know what, what makes you say that?

759

:

Well, I mean, look at it.

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:

She's so pretty.

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:

That's not a, that's not an assertion.

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:

Well, she's five foot six.

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:

hair is blonde.

764

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It's at the shoulder length.

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:

I like, she's got blue eyes.

766

:

Um, she's got a slender figure, you know,

or figure she's, she weighs 125 pounds.

767

:

She's good.

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:

She works out a lot.

769

:

She's got a muscular build.

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:

Um, all, all those kinds of facts

can be used to ground the assessment.

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:

She's good looking.

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:

She, and again, good looking to

me, may not be good looking to you,

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:

Russell Newton: Right.

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:

Cary Prejean: you know, but

beauty's not eye beholder.

775

:

So those are things that generally

drive the way we see the world.

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:

Those, those three speech acts.

777

:

And again, assessment are a special

form of, uh, uh, declaration.

778

:

Um, I.

779

:

But the three speech acts that

help us design the future are

780

:

request offers and promises.

781

:

The problem is most people make very,

very sloppy requests and offers and

782

:

don't really make good promises either.

783

:

But to to, for that, for those to

be effective, you need a committed

784

:

speaker, a committed listener.

785

:

You need conditions of

satisfaction and a deadline.

786

:

And generally what helps in terms of

once you accept, there's a promise made.

787

:

So to make, what really makes the promise

easier to facilitate is when you're

788

:

done, declare, I, I'm finished, I'm done.

789

:

Right?

790

:

And business, it drives me crazy.

791

:

People say, okay, go do this.

792

:

People go do it, and never.

793

:

And then you gotta follow two days.

794

:

You get, yeah, yeah.

795

:

Finish it yesterday.

796

:

me when you're done.

797

:

I.

798

:

I want the ability to make sure that

what you did is what we asked, but

799

:

that, that's how you design your

future is request offers and promises.

800

:

So again, you don't like the current,

you don't like where you are currently.

801

:

You wanna design a different future, learn

to make different offers and promises.

802

:

And if you want to, I guess, check

the way you see the world, check the

803

:

assessments primarily that you live by.

804

:

Right?

805

:

And declarations are the ones

at the really, at the core.

806

:

Like again, you're ugly,

you're stupid, um, whatever.

807

:

Here's what's interesting.

808

:

And the work that I did, we, we

had several professors come through

809

:

and almost to a person, they all

live with the base assessment.

810

:

I'm stupid.

811

:

That's why they got all the

degrees to prove that they weren't.

812

:

Russell Newton: Prove that wrong.

813

:

Cary Prejean: yeah, I'm really not.

814

:

Or they're gaining, gathering evidence.

815

:

Like, see, I'm not that stupid.

816

:

I got this, I got my degree, I got my

master's, I got my PhD, I got published.

817

:

Uh, I got the grant for this research.

818

:

Um, lawyers were hard to come

by again, and this is my joke.

819

:

Lawyers are trained in law school

to be right and to argue about it.

820

:

You know, they say he's making

arguments that ain't taking cases.

821

:

He's making arguments before court.

822

:

lawyers are really a tough

nut to crack because of that.

823

:

They have a very hard time

listening to the other side.

824

:

'cause they're always gaming.

825

:

How can I respond, how can I, whatever.

826

:

nothing against any lawyers out there.

827

:

Um, anyway, I've, I've

kind of rambled on here.

828

:

Sorry about that.

829

:

Russell Newton: Oh, no.

830

:

Please don't apologize.

831

:

It's, uh, here's what comes to my mind.

832

:

You, you, you have a lot of information.

833

:

I'm trying to get notes on it,

but is this, uh, information

834

:

also itemized in your book?

835

:

Can we take a second to talk about that?

836

:

I.

837

:

Cary Prejean: no, no.

838

:

The,

839

:

Russell Newton: Oh, this is different.

840

:

Cary Prejean: I've written three

books and they're all written

841

:

for business owners right

842

:

Russell Newton: Okay.

843

:

Cary Prejean: I've pointed at some

of this stuff, but there there

844

:

are two, actually, there's three

books, that I would recommend.

845

:

Two Of'em are written by a good

friend of mine, Chalmers Brothers.

846

:

He's, he lives in Naples, Florida.

847

:

Um, the first book he wrote was

Language and The Pursuit of Happiness.

848

:

You can find it on Amazon, you

can find it on his website.

849

:

He wrote a second book

called, uh, language,

850

:

language and the Happiness

of Leadership Excellence.

851

:

That's more for business owners.

852

:

There's another book, and I forget the

gentleman's name, Charles somebody.

853

:

He wrote the Slim Book of Trust, and

he talks about the phenomenon of trust

854

:

and why trust is so essential to.

855

:

Is that it's necessary for any

kind of human interaction, right?

856

:

I mean, if you thought of some

psychotic ex murderer, you wouldn't

857

:

want anything to do with me, right?

858

:

That'd be zero Trust.

859

:

You might kill me at any moment.

860

:

I'm not playing that.

861

:

again, there's some people you know

that you would trust to meet you for

862

:

a movie, meet you for dinner, come

over for dinner, something like that.

863

:

But you wouldn't trust them to

loan 'em a thousand dollars.

864

:

Why?

865

:

' cause the, the blindness that

we as humans, dad, I either

866

:

trust you for everything.

867

:

I don't trust you at all.

868

:

But the fact is we actually

trust people in certain domains

869

:

of action and not in others.

870

:

trust is based on four things generally.

871

:

First is caring.

872

:

Do you care about me?

873

:

You know, are you, do you

care about my concerns?

874

:

Like you care about your concerns?

875

:

If you don't care about my concerns,

I dunno if I should trust you.

876

:

You know?

877

:

'cause you, if you're just in it for

you, I don't wanna have to make some

878

:

ironclad agreement that I have to

follow up and inspect everything, right?

879

:

To make sure that my

concerns are being met.

880

:

two would be sincerity.

881

:

In other words, when I hear words

coming outta your mouth and I observe

882

:

you saying them, do I think it's

matching what's going on in your brain?

883

:

no way to, no way to guarantee or

solidify either one of those assessments.

884

:

Those assessments that you make.

885

:

Now, again, the better you get at

assessing people and listening to people,

886

:

and listening to their listening, which

you can do, then you can get to be pretty

887

:

good about are, do you care about me?

888

:

Are you sincere?

889

:

Right?

890

:

And that's the big thing I get

when I, when I first start working

891

:

with clients, is we kind of do

an identity check of the owner.

892

:

And one of the common things I get from

employees, he doesn't care about me.

893

:

what they're saying is he doesn't

trust me and in revert, and at

894

:

the same time, I don't trust him.

895

:

If you don't care about me, just

what I, I'm gonna show up, do what I

896

:

gotta do to get paid, get my paycheck

when I go home, this place is gone.

897

:

The third thing is competence.

898

:

Can you do what you

say you're going to do?

899

:

Again, that's why McDonald's

says billions and billions serve.

900

:

Say Yes, we're competent.

901

:

And the fourth thing is reliability.

902

:

Again, McDonald's, billions

and billions serve.

903

:

Yes, we have a history of keeping our

promise, of serving mediocre hamburgers.

904

:

So again, thin book of trust.

905

:

It's, it's, I think it's

less than a hundred pages.

906

:

Really excellent book that

talks about all four of those.

907

:

Uh, you can find that on Amazon.

908

:

Uh, but yeah, Chalmers brothers, uh,

brilliant guy, good friend of mine,

909

:

Russell Newton: Palmers

was the first name.

910

:

Cary Prejean: Chalmers, C-H-A-L-M-E-R-S.

911

:

Russell Newton: pointing out the fact

that McDonald's doesn't wanna make

912

:

the best hamburger, um, I've been,

913

:

Cary Prejean: claimed to.

914

:

Russell Newton: no, no.

915

:

And, and no one would think they do.

916

:

Uh, but still they're,

they sell a lot of them.

917

:

I've been involved in some businesses.

918

:

I, I taught school for a while, uh, taught

high school and been involved in some that

919

:

by practice, got their mission

statement or whatever you wanna call

920

:

it, their self definition incorrect.

921

:

And once that was wrong,

everything is downhill from there.

922

:

It's a, there's an incongruity between

what, uh, maybe what I'm saying

923

:

and what I'm thinking, what I want

to happen, what I'm making happen.

924

:

Cary Prejean: Yeah.

925

:

Russell Newton: ties in so strongly to, to

many of the points that you've just made.

926

:

Cary Prejean: That's

the sincerity portion.

927

:

Russell Newton: Right.

928

:

Cary Prejean: expression?

929

:

Your action's so loud.

930

:

I can't hear the words you're saying

931

:

Russell Newton: Very good.

932

:

Yeah.

933

:

Yeah.

934

:

I was also reminded at some point of,

uh oh, now I've forgotten the book.

935

:

Gimme a second.

936

:

From the seventies.

937

:

We'll date ourselves here.

938

:

So we both know this book.

939

:

Um, he was a, a plastic surgeon

940

:

and he, he wrote a book about, one

of the first ones to talk about

941

:

visualizing is the same to your brain

as actually doing Maxwell Maltz.

942

:

Is that right?

943

:

Cary Prejean: that

944

:

Russell Newton: Maxwell,

uh, was it Maxwell Maltz?

945

:

Cary Prejean: uh, yeah, I'm not,

I'm not familiar with that name.

946

:

I'm not saying that's

947

:

Right.

948

:

visualization.

949

:

Like I said, same before.

950

:

Your brain doesn't know the difference,

whether it's practice or it's real.

951

:

Um, of the things we used to do in our

training was to have this thing called

952

:

an assessment circle, um, you're in

a circle, it might be 10, 12 people

953

:

and one at a time people go around

and make an assessment about you.

954

:

And generally you want

it to be a negative one.

955

:

what it does, it teaches the brain to,

I guess, disconnect from the automatic

956

:

reaction to where you asshole, you

know, how'd you, how dare you say.

957

:

And, uh, so what you want do is think

of some things, not that you think are

958

:

negative about the person, the things

they think are negative about themselves.

959

:

So the response that we would practice

is, thank you for that assessment.

960

:

give you the authority to

make that assessment about me.

961

:

Uh, and I open a future conversation with

you to dis, you know, discuss it further.

962

:

when people assess us, what they're really

talking about is, I saw you do X amount

963

:

of actions or these actions, and according

to these standards, I assess you thusly.

964

:

Right?

965

:

And, and for me, negative

assessments, especially a really

966

:

a request for different action.

967

:

'cause we're not,

968

:

if, if you're just standing there, and

again, some people are gonna have all

969

:

kinds of negative assessments just about

who you are because of your sex, your

970

:

height, your race, your everything else.

971

:

But mostly what we get assessed by

is our actions or lack of actions.

972

:

So a negative assessment is generally

request for different actions.

973

:

Now, again, that doesn't

mean they're right.

974

:

if you, if you start to get like

five, 10 people give the same

975

:

negative assessment, that's probably

something you wanna check out there,

976

:

Um, but listen, the world is full.

977

:

Like I said, half the world

thinks you're an asshole.

978

:

There are all kinds of random people that

will, you know, I've been riding my bike.

979

:

I, I I, and I don't ride near as much.

980

:

They used to, but I used to

ride probably 125 miles a week.

981

:

And I had, I've had people throwing coke

cans and beer cans and lit cigarettes

982

:

and all kinds of, I had one guy, up

beside me and he slowly got in front

983

:

of me and stop to, I had to stop.

984

:

And he rolls his way down and gives me

the one finger salute and dries off.

985

:

Like, what do you, I didn't

do anything to the guy.

986

:

I was riding my bike in the

street, which is totally loud

987

:

that there's even a bike lane.

988

:

He would just, okay, bye at him.

989

:

Um, so yeah, listen, there are, there

are random people that will, that's you

990

:

negatively and make sure you know it.

991

:

You know, so a different way to look at

it's, they're inviting you to suffer.

992

:

You don't have to accept, right.

993

:

Your choice, your choice of

being mad or sad or feeling bad

994

:

about yourself is up to you.

995

:

It's just an invitation to suffer.

996

:

I can decline.

997

:

Russell Newton: Uh, that's great.

998

:

Um, more stoicism there is that I

don't, uh, there is no suffering

999

:

except what I subject myself to.

:

00:49:00,108 --> 00:49:04,548

The things just are, and a suffering is

a choice I make and how I react to it.

:

00:49:04,548 --> 00:49:05,358

It's very strong.

:

00:49:05,358 --> 00:49:09,708

I, I really like that negative

assessments, uh, and invitation to suffer.

:

00:49:10,428 --> 00:49:10,908

I like that.

:

00:49:10,929 --> 00:49:11,149

Cary Prejean: And,

:

00:49:11,208 --> 00:49:12,018

Russell Newton: Listening.

:

00:49:12,334 --> 00:49:12,724

Cary Prejean: go ahead.

:

00:49:12,828 --> 00:49:12,978

Russell Newton: Yeah.

:

00:49:12,978 --> 00:49:13,248

Go ahead.

:

00:49:13,924 --> 00:49:17,044

Cary Prejean: No, I was just saying

as human beings we're, most people

:

00:49:17,044 --> 00:49:21,334

are particularly gifted at making some

really mean and nasty characterization

:

00:49:21,334 --> 00:49:22,804

about other people, you know?

:

00:49:23,944 --> 00:49:27,364

and so there's a different way to,

there's a different way to live with

:

00:49:27,364 --> 00:49:31,144

that kind of stuff instead of making

negative, uh, lemme put it this way.

:

00:49:31,864 --> 00:49:35,254

of the things that I really learned

from this whole on ontology of language

:

00:49:35,254 --> 00:49:39,064

and being able to coach people and

deal with things is to learn to

:

00:49:39,874 --> 00:49:43,924

interact with the godliness in people

rather than deal with their garbage.

:

00:49:43,954 --> 00:49:44,944

'cause that's what most people do.

:

00:49:44,944 --> 00:49:45,754

They deal with their garbage.

:

00:49:45,754 --> 00:49:48,274

What's the negative, what's, what's

the worst things I can, what,

:

00:49:48,304 --> 00:49:50,269

what's some of the negative things

I can pick out about that person?

:

00:49:50,269 --> 00:49:51,064

I'm gonna deal with that.

:

00:49:51,844 --> 00:49:54,034

mess with that, but as opposed to

:

00:49:56,344 --> 00:49:57,694

where's the godliness in them?

:

00:49:59,179 --> 00:50:00,904

And, and, and that's summon everyone.

:

00:50:01,144 --> 00:50:04,534

I mean, that's probably some really

totally evil people in the world.

:

00:50:04,534 --> 00:50:09,866

I don't know any, but, and I, listen,

I've had some clients with sociopaths.

:

00:50:10,414 --> 00:50:12,814

There wasn't a whole lot of

godliness there because there was

:

00:50:12,866 --> 00:50:16,384

so much garbage you had to get

through to get to that person.

:

00:50:16,744 --> 00:50:19,804

But when you could get to them,

at least for a little while,

:

00:50:21,154 --> 00:50:22,054

they were a different person.

:

00:50:23,764 --> 00:50:25,384

It was just so much work.

:

00:50:25,594 --> 00:50:29,494

Again, I, I keep his client very long,

but it was so much work to get to that.

:

00:50:30,274 --> 00:50:33,604

Um, to where you could actually

deal with them with their godliness.

:

00:50:33,994 --> 00:50:38,644

Um, it, the, the work, it is just

too much work, much hassle, too much.

:

00:50:38,674 --> 00:50:41,494

It's, it's not only that,

it's exhausting, right.

:

00:50:43,294 --> 00:50:48,184

But yeah, that's, that's

something I try to focus on is

:

00:50:50,884 --> 00:50:52,954

what is, what is this

person special offer?

:

00:50:52,954 --> 00:50:57,094

Maybe they don't even know what is

their gift to the world, rather than,

:

00:50:57,184 --> 00:50:58,414

eh, I don't like to wear their hair.

:

00:50:58,414 --> 00:50:59,794

They, they look overweight.

:

00:50:59,854 --> 00:51:03,874

Uh, they're the wrong age, they're

the wrong, they got a funny accent,

:

00:51:03,874 --> 00:51:04,834

you know, all this kind of stuff.

:

00:51:04,864 --> 00:51:07,474

And I know some people, they

just revel in that stuff.

:

00:51:07,474 --> 00:51:08,884

They roll around in it.

:

00:51:13,463 --> 00:51:13,853

Russell Newton: That's great.

:

00:51:13,853 --> 00:51:15,623

What is this person's special offer?

:

00:51:15,833 --> 00:51:17,468

I was taught, uh,

:

00:51:20,198 --> 00:51:25,523

through, well, really through high

school, every person knows something.

:

00:51:25,553 --> 00:51:26,273

I don't know.

:

00:51:26,723 --> 00:51:31,823

Therefore, every person, uh, can be

my teacher and I need to seek out

:

00:51:31,853 --> 00:51:36,983

that thing within them that they know

and, and learn something from them.

:

00:51:37,493 --> 00:51:40,373

Um, ties in what is this

person's special offer?

:

00:51:40,373 --> 00:51:42,233

I like that the, the phrasing of that,

:

00:51:42,964 --> 00:51:44,734

Cary Prejean: Yeah, no, absolutely.

:

00:51:45,094 --> 00:51:46,864

There's something to learn from everybody.

:

00:51:47,314 --> 00:51:49,954

Um, and we as Americans always

want like the drive through answer.

:

00:51:49,954 --> 00:51:50,674

Just tell me the answer.

:

00:51:50,989 --> 00:51:51,514

I I don't have

:

00:51:51,518 --> 00:51:51,878

Russell Newton: Right.

:

00:51:52,178 --> 00:51:54,184

Cary Prejean: do all this work and

like study and actually learn it.

:

00:51:54,184 --> 00:51:55,564

Learn it, tell me the answer.

:

00:51:55,894 --> 00:51:59,044

And it's in that kind of a mood that's

sort of an arrogant, already know

:

00:51:59,044 --> 00:52:00,484

everything, just gimme the answer.

:

00:52:00,874 --> 00:52:04,474

That we cheat ourselves out of all

kinds of learning and life experiences

:

00:52:04,474 --> 00:52:05,914

and really discovering other people.

:

00:52:09,528 --> 00:52:14,208

Russell Newton: You mentioned the, the

phrase a few times about an ontological

:

00:52:14,328 --> 00:52:19,859

coach that if I saw it correctly,

that's a, um, is it a certification

:

00:52:20,159 --> 00:52:20,579

Cary Prejean: yes,

:

00:52:20,598 --> 00:52:21,558

Russell Newton: through an organization?

:

00:52:21,558 --> 00:52:22,608

Is that, did I read it right?

:

00:52:22,709 --> 00:52:25,709

Cary Prejean: mine was with

Newfield Group back in:

:

00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:31,709

Uh, again, the, the, the concept of the

discipline of the ontology language was

:

00:52:31,709 --> 00:52:36,599

developed by a Chilean, uh, Fernando

Flores, a brilliant, brilliant guy.

:

00:52:36,599 --> 00:52:39,029

I think he was reading like

a book a day, just about.

:

00:52:39,329 --> 00:52:44,279

He was in the, I think, in Chile when

the CIA threw it over, and he was

:

00:52:44,279 --> 00:52:49,529

in prison for like three years and

he was tortured somewhat and stuff.

:

00:52:49,529 --> 00:52:53,909

He finally let go, but he

was prison that he began the.

:

00:52:55,004 --> 00:52:58,964

about, you know, what is this, what is

reality and the whole thing of language.

:

00:52:58,964 --> 00:53:00,524

And that's what makes us who we are.

:

00:53:00,524 --> 00:53:03,374

And, and he developed this

thing, natology of language.

:

00:53:03,374 --> 00:53:04,514

A brilliant guy I was in.

:

00:53:04,574 --> 00:53:08,234

I was in, uh, he was one

of the facilitators for one

:

00:53:08,234 --> 00:53:09,314

of the courses I was in.

:

00:53:09,464 --> 00:53:12,524

And, uh, I mean, he, he

was amazing to watch.

:

00:53:12,524 --> 00:53:13,514

Now he was kind of brutal.

:

00:53:15,014 --> 00:53:18,764

He was kind of, he did not, he did

not put up with a lot of bullshit.

:

00:53:20,324 --> 00:53:24,434

but these other people, Newfield

group in particular were Julio Alah

:

00:53:24,824 --> 00:53:28,694

at Raphael et um, I don't know.

:

00:53:28,694 --> 00:53:31,694

I, I think the Raphael might have

gone on and done some of the un

:

00:53:32,114 --> 00:53:36,404

Julio still it's new field, not

the new field group anymore.

:

00:53:36,404 --> 00:53:39,194

It's new field resources.

:

00:53:39,314 --> 00:53:43,394

And his daughter is now, I

think she's one of the people.

:

00:53:44,204 --> 00:53:45,614

In the higher ups in the company.

:

00:53:46,874 --> 00:53:48,614

but again, another brewing guy.

:

00:53:48,614 --> 00:53:51,194

Very compassionate, very caring.

:

00:53:51,884 --> 00:53:56,234

His coaching, unlike Fernando's,

was always about what?

:

00:53:56,264 --> 00:53:56,864

Healing.

:

00:53:57,014 --> 00:54:01,184

Putting people back together, giving

them a different interpretation that they

:

00:54:01,184 --> 00:54:04,079

could be empowered by rather than bad.

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00:54:04,274 --> 00:54:05,654

'cause Fernando was good at that.

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00:54:05,659 --> 00:54:09,044

He would, he would slice you in the

ice, you leaving a million pieces,

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00:54:09,044 --> 00:54:12,884

and then he'd put you back together,

which Julio doesn't do the, he

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00:54:12,884 --> 00:54:14,594

doesn't do the disassembly first.

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00:54:15,524 --> 00:54:16,184

brilliant guy.

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00:54:16,184 --> 00:54:18,104

He, you know, he actually,

I have a picture of him.

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00:54:18,104 --> 00:54:19,904

He was, he's been to my house a few times.

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00:54:20,084 --> 00:54:20,354

Actually.

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00:54:20,354 --> 00:54:26,234

I have a picture of him holding now my

30, she'll be 34 next month as an infant.

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00:54:27,554 --> 00:54:29,114

Um, wonderful coaches.

:

00:54:29,474 --> 00:54:31,514

Raphael's gift was more writing.

:

00:54:32,444 --> 00:54:37,574

Um, but again, Umberto, uh, MAANA, he

was, uh, also chilan the biologist.

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00:54:38,399 --> 00:54:43,439

Um, I mean these, these guys, these, I

don't know how it got to be out outside

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00:54:43,439 --> 00:54:50,849

of Flores was with other Chileans and

they got into it, but it is, uh, Thomas

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00:54:50,849 --> 00:54:54,239

brothers, he's ontological coach, right?

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00:54:54,329 --> 00:54:56,849

He's the one who wrote the book

about the five speech acts.

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00:54:57,329 --> 00:55:01,349

Being an observer of the observer

that you are, what it takes to

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00:55:01,349 --> 00:55:02,669

really get ahold of your narrative.

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00:55:03,539 --> 00:55:05,729

able to see you as other people see you.

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00:55:06,629 --> 00:55:10,679

A different way to say it the way

I've described, it's you have a,

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00:55:10,709 --> 00:55:13,019

you have a narrative, you have

a discourse, but it's back here.

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00:55:13,379 --> 00:55:14,399

You can see my hands.

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00:55:14,399 --> 00:55:16,679

I can't, I mean, I can see

on the screen, but I can't.

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00:55:16,889 --> 00:55:18,029

And so the narrative's always here.

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00:55:18,029 --> 00:55:20,729

It's pretty easy for other

people to see, but I can't.

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00:55:21,419 --> 00:55:23,939

what the ontology of language

does is kind of shows you Oh yeah.

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00:55:23,939 --> 00:55:25,739

That that's what you look

like to other people.

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00:55:26,219 --> 00:55:28,169

Very humbling experience most of the time.

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00:55:29,189 --> 00:55:29,249

I.

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00:55:29,249 --> 00:55:32,309

Yeah, but it allows

you to start, oh, okay.

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00:55:32,309 --> 00:55:36,149

That I can see how that assessment,

what I used to believe is the truth.

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00:55:36,629 --> 00:55:37,859

Very disempowering for me.

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00:55:37,859 --> 00:55:39,299

It's causing me a lot of suffering.

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00:55:39,569 --> 00:55:40,499

I need to change it.

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00:55:40,499 --> 00:55:43,619

But again, the narrative

has been there a while.

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00:55:44,549 --> 00:55:46,589

It's got a ton of

evidence that it's right.

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00:55:47,039 --> 00:55:48,299

It's not gonna go away.

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00:55:49,079 --> 00:55:50,789

It's not gonna go away

politely and quietly.

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00:55:50,999 --> 00:55:55,319

In fact, it's always gonna kind of

be there in the back a little bit.

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00:55:55,319 --> 00:55:57,179

You can de, you can turn

the volume way down.

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00:55:57,509 --> 00:56:00,749

Um, fairly impossible to turn

it all the way off forever.

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00:56:04,518 --> 00:56:07,323

Russell Newton: It's interesting of

the number of viewpoints that we have.

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00:56:07,323 --> 00:56:10,533

Of course, every conversation

has a different background.

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00:56:10,533 --> 00:56:14,728

You know, we, we bring different

expertise into conversations, but.

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00:56:15,483 --> 00:56:18,873

As you boil these down and is done

in, in a lot of the books that I've

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00:56:19,083 --> 00:56:23,463

narrated, uh, for Peter Hollands

and others, there's the core things

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00:56:23,521 --> 00:56:28,113

that you might get down to them in

different ways, but they're still there.

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00:56:28,863 --> 00:56:34,923

A true understanding of what is not what

you think it is or what your perception of

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00:56:34,923 --> 00:56:37,893

it is, a true relationship with yourself.

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00:56:37,893 --> 00:56:42,843

What are my values, uh,

and how am I true to those?

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00:56:42,843 --> 00:56:45,633

And when you're not,

things start to go wrong.

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00:56:46,124 --> 00:56:46,414

Cary Prejean: Yeah.

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00:56:46,863 --> 00:56:50,493

Russell Newton: the concept of

not it, it's not an easy task.

:

00:56:50,673 --> 00:56:54,003

Getting in that comfort zone or

getting out of your comfort zone

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00:56:54,003 --> 00:56:57,693

to accomplish some of that change

can be anywhere from mildly to

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00:56:57,693 --> 00:56:59,883

extremely stressful and uncomfortable.

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00:57:00,294 --> 00:57:00,514

Cary Prejean: Yep.

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00:57:01,683 --> 00:57:05,343

Russell Newton: so different

approaches and different phrasings,

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00:57:05,763 --> 00:57:08,793

uh, but similar principles.

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00:57:08,793 --> 00:57:12,063

It always strikes me, uh, in, in

talking with people, the different

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00:57:12,063 --> 00:57:13,623

approaches, and as you said.

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00:57:15,108 --> 00:57:19,188

Your per a person's per I'd say you

in the general sense it, you're only

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00:57:19,188 --> 00:57:20,531

gonna click with certain people.

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00:57:21,348 --> 00:57:26,358

You and I are of an age, uh, and I could

see a, a younger listener of twenties,

:

00:57:26,358 --> 00:57:31,338

somebody in their twenties seeing two

retirement age, uh, people yapping on.

:

00:57:31,338 --> 00:57:33,888

It's like, uh, you know, Xers, yeah.

:

00:57:34,098 --> 00:57:35,658

Uh, sit down, boomer.

:

00:57:35,658 --> 00:57:36,648

We don't need any of that.

:

00:57:36,679 --> 00:57:40,848

But, uh, there is the, hopefully

the, some knowledge and even

:

00:57:40,848 --> 00:57:44,088

beyond that, some wisdom that comes

with, uh, seeing these things.

:

00:57:44,958 --> 00:57:49,218

We're closing in on our time.

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00:57:49,368 --> 00:57:52,578

Uh, we're not right up on it,

but I, I don't want to short the

:

00:57:52,578 --> 00:57:54,168

last few questions that I have.

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00:57:54,708 --> 00:57:58,608

If you were going to list a couple

of seven habits of what, of yourself

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00:57:58,608 --> 00:58:00,198

or other highly successful people?

:

00:58:00,663 --> 00:58:03,633

What might those be that a

younger individual should look to

:

00:58:03,633 --> 00:58:07,473

incorporate into their, into their

lives on a daily, regular basis?

:

00:58:07,923 --> 00:58:11,673

And then what final piece of advice

would you give to our listeners

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00:58:11,673 --> 00:58:14,943

to, to maybe sum up or maybe expand

the conversations that we've had?

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00:58:15,274 --> 00:58:15,564

Cary Prejean: Yeah.

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00:58:16,529 --> 00:58:17,639

I don't know if I have seven.

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00:58:17,729 --> 00:58:18,179

Um,

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00:58:19,023 --> 00:58:19,863

Russell Newton: No, no, that's fine.

:

00:58:20,189 --> 00:58:20,579

Cary Prejean: yeah.

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00:58:20,913 --> 00:58:22,023

Russell Newton: Two or

three, whatever you have.

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00:58:22,169 --> 00:58:24,539

Cary Prejean: yeah, one of

the things I always, I really.

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00:58:24,974 --> 00:58:27,434

How you get people focused on is

what it's gonna to satisfy you.

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00:58:28,184 --> 00:58:29,024

is the enough action?

:

00:58:29,084 --> 00:58:30,164

What domain of action?

:

00:58:30,644 --> 00:58:36,914

And you know, you know, 37 years ago, one

of my ma, my major mentor outside of my

:

00:58:36,914 --> 00:58:38,684

father said, do you wanna things life?

:

00:58:38,774 --> 00:58:39,374

I said, yeah.

:

00:58:40,034 --> 00:58:44,204

He goes, being ultimately satisfied,

getting exactly what you want.

:

00:58:44,324 --> 00:58:45,224

I said, man, that's great.

:

00:58:45,224 --> 00:58:46,034

He goes, you know how to get it.

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00:58:46,124 --> 00:58:47,444

You ask what you want.

:

00:58:48,164 --> 00:58:51,044

yeah, but before that he

says, know what you want.

:

00:58:51,914 --> 00:58:55,754

If you don't know what you want

and anything will do, you'll

:

00:58:55,754 --> 00:58:56,924

probably never be satisfied.

:

00:58:56,924 --> 00:58:59,834

In fact, if you don't declare again,

if you don't declare satisfaction,

:

00:58:59,834 --> 00:59:00,854

you will never be satisfied.

:

00:59:01,184 --> 00:59:02,384

So take some time.

:

00:59:02,384 --> 00:59:03,434

It's not gonna be easy.

:

00:59:03,434 --> 00:59:04,454

It's not gonna be quick.

:

00:59:04,634 --> 00:59:06,914

Always be asking yourself,

what would satisfy me?

:

00:59:06,914 --> 00:59:10,934

What would be enough action here

I would, you know, I would get it.

:

00:59:11,714 --> 00:59:13,784

Um, again, so every.

:

00:59:14,564 --> 00:59:18,134

Part of your life requires that kind of

reflection, whether it's your hobbies,

:

00:59:18,134 --> 00:59:23,594

your body, your relationship, your money,

your job, your career, all of that.

:

00:59:23,684 --> 00:59:25,124

Um, so that's one place.

:

00:59:25,124 --> 00:59:26,774

It's always focusing on satisfaction.

:

00:59:27,914 --> 00:59:30,524

It leads to a much more rewarding life.

:

00:59:31,274 --> 00:59:34,064

other thing would be to

practice what I call acceptance.

:

00:59:34,154 --> 00:59:38,144

And I'm talking about acceptance

of what's, so, like what

:

00:59:38,144 --> 00:59:39,344

are the facts of your life?

:

00:59:40,094 --> 00:59:41,763

I kind of went through

a short list of mine.

:

00:59:42,224 --> 00:59:43,124

What are the facts of your life?

:

00:59:43,124 --> 00:59:46,154

You know, have you, whatever they

are, especially the ones you're,

:

00:59:46,244 --> 00:59:47,264

you're not comfortable with.

:

00:59:47,264 --> 00:59:49,424

The ones you don't like, you know?

:

00:59:49,514 --> 00:59:52,184

Uh, I know one guy, he was

like, I'm, I'm too short.

:

00:59:53,564 --> 00:59:54,434

Too short for what?

:

00:59:55,044 --> 00:59:56,819

Too short for life, you know?

:

00:59:56,819 --> 00:59:59,189

Well I want to want to,

I wanna play basketball.

:

00:59:59,189 --> 01:00:00,599

It's always been too short, you know?

:

01:00:00,599 --> 01:00:03,539

And you part, there's this one

pro guy named, what's it called?

:

01:00:03,539 --> 01:00:04,049

Spud.

:

01:00:04,889 --> 01:00:05,243

could actually

:

01:00:05,543 --> 01:00:05,813

Russell Newton: Web.

:

01:00:06,329 --> 01:00:06,689

Cary Prejean: Yeah.

:

01:00:07,109 --> 01:00:08,339

I think the guy could actually dunk.

:

01:00:08,399 --> 01:00:08,933

I said, so,

:

01:00:09,233 --> 01:00:09,323

Russell Newton: Mm-hmm.

:

01:00:09,449 --> 01:00:12,539

Cary Prejean: you know, maybe you let

that limited conversation, I'm too

:

01:00:12,539 --> 01:00:16,619

short stop you from playing basketball

more and actually learn some skills.

:

01:00:16,619 --> 01:00:20,759

They have people who are, you know,

short for the NBA who've made it.

:

01:00:21,239 --> 01:00:25,379

So at the same time, don't beat

yourself up that, oh, I live by now.

:

01:00:25,472 --> 01:00:29,519

Just be okay with I'm short, I

am five five, or whatever it was.

:

01:00:30,359 --> 01:00:32,159

And I'm equipped for living.

:

01:00:32,639 --> 01:00:32,999

Right.

:

01:00:33,719 --> 01:00:37,499

practicing what's so about yourself

as well as what's possible.

:

01:00:38,249 --> 01:00:41,069

practicing that acceptance and,

and what's possible is what's gonna

:

01:00:41,069 --> 01:00:44,320

generate the ambition, the excitement,

the wanting to get up in the morning,

:

01:00:44,759 --> 01:00:45,989

the wanting to take more action.

:

01:00:46,799 --> 01:00:46,829

I.

:

01:00:46,949 --> 01:00:51,269

But the, if you want the peace and the

joy and the gratitude, practicing that,

:

01:00:51,269 --> 01:00:53,129

it's acceptance of what's so about you.

:

01:00:53,399 --> 01:00:55,529

Like what, how's that thing go?

:

01:00:56,699 --> 01:01:02,309

gratitude is not one of the things

you have, it's having the, no, it's

:

01:01:02,309 --> 01:01:04,829

not wanting to have different things.

:

01:01:04,829 --> 01:01:08,339

I forget how it goes, but instead of

just warning what you don't have, be

:

01:01:08,339 --> 01:01:12,899

grateful what you do have, basically, you

know, 'cause it can all get taken away.

:

01:01:13,679 --> 01:01:14,129

All of it.

:

01:01:14,939 --> 01:01:18,779

Um, I mean, even things like,

are you familiar with movie?

:

01:01:18,839 --> 01:01:22,018

Uh, any given Sunday, Al

Pacino plays the head coach.

:

01:01:22,318 --> 01:01:22,678

Russell Newton: not seen it.

:

01:01:22,738 --> 01:01:22,958

No.

:

01:01:23,009 --> 01:01:23,258

Cary Prejean: Okay.

:

01:01:23,309 --> 01:01:26,819

There's a halftime speech he gives and

he's, it's like a championship game.

:

01:01:27,629 --> 01:01:30,968

again, I never would've envisioned

Al Pacino as a head football coach.

:

01:01:31,268 --> 01:01:31,618

Russell Newton: Right.

:

01:01:31,919 --> 01:01:38,609

Cary Prejean: he gives a fantastic speech

and he starts it with, as you get older.

:

01:01:39,809 --> 01:01:41,129

Things get taken away from you.

:

01:01:41,879 --> 01:01:43,139

like, what the hell is he talking about?

:

01:01:43,559 --> 01:01:45,659

And as I got older, know, what

the hell is he talking about?

:

01:01:45,659 --> 01:01:47,849

You start to lose friends,

you start to lose family.

:

01:01:48,269 --> 01:01:50,574

You start to lose your hearing,

start to lose your sight.

:

01:01:50,954 --> 01:01:53,972

You don't start using a,

losing a youthful body.

:

01:01:54,149 --> 01:01:55,349

You start to lose your memory.

:

01:01:55,499 --> 01:01:57,089

All that just gets taken away from you.

:

01:01:57,089 --> 01:01:57,929

You don't have a choice.

:

01:01:58,379 --> 01:02:02,759

It just gets taken from, you do

start things counteract, but aging

:

01:02:02,759 --> 01:02:05,729

is, sucks as the saying goes.

:

01:02:06,899 --> 01:02:09,959

being able to accept that, yeah,

I'm 70 and my body doesn't do what

:

01:02:09,959 --> 01:02:11,759

it, what it used to be able to do.

:

01:02:12,989 --> 01:02:15,479

and it, you know, I can see

this gradual degradation.

:

01:02:15,509 --> 01:02:16,859

It's just, and I'm okay with that.

:

01:02:18,089 --> 01:02:23,249

Um, so yeah, practicing acceptance,

practicing that will allow you to practice

:

01:02:23,249 --> 01:02:25,169

gratitude, peace, joy, and ambition.

:

01:02:25,619 --> 01:02:26,429

The other thing is,

:

01:02:28,889 --> 01:02:35,369

um, and I, and I say this all the time,

what we get paid for, what we get rewarded

:

01:02:35,369 --> 01:02:37,979

for in life is the results we produce.

:

01:02:38,714 --> 01:02:41,324

What most people live by

is the reasons why not.

:

01:02:42,434 --> 01:02:44,684

So which one are you gonna,

which one are you gonna work on?

:

01:02:44,924 --> 01:02:46,754

Producing results that

you say you're gonna do?

:

01:02:46,754 --> 01:02:48,584

You're gonna have all the

reasons why you couldn't do it.

:

01:02:49,214 --> 01:02:53,413

'cause nobody wants to pay for reasons

why not, or set a different way.

:

01:02:53,413 --> 01:02:55,064

Are you committed to your commitments?

:

01:02:55,274 --> 01:02:56,624

Are you committed to your reasons?

:

01:02:56,624 --> 01:03:02,294

And by that I mean when I say commitment,

I, my definition of commitment is I accept

:

01:03:02,294 --> 01:03:05,714

no excuse that this does not happen.

:

01:03:08,444 --> 01:03:08,834

When,

:

01:03:12,104 --> 01:03:15,014

when you approach things

with that intentionality,

:

01:03:19,034 --> 01:03:19,994

what's gonna get you away?

:

01:03:21,794 --> 01:03:22,904

You know nothing.

:

01:03:24,179 --> 01:03:27,538

So you want the result you say you

wanted versus, ah, I had a story.

:

01:03:27,538 --> 01:03:28,469

The moon wasn't right.

:

01:03:28,469 --> 01:03:29,788

My canary had a hangnail.

:

01:03:29,969 --> 01:03:31,019

I wasn't feeling it.

:

01:03:31,019 --> 01:03:33,449

You know, I was born,

I wasn't tall enough.

:

01:03:33,509 --> 01:03:33,959

Whatever.

:

01:03:33,959 --> 01:03:35,129

You have all these reasons why not?

:

01:03:35,129 --> 01:03:35,879

Nobody cared.

:

01:03:35,909 --> 01:03:36,959

Nobody give a shit.

:

01:03:37,769 --> 01:03:38,639

cares about your reasons.

:

01:03:38,639 --> 01:03:39,119

Why not?

:

01:03:39,359 --> 01:03:40,229

They're a diamond dozen.

:

01:03:40,679 --> 01:03:43,559

'cause my mama locked me the up

compartment when I was two years old.

:

01:03:43,709 --> 01:03:44,459

That's my reason.

:

01:03:46,139 --> 01:03:51,089

Makes about as much sense or has enough as

about enough interest as everything else.

:

01:03:51,089 --> 01:03:51,749

Reasons why not.

:

01:03:52,559 --> 01:03:56,669

So if you really want to, what's

the word I'm looking for here?

:

01:03:56,909 --> 01:04:02,038

If you really want to be a contribution,

be committed to some results

:

01:04:02,038 --> 01:04:04,679

that serve other people, right?

:

01:04:05,099 --> 01:04:09,989

Be committed to be committed to the gift

that you are, that everybody's a gift.

:

01:04:11,313 --> 01:04:11,943

Russell Newton: That's great.

:

01:04:18,033 --> 01:04:18,573

That's great.

:

01:04:18,603 --> 01:04:19,593

Thank you very much.

:

01:04:19,743 --> 01:04:22,818

Do you want to, uh, do you want to give

a plug about your book before we go?

:

01:04:22,908 --> 01:04:24,048

Or your books I should say?

:

01:04:25,134 --> 01:04:27,534

Cary Prejean: Um, I

have two books in print.

:

01:04:27,534 --> 01:04:30,264

The third one is at the

printer, one is called Optimize.

:

01:04:30,264 --> 01:04:31,884

Again, I wrote these for business owners.

:

01:04:32,124 --> 01:04:34,224

So if you're not a business

owner, you have no intention

:

01:04:34,224 --> 01:04:35,304

of being a business owner.

:

01:04:35,739 --> 01:04:38,049

You are welcome to get

that both at Amazon.

:

01:04:38,499 --> 01:04:40,869

Uh, this one Send Secrets every

business owner should know.

:

01:04:42,459 --> 01:04:45,429

Um, but again, like I said, they're,

they're gear towards business owners.

:

01:04:45,699 --> 01:04:48,999

If you, if you're okay with a PDF

copy, you can go to my website,

:

01:04:49,179 --> 01:04:52,719

strategic Business Owners, uh,

strategic business advisors.org.

:

01:04:53,109 --> 01:04:56,649

You can download pdf DF copies

of both books absolutely free.

:

01:04:58,389 --> 01:05:03,369

Um, but like I say, the, this

one especially talks more about

:

01:05:04,689 --> 01:05:05,919

what is it to be an entrepreneur.

:

01:05:06,249 --> 01:05:09,249

What I, what I was trying to do is

give entrepreneurs a, a, a sort of a

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picture, a linguistic picture of how

they, how they look in the world, how

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they come across, how parts of them

very empower part of their perspective.

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It's very empowering.

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There's other parts that are very

disempowering, So if you, I guess

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if you're not an entrepreneurial,

if you're more of the 80%, they

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just wanna set a job in a paycheck.

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I mean, you maybe say, oh yeah,

I had a boss just like that.

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Total asshole.

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And the other one really,

this is more about practical.

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Practical, what can you do to make

your business more profitable?

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Uh, but really, if you're looking for

something in terms of the ontology of

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language, I highly recommend Chalmers, at

least this first book, happiness, I mean,

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a language in the pursuit of happiness.

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It breaks it down, easy to read.

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The concept is easy to get.

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And again, I was amazed that when I got

into this, this learning that no one

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had written a book and then he wrote it.

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I think the Forward is, the Forward for

that book was actually written by Julio

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Alala, uh, probably one of the better

coaches I've ever seen in my life.

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Um, it was, they, that guy

was, he was amazing to watch.

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Um, so yeah, tho those are my, I

have a third one coming out, and

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it's really based on the, the, uh, 12

strategies I use to help businesses

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double their profits in a year.

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again, if you're not a business

owner, don't worry about it.

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Uh, you, you wouldn't

get anything out of it.

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Probably wouldn't enjoy it.

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Russell Newton: Alright, great.

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Uh, alright listeners,

thanks for joining us today.

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We appreciate it.

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Thanks to our guest, Cary Prejean.

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Did I still get it right

after an hour and a half.

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Cary Prejean: Close enough, close enough.

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Russell Newton: Close enough.

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Alright.

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Uh, thanks for being with us.

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Uh, listeners, be sure to check

out those resources online

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and we'll see you next week.

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