Biases and Propaganda!

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show

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and welcome back to another episode of

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non this business bites I'm Ben and this

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is CA and this week I want to talk about

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lies half lies biases and

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propaganda where is the Line in the

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Sand we sit there and we look at this

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and we say I've got my truth I've got my

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truth you know and the question is is my

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truth the truth I heard the greatest

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line the other day it was from movie it

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says you know do you believe that there

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is one truth it says does does God have

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that truth he say yes God sorry do you

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believe that the Bible is is absolute he

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says yes the Bible is absolute I just

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don't think that any of us are smart

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enough to understand what God was

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meaning when he wrote it ah

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interesting and it's understanding that

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I've was raised one way you were raised

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another way you have your own own ideas

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thoughts challenges fears wants desires

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I have mine you know I grew up in one

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Community you grew up in another

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Community you grew up thinking one thing

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was true I grew up thinking a different

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thing was true doesn't mean that I'm

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right and you're wrong and therefore I

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should think less of you because of

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it it's your interpretation and my

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interpretation based on our biases based

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on what we've what brought us to that

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point of our

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lives and we need to be able to discuss

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it on the premise of ideas we need to be

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able to sit there and say okay this is

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what I believe based on what I've

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learned to this point in time this is

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what you've learned over this point in

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time it's not me against you it's not my

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God's bigger than your

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God it's the idea that you think a

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certain way based on the things that

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you've learned I think a different way

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because based on the things that I've

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learned and those are our

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interpretations and there is no absolute

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there is no black and white there's

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Shades of Gray and I think we all need

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to sit there and look at things in terms

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of we all are biased individuals and

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this is not a bad thing this is not a

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bad thing because not everybody should

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grow up the same way not everybody

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should learn things the same way not

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everybody should think the same way

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because if we we do we have group think

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and we never

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evolve different ideas different thought

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patterns different ways of looking at

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things enable us to grow as human beings

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as societies and as a

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planet see you let's na on this ah okay

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so you it's so funny the thing about

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when you grow up with a belief system in

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your own internal nuclear family and

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then you extend that out into other

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communities right so for those that are

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religious then you got your religious

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communities for those that are maybe

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intellectual communities whatever right

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or what other whatever have

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you I think the whole idea of you know

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this whole belief system thing is if you

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can be open enough to respect that there

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are other perspectives you'll be fine

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life is going to be fine for you I think

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it's when you run into the the belief

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that no my way is the

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highway to truth truthiness and I'm

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going to condemn others for not being on

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this train that's a problem because now

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you're meddling into other people lives

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because you want to um exol the virtues

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of your belief system now granted I'm

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not trying to say one way or the other

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I'm at full disclosure I'm actually not

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religious at all I was actually taught

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to be respectful of all religions and to

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judge people based on their merits right

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I mean that the whole idea of like the

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Ten Commandments really is pretty

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Universal between all religions you know

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I mean i' like to think so but um pretty

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confident it is and that's a human thing

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that's a Humanity thing so if you could

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be a decent human whatever your belief

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systems are if that makes your whole

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self and soul happy and

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whole um then then you're on the right

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path for you you know and I think that's

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ultimately what like again belief

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systems in General should provide is to

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give you that Solace to give you that

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comfort that you are leading the path

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that you want to lead that's going to

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keep you happy and you know keep you on

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that path of you know to lead toward

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success to have enriched relationships

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and lives that you

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define have at it so I mean

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like yeah I I I I I have been in so many

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political and religious conversations I

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try to avoid them like the plague

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because my My

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ultimate answer I guess to that type of

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debate is hey if it makes you happy and

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whole my friend I'm happy for you you

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may hate me because I don't agree with

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everything that you say but you know

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what I found something common that we

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can appreciate even though we

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fundamentally have different

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perspectives that's my that makes me

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happy in life is to know I cannot

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control your opinions nor do I have any

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desire to try to control any of your

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opin opinions so therefore I'm actually

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happy because I don't care to try to

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control your your

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opinions well it's being secure in your

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own beliefs is that and being but and

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and not being threatened by

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others

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because how other people interpret a

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situation if it's different the way that

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you interpret the

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situation that could be a point of

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learning for you and a point of interest

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for you I'll never forget I was in

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university and I had a professor that

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was a statistics professor and he swore

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up and down the statistics were God and

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that there was one absolute truth based

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on statistics statistics did not lie

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there was only one way of looking at

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this this is statistics so I wrote a

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paper and halfway up the paper I I took

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the set of statistics and I and I and I

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I proved a point and then I spent the

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back half of the paper disproving the

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that same that that same Theory based on

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the exact same statistics the question

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is is it is that are we 30 you know is

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it 30% male and 70% female or is it or

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or is it 7 70% female and 30% male what

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what what is what is the uh what is do

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do 30 30% of people believe in it or 70%

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of people dis disbelieve it both are

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true yeah both are true you know whether

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you depends on on how you want to take a

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look at that set of facts and interpret

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them for yourselves because it makes you

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feel better and it and it feeds into

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your narrative into your bias into your

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sense of

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selfworth and how you interpret things

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and how somebody else interprets them

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are different as you said where I have a

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problem is when you try to shove your

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beliefs down my throat and tell me that

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my way is the right way your way is

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wrong which makes you evil and makes you

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wrong and I and I and and de and you're

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delegitimized because you don't believe

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what I believe yeah and I think that

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that's what the where we have a problem

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whether it's in in our personal lives in

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society in our religion in our

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government or whatever it's when we

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spend more time trying to disprove

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somebody else and show that they're

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wrong than prove that we're right I

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think we've devolved as a society 100% I

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agree do you think it's lack of empathy

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or lack of curiosity to research for

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yourself I think it's

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both I I think that we here's the thing

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let's take social media for as a perfect

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example even even take look at Google

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for a perfect example how we put in the

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word search determines on what we get

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out yeah how how we ask the question

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determines the answers we're going to

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get that's chat P too dude that's chat

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GPT how we you know the people that we

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continually like and the and the and the

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things that we continually see on

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LinkedIn bring us more I you know I've

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been following a few threads on YouTube

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and watching a whole bunch of videos

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lately and guess what surprisingly

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enough a whole bunch new videos show up

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with the exact same thought process in

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the same set of Ideal start showing up

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in my YouTube feed how does that happen

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you know we're all sitting there slaves

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to an algorithm and the question is do

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we buy into it and sit there say Okay

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since this is the stuff that we're

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seeing all the time this must be the

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only thing that's right or do we say

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this is a Viewpoint maybe I should take

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the time and look for other viewpoints

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to see is there another way of looking

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at this is there a different way I could

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ask the question

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that's going to get me different results

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if I ask you know if I start looking at

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people with different viewpoints on

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LinkedIn am I going to start getting you

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know more stuff in my feed that has that

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might be contrary to my own views but

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I'm going to learn something that that I

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hadn't seen or I'm going to gain

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insights that I haven't seen before we

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need to push

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ourselves and I and the question is is

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that curiosity is that empathy whatever

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I think it's human nature and I think we

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we look for opinions and we look for the

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comfort of the people that believe what

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we believe because it gives us a sense

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of self-worth and it's a lot more

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comfortable to do that than peer around

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the corner and look at ideas and

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ideologies and philosophies that may not

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be congruent with our own personal

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views

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look what I find interesting is the

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older I've gotten and I think it's like

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you say human

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nature we get more set in our ways and I

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think maybe that's why you and I yes we

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are of a certain

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age but I do think we're I do think a

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lot of folks my age actually and I would

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like to think we're different than you

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know what other previous generation but

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I I feel like if if we could just stay

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strong and staying open and curious like

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I said of to say maybe my thought

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process is going to have to evolve a

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little bit case in point I'm not talking

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religion politics okay what I am talking

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about is technology all right so there

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are some individuals are like I am

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technophobic okay that's great but you

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know what if you just slightly just

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slightly calm down a little bit we're

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probably more technologically inclined

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than we believe we are now I know I sold

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technology for 20 plus years but let me

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tell you peoples if I can solve your

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problem technically you've got bigger

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issues with your it Department okay it's

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flat out but but but as a user as a

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consumer of tech technology there's a

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lot we know that you challenged this 20

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years ago we wouldn't no one would know

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you just kind of you kind of learn it by

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practice and maybe that's what maybe

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that's our maybe that's our end result

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of our conversation is is like hey

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validate you know research and practice

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and maybe that's what we can do to help

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with our bias convers ations and our

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viewpoints and maybe our ability to have

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that kind of communication to one

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another where we are not going to we are

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not going to fundamentally agree like

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you and I agree on a lot but there's

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some little small things that we don't

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agree on and it's like you know what I

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don't hate you for it but I do know I

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will never talk to you about that topic

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if you want to stay friends right like

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you

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know but that's that's but but it's

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interesting what you say about

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technology here's an interesting

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statistics

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we understand and utilize 5 to

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8% of our current Tech St stack whatever

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it is doesn't matter what level you are

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90 to 95% of people use 5 to 8% of their

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current Tech stack so think about in

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Microsoft

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Word if you're only using five to eight%

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of what that technology can actually

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do that's 90 plus% of the technology

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that you're stay away from because

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you're scared of it yeah because you

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haven't you're not curious enough to sit

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there go oh if I press this button what

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happens if I do this what happens guess

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what save button is a beautiful thing

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you save and then play and I think we

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need to sit there and look for ways

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to play

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ideologically in a safe Zone and be able

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to sit there and realize

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that most times the world doesn't hang

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in the balance most of the time we can

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have conversations with people and say

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you know what let's leave that one alone

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you know we've hit a hot button we've

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we've hit a button where obviously both

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of us you know are are vehemently

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disagreeing with each other maybe let's

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agree to disagree yeah but on the vast

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majority of things it's healthy to have

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that conversation and we need to learn

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and we need to have the ability to have

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that conversation and learn from each

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other and verify each other and and back

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up our own you know

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viewpoints to actually prove to

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ourselves that what we believe is

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actually

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valid or if it's just something that

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we've thought all our lives because

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somebody else told us that way that's

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how it is yeah

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I I

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agree so let's leave it

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there I'm Ben I'm CA and I'm glad we

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agree to

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