The Power of Creativity and Individuality with Michaell Magrutsche

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And welcome back to another episode of Life Changing Challengers.

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I'm so honored today to have Michael McGrooch.

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He's an artist, he's an educator, he's a speaker, he's an author, he's a coach, he's a podcaster.

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The guy does it all and you're going to hear some amazing stories about it because he is self-taught for everything.

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How are you doing today, michael?

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I'm great.

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I love to work on Sundays.

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It's so quiet isn't it?

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Oh yeah, I mean the sun's out.

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Where are you?

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I'm in Los Angeles, south of Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, so you're seeing the sun right now.

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I'm in Tampa, Florida, so I'm literally across the country and it's beautiful outside right now in Tampa Florida, so you can't beat a Sunday like this, Exactly.

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Let's get started.

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I usually ask the same question to everybody Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood, when?

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How you grew up, the compliments of your family, a difficult day growing up, some hardships, successes Give us the overall feel of how you grew up.

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I was born in Vienna, austria.

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I was a sick child, born as a sick child, and I went to school when I was seven, got the next touch on my face that I cannot read, write, regurgitate.

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I understood math but I cannot regurgitate it when I'm tested.

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Everything I practice never works, so I'm not system relevant.

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So whatever I have to regurgitate in any system.

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So my whole life I'm hitting the wall.

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Until I was 52.

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By 52, I wrote a book because I was so upset, because art was what saved me.

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Art creation saved me because I couldn't fit in the school, so I created.

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I just loved music.

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Like you know, all young people are safe.

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I want to know how many young people are saved by art that want to off themselves because they can't be.

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You know, jay-z or Beyonce or some superstar.

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So I was.

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So I had also success with being a DJ, selling out tapes out of my trunk, creating fashion shows and about 30, I did a new CV and I looked at my previous CVs and I said, oh my God, I am an artist.

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I didn't want to be an artist.

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I didn't want to say, oh, I wouldn't need to be famous, I just, you know, when you're an adolescent young.

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You just survive.

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You're just one day after another.

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You want to belong to somebody, be in a group, have your friends and be safe.

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Somehow, safety showed me this, because I had to do it myself.

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I couldn't connect with friends, but in school and so I couldn't connect.

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I have eight years of school and two years I had to repeat, so I'm completely self-taught in everything.

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So were you diagnosed?

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Yeah, I was diagnosed 50 years.

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Diagnosed you as okay, brett, you have neurodiversity, you have dyslexia, but you still have to do your school.

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There was not like today.

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There was no advantage for me being diagnosed.

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It actually was worse because he's the wacko, you know so.

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But you have the swings, you have the all the time you don't even feel it, you know, you don't feel the pain, and then the shame and all this stuff.

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You just grow into the shame and the guilt and everything else.

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And so art was my, literally my savior, because I parents, they were busy and whatever not bad parents at all, but they were busy and I actually was really good for me that they were not helicoptering me, because it allowed me to do my thing and they never said, hey, where's your money, where's the thing, whatever they just say.

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You know, they knew I was sick.

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You know also, that was an advantage because I was sick.

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So what could they?

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do when you say you were sick?

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Can you kind of elaborate a little bit Asthma?

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allergies.

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I mean I had to leave four times a year.

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Every time the season changes I had to take a tar bath, stinky tar bath.

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My whole skin was open.

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I went to the hospital, got IVs and stuff.

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My skin opened up and I had asthma and hay fever and I reacted to literally everything.

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And Vienna is kind of more on the water right.

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It's just, yeah, danube, it is the Danube, it's a big river that goes through it.

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And also, vienna is cold.

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It's cold.

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It's not Florida or Laguna Beach, right right, it's cold and wetness is, for asthma, really bad wetness.

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So wetness and cold is the worst thing you get.

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And then all the blooms.

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You know, europe is so, vienna is so green, so everything blooms there and it activates you.

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That's exactly what I was going to ask.

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Do you have any brothers or sisters?

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I have two brothers and one sister.

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Are you close with them?

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I'm very close with my sister, With my brothers.

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You know it's kind of.

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You know I'm gone since I was 20.

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So there's no, you know.

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Oh yeah, my parents passed and I'm gone for so long so I don't have a relationship with them.

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I mean I have a relationship, I'm not mad at them or anything.

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Yeah long, so I don't have a relationship with them.

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I mean I have a relationship, I'm not mad at them or anything, and I rather prefer not to do a phony.

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Hey, Brett, how you are doing.

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You know, I kind of like it like that.

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It's good we don't have to write Christmas cards and bullshit all that stuff.

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It's all systemic.

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The system makes money.

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So it's really, you know, they know what I call them, they know what I call me.

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So you're kind of a sickly child, which I understand, and especially back then, when there wasn't the technology that we had today and you've got a learning disorder.

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What was the first step toward this independence that you had?

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Okay, listen, I'm in this, I'm mainstreamed in school and I've got to get through it.

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What did you do to move yourself through the school that you did?

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So the art creation that I did you know, the music first and then painting and stuff.

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Every time I created art and I'm writing about this and this is what my 30-second podcast is about.

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The art of creation is the priceless thing.

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The art of product is just a commodity.

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The creation gave me unbelievable self-esteem.

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I can say your podcast is the best in the world or the worst, but I cannot take away that.

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You created it.

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That builds a self-esteem in you.

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You created a podcast, you can do another podcast, you can do another episode.

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You cannot just do one podcast and you get better and you adapt and you tweak it and in that you start trusting yourself automatically, because creation is our superpower.

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Humans are all one-on-one.

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We are the collective creator species.

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Look, singapore, new York, google, apple, collective creator animal.

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That's what we are.

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It's not Steve Jobs.

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If Steve Jobs wouldn't have the team, he would still sit soldering in his garage on the computer.

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It's everybody Zuckerberg, all these leaders are talking heads, basically because it's the team and we love to do it.

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Otherwise the team couldn't have the team.

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Nobody would be supported in any company, from the smallest grocery store to the biggest.

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The Google, nobody would be.

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We love to co-create together.

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We don't have to be all a leader.

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We like to create and to contribute.

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That's like a DNA drive that we want to contribute.

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We want to be relevant.

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So that's when you don't know what you're supposed to do.

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You want to be system relevant.

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You want to be a president, you want to get a title, you want to get any system relevance.

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Only system relevance is not the human-centric relevance that you have by nature because you're one of one.

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There's no bread manners out there.

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You are one of one and I'm one of one.

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And by dancing with each other we open our life perspectives.

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And when we open our life perspective, we grow only what you pick up.

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And the dance is an experience of wisdom, of awareness, and that's unbeatable.

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So I love to dance with as many people as I can, because there's nothing more fulfilling.

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There's nothing more fulfilling.

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That's why it's so magical podcasting and that's why people also listen to podcasts, because it's natural.

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It's a natural, human-centric dance that the two people or three people that talk to each other.

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It's not a system-relevant newscast with 20 people.

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You know it's a difference.

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That's why podcast is a blessing from a tech, blessing you know, I agree, and you know and it's funny that you mentioned that all right, steve jobs couldn't have done it by himself.

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He had a team.

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Everybody's got their place.

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It's.

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I think it's the same thing and I'm not big on putting politics in this podcast but we blame these figureheads.

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We blame biden or trump, whatever, but we blame them.

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But there's so many people that have a piece of that decision.

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You know we sit there and we blame Biden for the southern border, but there's a bunch of other people underneath that are making decisions, micro decisions underneath, and this team that's either causing that or when the job rates, when the unemployment rate plummets.

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So it's a combination of people on a team that are making small decisions here and there that are creating jobs that are allowing, and that's that cohesive that you're talking about.

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But you did mention one thing and I wanted to jump into it, since this is a good segue.

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You already talked about human centric and system relevant.

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Can you kind of go into those definitions for us so, as we go forward in the podcast?

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so human centric is.

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I didn't invent that, I just picked the word that was most relevant for what I feel that human centric is.

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Human centric means we are part of nature.

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We can go on Mars and we're still a part of nature.

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We are Earthlings, we are all Earthlings.

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We are part of nature and everybody is a one of one.

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So it's not like there's only woman and man.

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There's not only a race, there is not only.

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The generalization dampens us of our uniqueness.

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Because if I say, oh, you're just bad, you're just another man like me, you know we are pigs and the woman want money, if you look at that system relevant generalization you're already blurring the uniqueness of that person.

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I'm not looking at you as a man, I look at you as a human one.

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Human, that's rewarding.

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I'm not doing the oh.

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What do they say to systems about men?

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They're all weak, they're all macho, they're all whatever.

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I'm not looking at that.

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When you generalize only in gender, sex and race, you're blurring the whole film.

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We are so much more than and you make us all average.

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Everybody is normal, quote, unquote.

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And then nobody can define normal.

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I mean, it's the funny thing, we're all normal.

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But what is defined when the system says you are normal, then define normal for me.

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See, they say I'm abnormal because I'm neurodivergent.

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Right, but they don't define normal.

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So how can they define normal?

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It goes by statistics that change every year.

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So you were normal 10 years ago, but now we have better measurements, now you're abnormal.

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What is that?

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But this is generalization, you know, because there's good white people and bad white people.

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There's good woman, bad woman.

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Everybody needs to be looked at, one of one.

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What causes our problems is that we mix the two.

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We mix human-centric and system-relevant.

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System-relevant is we all decided collectively.

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We got to play Monopoly.

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We use money that doesn't exist in nature, but we use money to doesn't exist in nature, but we use money to reflect our value, our unique value, to contribute to each other.

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So if I make hammers and you make chicken, I mean, how many hammers do you need?

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Human-centric means.

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You are one of one.

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We are collective creator, animals, we are part of nature which we cannot suppress.

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So also, when we don't know let's say you and I have a problem right now, or we think about a problem, we've got to solve it I would always go, you know, at least in the second step I would say how does nature do it?

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How is it nature?

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And then I create a system that is aligned to the natural, you know, and so you observe animals, you observe plants, you observe things because you're part of it.

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Why would you not want to do it?

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Especially when you go outside, you're not just saying how high can I jump a wave?

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No, you are in the water, you learn how the water, you know the medium of water, you learn the medium of water to work on it.

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And system relevant is just we have decided to play Monopoly, which is great because, since we are creator, animals right, we can create our own habitat.

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It's not like the ant does just what the ants always did an anthill, and it doesn't look different than the other anthills.

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We do New York, singapore, we create, and that's why we are conscious, self-conscious.

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In my theory, the only thing why we are aware of self-aware is because you show me, you go in the woods.

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You show me okay, I've got to cut down these four, these four trees, and then we could take the branches off, and then we build a little hut.

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And so I experience, I come to your hut when it's raining.

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I said, damn, I need to make my own hut so I can repeat that and make it better.

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And I said well, brad did it without a front door, I'm going to make a front door so you can open and close.

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The next one says I'm going to put windows in, and then we end up having skyscrapers.

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Right, I mean it's just, it's in the evolution of being a creative, a collective creative animal, we all can contribute.

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We all are part in the synergistic part, because not everybody's a lawyer, not everybody's a doctor, not everybody is a carpenter.

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So it's finding the synergistic, what we are good for, and not allowing the system saying okay, we need lawyers, now, everybody studied for a lawyer.

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If you're not a lawyer, why would you study for a lawyer?

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When I grew up, everybody has to be a lawyer, they said.

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You know, if all jobs fail, if you have a law degree, you're happy.

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And now AI is wrapping that right off the table.

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So the human-centric is basically going back to the way we used to do things, right?

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So you talked about all right, you have a hammer and I have chickens, yeah, but you have a hammer and this person needs to build, so he needs a hammer, but he needs nails, but he's able to provide wood, so he provides wood to the guy that needs to build something.

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The guy that makes nails provides it to the guy that gets the hammer, and then this guy gets hungry.

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The chicken guy needs a hut, so he trades chickens for this, he gets the hammer and it moves around.

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It's just like what we used to do.

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It was the barter system that we used to happen, and you know what.

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I was been so fascinated with that without having you know this monetary system, right so?

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but I get what you're saying about going back to that right now let's be stupid again, you know, let's be on a level where we were in neanderthals.

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It's just remembering that.

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And remembering what?

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Because money is, after fire and the wheel, the third most important invention.

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It's the best invention money.

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Because it represented your contribution.

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You're one of one is of doing chickens and my one of one is of doing the best hammers in the world, or the best hammers in my county.

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We can then buy nails, we can buy a hut, we can buy whatever a cart we can buy.

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I can say I whatever A cart we can buy.

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I can say he turned me on to animals.

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I'm going to raise rabbits and I can buy them with creating animals.

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So money is a system skill where you game the system.

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It is not the representation.

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So if I'm neurodiverse, I can never game the system because I don't even understand figures, flip them and whatever.

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So it's not the representation that I contribute, it is a system skill and only the ones that have the skill are extremely rich.

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And the other ones, you know, and that's why there's no middle ground, because the one, the best, game gamers, you know.

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That's why when you go to vegas there's only poker players.

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So many poker players.

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He cannot.

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Everybody you know, and millions of people like to play poker.

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but in vegas, where it is about money, there's only a certain things, and that's what happens so what would you see as, what would you see as utopic then, if we don't go back to the barter system, which I get the money part, when you've got good representation, you're absolutely, you're actually talking.

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I buy hammer, I make hammers, some guy at a store pays me, so he puts it on the shelf.

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He pays me.

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Now this money is my representation of my ability to barter.

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I've got it right there, so that part makes sense.

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So what would be utopia to you as far as would it be a complete human-centric life?

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No.

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Systems are very important.

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They also have always a good intent.

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There's no systems on this earth that didn't have a good intent, also had always a good intent.

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There's no systems on this earth that didn't have a good intent Starting with.

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Okay, when we live in a tribe, we have to take care of our horses, we have to get the food, all this stuff.

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So when one guy's really good with horses and it's not a big work frame and he loves doing horses, he's taking care of all the horses.

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The other loves to cook and he cooks.

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So actually it helps humans to do more of who they are.

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So you know not women that don't need to stand and feed their babies.

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They can go to the kindergartner, you know, in the tribe, get their thing.

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And they can go out and plant, you know, get food or shoot deer or whatever they could do.

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That because it gives you, it allows you to.

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That's why systems are awesome system.

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The problem is system have a good intent when they started but they outdated.

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So you know, from the cell phone, from our cell phones, update almost every day because they're so human centric, because if people cannot talk to each other they revolt, you know.

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So that's updated Because if people cannot talk to each other they revolt.

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So that's updated.

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But any government or anything is slowly.

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If it's not a catastrophic issue, they're not moving.

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They're not moving.

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They moved in COVID, but mostly they're all outdated.

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Because people take advantage of, because the system lives off money.

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Every system lives off money.

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Every system lives off money.

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Religion, nonprofit government, churches, they all live off.

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They don't have a spirit like we have.

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So you and I can talk and we can literally pump each other up, and it doesn't cost anything.

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It's just you and I talk, we just dance with each other, and systems always need the flow of money.

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The problem is they are not.

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What happened with money is because when it became not covered anymore by gold and when it became fiat, when it so, when it became that all of a sudden money, the financial principles that say and that's before capitalism they say it's never enough, right?

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So if you and I make 10 grand today, we cannot say okay, let's just live off the 10 grand.

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We say now, tomorrow we have to make 12 grand or the next quarter or whatever.

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So you have even quarters.

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Imagine the stress quarter or whatever.

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So you have even quarters.

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Imagine the stress that is on.

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So you pass the quarter.

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Everybody's freaking out, nobody enjoys the ride.

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The ride is never enjoyed because, oh, we finished the quarter, we surpassed the quarter.

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Imagine you surpassed.

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You're getting more stressed.

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You surpassed the quarter, you had the goals, you surpassed the goals, you had the goals, you surpassed the goals.

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Now the stockholders what are they expecting?

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You surpass it every month, every three months.

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It is such an artificial stress.

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It's not a normal stress, it's artificial.

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And that's what makes us.

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It's never enough, no matter what I do.

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But nobody and you know what?

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All the conspiracy theories that say you know only six people that run the whole world.

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If they are not feeling that they don't need to run the world, they have to all run the world, every single person.

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There's nobody excluded, not the beggar, not the billionaire.

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Whatever they do, it's never enough what they do, because the beggar and the billionaire are thinking 80% of their time here physical, a few years 80% of the time about money, the billionaire as well as the beggar.

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The billionaire is just a cleaner thing and feels more, not so lost.

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Basically, I think the beggar is free.

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It's weird.

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We have to make financial principles enough.

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As in the beggar is free.

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It's weird.

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We have to make financial principles enough, we have to get the value of enough, because in nature, balance is the superpower.

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There's not one aid that runs all Africa.

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So because the financial principles are outdated too, because it's never enough, right, it's never, you have to increase Now, they can't even see loss.

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Because it's never enough, right, it's never, you know, you have to increase, increase Now.

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They can't even see loss.

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They say negative growth.

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I don't know if you knew the time when they say you had a loss.

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Nobody says a loss anyway, it's all negative growth.

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So we blur each other, we lie to each other and we pretend.

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On Instagram you see two classes, the ones like the Elon Musk and the Kanye and all these people.

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And then you see the rest of us pretending to be Kanye and Elon.

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It's just, we pretend there's two classes.

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We got to find our one of oneness and be happy to embrace that, that we are one of one, and if we bring enough in the financial principles, then we can update the financial principles and value that.

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So when you make 10 grand today, you should be kind of rewarded.

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You should be, you know, tax-wise or whatever, say yeah, great, you did that Not just.

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You know, not just.

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No, okay, you did 10 grand tomorrow you make a million today.

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What happens?

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Everybody sucks you in and says don't pay taxes, just get another loan, so you pay less taxes.

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You don't owe us, so everybody owes each other.

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But systemically.

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I see what you're saying, yeah, yeah, so you're right, the billionaire's got the stress on him, but most billionaires I hire someone to take the stress off them.

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The beggar needs to know, all right, well, how am I getting my next meal?

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He's not worried about anything else.

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You know, he's basically got the one stress when am I going to eat, where am I going to stay, where am I going to clean up?

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You know basically like that.

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Know basically like that.

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So what do you think we can do as individuals to move forward and to become at least start moving into that more human-centric, as human-centric system, relevant balance, rather than you know what seems to be so off balance today?

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first, of all, listen to this podcast a couple of times.

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There's nothing to learn, there's no three steps or anything.

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Just being aware of it makes your life 50% easier.

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Because if you're just aware of this, then when your kid is sick and you're a mother and your kid is sick and I always say the same example when you call the company and say I'm sick today, the team's leader or whatever, says okay, but hurry up.

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You know, in a human-centric environment, an updated system, the leader would say we take care of it.

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Of course, because when I, my kid, gets sick, you take care of my kid.

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So don't worry, maria, stay home, take care of your baby and guess what?

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How much better she will take care of your baby instead of she feels so guilty, she's felt so guilty that she's not she letting the.

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She's be made guilty to let the team down.

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You know, you're not a team player, you know, and that's.

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Life is so much easier when you segregate the two.

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In the perspective.

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You say we created all the systems.

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Humans created all the systems.

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There's not a system that wasn't created.

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So how can it ever be more powerful than a human Right?

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How can the system demand that 650,000 humans are dead in a war.

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How, how, how.

00:25:22.343 --> 00:25:27.785
We created all systems Israel, palestine, gaza.

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We created Ukraine, russia.

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It's all done by humans, and we need to just get clear about that.

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No, we created the system, so first it's humans and then it's systems.

00:25:41.029 --> 00:25:48.231
True, true, and it's interesting that you say that about your example with the sick person and the person that had the sick child.

00:25:48.231 --> 00:26:03.837
It's so interesting that you say that because when I was working for major corporations and I was a team leader, I got reprimanded because that was my sole motto.

00:26:03.837 --> 00:26:05.558
Basically, it was my theory.

00:26:05.558 --> 00:26:18.455
It was how I manage, it was my management methodology was that my team needed to have their external pressures relieved, take care of that friction.

00:26:18.455 --> 00:26:23.813
So when they came into work, not only were they there physically, but they were there mentally right.

00:26:23.813 --> 00:26:40.182
So we made sure that we had everybody's back and I always told everybody I says listen, you know, I understand that we have clients, but my first priority is to the team, because if I take care of them, the team will take care of the company.

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Right, it will take care of you If you're the team leader and you have a cold when two days you're done.

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They know what to do.

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But if you are mean to them, if you push them and you're anxious, you need more money, you need to turn over.

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You are the true leader.

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A CEO is not a leader.

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He's a financial expert.

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A true leader is a part of the team.

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I said why is he part of a team?

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I say because I'm a leader too, you know.

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So I say.

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I talk to so many leaders and they all say the best metaphor is a leader is the one that keeps all the plates spinning.

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I want to assume I don't care about the red plates.

00:27:17.457 --> 00:27:18.196
Yeah, no.

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So how can a leader be hierarchical higher?

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He can't, because he's the one that keeps everybody steaming.

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He also, a leader has to be the most self-aware.

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It's not like oh, I need a tough guy that is completely numb and leads a team.

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You have to be the most sensitive person as a leader to keep all the plates spinning.

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You have to relate to every team member.

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You have to put the team members in the right seat and that's all human-centric.

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So a team leader, even a soldier, soldier is a complete human-centric job that is exploited system-relevantly.

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Because when nobody gets to be a soldier, that doesn't have the feeling of I want to protect the tribe by DNA.

00:28:03.971 --> 00:28:11.646
It's not like you think you want to be a soldier because, say, I'm strong, I want to protect the tribe, and the people are not even conscious of that.

00:28:11.646 --> 00:28:13.145
But that's what the movement is.

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You have the passion for that.

00:28:14.265 --> 00:28:17.654
You see the leaders in the military they're team members.

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They're team members.

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The only lead is team member and everybody wants to be a leader.

00:28:23.051 --> 00:28:30.027
And there's also these leader coaches all the time.

00:28:30.047 --> 00:28:31.291
I said there's not so many leaders than leader coaches.

00:28:31.291 --> 00:28:31.554
And why was?

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Everybody want a leader?

00:28:32.076 --> 00:28:34.663
You want to be a leader, you want to be successful, you want to be on top.

00:28:34.663 --> 00:28:41.489
And this is the biggest lie because you think then you can finally be the one-of-one that you have, make your decision and be free to make you what you think.

00:28:41.489 --> 00:28:44.839
Then you can finally be the one of one that you have, make your decision and be free to make what you think is right.

00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:54.571
And it's the biggest lie that we all tell the whole world, tells each other, because you know when you are on top, you are in the ivory tower, locked in.

00:28:54.571 --> 00:28:57.528
You are in an ivory tower, but you are locked in.

00:28:57.528 --> 00:29:00.710
You have four people that surround you that are yes-sayers.

00:29:00.710 --> 00:29:18.045
You are disconnected from humanity and that's why, when you talk to these superstars, you know and I said here, if you can prove me, if you say who you want to talk to and I think there's only one one, currently one celebrity I wanted to talk to, and that's regruen.

00:29:18.065 --> 00:29:19.429
I don't, there wouldn't be any I wouldn't talk to.

00:29:19.429 --> 00:29:20.412
That's regrowing, there wouldn't be any.

00:29:20.412 --> 00:29:21.977
That wouldn't talk to him about music.

00:29:21.977 --> 00:29:25.742
So there's only one celebrity I want to talk to.

00:29:25.742 --> 00:29:33.864
I don't want to talk to anybody, because anybody that has spotlights on them, he's disconnected, he's too long.

00:29:34.326 --> 00:29:36.406
That's why I'm so for term limits.

00:29:36.406 --> 00:29:40.446
They're long in there, they're so long disconnected.

00:29:40.446 --> 00:29:42.005
I mean, look at Biden.

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Biden has never been a human, he has always been a politician and I was a politician.

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