The Power of Technology, Disciplining Children, and Safety vs. Growth | ASK ME ANYTHING
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In this episode, we are joined by our good friend Kip Sorensen. Kip is a stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. He has been in the business for a long time and has a great sense of humor. In this episode we talk about what it's like being a comedian, being a podcaster, and being a man of action.
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart
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your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.
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You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong. This is your life. This is who
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you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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you can call yourself a man. Mr. Kip Sorensen, what's going on, man?
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Nice to have you back. Yeah. How was it? Dude, I got to tell you, the podcast you did,
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was it last week? Yeah. Solid. You don't even need me. I mean, I know I'm the comedic relief,
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but outside of that, you don't need me to run this podcast with you. You got this thing, man.
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It is a night and day difference. And we've always talked about this. It's a night and day difference
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to go solo. And it's stressful. I was really stressed. I wait until after work on Monday,
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and I'm like, okay, I'll, I'll go at seven. I didn't even start recording until like eight
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30. Cause I was kind of like, oh man, I, you know, what, what was stressful about it though?
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I don't know. I get it. I understand. It's just so much easier to have you respond,
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have some profound thought process. And then me sound like I know what I'm talking about by adding
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like, oh yeah. And I agree. And I would add this little thing versus responding first is super tough.
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It is. It adds stress. And I don't want to like be ready. No, I get it. I would, I would do the
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same thing. I don't do it anymore. Cause I've just done it enough now where it doesn't really impact
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me. But if I wanted to record a video, for example, on a certain subject, yeah, dude, I'd have to talk
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myself into it because I just felt so awkward and uncomfortable. And I used to record like 20 times.
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I'm like, oh no, I stumbled over that word or I tripped up on that little phrase. And now anymore,
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I just hit record. I think about kind of what I want to say, maybe an outline of what I want to
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say. And if I trip over words or thoughts, it's like, nah, it is what it is and just go for it.
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But it's just familiarity, right? Yeah, totally. I remember the first time,
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the first time I recorded multiple times and I was like, okay, you know what? Yeah. I'm going to
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commit to hitting record. And I'm not like, I'm not going to even listen to it until it's like live
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the next day. Because what did you think when you listened to it? Um, it's, uh, the other day
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or the very first time, the first time, uh, the first time it was super awkward. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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It's just weird when you talk into a microphone or you're trying to look into a camera. That's the
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weird one. And when you're looking into a camera and you're pretending, like I try to pretend that
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that's a human being I'm trying to talk to. Yeah. And you can't fake that. Like, you know,
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that's a piece of plastic and metal and it's just really awkward, but you know, it's comes with the
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territory. Like this, this is actually a good lesson because there's a lot of guys who listen,
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who want to put themselves out there, who want to share a message, even if presenting in front of a
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team, for example, and they're just so afraid and fearful. Look, all that stuff's natural.
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The only way it gets better is through repetition is by doing it and then doing it again and again and
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again. Like we see these guys who are magnificent speakers, for example, and we think, well, this
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guy's just born with a silver tongue. No, he's just done it enough and been, I would say almost
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arrogant enough to like keep doing it. Yeah. To think that you're probably better than you are
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just so you keep going. You have to be a little delusional because if you are truthful about your
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performance, none of us would ever do anything ever again. That's so true. So it takes a little bit,
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a little bit of ego, a little bit of arrogance to get yourself back in the ring after getting
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punched in the face. And I think that's what the greats do is they just keep going at it over and
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over and over again. And then evaluating it, of course, and improving where they can and taking
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feedback and improving their skill. Yeah. And a good example of that is I was just listening to
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London Real, his interview with, um, with Tom Bilyeu. And he, and he was asking Tom Bilyeu,
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like some of the most influential guys. Right. And he mentioned Jocko and, and he talked about
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this, about Jocko, about the first time that Jocko was on his podcast, how much Jocko has grown in the
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last three years. No doubt as, as being a more effective communicator. Right. And, and a lot of
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guys that listen to this podcast are, are fans of Jocko as well. And it's like, Hey, even Jocko has
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progressed and learned and has become more effective at communicating versus how he was originally.
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So it's funny. Cause Brian Rose, who you're talking about, and I have actually had this
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conversation and he's interviewed Jocko several times. I've interviewed Jocko four times. I've
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gotten to know Jocko now over the past three or four years, but the first interview that was the
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first interview I did with him was probably the hardest interview I've ever done. Super awkward
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as well. Really awkward because not only is he at the time he was my first like big podcast guest.
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Yeah. So there was the intimidation factor of just that alone. And then you take somebody like
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Jocko, excuse me, I'm, I'm getting over a little bit of a cold here, but you take a, a figure like
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Jocko, who is very intimidating to put it mildly. And then you ask him a question. Like, I can't remember
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a question I would ask, but I'd say, so, you know, how do you develop discipline? He's like, you just do
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it. Yeah. And I'm like, uh, do you care to elaborate? No. I'm like, Oh, okay. Uh, this is
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going to make for an awkward conversation. Yeah. It reminds me of talking to my dad. My dad's that
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way. It's like, so how are you doing? Yeah. Good. Yeah. Okay. How's the weather? Like, that's how,
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you know, this, the conversation is like falling apart is the minute you start going, so how's work
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or the way, like, it's so hard to engage. And, and it's not so much that Jocko is probably not
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willing to share either. It's just like, he's just so intense too. Right. He's like, the answer is
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good. Yeah. Intense. And just so matter of fact, like he's so confident and sure of himself that
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it's hard for him to fathom why anybody wouldn't understand, you know, another quote I saw. And just
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because the passing of Kobe Bryant, I saw him that he says, I don't something along the lines of,
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and I'm paraphrasing here that I don't understand lazy people. Like I'm not even connected with them.
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I just am so far away from them that I don't understand. And he said, I don't even want to
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understand that. And I think a lot of these guys who were very, very successful, ultra successful,
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who have done great and wonderful things in their lives. It's very hard for them to relate with
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not having that mentality and not having the attitude and the fortitude and the grit and
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resilience. So explaining it seems foreign to them. They're like, why would I even need to explain
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this? It's so obvious. Well, it's obvious to them, but it's not obvious to somebody who hasn't
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quite figured that out yet. Yeah. Which is, that's the value of this podcast. Cause we are so mediocre
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that we can explain things to you guys. Exactly. We can highly really relate to the mediocre man.
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Exactly. That's exactly. That's why so many guys resonate with what we're saying.
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Yeah. And a lot of them think, a lot of them probably think we're full of crap too,
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which at times that's probably, that's probably accurate. All right. Well, let's get into it.
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We're fielding questions. I can't remember at this point. Do these questions,
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this one's Facebook today. Yeah. All right. Facebook, we're having some big changes in the
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Facebook group. Uh, just put out a standard operating procedure for our moderators. We have new
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moderators or not new, but additional moderators. Uh, and we're trying to get that back on track.
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You know, it deviates when you have a group that grows by a hundred to 300 people a day.
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It's very easy to lose the direction, the course of the ship. And so like trying to write that
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occasionally is a challenge, but, uh, we've got some, got some things going on over there.
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Yeah. Cool. All right. Well, let's get to the questions, uh, to join us on that Facebook group,
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facebook.com slash group slash order of man. All right. Our first question, skypeck.
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I know you use Sorenx workout equipment. Have you ever looked into Bruce force sandbags? They are a
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game changer. Um, I'm familiar with brute force sandbags, but I have not used them. I don't have them,
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but I do like the idea of having something that isn't balanced. Yeah. Cause like if you go,
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it's, it's almost like Rocky four, right? You have the Russian and all of the equipment that
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he's using is machine and it's balanced just perfectly. And then you have Rocky who's up in
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the, in the wilderness, chopping wood and carrying logs around. And so I think there's something to
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be said for training equipment that isn't precise, that isn't machine that isn't balanced just
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perfectly. Uh, and that's a little bit more natural, like you would do in your natural element.
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So definitely I can see some value in there and I think I'll probably just go, I don't know,
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I'll pick up a bag and throw it around and do what I can do. But yeah, a lot of guys I know who use
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brute force sandbags, uh, seem to like them. So I'll check it out. Yeah. I was in fact, just last
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week I was doing Turkish getups with a 60 pound sandbags is brutal, man. Like holding it with one
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hand. No. So you like put it on your shoulder and then you do a Turkish getup and then you switch
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to the other shoulder and then do it back and forth. Cause I only know a Turkish getups. I've
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only done them with, with the kettlebell. Yeah. Yeah. So instead of having the arm extended,
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you're just holding it on your shoulder and then still doing the same Turkish getup week,
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get up 60 pound bag in one hand on your shoulder. That's easy. Try putting in your hand
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or hold it in your mouth while you do that. Okay. Wrap it up, wrap your beard around it and do like
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beard ups and work your neck. Beard ups. You would have a name for it.
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This just proves that you've thought of these things. Oh, for sure. How could I not? One of my
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ultimate goals in life is because I've been doing a jujitsu a lot more is to choke somebody out with my
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beard. If I can do that, I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of beardness and jujitsu of beardness.
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I read it. I read a meme yesterday. It was, is every woman wants to marry a man with a long beard
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because the patience it took him to grow that beard is the kind of patience he needs to put up with your
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shit. That's funny. But the thing is, I mean, that's funny. Yes. But look, growing a beard is the
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lack of trying. It's like, it's a, it's a sign of laziness. That's exactly what it is. It's,
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it's easier to grow a beard than it is to shave. Now, granted you have to shower every day because
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otherwise you'll have like beard. What would you call it? Instead of like bed head, you'd have
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beard, bed beard or something. So you do have to shower every day. Yeah. It's like a beard. Yeah.
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Yeah. But, uh, outside of that, like people say, Hey, how do I grow a beard? Uh, you literally do
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nothing. It's awesome. Yeah. All right. Let's keep going. All right. Chris Rad, Radquitz. Chris,
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you better be proud that I pronounced your name correctly. You don't know. You don't know that
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you did. I know. I know. Chris, you can confirm. Um, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts
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about how technology affects our lives, either in ways that we can be beneficial, where it makes it
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easier to connect with our clients or better organized, uh, throughout our days, but it can
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also have the effect of negative ways. Also, maybe the perspective is different between older men and
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younger men. Yeah. I mean, technology is simply a tool, right? So if I needed to, uh, screw a screw
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into a piece of wood, then a hammer probably wouldn't cut it. Does that mean a hammer isn't
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good? No, it just means the hammers, but not the right tool for the job. So the thing that I have
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to be cautious of is all of my work is right here, which quite literally means that it never leaves my
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side. And that is a danger for me. In fact, I just made a post on, uh, on Instagram just last night.
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And I said, Hey, in an attempt to rid myself of bad social media habits and allowing some,
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some negativity to pour into my family life in the evening, I'm just going to sign out of this
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device altogether in the evening. And so I did that last night and that's not indefinite, but you know,
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I want to try it and experiment and see if that works because I noticed that the technology that's
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wonderful, that's connecting us, that has allowed this podcast to be listened to over 20 million times,
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uh, that has done the tremendous work that it's done is all using social media and technology and
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digital technology. But at the same time, if we're not using it correctly, uh, or we're letting it get
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out of hand, then it actually undermines what it is we're trying to accomplish. So I think you really
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have to ask yourself when you're using technology, whether it's computer or social media or this device
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or whatever, is it actually helping you accomplish the objective? The other thing I see a lot of people do
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with technology is that they'll over complicate things that don't need to be complicated. So I
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used to do a lot of my planning and my tracking for my day digitally, but I noticed that it was so
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complicated and there were so many little formulas and little spreadsheets and fixing this and tweaking
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that. And it just became something that wasn't productive anymore. So I moved away from digital
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technology and it's all analog. Now I, I use my battle planner. I write it all down every day. I use a pen
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and a paper and I write down my plan and I track my plan on pen and paper. And so I'm not using
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technology for tracking the way that I would for connecting with people on social media. So I think
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you just really have to ask yourself, what am I trying to accomplish? And is the tool I'm going to
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utilize helping me get in the right direction, pushing me forward, or is it getting in the way and
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potentially it could get in the way and you have to be willing to look at that and make
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Totally. So you actually hold that, the stick thing with your finger and then that puts the-
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Yes, it's really weird. You just hold it and there's this black stuff, they call it ink.
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And you put it on the paper and you move your hand around in certain motions and it makes what
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Like a keyboard, but different. Can you, it's, it's funny. I don't think people write in,
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I don't think they do. I, I don't anymore, but I can.
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Right. So I don't think people can, I think there's a lot of like, I think my kids can,
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cause we're homeschooling and my wife is teaching them, but I don't think a lot of people can
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write in cursive, which is an interesting thing.
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I wrote in cursive on something. My kids are like, I can't read that. And it's not bad.
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It's not bad. I actually have decent handwriting. They just know what cursive looks like. It's
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Well, that is a, that is a challenge though, is that let's say that, I don't know, let's
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use an example of a calculator. So you give your kid a math problem and they get the calculator
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out, which is great. We have these tools, we should use them, but the calculator isn't working
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or the power's dead or something. It's like, okay, well now how are you going to figure
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it out? But then we hamstring ourselves to technology. And the problem with that is that
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when that technology isn't working or, or isn't working correctly, or we don't have the right
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technology for the job, I feel in a lot of ways we've done ourselves a disservice by not being
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able to figure it out in other ways, doing long form math, for example, or, you know, just,
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just the things that we need to figure out on a daily basis.
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Or just the value of your brain understanding how that math equation is like the, the, how it's
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calculated and how it's determined. Like just why that understanding the why of that is
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probably just good for your brain. And we should probably just understand things a little bit
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I think it'll help you with critical thinking. Yeah. You know, that, that's why I think I
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used to laugh at like story problems, right? Cause you're like, what the hell does this have
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to do with anything? But that's better than math. Cause that's what life is. Life is a story
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problem. It's a story with a problem in it. And you need to get creative to figure out how
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you're going to address this issue you're dealing with. So I think we do well to unplug
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from social media and from technology as often as we can and get in the real world. And then
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we can go back to using technology. It's not the devil. It's just how you use it.
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Yeah. Well, and I think there's a, there was a good, the good example of this time. I think
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it was time magazine just a few years back where they had an article about how genealogy and
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pornography were like the top two items that the internet was being used for.
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One of them. Awesome. The other one, not so awesome. And it's just a prime example where
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that tool was being used for greatness, for a good thing to connect people to our ancestors
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and find value in, in our, as being a descendant and all those kinds of things and connecting
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families together. And then the opposite was something that was probably breaking up families.
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Yeah. It's just like, like we said, just how you use it. Yep. All right. Stephen Parker,
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security versus growth. It has to be one or the other. Yeah. This is a false dichotomy, right?
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Hey, well, they, let me read the question. Sorry. Uh, do you stay in the job that is safe and pays well,
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or do you set out and go for the risky gold? What does each teach? Uh, what does it teach your kids?
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What this, this one, this is one of those things it's hard for me to relate to. Yeah. Because if you
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read that question slowly, like if this individual read this question slowly, I think he would just
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naturally know the answer. Like why in the world would you want to fat, for example, fast forward
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30 years from now and look back on your life. And let's just say for the sake of argument that you
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took the quote unquote safe route, which I'm not actually suggesting is necessarily the safe route,
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but that's the wording you use. So let's talk about that for a minute. So you take this quote
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unquote safe route and you got paid a little bit more, uh, but you maybe did something that you
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didn't fully enjoy, or maybe you enjoyed it, but it wasn't like your passion wasn't something that
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like really motivated you, inspired you. And you kind of lived a decent mediocre life.
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Would you be satisfied with that? I would be willing to bet that you would not be satisfied with
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that, that there would be all sorts of, of, of resentment and bitterness and remorse for not
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pursuing something meaningful and significant to you. And here's the deal. We live in a day and age
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where you can pursue financially a career, something that's motivating, that's uplifting,
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that's inspiring, that's that you're passionate about, that gets you fired up. And you can also make
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a great living doing it order of man as a prime example. I make a great income and every day that
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I get up, I get up excited about what it is I'm going to be doing that day. That is what is so
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cool about modern times and technology to go to our point earlier is that we have the power to do
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something that's going to make a great income for us and something that we, we are truly passionate
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about. Now to get back to the safety thing, it's not safer to go the traditional route. It's a
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different level of risk. It, it actually may be less risky to pursue your own career, to pursue something
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that is deeply meaningful and engaging to you. It's not that doesn't have risk is that it's a different
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kind of risk and you need to assess what level of risk you're willing to take versus what potential
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outcome you're after. But look, life is short and we're going to die maybe this afternoon, maybe in
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10 years, maybe in 80 years, but it's just too short to just do what like we're supposed to do or do
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what we've been told that we need to do or color within the lines. Like it's just too short for
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that. I want to live a meaningful, engaging life. And you know what, if I don't make as much money
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doing it and it's been exciting and allowed me a lot of opportunities and cool conversations and
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powerful experiences, then I would happily trade the money for those experiences. But I don't believe
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that that's necessarily the payment that you need to make. I think you could actually make more
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doing something that you're excited, engaged with. It might take longer to get there, right?
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Because when I started, so here's a prime example. So Order of Man, I started in March of 2015.
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It took me 11 months or excuse me, I think it was seven months, seven months to make my first dollar
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from Order of Man. And I made about $1,200 in November of 2015. Well, I, when I left my financial
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planning practice, I quite literally stepped away from a multi six figure business to do this.
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So some would say, well, that's risky. Yes, there was a level of risk associated with that. But now
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I'm making significantly more than I was making in my financial planning practice. So yes, there may be
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a longer lead time to generate that income, but I think you can have both. You can have your cake and
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need it to. And that's what I would suggest. And it's perceived. Sometimes it's not even
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accurate, right? I had a consulting company, a small company, and I had an employee once where
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he wanted to step down and get a job at a corporate company, a large corporate company. And the reason
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was, is he felt like, well, we're expecting a baby. And I, and I, I didn't want to work for a small
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company because it was more risky. And I'm, and I told him, I'm like, how is it more risky?
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You can get a job for corporate America, be a cog in a wheel, bust your ass and no one will notice.
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And if the market turns, you get laid off or you can work for a consulting company that has five
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employees. And the correlation between your hard work and the success of the company is almost like
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directly tied to each other. Right. So would you rather have the responsibility and the control
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of your destiny or have this perceived stability and not be in control whatsoever? And, and no
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correlation between how hard you work and whether you keep your job or not. It's all made up in your
00:22:46.420
head. Like it's just perceived. It's just the level of risk you're willing, the type of risk you're
00:22:51.780
willing to assume. Totally. And he's still left bastard. Totally. And now he's broken,
00:22:58.560
miserable and in a dead end job. Yeah. Yeah. And by the way, if you choose to work in a corporate
00:23:04.640
environment and, and you consciously make that decision and you're satisfied with that and you
00:23:10.140
found fulfillment, cool, all the power to you. Like there's nothing wrong with that. Like not
00:23:14.860
everybody needs to start a business. I'm not suggesting that, but if you're asking this question,
00:23:18.500
then odds are that you're interested in doing it. Here's what I would say regarding what are you're
00:23:22.820
teaching your kids? What would you tell your children? Like if they were asking you about
00:23:28.120
this, what advice would you give them? Because that's what you're doing through your actions.
00:23:35.620
You may not verbally be speaking that advice, but your actions are teaching them a lesson.
00:23:40.080
And it's the lesson that you would actually, excuse me, let me say it this way. If it's not,
00:23:45.700
if your actions are not the lesson that you would share with them, then there's a disconnect,
00:23:49.880
right? And you need to figure out a way to bridge that gap. Yeah.
00:23:55.180
Steven Patrick Perry, do you believe that in today's day and age that it is still important to
00:24:01.580
ask your girlfriend's father for his blessing for proposing? I just proposed to my girlfriend tonight
00:24:06.600
and she said, yes. Congratulations, Steven. Yeah. I did ask her dad for his blessing and he gave it,
00:24:12.900
but I know not everyone does this anymore. I was curious on your thoughts.
00:24:18.280
So you sent me these questions beforehand and this is this, I read this one and I thought a lot about
00:24:22.880
this. In fact, last night I was thinking about it because is it necessary? No. Is it a requirement?
00:24:27.900
No. There's a lot of reasons why I think you would, but here's something that I'd have you consider
00:24:32.220
that maybe you haven't considered before. I want, I would, if I was in the dating world,
00:24:39.180
I would want to find a woman who had a great relationship with a wonderful father
00:24:45.240
because I think that would be very telling about our relationship together.
00:24:52.580
Totally. And if I, and I'm not saying it's always going to be this way because I know there's
00:24:57.820
exceptions, but it seems to me that if you find a woman who doesn't have a great relationship with
00:25:03.000
her father, then there may be potential daddy issues and relationship issues and some, some
00:25:09.900
inaccurate feelings about men. Again, I'm not saying that's always the case, but it seems to me
00:25:15.460
that would open it up for those problems to arise. On the other hand, if, if, if a woman has a great
00:25:22.360
relationship with a loving, committed, engaged father, then I'm going to assume that that type
00:25:31.260
of relationship would spill over into your marriage. There's a lot of other factors, but that's
00:25:35.580
something I considered. So if I find a woman like that, then I would, I would be excited to ask him
00:25:44.500
because of their relationship and the fact that I would respect him. Like I really, for example,
00:25:51.000
I really respect and look up to my father-in-law. Like he's a man who's disciplined, committed.
00:25:57.780
He, he obviously loves his family. He provides for them. He's engaged with them. He, he's made a lot
00:26:06.020
of sacrifices on his own part in order to make sure that they were always taken care of. This is a man
00:26:10.980
I really admire and respect. So why would I not pay him that honor? I would. And so I see
00:26:18.440
the demise and the breaking up of the family is as a reason why maybe that you wouldn't do this.
00:26:24.980
But if I'm looking to get into a marriage with, with a woman, then I'm going to look for a woman
00:26:29.460
who has a great family background because she understands and honors the sanctity of marriage
00:26:36.080
and she honors her father. And I want to show her that I honor her father as well. And I think that's
00:26:42.900
going to naturally spill over into your relationship with her. So yeah, I think if you, I think it'd be
00:26:49.660
a red flag if you didn't want to ask him or he wasn't even around to ask. I'm not saying it's a
00:26:55.480
deal breaker. I'm just saying that there's some things there that need to be addressed.
00:26:59.780
Yeah. You would almost assume that you're going to have in the ideal situation that you would have a
00:27:05.780
relationship with her father while dating. So it's, it'd be more natural to, to have that
00:27:11.980
conversation because it's someone that, you know, you've been around, you're aware of the family and
00:27:16.620
you respect him. You actually know who the dude is. Right. Yeah, totally. Yeah. So I, I, I like that
00:27:23.240
tradition. I think it's valuable and I think it's a level of respect on to, to him paying him respect
00:27:28.320
and to your, your wife as well. So I say yes. Totally. All right. Greg, Rocky Walker. How do you,
00:27:37.160
I stay on course of telling the truth and living by the code, but not being proceed as an asshole,
00:27:44.280
asshole or holier than thou? Well, don't be an asshole. Like, I don't understand. So you're saying
00:27:53.340
that because you're living by a code, whatever that code is that because you're living that way,
00:27:58.980
that you're being an asshole. He added the telling the truth. So I I'm assuming that it's almost like
00:28:06.580
things are happening and I need to step up and give some truth to people. Right. Yes. Here's the
00:28:14.000
answer. Don't give unsolicited feedback to people. Yeah. That's where you're probably being perceived as an
00:28:21.120
asshole because you're, you're telling people things that they haven't given you permission
00:28:25.900
for you to tell them. And that's a problem. Now, granted, there's going to be some times where you
00:28:30.560
need to say that because there's some sort of safety concern or issue that, that might pose a
00:28:35.960
risk to somebody's wellbeing or life or, okay, well, you've got to address that. But outside of that,
00:28:41.080
like be very, very cautious of giving unsolicited feedback because very rarely is it accepted as
00:28:47.160
it's probably intended, which is to help. And you potentially alienate relationships and undermine
00:28:54.780
what it is you're trying to do. So don't give feedback that you're not asked for. Like that's
00:28:59.900
the best thing, unless you're in the position like a child, for example, I got to give my kids feedback
00:29:05.300
that they haven't asked for because that's my job, right? Same thing with an employer. I have to give
00:29:10.440
feedback to employees. But if I take an, another employee on my same level for lack of a better
00:29:17.280
term, and I started giving them a bunch of feedback that they haven't asked for, like that's not your
00:29:21.560
job and that's not your right. And they're going to perceive that as you potentially being holier than
00:29:27.040
now or a know-it-all or a suck up or an a-hole or a threat or a threat. Yeah. Good point. So yeah,
00:29:34.700
just don't offer unsolicited feedback to those that you don't have a right to offer unsolicited feedback
00:29:39.640
too. Like it's the thing about that. We've got to be cautious with this word truth. Like,
00:29:47.260
like what are they speaking power to truth and all these like terms? It's like, yes,
00:29:51.520
but that doesn't mean that you need to say everything that comes to your mind.
00:29:57.260
All right. There's still some things that you probably just shouldn't say.
00:30:01.540
And I know that there's, you know, social media influencers and, oh, you should speak your truth
00:30:06.560
and share your truth and always say what's on your mind. No, you shouldn't. You should exercise
00:30:12.380
discernment. Sometimes you should speak the truth sometime, which more often than not,
00:30:18.780
what people are saying is share your perspective, not truth, but share your perspective. And sometimes
00:30:23.800
you ought to just keep your mouth shut. And it's your job to understand which course of action to
00:30:31.060
take based on the scenario and the objective that you're trying to accomplish. And it's okay that you
00:30:35.320
don't say something. You know, we live in this, this world with social media and this podcast,
00:30:40.000
for example, where we're encouraged to like speak all the time. Sometimes you just don't need to speak.
00:30:46.400
Sometimes you need to shut up and listen. And that's just as powerful. Yeah.
00:30:51.660
Man, I, I can't help, but think like how many times I ran into this unique scenario when getting
00:31:02.160
divorced. Um, my, my divorce was my ex-wife hated me. She might, she might still hate me a little bit.
00:31:09.680
Um, but, but it was really, it was a really tough scenario and there was constant use cases where
00:31:17.600
she would attack or blame or, uh, communicate kind of things that, that I believed was inaccurate and
00:31:25.440
wrong. And at first I was constantly like, Oh, I got to correct her. Right. I got to rebuttal that
00:31:30.880
got to communicate about. And then eventually I was just like, why? Like she, she is not going to see
00:31:37.320
my perspective on this. I'm not going to convince her. There's no like quote unquote legal reason.
00:31:43.280
Like I'm not even in a position. It's kind of goes back to the book, uh, crucial conversations,
00:31:47.320
right? There's a lack of trust. There is no common ground. So all communication is, is worthless at
00:31:54.960
this point, right? It's, it's not going to provide assistance. And, and, and I, and now I look at back
00:32:00.300
at this, not from a perspective of her, that she was right. And I was, or she was wrong. And I was
00:32:05.620
right as much as that's her perception. And guess what? From her world, that was probably a hundred
00:32:11.340
percent accurate. But the point was, is I was in no position to be convincing her of anything.
00:32:17.020
And I had no objective. There's no value of me rebuttaling everything. So I just disengaged.
00:32:23.080
I'm like, Oh, you know what? I'm spending cycles and energy trying to convince her of something where
00:32:27.880
there's no point of it. There's, she's not asking for my input. Right. And, but it was really hard to
00:32:33.820
do, especially in that circumstance. Cause I wanted to stand up for myself, right? No,
00:32:37.380
that's not right. Let me, let me, let me drop my opinion on you and try to convince you otherwise.
00:32:42.180
But it was, it was, it was pointless. Cause I was not in a position where she even respected me
00:32:46.580
to even listen to any of those things. Yeah. I mean, restraint can be a very powerful practice
00:32:52.500
when applied correctly. And like you said, it helps you maintain some of that, that energy and those
00:32:58.420
resources that you would be expending. Otherwise, uh, in fact, on Friday, uh, there'll be a podcast
00:33:03.920
on our Friday field notes that kind of revolves around this, the 10 commandments of logic.
00:33:09.300
And I'm going to break down how you can have civil discourse with individuals and, uh, these
00:33:15.880
commandments of logic, for example, uh, thou shalt not attack the person's character, but the argument,
00:33:20.420
the second one is thou shall not misrepresent or exaggerate a person's argument in order to make
00:33:24.640
them easier to attack. So I'm going to go through these 10 commandments of logic, ensuring that we
00:33:31.780
as communicators use these ideas of logic. And then if we realize that there's people who are
00:33:38.020
abusing these commandments of logic, that it's probably best to disengage with them because
00:33:42.080
you're in a lose, lose situation here. So I'll go through it out on Friday.
00:33:46.660
So to, to catch that Friday, subscribe to the podcast and, or look for that video on YouTube as
00:33:52.580
well. And that's youtube.com slash order of man. You're getting good at these little, uh,
00:33:57.460
these little segues, man. I'm impressed. Working it. Yes, sir. Michael Gorham, finding the balance
00:34:03.840
between building discipline and building bonds with your young sons. I, I like this question, by the
00:34:10.040
way. Um, again, again, well, no, no, no. I'm just saying they're not at odds with each other.
00:34:17.740
Yeah. Like what, when I hear, when I think of balance, I think of two conflicting ideas that
00:34:23.820
you're trying to like balance between, right? So like balancing time at work versus time with your
00:34:29.720
family. That's, that makes sense. Cause one takes away from the other. So you have to balance that to
00:34:34.720
find the right, the right place. But I don't think being disciplined and then forging bonds with your
00:34:40.300
children, I believe you said, those are at odds with each other. In fact, I think being disciplined
00:34:45.200
would help you create better bonds with your children, discipline in your schedule, discipline
00:34:50.500
in signing out of work when you say you will discipline in working out potentially even with
00:34:55.640
them and getting them involved, discipline in, uh, doing your own practices and then encouraging them
00:35:00.840
to do their practices. So they, they develop discipline. These things are not at odds with
00:35:05.580
each other unless I'm misunderstanding the question. No, I think you understood the question perfectly,
00:35:09.960
but it's interesting because when I read the question, what I immediately assumed, not assumed,
00:35:15.080
but, uh, I, I, maybe Michael and I are more on the same page because I agree, right? You can learn
00:35:20.700
and teach discipline while being active with your child, right? And being an example. However, I think
00:35:26.580
sometimes maybe it's the definition that we put around discipline and maybe Michael's looking at it
00:35:31.440
from a perspective of kind of, um, communicating discipline and writing them and, and holding them
00:35:38.700
accountable, not participating with them as much. Right. And it's more, listen to me, Timmy, you need
00:35:45.440
to get up on time and blah, blah, blah. And, you know, kind of maybe writing them hard and that's
00:35:50.340
kind of affecting your bond with them because you're, you know, you're kind of being stern with them.
00:35:55.000
Okay. So I think, yes, that makes sense. So I think what I'm hearing you say, and maybe in this
00:35:59.420
question is disciplining your children versus forging bonds with them. Yeah. Oh, that makes sense.
00:36:05.860
Okay. Yeah. But, but it's just ironic, right? Because maybe you've already answered. The question
00:36:10.640
is the way you do, you do both. And it, a lot of it has to do with showing what discipline looks like,
00:36:16.340
not just speaking to discipline all the time. Right. Well, let me give you an example. I don't
00:36:21.880
like sharing these examples because it illustrates my own inadequacies as a father, but it will, it will
00:36:27.400
help. Perfect. Let's grab this segment. So how much time are we in? So the other day I was gone at
00:36:33.580
SHOT Show, uh, last week and I told my son, okay, you got the orders. You can take care of the orders
00:36:39.720
that come in by yourself. He's like, okay, I can do that. Is that why I got five hats instead of one?
00:36:45.060
Exactly. Yeah. And he did a good, he did a pretty good job. So I got back, but it wasn't done the way
00:36:52.100
it wasn't done to standard. It wasn't done to the standard that we had talked about.
00:36:56.340
And instead of communicating that with him and having a mature discussion, I yelled at him
00:37:03.220
and I lost my cool. And I ended up having to apologize later because of the way that I responded.
00:37:10.680
Now, one might say that I was disciplining him by yelling at him, but did it produce the intended
00:37:16.920
result? The answer is certainly it did not. And it didn't create a deeper bond with us. In fact,
00:37:24.580
drove a wedge between us, not a great wedge, not something that I can't overcome, but a wedge
00:37:30.120
nonetheless. And so I had to go and apologize and fix the situation and realize that the way that I
00:37:37.420
responded was not discipline. It was immaturity and emotional reaction. And it undermined what I
00:37:44.680
wanted to get accomplished and our bond and his ability to do his job effectively. So we went back
00:37:51.220
in, I rectified the situation. I said, sorry, I apologize. And then I did what I should have done
00:37:56.660
in the first place, which was explain to him the standard again, reiterate the standard, ask him why
00:38:03.200
he didn't meet the standard. Cause he shared some things that I wasn't aware of when I was being
00:38:07.000
emotional. And then we rectified the situation and all as well. So discipline isn't about being,
00:38:14.980
isn't about being like the abusive figure, you know, that, that, that, that has the whip.
00:38:22.340
Yeah. It's about using your words and your vocabulary and your example and your actions to
00:38:27.780
produce an intended result in your children, which is that they're going to be capable of doing these
00:38:33.060
things better when you're not there. Cause isn't that ultimately the objective is to raise self
00:38:38.200
sufficient, self sustained human beings, adults. And the way that we utilize our discipline or,
00:38:45.660
or the way that we discipline our children, like spanking, I don't spank my kids. You could say
00:38:50.000
that's discipline. I know there's guys that probably do spank their kids and you can say that's
00:38:53.540
discipline, but I think it undermines what you would be trying to accomplish. So I choose not to
00:38:59.280
use that as a form of discipline. I can have a serious conversation and an uncomfortable conversation
00:39:05.700
and still forge a bond with my children because of the way I'm doing it. So just, just think about
00:39:12.460
how you're using it and, and be careful to not use it incorrectly. Like, like I did, you know,
00:39:20.120
that, that, that's something that keeps me up at night. I'm like, man, I just did not handle that.
00:39:23.880
I did not handle that good at all. So there you go. All right. He's not perfect.
00:39:31.240
I know. Shocker. Shocker. Yeah. Perfect beard. Get some things right, but not everything.
00:39:37.920
Yeah. Greg Anderson. How do you overcome being tired all the time, which in turn affects motivation
00:39:44.020
and production? Sorry, I was on mute. Cause I was taking a big drink of water there. Um,
00:39:51.320
okay. So how do you avoid being tired? Okay. There's a lot, there's a lot here. Number one,
00:39:57.400
find work that's meaningful and engaging to you. You might be tired because you're doing something
00:40:02.200
that's miserable and that would be tiring and boring. Number two, start eating better,
00:40:08.140
eat better food. Cause if you're drinking a bunch of, uh, of soda and you're eating a bunch of junk food,
00:40:13.300
then your body isn't recovering correctly. And naturally you're going to be more tired.
00:40:16.620
Number three, exercise. I know that might be counterintuitive because you think, well,
00:40:21.800
if I exercise more than I'll be more tired. Well, if you're 30 or 40 or 50 pounds overweight,
00:40:25.760
then you're carrying an extra 50 pounds around. You're naturally going to be more tired.
00:40:29.400
I used to weigh 50 pounds more than I do right now. And several years ago, I went into the gym
00:40:34.760
after I lost that 50 pounds and I picked up a 45 pound plate and I was like, holy shit. No wonder I
00:40:40.360
was tired all the time. I was literally carrying this 50 pound plate around my body every,
00:40:46.620
day all day. And while I was sleeping, I had this layer of fat around my neck that was trying to
00:40:52.440
suffocate me. Of course I'm tired. Of course I'm tired. Yeah. A couple of other strategies,
00:40:58.920
turn off the electronics before you go to bed. There's research and conclusive evidence that
00:41:04.560
suggests that the, I believe it's the blue light blocks, uh, melatonin production in our bodies
00:41:09.920
and keeps us from sleeping. So turn that device off, read a book in bed. In fact, don't even read a
00:41:16.540
book in bed, read a book in your chair. And the bed is for two things, sex and sleeping. That's
00:41:22.260
it. That's it. No TV or anything in your bedroom. None of that stuff. Make it pitch black in there.
00:41:27.800
Uh, set the temperature where it's cool. There's a lot of little things that you can do to ensure
00:41:32.240
that you're sleeping the best and then wake up early, accomplish your day, do your thing. Uh,
00:41:38.540
and those are the strategies that I would, that have worked for me. Like I don't,
00:41:41.780
I don't get tired during the day, but I feel like I've got a pretty good grasp on these,
00:41:47.140
on these things. One, one thing that I heard that I think is profound is sleep is not all created equal.
00:41:54.080
So you could be quote unquote sleeping for eight hours, but if it's not deep sleep,
00:41:59.440
you're not recovering. So I would even look at things like, um, what, what, what's the general rules?
00:42:05.100
Like no caffeine past 2 PM because people think, Oh, I can drink a cup of coffee before bed and go
00:42:11.220
to sleep and I fall asleep. Fine. Yeah. But the quality of sleep that you're getting is being
00:42:15.680
affected. So look at what you're inputting into your body before bed. Um, the general rule I've
00:42:22.040
heard is like no caffeine or anything past 2 PM because it actually takes that long for it to get
00:42:26.980
out of your system. Well, and if you really, if you really want to sleep, just don't consume caffeine at
00:42:32.480
all. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, if you want to take it to the extreme, do that. And I think that
00:42:38.560
will help. Yeah. Cool. So, all right. Zing Alec, what does, uh, what tools do you use while reading
00:42:45.380
in order to fully absorb important information? You usually what I do when I read a book,
00:42:52.180
I'd grab one there behind. I won't grab one right now, but usually what I'll do when I read is I have
00:42:57.120
a highlighter with me. So I'll read the book and if something stands out, either a segment or a
00:43:03.740
paragraph or a page is I'll highlight that sentence or paragraph, or I'll draw a vertical line on that
00:43:09.780
page, meaning this entire page is important to me. And then I'll just do a little dog ear on the
00:43:14.720
page itself and I'll keep reading. Okay. So then I'll get through the entire book. And then what I'll do
00:43:20.080
is I'll go back through the book. So I'll start at the first page and go to the pages that I dog eared
00:43:25.220
and reread the segments that I highlighted and then ask how I might be able to implement that or why
00:43:30.860
that was important. So actually go through the book twice, a full read with annotations. And then I go
00:43:36.500
back and I just read the annotations themselves. I see. Do you ever write a, I used to do this back
00:43:41.940
in the day, but I don't do it anymore. But do you ever write like a book summary afterwards? Like a,
00:43:46.460
just kind of a written out summary of the book? Did you, have you ever done that?
00:43:50.500
No, because no, that seems too time. That seems like a waste of time to me. Yeah. It just seems
00:43:56.700
like, I mean, maybe that's a good idea. Maybe I would, I should try that, but, but no, I haven't.
00:44:03.020
Yeah. I like, I've never, I've highlighted, but I actually don't go back and then intentionally
00:44:08.620
reread them. Right. Like I almost mark it as, I don't know, sometime whenever I want to look at
00:44:15.040
that again, I'll somehow look through those and. And you won't. Yeah. And I won't. Yeah. I like
00:44:20.080
that. I like that review going. You also, when I do that, I also go back the second time with the
00:44:26.800
goal of, of implementation. So what am I going to pull out? And exactly. So if I read the specific
00:44:34.040
paragraph that I really liked, my question is, okay, now what? Cool. Great sentence. What do I do
00:44:40.400
with this information? And then I try to take one thing and apply it into my practices. Um,
00:44:45.580
the trap that I fell into several years ago was just reading a ton of books just for the sake of
00:44:51.360
reading books. And I thought like that was the badge of honor. Well, if you never apply any of it,
00:44:56.420
it doesn't really matter. So I've actually scaled way back on my book reading and read more for
00:45:01.960
application rather than consumption. Let me ask you this. There's a great quote that I read years and
00:45:07.820
years ago, and I've never been able to find this quote, but it was something to the extent of
00:45:12.600
thoughts. And like, it's really around thought without conclusion is like a waste of time.
00:45:20.740
And, and I really liked that thought process, mostly from the perspective of people complain
00:45:25.020
about saying, Oh, I hate that this is this way. And then they move on. Well, then what's the
00:45:29.480
conclusion? Like, what are you going to do about it? And I, and I think when we read books without
00:45:33.060
the intention of implementation, it's the same thought process is, Oh, awesome information.
00:45:37.560
Yeah. But what are you going to do about it? What now? What, like, what's the conclusion that
00:45:42.100
you're going to step away with? Because that means action, right? Coming out of gathering more
00:45:46.940
information. But yeah, no, that's a great point. It's, you know, we, we have a phrase in our church
00:45:54.960
of, of pondering the scriptures, right? Yeah. And the idea of, of pondering the scriptures is not
00:46:00.620
simply reading them, but pondering on them, like reflecting, thinking about it, putting yourself
00:46:07.540
in, in the, the shoes of the characters you're reading about and the scenarios that you're,
00:46:12.700
that you're learning from and figuring out how it'll apply to your life. And what is the lesson
00:46:18.300
being taught and how can that make you a better human being? We can take that same concept,
00:46:23.120
pondering and utilize it when it comes to reading other books that we might be interested in.
00:46:29.680
So yeah, reflect, ponder, put yourself in their shoes, ask yourself, like, what is the outcome,
00:46:36.000
the objective to your point earlier? And I just think you'll have a better time retaining that
00:46:39.600
information. Yeah. Cool. Um, alphabet Paul, can you tell me the secret of your success? The secret,
00:46:48.440
secret. The secret. I don't know. Well, I don't, I don't know that join the iron council. We'll let
00:46:57.040
you know there. We'll tell you the secret on day one. Right. Um, well, I don't know if the premise is
00:47:04.460
entirely true in that a couple of things in that there is one secret, maybe key. Yes. Yeah. And in
00:47:10.800
that I'm really all that successful. I mean, yeah, I've had some success, you know, relative to other
00:47:17.180
people, I guess, but I mean, plenty of people are just as successful, if not more so. So I don't know,
00:47:22.600
like if I understand or agree with the entire premise. Um, and, and like, what is success anyways?
00:47:29.540
Like, are you talking about success in my business? Are you talking about success with,
00:47:33.820
with my family, joyful, like fulfillment, happy financial success? Like, what is it
00:47:39.500
that's true for? I don't know. So my general, it's a very, to your point you made last week about
00:47:45.120
general questions that are hard to answer. I will give general advice or suggestions or thoughts.
00:47:53.620
Uh, number one, I would say is have a plan. Well, have an objective, excuse me. You need to have
00:48:03.740
objective first and have something that you're after. Cause if you're not after anything, then you don't
00:48:09.200
really know what you're trying to go towards. Right. It's just, yeah, good point. You get great
00:48:13.580
analogy. You're just blowing around wherever the wind takes you. So having an objective number to
00:48:18.840
have a plan to meet that objective. It's not going to be perfect. It's not going to work out exactly
00:48:23.840
right. But if you have a plan, you're going to get there quicker than if you don't have a plan
00:48:27.400
and you're just bouncing around, hoping to get to point B. Uh, number three is find people. And this
00:48:34.940
is a direct, uh, benefit of the podcast is find successful people who are doing what you want to
00:48:41.840
do and, and, and pick their brain, talk with them, learn from them, be mentored by them, read their
00:48:49.800
books, sign up for their newsletters, go to their courses, surround yourself by these individuals.
00:48:54.580
And then you will get there. If you implement the same thing, your likelihood of you getting to the
00:48:58.980
same place is pretty significant and then go to work. That's it. Just don't be distracted. Just go
00:49:06.060
to work and, and, and be consistent and show up every day. And regardless of how you feel or what
00:49:12.680
your emotions are at any given day, like just go do the work, execute the plan, execute what these
00:49:18.860
individuals are teaching you and, and just do it and fall in love with the process and realize that
00:49:24.260
through that process, inevitably you're going to produce the results when, when you're ready.
00:49:29.280
You'll produce the result when you're ready. You have to do the work to get to that point.
00:49:33.120
Yeah. And, and I think one of the profound things that you said, Ryan is what is success? I think
00:49:41.620
it's important for us to identify that, not to have some elusive idea that once I make some money,
00:49:49.380
I will be happy or like, you need to be really clear on that. I remember my thought process going into
00:49:56.860
college was, um, so my dad was a farmer, worked in a coal mine. And so I thought, man, if, if post
00:50:04.660
college, if I can make as much money as he makes at that age, I'd be golden. That was, that was $40,000.
00:50:12.120
That was my goal. Yeah. Seriously. That was like success to me. Cause that's all, you know,
00:50:18.660
right? Yeah. Right. College wasn't even a conversation by the way, in my family. Like
00:50:23.420
it was a rare, like when I brought that up, my parents are like, uh, what really? Yeah. I,
00:50:28.500
I didn't even know. Interesting. I didn't know how to sign up. I got totally different world that I was
00:50:34.340
raised in. But my point is, is I thought that was success. And guess what? When 40 came, did I feel
00:50:40.560
successful? No, no. Then I thought, you know what? It's 60. I need 60. Got 60. It felt a lot like 40.
00:50:48.860
Yes. And 80 still felt like 40 and a hundred still felt like 40. And, and that's what happens to people.
00:50:55.740
I think is we think that success or happiness and joy is maybe in a dollar value without clearly
00:51:03.340
sitting back and defining anything. And when it comes, we just keep chasing this carrot. That's
00:51:08.060
constantly floating in front of us. When reality, all that we needed to do is have flexibility of time
00:51:13.560
and have wonderful experiences with our family. And guess what? I could have pulled that off at 40.
00:51:18.840
Yeah. So I think we needed to find what is success.
00:51:22.840
It's hard because what we do is we compare ourselves to so many other people. That's a
00:51:29.580
social media thing, right? We look at what all these other people are doing and we have the fear
00:51:32.860
of missing out and, and the, the, the plague of keeping up with the Joneses and how come I'm not
00:51:38.440
popular like that guy or running around in this person's circles. And so we think, well, once I have
00:51:43.340
that, that's external factor, then like you said, then I'll be happy. Then I'll be satisfied. Then I'll be
00:51:49.280
fulfilled. No, you have to be those things first. The, uh, the other things will come naturally
00:51:53.860
inevitably. Yeah. And we talk about this. You be, you take action and then you have, right? There
00:52:00.080
is no like, Oh, once I have these things, then I'll be happy. No, it doesn't work that way because
00:52:06.060
one, you use this analogy all the time is you didn't earn it. So you're not going to be that way
00:52:11.320
because you haven't even earned that right to, to have that. And how much control do we have
00:52:17.620
really over still, uh, over our circumstances? Like the Stoic approach to this is regardless of
00:52:22.920
circumstances that we have in life, you can choose to show up a certain way. And that is who we are
00:52:28.500
being in the moment. All right. Well said Chris Baber. Oh, this isn't a question. I just wanted to say
00:52:36.680
my wallet is awesome. And by showing his wallet to people, he gets a 25% five, 25% discount in all
00:52:43.820
purchases, not guaranteed by the way. Wait, what did you say? I didn't catch that. I joke around
00:52:49.680
with my kids. So I tell my boys, I'm like, see my order man. Well, cause they all want one. Right.
00:52:54.580
And you've been, we've been sold out of them. So I haven't snagged some more ones, but they think
00:52:58.480
it's great. And so I'm like, you know what? I'm like, I just showed the order man logo on the
00:53:02.880
wallet at the drive-in and they're like, give me free stuff. Right. Oh yeah. Order a man guy.
00:53:08.840
You're good. Extra burrito for you. I'm not going to charge you for the sour cream.
00:53:14.700
I didn't know that. I'm going to actually try that. You should try it. Just start flashing
00:53:19.540
your wallet at people and see what happens. You know what's funny is I bet you could get
00:53:23.700
discounts if you did that. Like I bet if you said, Hey, um, is there an order of bad discount?
00:53:29.580
Yeah. And just showed like, Hey, I'm part of order of man. And you had your shirt on or
00:53:34.740
a hat or a, or your wallet and say, can I get that order of man discount? I was told
00:53:38.960
I can get 10%. I'd be really curious to see how many people can get discounts. Try that
00:53:43.660
guys. Try that. Please. I beg of you try that. And if you have success getting a quote unquote
00:53:51.200
order of man discount at stores, I will, I'll send you some free stuff. Like I'll send you
00:53:57.540
a real order of man discount. Yeah. Like I will, if you have, if you can verify that you had a
00:54:03.880
legitimate discount that they gave you because you were a member of order of man, I will send you
00:54:08.660
something. I love it. I love it. That would be so awesome. I ruined what Chris wanted to share.
00:54:13.640
What he really wanted to share was that his wallet's awesome, but the card from Brecken was
00:54:17.960
even better. Yeah. Brecken does a little, little, uh, sign note in, in the, uh, in the orders and
00:54:25.920
lets people know what he's all about and what he's doing. So he likes doing that.
00:54:29.460
That's great. Cool. Will Bagley. Hey guys, I'm graduating in a year with a degree in special
00:54:34.760
education as a future public school teacher. What can I do to mentor board boys in need of
00:54:40.860
father figures without overstepping professional boundaries? How can I create a classroom culture
00:54:46.180
that doesn't shame boys for being boys? How can I effectively teach to, to their learning styles?
00:54:51.880
Yeah. I think we talked about this several weeks ago, but the biggest thing I think you're going
00:54:55.900
to need to do with boys is have some sort of experiential learning, right? If you, if you purely
00:55:00.820
teach from the textbooks, uh, you're going to have a hard time connecting with these boys. Like you
00:55:05.460
don't want to learn from a textbook. No, no boy wants to learn from a textbook. This is why girls seem
00:55:10.300
to thrive when it comes to education and getting into college. And now we see more women getting,
00:55:15.860
getting these jobs and career opportunities because of it. So I think you're going to have to find a way
00:55:20.380
to get them to get more of their senses involved in the learning and growing educational process,
00:55:26.900
whether that's through field trips or competition in the classroom. Uh, I, I really liked the idea
00:55:32.900
Kip. I think you had of partnering them up in the class and letting them compete to some degree to what
00:55:39.500
you can and seeing how that would foster a healthy dose of competition and excitement in the young men
00:55:45.420
that you're going to be dealing with. Uh, but yeah, the more senses you can get involved, the more you can
00:55:49.600
get them outside of the classroom, the more that you can get them engaged beyond just reading out of
00:55:53.000
a textbook, the more success you're going to have. I commend you for going into this field,
00:55:57.240
primarily driven by women. Uh, but man, we need more men teaching these boys what it means to be a
00:56:05.360
man. And look, here's the deal. A woman cannot fully teach a young man what it means to be a man.
00:56:11.080
She can teach a lot about what it means to be a good person, but there's so many different nuances
00:56:15.660
and experiences and hormones that a woman's never going to understand about a young boy. And it's
00:56:20.920
going to take you as a teacher potentially as the only male influence in these young men's lives in
00:56:25.980
a lot of cases to, to do that. I had some great coaches in my life when I was young. Uh, and I
00:56:32.740
really credit them with a lot of the growth and success that I've had as a young man. And even me
00:56:37.740
being almost 40 years old now. So you can be instrumental in these people's, in these kids' lives. Uh,
00:56:43.580
but you got to get their noses out of the textbook and get them into experiences and they're going to
00:56:48.840
Well, and I think also to, to add Ryan is they're going to connect to him differently because he is
00:56:55.640
a male. So he, one, he brings something else to the table because being a male, he understands things
00:57:02.380
differently and those kinds of things, but the boys are going to relate to him differently because
00:57:05.820
they're the same. And, and even if those same things were being taught by a female, it would,
00:57:10.460
they wouldn't relate as the same way. So there's, there's going to be a natural connection that's
00:57:14.680
going to form. What's your thoughts, Ryan, on, you know, him saying, you know, being a quote unquote
00:57:20.720
father figure without overstepping professional boundaries, kind of being that, I mean, do you
00:57:26.300
think that's just going to innately happen? Is there any thoughts there?
00:57:30.820
Well, I mean, I don't think you can get too, too close. Right. And that could pose a danger
00:57:36.200
to them and, and also a risk to you. And you, you certainly don't want to do that. So yeah,
00:57:40.260
yeah, you have to maintain the professional distance just like you would in any other work
00:57:45.360
environment. You're not as a boss and the leader. Sometimes we have to do this. Yeah.
00:57:49.260
Right. So you're not going to be intrusive. You're not going to get into their, their personal lives
00:57:55.300
and their personal stories. Um, you know, you're going to learn about them. You're going to learn
00:58:00.000
about what they're going through and maybe they disclose some of that information to you, but
00:58:03.580
be, be guarded, be shielded, protect yourself, protect them as well. Uh, and maintain the,
00:58:10.500
the distance, uh, the emotional connection, but realize that you are playing an integral part in
00:58:16.020
their life, but the personal one-on-one closeness is something that just can't happen. It just can't
00:58:22.640
happen. You're, you're just exposing yourself to all sorts of risk that, um, could, could be
00:58:27.900
jeopardizing, frankly, to your career and your livelihood. So be careful there.
00:58:31.060
Yeah. And like you said, Ryan, commend you, Will. That's awesome. Like I, I was after reading
00:58:38.040
that question, I was kind of like pumped up for him in regards to kind of what he's made
00:58:42.540
his mission. Well, just the fact that he's asking about it, he's going to experiment with,
00:58:47.760
with, with different strategies and try different things. But again, man, get them to compete,
00:58:52.080
get them experiences, get the senses involved and you'll be good to go.
00:58:54.940
Yeah. Okay. Uh, Zach, uh, Skylar, uh, Skylar, when a man has been cheated on multiple times,
00:59:04.000
at what point would you personally walk away? Also, what if your spouse wanted to engage in open
00:59:10.460
marriage? How would you approach this? Oh man. Wow. Well, the first, let me answer the second
00:59:16.980
question. The answer is no. So if my wife, right. Yeah. If she went, if she said, I want to engage
00:59:24.540
in open marriage, it's like, cool, get the divorce papers ready. Yeah. Cause we're, I'm not playing
00:59:28.720
that game. And it's not work. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, uh, we would say this all the time. We're
00:59:35.600
not psychiatrists, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I've known guys that have thought this,
00:59:40.860
that it would be, that it would work or it'd be cool or what? No joke. I'll share this quick story.
00:59:46.700
So church guy at church, we're, we're home teaching companions. We go meet with our families.
00:59:53.620
I'm driving, I'm on my way to bringing him back to his house. And he goes, I'm like, so dude,
01:00:00.040
how's things going? Blah, blah, blah. He's like, things are fine. He's like, yeah, things are going
01:00:03.420
really well. And he starts to tell me that they're having an open relationship with another couple.
01:00:08.760
And I'm like, dude, that is not going to work. And he's like, Oh man, it's our, our love life's
01:00:15.500
better. Everything's better. I'm like, dude, is that going to work? Like I'm telling you right now,
01:00:20.160
like there's so much gray that you are creating, like, and it took like three months. Right. And
01:00:26.500
of course they're getting to divorce and that seems long for me, but he's good. I guess, but I was like
01:00:32.880
shocked. I was like, what are you kidding? You are crazy one. And even if,
01:00:38.540
I don't know for me, I couldn't even deal with it. Like me personally, I don't, I don't know if
01:00:43.720
I'm overly jealous or what the deal is, but the thought process just makes the hair on my arm
01:00:48.940
stand up. Like I cannot, I could not deal. No way. Yeah. Sorry. I don't think most, I don't think
01:00:55.180
most men can or, or should. I just, it's not conducive to a healthy relationship with somebody
01:01:01.400
you're trying to be intimate with. Like if you want to have an open relationship, just don't get
01:01:05.180
married. That's fine. Yeah. Just date around. Yeah. Right. Like if you want to, if you want to
01:01:09.060
hook up and you want to see other women and she wants to see other men. Okay. Well then don't
01:01:12.540
commit to each other because that's what a marriage is. Yeah. Right. A marriage is I have committed to
01:01:17.060
you. Uh, uh, dating is I have not yet committed to you and therefore we are free to see other people.
01:01:24.180
And if that's the case, cool, have fun, go do it. But once you've committed, that's a commitment
01:01:29.720
and that's, that should be honored and respected. Uh, what was the first part of the question?
01:01:35.600
The difficult question. Uh, when a man has been cheated on multiple times, at what point would
01:01:40.520
you personally walk away? Uh, that's for every man that has died for himself, but I can't imagine
01:01:46.400
ever accepting, uh, my wife back into my life. Uh, if that is the case, I honestly think that,
01:01:53.520
that cheating on your spouse is the lowest of low. Like I think that it is one of the most
01:02:01.260
despicable things that you could do. And I know that there's a lot of guys who are listening to
01:02:06.780
this right now who have, who have cheated on their spouses. And I'm telling you that is despicable
01:02:11.500
behavior and you need to rectify it as quickly as possible. Stop it, get a divorce, break up with
01:02:18.880
the mistress or, or, or the other gal. You need to knock that off right now. Um, and if my wife ever
01:02:26.380
said that she, that would, that would, she cheated on me, that would be a very difficult thing for me
01:02:30.540
to overcome or even have the desire to overcome. Cause I just don't feel like an individual like
01:02:34.840
that can be trusted. Yeah. And, and to Zach's question, multiple times would just, yeah, I mean,
01:02:41.980
come on, like that puts the multiplier on the difficulty of the whole scenario. I get, look,
01:02:48.320
I can understand, I can understand how it would happen. You know, you get, you get into your
01:02:53.660
marriage and you get into a little bit of a rut and things get boring or monotonous and you've
01:02:57.660
got some kids and then you've got this, you know, this attractive young woman at work or, you know,
01:03:02.840
somebody you've met and she gives you a little attention and she's got a hot bod and, and, and
01:03:06.720
she's cute and you know, you make a mistake and it is a mistake. I, you know, I can understand that
01:03:11.060
not condoning it, but I can understand it. You can see where a guy could get himself into that
01:03:17.400
position. Of course. But, or, or a woman, same thing with a woman. I could see it, but then if
01:03:24.240
you rectify it and it happens again, no, that's no longer a mistake. That's, that's a behavior.
01:03:31.960
That's a pattern. And, and I, I just, I'm not one to play that game at all. It's again,
01:03:38.060
it's despicable behavior. Yeah. There would have to be some serious,
01:03:42.540
almost like transformation happening post cheat for it to even have the thought of being successful
01:03:52.220
to even pull that off. I've actually known couples. I've heard of couples that have like
01:03:57.300
successfully turned around a marriage where cheating was present, but I'm assuming that's a
01:04:03.720
rarity. And in most cases, um, they probably never recover from, from something. I know, I know,
01:04:10.180
I know some too. And, and if it works all the power to you, and I'm so glad that you could work
01:04:15.820
it out. I think it's very powerful, but man, that's a, that's a tough one for me. Very tough
01:04:21.720
one for me. All right. One more question. You good with that? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. All right.
01:04:27.040
Robbie Vander. Dang it. I should have given you a hard, hard name today. Yeah. Vander
01:04:32.240
Robbie, how do you handle anxiety? I don't get, I don't get a whole lot of anxiety. You seem like a
01:04:42.900
real anxious person. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I don't get a whole lot of anxiety and that, that might be
01:04:48.420
a personality. I think it's certainly a personality trait. Like some people are more anxious than others.
01:04:53.380
Uh, here's what I would say though, get to work. What would you, if you don't mind,
01:04:58.780
what would you say anxiety looks like? Um, I think anxiety can come from maybe several different
01:05:10.960
things. Uh, maybe your life isn't what you expect it to be, right? So the physical manifestation of
01:05:19.100
your life isn't what you have in your head and that expectation, right? That could be on the micro
01:05:24.340
level, like a project at work, isn't working out correctly the way that you expected it to go.
01:05:28.220
Or it could be on the macro level, like your relationship is falling apart or you're not
01:05:32.180
as successful as you thought you would. And you're 40 years old now. And you thought your life would be
01:05:35.420
so much further down the road. But I think there's a, uh, incongruity between your actual life and the
01:05:42.280
expectation of your life. I would say that's probably mostly where it comes from outside of maybe some
01:05:47.780
mental illness or something like that. Medical situations. Yeah. Yeah. So the best thing that
01:05:54.460
you can do if, since I believe that's where it comes from and that's where it stems from. The
01:05:58.040
other thing I would say is, uh, you're focused on things that you can't control. Yeah. Right. So
01:06:05.400
because you're going to be, you're going to be stressed out all the time, all the time because
01:06:09.940
you can't change it. Yeah. Because when I get stressed out and I get stressed out, I'm not an anxious
01:06:13.860
person, but I get stressed out. And my wife will say to me, is there anything you can do about it
01:06:18.120
right now? And my answer is no. Does it make me feel better? No, I'm still stressed out about it,
01:06:23.920
but I'm stressed over things I can't do anything about. So I've really had to embrace the stoic
01:06:29.700
concept of focus on the things that you can control when you can control them. If there's nothing you
01:06:34.360
can do right now, then maybe you can make a plan for something you can do down the road. That's one
01:06:37.960
thing, one strategy I've used. Uh, but I think it's hard anxious and have anxiety if you're actively
01:06:46.320
engaged in fixing the problem you're anxious about, right? So if you're anxious about work,
01:06:51.920
but you're actively engaged in fixing the problem or fixing whatever it is you're dealing with,
01:06:55.720
it's hard to be down and have anxiety and depression and upset. You're, you're fixing it. You're
01:06:59.920
rectifying it. My mom always used to say idle hands are the devil's workshop, right? So she'd say,
01:07:05.140
don't ever be bored. And that's where we started to get in our own head where we're bored. And
01:07:09.880
we're, you know, we're just like caught in these feedback loops of just thinking about things,
01:07:14.240
but not really acting on them. So just get to work, just, just make a plan, execute the plan,
01:07:21.420
move the needle, and you're not going to have this same level of anxiety. And then stop focusing on
01:07:26.160
things that are outside of your control, identify what they are and stop focusing on them.
01:07:30.020
Do you think there's an element of being present that removes it? I'll give you an example. My
01:07:36.880
daughter, bad parenting on my part. She w we were looking at, um, where were we? It was during
01:07:43.460
Christmas where I think it was during Christmas, looking at Christmas lights, running hands in her
01:07:47.760
pocket. I was like, Oh, and, uh, went running up some stairs, tripped, took a concrete step to her
01:07:54.840
chin. And the poor little thing, she got, uh, stitches, like, I don't know, a couple of months
01:08:00.900
ago, by the way, it was like brutal. I think we talked about this on the, on the podcast. She was
01:08:05.620
like, not letting shots to go in her toe is like a really tough situation for her. She did not want
01:08:10.960
to get stitches and all this stuff falls on the, on the, on the step. And she gets cut. And I look at
01:08:16.800
it immediately. And we're like, she's getting stitched. Like that's the first thought that crossed
01:08:21.020
my mind. It was poor things. Yeah. Stitches on her chin. And immediately she goes, I'm going to
01:08:27.020
have to get stitches. Aren't I? Right. I didn't, we didn't even say anything, but she immediately
01:08:30.640
went to, I'm going to have to get stitches. And she started really crying and being just stressed
01:08:36.800
out and anxious and just really like deal having a hard time dealing with the circumstance. And,
01:08:43.040
and I told her, I'm like, well, hold on. Do you know if you're going to have to get stitches or not?
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She's like, no, but I bet. I'm like, no, no, no, you don't know. Right. That's not up to me.
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That's not up to mom. We're going to take you to the doctor. He's going to look and he's going to
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tell us. But right now you don't know if you need stitches. So let's not even get stressed out about
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it since we don't even know if it's going to happen or not. And just be present with the idea
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that like, okay, we don't know. Let's, let's keep it closed as much as possible. Right. And then,
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and then if you go to the doctor and he says, Hey, you're getting stitches, then stress out.
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Right. Like, right. Then, then, you know, it's going to actually happen. But until it happens,
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until you know, that's actually going to be the case, let's just be focused on, on what is so,
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and what is so is we don't know. Right. Right. And I think there's a little bit of anxiety with
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looking to the future and assuming the worst, and it's going to be this, or it's going to be that.
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And versus just being present with our current state of things.
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Yeah. I, I, I like that. That makes sense. I think that falls in line with focusing on things
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you can't take an action at the moment. Yeah. Right. Like you can't control that. Like you can't
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control the outcome. Like she cut her chin open. What's happened's happened. Now the priority is to
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focus on the things that you can control, which is keeping it closed, stop the bleeding, calm yourself
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down, you know, whatever, put some ice on it to reduce swelling, like focus on the things you can
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control, which is the actions you can take. Whether you're going to get stitches or not right now is
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frankly, it's just out of your hands. So don't get wrapped up in it as to the best of your, your,
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your ability, which is tough. I actually, I fell today. I was, I got out of my truck thing. You're
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running with your hands in your pockets. No, I got out of my truck. I just got back from the post
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office and I got out of my truck and it's snowing a little bit today. And that snow man is slick snow
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today. And I just, and like, I fell and I was, I had something in my hands, both hands. I had like
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a letter and I don't know, something in my other hand. And I fell and like, I landed on my elbow.
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And when I hit, I'm like, Oh, I just broke my collarbone. Cause I thought like, I, like I said,
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I landed on my elbow and it pushed my shoulder up and I felt it in my collarbone. I'm like,
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I just broke my collarbone and I'm sitting there. And of course I do. The first thing you do when
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you fall is you look around and make sure nobody saw. I'm like, I'm like, okay, nobody saw.
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So I get up and I'm like, like move my shoulder a little bit. It's a little tender. It feels fine
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now. So I didn't break it, but my elbow really hurts. So yeah, I fell today. And by the way,
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she ended up not getting stitches. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Yeah. See, there you go. Don't focus on that
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stuff. Yeah. Worked out. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Well, should we wrap it up for today? Yes,
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