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You know, starting over isn't the end of the world.
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Often times it can be the start of a better one.
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And the anime I'm covering this season brings that idea to the surface as we take a look
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at a series that literally had to build the world from the ground up.
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And of course the one I'm talking about is the one that makes science fun, the stone
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world of Dr. Stone.
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Hey what's going on guys my name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation,
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a show where we help you break the chains that are holding you back in your life by
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connecting some biblical principles with things from your favorite anime.
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And hey if you guys are listening out there and you feel like you're getting some value
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out of this podcast, please feel free to subscribe and leave a review because that would help
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me basically improve this and improve this pod and make it better each time.
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And without further ado, let's get into it.
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So Dr. Stone is a series written by Richiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi.
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And again as I always say at the beginning of the season, I don't speak Japanese, my
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pronunciation is probably butchering these names.
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Hey, I'm trying my best out here.
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But yeah so the story overall for Dr. Stone is pretty interesting.
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So it starts off with a mysterious phenomenon that petrifies all of humanity.
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Like they all just turn to stone statues.
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And as far as I am in the anime, we don't know why this happened.
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We don't know how it happened in the first place.
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And we just we just don't.
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You know, I haven't read the manga or anything like that, so I'm sure people who've read it know how it ends and all that stuff.
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But as far as I'm concerned, I don't know what's happening.
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But so that's the beginning of it.
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And thousands of years later, our main character, whose name is Senku, he wakes up alone in
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this newfound stone world and he decides he's going to bring back all the civilization and
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revive it for everyone on Earth.
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Now I don't know about you, when I think about starting something over, I don't really think
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about the whole world starting over.
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You know, that's not really the first thing that comes to mind.
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You know, think about, you know, sometimes when I when I'm recording episodes, I just
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start over on here if I mess up too many times or if I just don't like the way I'm presenting
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the episode.
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But in this case, literally the entire world is starting over.
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And honestly, it's kind of like, you know, what we've got to get with the guy did in
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the Old Testament, right?
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What's the great flood is, is very, very, very similar to that aspect, right?
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Where humanity had had to start over.
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We had to start over.
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We were messing up too much in the first time.
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God was like, you know what?
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Maybe let me try again.
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Let's see if they get it right this time.
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Right.
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But the the overall concept that I want this season to convey is the idea of going back
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to basics.
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And what that means is to go back to the beginning, go back to the source of, you know, wherever
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you are in life.
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And basically what I mean by that is it's easy for us to be distracted, you know, especially
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in today's time, right?
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Distracted by all the advancements in the game of the entire world in the palm of your
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hand or in your pocket most times.
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I mean, these these phones are way stronger than a lot of computers we had 60 years ago.
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And but when we have all that information available to you at a moment's notice, it's
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easy for to overlook the moments in general.
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And we get so overwhelmed with information and what's going on, what's happening in
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the world that we just we all just forget how to do basic things in all honesty.
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And what I think this kind of helps portray is that, you know, technology can be used
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as a as a tool for our survival and not the only means of it.
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And really, we take a step back and we just we have to remember who we are and where we
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came from.
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And so and then throughout the season, as I'm going through each of the characters and
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show how they convey the theme of going back to basics during our own way.
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And what does that mean?
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And how does it mean?
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If we have to start over, if we have to, you know, go go back to the beginning, because
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sometimes starting over isn't isn't a bad thing, right?
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If that is not the end, I'll be.
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Oh, sometimes you have to go back to the beginning to remember, you know, where you came from,
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essentially, because I know for me, often when I'm working on something, whether for
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my normal job or if I'm working on working on this pod or in my other business, things
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like that, is that if I get stuck and I'm just kind of beating my head against the wall,
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I take a step back and go back to, OK, what did I do before?
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What did I you know, how did I get to this point in the first place?
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You know, it's just kind of reverse engineer what I'm doing to see if something new jumps
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jumps out at me, right?
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And it doesn't work all the time, but it's part of my process and it helps.
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It helps keep me on track and not become so just bogged down.
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And so in in regards to Dr. Stone, right, they want they didn't have a choice but to
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start over because again, like I said before, for unknown reasons, the world is essentially
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sent back to the Stone Age because all of humanity was returned to stone statues for
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thousands of years.
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I think the I can remember the exact amount of years is over 3000.
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Like is thing is closer to 4000 years have passed since they all were petrified.
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And you know, nature has taken back over and humanity has to start from scratch again.
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I mean, they they're all out in the woods and nature now.
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So they have to reacclimate themselves back into the world.
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And it's kind of funny because I'm just thinking about, you know, what what do you need to
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reset in your life?
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You know, what do you what do you need to put?
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Just pause on it, just say, you know, and let me go back and try this again.
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I don't think for me it was just a lot of different.
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Yes, side hustles are the best way to describe them, I guess.
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I mean, they're just trying to figure out different things.
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Basically I want to do to leave my mark on the world.
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And at first it was just strictly to make money because, you know, you need money to
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live.
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And I'm just being honest.
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I guess that was the main reason why I was doing the vast majority of things I was trying
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to do.
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You know, you learn how to trade, start a couple of other business ventures and things
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like that.
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And one, it wasn't fulfilling, fulfilling to me.
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And two, it just didn't it just didn't it just didn't make me happy.
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That's why I didn't they didn't pan out.
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That's why I didn't keep doing it.
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And it took me starting over three, four or five different times to manage before I found
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something that I just enjoy doing.
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It's not even about money.
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It's just about me feeling fulfilled and doing something that I love while also helping out
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as many people as I possibly can.
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And so for me, it was resetting my mindset about what it was that I was doing, what it
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was that I was striving to do.
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And and I was like, like I said before, oftentimes the only way forward is for us to go back
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to where it all began.
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And that's been in for me.
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It was just going back to my why.
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Why am I doing these things?
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Why do I want to do these things?
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What what benefit am I getting out of it and what benefit can other people get out of it?
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And once I understood that, then Eridanger became a lot clearer at that point.
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And you know, so you can just apply it to to your own life, your own mission, your goal,
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your skills, really.
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You just kind of really understand the why.
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Think why the question of why is the root to all of this.
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And sometimes it takes going back to your why to remind you and to help you push, push
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through whatever roadblock obstacle that you're facing right now.
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Because, you know, sometimes starting over doesn't mean completely doing a pivot.
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It's just, again, like I said, reminding yourself as to why you're doing something to give you
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the extra to to get through.
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And you say for people, Dr. Stone, right, they have to essentially recreate all the
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modern advances that we have today, you know, like medicine, clothes, even travel, because,
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again, there's no cars in the Stone Age, right?
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There's nothing there.
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And throughout the story, you see how the the people from the old world, you know, modern
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day people and then people from the stone world, how they interact with each other and
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the things that they learn from things that they learn from each other, too.
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Because the the people who turn the stone statue, they're not the only people there,
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because as you find out in the story that there are astronauts in space, you know, from
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the various countries, you know, Japan, America, things like that, there are people who weren't
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on Earth when the petrification happened.
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So when they came back to Earth, they essentially established different villages and whatnot
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in in the opposite.
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They had they had a community, right?
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They're having having kids and descendants and things like that over the course of the
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thousands of years.
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So when Senku and the rest of the modern day people start to waking up, there are already
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people there.
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And it's interesting to see how the future past people interact with the modern day stone
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people.
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It's that whole dynamic is it's funny to watch because, you know, simple things like colored
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fire, right?
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You throw different different chemicals into a fire, the the fire's color.
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And that's just like witchcraft to them.
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So it's a little funny.
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Sorry.
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But so it is really again, Dr. Stone, the show, the overall show is pretty much a tale
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about what do we do when we find ourselves back at the beginning?
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How do we handle that?
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I mean, seriously, I'm asking myself, how would I handle that?
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I would wake up one day and all my accomplishments, all my advancements, all my achievements that
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I've ever had in my life, you know, professionally, academically, personally, if they were just
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erased, why not wipe and swipe away and start over, start over learning something new again,
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or learning something as if it were new, you know, where the programming, general IT work,
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you know, learn about finances again, learning how to do math again.
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You know, and just things like that.
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How will we go about it?
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Because the video like this on YouTube all the time or somebody who is a professional
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in what they do, whether it's, you know, someone who's in the stocks or there are day trading
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or someone who is learning a different language or things like that.
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Sometimes they put out videos saying, if I were to start over in whatever year this is,
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how would I do it?
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And I think that's a good exercise that all of us should go through.
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At least I probably start doing it every year, you know, just once a year to say, okay, if
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I were to start over now, start over this now, if I was to start podcasting over and
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in 2023 or in 2024, whenever, how would I do it?
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Because a lot of the times the things that are available in now in that time weren't
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available back when you started.
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So it might, you know, change the way you think about, you know, doing it now.
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Again, so for like for this podcast, for example, let's say, let's say I started this back in
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2015 or something like that.
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So let's say it's been going on for a couple of years and I decided in 2023, how would
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I, if I had to start over, how would I, what tools would I use at my disposal?
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Like, you know, the, the audio editing software that I use here, the microphone that I have
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now wouldn't have been available back then, or if it was, they weren't as up to par as
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they are now.
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So in now I just had to figure out, okay, so how would I incorporate it into what I
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already have?
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How would I, what would I change?
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What would I improve on?
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What would I keep?
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Because again, for me, just because something is new, doesn't mean it's better.
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Because sometimes you changing something up might actually make it worse because of the
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learning curve, we just might not mesh well with your system, you know, whatever the case
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may be, but it's still an interesting exercise.
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In fact, at least you are aware of it and you can apply it in any way that you see fit.
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And just doing that exercise, even if you don't change anything, even if you don't find anything,
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really still opens up your mind to just different possibilities.
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And ultimately it's kind of what the whole back to basics thing is, is just reminding
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yourself, remind yourself of your why, and then open your eyes up to the different possibilities
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that are available to you and not being so blinded and overwhelmed by what you're currently
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doing because it's either become tunnel vision and so focused on one thing that you forget
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about everything else and vice versa, where you just, there's just, there's so many things
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going on at once that you can't focus on one thing.
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So in either scenario, going back to your why, going back to the beginning and starting
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over is really beneficial.
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So overall, the concept of going back to basics is pretty much throughout the entire story
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of Dr. Stone, I think it's pretty much what it's based off of.
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And in my opinion, it helps, it helps prompt us to reflect on, you know, reset, rebuilding
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and reconnecting with, you know, our why, the foundation principles of our lives in
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general.
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You know, why do we do what we do?
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And I also encourage us to embrace, you know, the simplicity of it all.
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Don't overcome the innovation to really take the new things and see how we can, and what
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we can create out of it.
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And you know, just say to get the pursuit of knowledge, but it's not just to the betterment
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of ourselves and our craft and just really strive to be better each and every day.
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And then the next couple of coming weeks, as I take a deeper dive into some of the characters
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of Dr. Stone, we'll really see how they embody these aspects themselves and how even though
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the the way they embody it is different, how it all ties back together.
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So I hope you guys stick around because I mean, hey, these, I've never been more excited
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about science until I started watching this show.
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And it's a blast.
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But hey, I just want to thank you guys for turning for tuning into today's episode.
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And I pray that you get what you needed out of it.
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And hopefully you learn something new about yourself.
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Join us next week as we take a look at the boy genius elf who uses everything he knows
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about the past to develop this prehistoric future and you know, that's the main character
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Senku and hey, always remember you are the main character of your story and that story
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doesn't end until he says so.
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All right, be blessed.
