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Have you ever felt like you weren't good enough?
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Of course you have.
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I mean, we all have at one point or another.
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But the real question is,
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did you allow yourself to stay there?
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Or did you try to overcome your weaknesses
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or maybe to even increase your own strengths?
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Or did you do neither in 37 of Pity Party?
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Come on, be honest.
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Well, regardless, today we're looking at a character
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who had made this very decision himself
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on multiple occasions throughout the entire series.
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And that is the main character of World Trigger,
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Osamu Mikumo.
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Hey, what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate and you're listening
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to the Otaku Liberation.
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A show where we help you break free from the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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or connecting some biblical principles
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with themes from your favorite anime.
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And without further ado, let's get into it.
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So Osamu Mikumo, I'm pretty much going to call him Osamu
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for the rest of this episode.
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And like I said, he's the main character of World Trigger,
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but he's a little different from what you would expect
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a normal main character to be, right?
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And you've watched enough, not just anime,
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any TV show really, you expect the main character
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to be this super powerful, almost unbeatable force
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at some point in the story, right?
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And that's not the case for Osamu, like not at all.
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He is the definition of your average Joe.
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And actually his overall stats are actually below average,
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right?
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And I like that about him, right?
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Cause one is different, is a unique aspect
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for a main character to be so weak compared to everyone else,
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but to not be useless, right?
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And again, you really watch the show to fully understand it,
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but let me try to break it down for you.
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And before I go into it, go over this verse
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that I want to apply to this episode.
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And it really brings everything in together.
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And that is 2 Corinthians chapter 12, verse nine.
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And he said, but he said to me,
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my grace is sufficient for you,
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for my power is perfected in weakness.
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And that's the Lord, that's Jesus speaking.
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And he says, my grace is sufficient for you,
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my power is perfected in weakness.
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What he means is, we've all heard it at one point
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or another in our lives that when we are weak,
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he is strong.
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And that's the truth.
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In our own weaknesses is truly where God's strength
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shines through.
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And Osamu really depicts that in a lot of ways, right?
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So let me first go over what are his weaknesses?
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What are these things that really makes him
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below average, right?
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And like I covered previously in the previous episode,
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their power system and world trigger is Trion, right?
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Trion is the energy that they use to fight
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and basically powers everything.
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And everyone, although every living creature,
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every living person has a certain amount of Trion
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that they're just born with, right?
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It's just good.
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And in Osamu's case, he has a below average amount of it.
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Like he has enough to transform his body
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and use a couple of weapons, but outside of that,
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he's pretty much spent, right?
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He can't take too many hits or else he's done for.
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And that's one weakness.
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And the other one is he can't fight.
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There's no better way to explain that.
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He just can't fight.
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He's very weak in combat,
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especially in one-on-one scenarios,
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he can't really hold his own.
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And for being a soldier,
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and for being a combat agent
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who's out there on the front lines,
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those are two very, very glaring weaknesses
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for anyone to have, let alone a captain, right?
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So again, you don't know in World Trigger,
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all the agents of border,
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who's the military force more or less,
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they are comprised of different squads.
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And from A rank to B rank,
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A rank and B ranks have their own squads.
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And Osamu is a captain of his own B rank squad, right?
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It's him and three other teammates plus their operator.
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And it's not,
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you don't typically see this where the leader
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in any type of scenario, not just in this anime,
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is the weakest member of the squad, right?
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And because typically the role of leadership
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is given to those or is earned by those
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who have proven themselves in one form or another.
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And whether it's in combat, strategy,
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whatever you name it,
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at some point they've already proven themselves
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to be a leader.
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And for Osamu,
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the combat was completely out of the question.
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Just completely out of the question.
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He gets picked on for it all the time by other squad people.
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Like when they do their team battles,
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he's typically one of the first ones to be targeted
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because they know to get him out of the way.
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Then the team's gonna start falling apart easily
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because his ace,
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who his name is Yuma,
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who I'm gonna cover in a later episode,
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Yuma is the exact opposite of Osamu.
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Yuma excels at everything that Osamu is weak in, right?
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So Yuma has a lot of triumph.
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He's super good in combat.
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He's good at one vs many type scenarios.
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And for the longest time,
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Yuma was the only one scoring points for their team.
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And the other team knew that.
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So they realized, okay, if we get Yuma out of the way,
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then the team's just dead in the water
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because they can't score points.
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But if we get Osamu out of the way,
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then he can't back up Yuma the way he needs to,
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and Yuma is easier to kill.
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So that's the whole dynamic.
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And what I really, really like about this whole aspect
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about Osamu is it kind of feeds into one of his strengths.
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And one of his strengths,
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which I think is something that we all really aspire to have
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and believe is the best superpower
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any person can have in real life is self-awareness.
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No one knows his weaknesses better than he does.
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Osamu is very much aware of his lack of combat ability
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and lack of triumph in the mount.
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And the cool thing about it is he doesn't let that
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psych him out.
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He doesn't let that get him down about it.
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What he does, he adjusts.
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He takes all the setbacks he has,
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and he takes them and tries it.
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And he comes up with ways to mitigate them
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as much as possible while still supporting his team.
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And I want you guys to think about that for a minute.
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How often have you taken a weakness
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or a flaw that you've had that you were aware of
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and then use it to strengthen your strengths, right?
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God, I know, me just thinking about it,
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I can't think of any time where I've consciously made that,
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made that effort to take a weakness of mine
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and apply it to one of my strengths.
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And to better illustrate this,
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so take Osamu's lack of triumph, right?
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So in World Trigger, the weapons they have,
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they're called triggers, it's in the name.
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And it's just different things,
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like swords, guns, bullets, shields,
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different stuff like that, like equipment.
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Think about if you're playing an RPG,
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different pieces of equipment you can put on,
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that's what the triggers are.
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And for Osamu, he can't use a lot of the better ones
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because he doesn't have the trying to use.
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So instead he uses what he does have,
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what he is able to use.
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He uses it in different ways to better help the team.
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Case point, one of them is he had this one trigger
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that's called Spider, which is just basically lays
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a bunch of trip wires around whatever the area is.
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So he just chooses two anchor points
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and then he makes a line and that's pretty much it.
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Now on the surface, that seems, you know, okay, cool.
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He made a wire, you know, whatever,
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but it's the way that he uses it, right?
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Because most people in World Trigger,
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they don't use Spider because it takes up too much try-on
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to use and it's not very efficient, right?
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Because again, you see the wire,
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he's just gonna cut it down and move on, go about your day.
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But Osamu used it in such a unique way
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that it really only works for their team,
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but it works extremely well.
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And what he did was he made essentially like this,
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the spider web of wires all around.
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And he used the play of Yuma, his ace's strengths.
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Because Yuma's strengths is he's quick and agile,
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he's hard to hit, right?
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He's hard to hit, he hits fast and he hits hard.
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And Osamu, instead of being down the dumps about his own,
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and you know, his own basically not being able
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to fight himself, he chose, all right,
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well instead I'm gonna help him out.
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So he makes it easier for him to fight.
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And what the wires do is that once Yuma's
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inside the wire zone, he uses them as essentially
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like a trapeze art, Osamu.
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He just zipping around the battlefield
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in conjunction with his already agile fighting style.
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So it pretty much makes him a blur
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for anybody who tries to get him.
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And that wouldn't have been possible
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if Osamu decided to throw a pity party
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about his own weaknesses, his own inability
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to really contribute to the team
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in the way that he thought he should, right?
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And that alone, that ability to take the hand
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that you've been dealt and still play the best hand
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that you could possibly play,
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that is the quality that shows why he's a leader,
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shows why he's a leader of his own squad
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and why people even higher ranks are,
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you know, tipping their hat at him
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because the things he comes up with
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throughout the series is, I mean,
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that's just one example, but he tries to go
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above and beyond for his team,
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and he's never ever really down about his own self, right?
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Only time you ever see him sad
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or more than depressed about something
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is if he feel like he let his team down
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or he felt like he didn't lead them
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to use their ability to the best of their ability.
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And it's never really about himself.
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And for me, that spoke volumes
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because it's easy for us to get down the dumps
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about our own failures, our own things
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that we feel like we've let ourselves down,
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but to let go of that and really just strive
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to be better for other people,
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to help other people better than themselves,
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I mean, that takes a lot of selflessness, right?
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Because I know for me, for the longest time,
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it was just like, okay, what can this do for me?
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And not so much in a selfish way,
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as in, you know, I'm not gonna do it
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unless it benefits me, it's more so the way that
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if it didn't benefit me, I didn't even think about it.
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And I know that sounds weird,
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but if you brought it to my attention,
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then yeah, I'd address it and I'd do it.
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But if it didn't affect me in some form or fashion,
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then it was never on my radar.
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Whereas Osamu is like, everyone else
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is constantly on his radar.
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He's constantly thinking of ways to make them better,
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to help them out and to not be a hindrance to them.
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And honestly, that really shows his growth, right?
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Because at first, he wanted to try to strengthen himself,
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try to compensate for his weaknesses
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and try to fight like everyone else
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until he was humbled,
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until he was humbled by some of his superiors.
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They were like, you just don't have what they have.
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You don't have their talent.
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You don't have their abilities.
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You don't have what they were already blessed
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and given with.
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So you trying to replicate something that they can do
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is only hurting yourself.
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It's actually hindering the progress you've already made
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by trying to be somebody else.
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And that was the light bulb that he needed to say,
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okay, let me rework this.
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Let me go back to the drawing board
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and figure out how I can use my weaknesses
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to the best of my own ability
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while staying true to myself.
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And again, back to that self-awareness,
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back to that him being level-headed is,
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I mean, that takes a lot of self-reflection,
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a lot of self-time, a lot of self-work
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that doesn't happen overnight.
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That doesn't happen, you just wake up one day like,
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you know what, I know what's been holding me back.
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I know what my flaws are
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and I'm not gonna let that hold me back anymore.
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That was such an easy decision.
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I think everyone in the world will do it
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and everyone would know how to do it.
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And there will be a lot less mental issue,
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a lot less depression, a lot less things going on
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in the world if everyone had this superpower
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that is self-awareness, just at the drop of a dime.
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But the cool thing is for me
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is that it didn't stop there with him.
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When he realized that he didn't plan it to death,
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he didn't try to overanalyze it,
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he went to work immediately.
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He's like, okay, so if I can't strengthen myself,
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how can I strengthen the team?
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Okay, helping out Yuma, boom,
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make the spiderweb to help his combat.
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And then later on, one of the team's weaknesses
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that they had to overcome was the fact that,
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like I said, Yuma's his ace.
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And at the time, Yuma was the only one
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who could score points.
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I mean, once in a while, Osama would luck up
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and get a kill and he'd get a point himself.
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But that was few far in between,
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it wasn't consistent enough.
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Whereas Yuma was doing all the damage
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and because he was such a threat,
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all the other teams knew that.
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So then again, like I said earlier,
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if they take Yuma out,
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and then the team's dead in the water.
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And so one of the ways that Osama tried to compensate
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for that was the spiderweb method.
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But even then, once teams caught on to it,
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it's, you know, they just choose not to follow them
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into the spiderwebs.
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They just wait outside or, you know,
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take Osama out before he can set up the web.
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So there were still issues to be in hand.
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And the biggest one was that Yuma needs someone else
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on his level to back him up, right?
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To someone else who's as much of a threat as he is
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to take some of the pressure off of him.
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And Osama being the leader that he is,
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he did one of the boldest things
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everyone's ever seen in the series.
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And he has this guy named Jin to join their team.
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And to put it into perspective
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for some of my anime watchers out there,
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Jin, I guess, is the equivalent to,
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I guess he's equivalent to the Gojo of the series
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where he is the one to beat.
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Same thing.
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He's not as all-powerful as Gojo is.
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But if you've seen the series,
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you know what I'm talking about.
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Jin is, not a lot gets past him, right?
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Because of his power.
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And again, I'm not gonna go too much into it
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because I'm gonna cover Jin in a future episode.
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But just to put it into perspective,
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he's the Gojo, the Goku.
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He's one of the best of the best.
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I mean, he calls himself the power elite.
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And that's not too far off the mark.
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And the reason that's so bold
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is because Osama saw a problem
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and he figured the best solution was
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to get the best of the best to help his team out.
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Now, of course that didn't work out
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because one, it just wouldn't be fair.
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And even though there's nothing against the rules
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for Jin joining his team,
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it just wouldn't be fair.
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But that right there shows
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how much Osama cares for his team
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and how he doesn't let his weakness
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or his team's weaknesses equal them being weak, right?
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He thinks outside the box.
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He comes up with things that
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really allow his own strength to shine,
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allow his team's strength to shine
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in such a way that, again, I'm convinced
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if he wasn't the captain, if he wasn't on that team,
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then they wouldn't have gotten as far
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as they have up to this point.
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But I really want you guys to take away from this today
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is that, you know, and we all have our flaws.
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We all have things that we're bad at.
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We all have things that we want to be better at.
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But we have to realize that, you know,
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even though we may want to be better at something,
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something that we think is a weakness of ours,
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you know, sometimes that's just not in the cards
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because, you know, that wasn't our gift.
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That's not what we should be focused on.
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And it's too easy for us to get distracted
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on what we don't have and to not focus on what we do have.
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And what we do have is often 10 times better
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than what we don't have, right?
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I mean, if you just think about it,
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if you just take the time and energy
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that you put into trying to cover up your flaws,
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try to, you know, quote unquote, balance yourself, right?
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Try to get rid of the things that you think are flaws,
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that you think are weaknesses for you.
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And if you just take that energy and focus
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and pour it into the things that you're already good at,
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especially the ones that you've been anointed
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and gifted with, then those aspects of you
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will shine so much brighter that, you know,
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honestly, no one's even going to see the weaknesses
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because of how bright your strengths are.
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And you'll feel better about yourself because, again,
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your thoughts go to where you give your energy to, right?
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If you're thinking about negative things all the time,
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you're thinking about your weaknesses
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and how much you suck at this,
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and I was just this time, the third,
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then you're going to be constantly thinking about that
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all the time, all the time.
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And that's going to make it worse,
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where if you just, you know,
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shift your mindset a little onto,
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okay, what are the things that I'm good at?
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What are the things I enjoy doing?
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It's not so much about being good at something.
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It's like, what do you enjoy doing?
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And then find the correlation between the two.
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What do I enjoy and what am I good at?
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And then, boom, you go focus on that
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because you're going to feel good doing it
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and then it's going to pour out into other people,
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just like Osamu.
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He's good at strategizing,
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coming up with his off-the-wall ideas.
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And I mean, he enjoys seeing his teammates flourish.
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He enjoys seeing them win.
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And he enjoys winning too,
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but you know, you get what I mean.
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And then again, but this whole,
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again, the whole concept of World Trigger
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is just camaraderie and finding out how you fit
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into the team dynamic.
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And in Osamu's case, it was one being the leader, right?
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And finding out what that means for him, right?
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How does he lead his team
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and how does he fit into the team dynamic,
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knowing what he knows about himself,
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knowing that he's not really suited for direct combat.
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He's not, you know, he doesn't have
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the most fantastic try-on levels.
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And he kind of, he just has a giant target on his back
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every time he's on the battlefield.
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How does he leverage those things
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and essentially use it to use them to his advantage
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because there's been a couple of times in the series
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where he uses, you know,
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the fact that people aren't going to target him down
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to set up traps for him, right?
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Whether he'll lay trap, lay, you know,
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delayed shots somewhere around the area that he's at,
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knowing someone's going to come and try to take him out.
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And he gets a, he ends up getting the kill like that
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after he's already been taken out the game.
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And that's because he knows himself enough to know that,
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okay, I'm a liability.
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So again, this whole thing,
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how can I make myself as useful as I possibly can?
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And not so much focus on the weaknesses
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and how much I suck at this and how much of a hindrance I am.
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It's like, okay, how can I use this?
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How can I really turn this thing around?
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And again, the answer isn't always going to be clear.
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It isn't always going to be easy either.
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But I do believe if we all take the time
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to just really be honest with ourselves,
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because I know we'd like to think that we can do it all,
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but we can't.
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You're going to find that out one way or another.
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And it's better if we've figured it out for ourselves
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rather than have the world tell us.
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But yeah, I want you guys to kind of take that
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into perspective and really reflect on,
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okay, what are some weaknesses?
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What are my flaws that I can polish?
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What is it that I can polish in a sense that
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I'm not overly obsessed trying to fix them,
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but I'm not going to let them be a detriment either.
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And then don't spend so much time in the negative,
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just go into positive.
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What are some things that I'm good at?
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What are some things that I enjoy doing?
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And how can I make more time to enjoy those things more?
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And how can I make more time to get better
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at the things I'm already good at?
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And honestly, I just think that you'll be a lot happier
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and have a better piece about yourself
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at the end of the day.
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But that's all I got for you guys today.
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So just thank you all for tuning in to 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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I know I did right in this episode.
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I learned quite a few things about myself.
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Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
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I would love reading you guys' comments
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and it helps me improve each and every episode.
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And always remember, you are the main character
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of your story and that story doesn't end until he says so.
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All right, be blessed.
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And I'll see you guys next time.
