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Say, if you lost everything, how would you react?
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Would you crack under your fear?
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Would you become so angry that you just can't even think straight?
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Would you find something or even someone to blame to vent out your frustrations?
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And honestly, all of these are very normal reactions when something bad happens to us.
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Like when we lose everything, everything that we worked so hard for, just seems to come
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crashing down around us.
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But what if you chose none of these answers?
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What if instead you decided to move forward with what you do have in order to begin rebuilding?
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And that's exactly what today's character did when he woke up in the stone world.
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And of course, that character is no other than the main star of Dr. Stone, Senku Ishigami.
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Hey, what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation, a show where we help you
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break the chains that are holding you back in your life by connecting some biblical principles
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with themes from your favorite anime.
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And before we get into it, just a quick reminder that if you've gotten any value out of my
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episode so far, feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
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Because again, I love reading guys comments and it helps me improve each and every episode.
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All right.
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That's enough wasting time with sales pitch.
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Time to get into it.
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So you can like like how we cover last last week about Dr. Stone as a whole and what this
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whole season is going to be about is the concept of going back to the basics, right?
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And in Dr. Stone is literally this literally what it is.
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You can't get more basic than going back to the stone world, right?
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And just like with the questions I posed earlier with, you know, how would how would you react
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if you suddenly found yourself, you know, with no, you know, no technology, no, no other
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people, you know, no only you see a wild animals in trees and just no signs of civilization
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as we know it today.
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I mean, how would you react?
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I mean, I probably probably freak out and honestly, if all of a sudden just woke up one day in
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just the middle of nowhere, no friends, no family, you don't even know how you got there,
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what even happened to you.
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And it's just it's a interesting, it's an interesting premise of the story.
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I think it's part of the reason why I like Dr. Stone so much, because the premise itself
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is very interesting.
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And it kind of got me into that mind that hit space like, OK, man, that pretty is it
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is pretty crazy.
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And but that's not that's not the case for Senku.
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Right.
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Because like I said, when he first wakes up, he he just gets to work immediately.
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And he takes the take stock of his surroundings and what is around him.
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And then he immediately goes into action.
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There's none of this, you know, wasting time, none of this panic.
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There's nothing like that.
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And that demeanor kind of brought me to this verse, which is kind of ties in the whole
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thing with Senku is it's Ecclesiastes, Chapter eight, verse one.
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And it says, Who is like the wise person and who knows the interpretation of a matter?
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A person's wisdom brightens his face and the sternness of his face is changed and essentially
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is going to take into account Senku's vast knowledge and subsequently his his wisdom
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of science in the modern world.
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And it really shows how he how he uses it, not just for his own benefit, but for for
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those we're going to cover in subsequent episodes of the season, you know, how he uses his knowledge
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of science to essentially bring it back more or less.
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But before I get too far ahead, let me kind of go back to to really understand who Senku
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is and just how crazy this man is.
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So again, the people in Dr. Stone, the modern day people, they have been petrified for 3700
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years.
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And Senku was the first one to wake up, right?
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He's the first one out of all of humanity, at least as far as we know, right?
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To wake up.
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And the thing is, he he kept an active mind the entirety of that.
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He Senku literally counted each second after he was petrified.
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Now, I want you to think about that.
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This 3700 years and he counted every second, not minute, not hour days.
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He literally counted every second.
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And because of that, he knew exactly what day it was, what month it was and what year
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it was after he woke up.
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Now, you know, that's that's not impressive.
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Then I don't I don't know what is.
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But the significance behind that is it really displays Senku's mental fortitude because
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Senku like like a lot of us real life nerds, right, at least especially the ones that they
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portray in, you know, movies and TV shows.
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Senku is not very physically strong at all.
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It's actually a running gag in the series that he's he's actually very weak, even compared
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to other people around his similar build.
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But more than makes up for it by having a very strong mind, I can get him out of pretty
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much more than any situation, to be fair.
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And the significance behind it as it applies to us is that being mentally and spiritually
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tough is something that is needed to thrive in this world.
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strong, to be physically able and things like that.
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That's very, very important.
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Not diminishing that in any type of way.
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But people tend to get caught up in just that aspect of it and neglect their mind and their
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spiritual health.
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And you know, for us here, our lives here, it takes it takes all three, the mental, physical
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and spiritual, where all three had to be in alignment.
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All three needs to be need to be strengthened and worked on and taken care of in order to
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really, like I said, just to thrive in life, not just survive it.
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And in I know, and here, let's say lately, in the last couple of years, I have seen a
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bigger push for, you know, mental health awareness.
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People just just be more open and aware of all those type of things.
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I know for a long time, it wasn't necessarily taboo, but it was more misunderstood.
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And I think the understanding that, you know, hey, this is a this is an actual problem.
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This is people are going through something each and every day that we may not even know
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about until it's too late.
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For those who aren't strong enough or those who think they're not strong enough to get
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through it, you know, they end up doing something that they can never take back.
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And now they're gone and their loved ones are left thinking about, you know, asking
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the woulda coulda shoulda's what could I have done?
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What should I have done?
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You know, could have done anything to help them out, even though they were going through
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this.
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And what it's heartbreaking and extremely sad to really think about, but that's the
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reality of it.
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And for those of you listening out there who who are either a going through something that
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you feel like you can't share or whatever the case may be.
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And for those who may not be going through something, but you maybe you know someone
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who is or, you know, even if you don't.
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I want I want all of us to get to a place, even if it's just one person.
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That we just feel comfortable confiding in and just really being real with, you know,
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you know, just lay it all out, pour it all out.
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I mean, someone who, if anything, just to listen, it doesn't have to be a person at
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that point.
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You can be your family pet.
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You can be a dog or a cat or a bird.
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But then but now, seriously, it's all about expressing yourself, your real self and your
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full in fullness and just just be vulnerable.
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I mean, that's how God wants us.
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He wants us to come to him with all of our mess that we're going through.
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And to not carry that burden alone.
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So, of course, go to God, go to God first and foremost in all things.
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But also go to your fellow man here, too, because again, we're the ones here on earth
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dealing with that.
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And honestly, you never know.
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Some lifelong friendships may just start and grow from that.
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You know, or they may just think you're weird.
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I mean, come on, let's be honest.
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All of us are a little weird in some form or fashion.
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I mean, we watch anime, but and back to back to Senku.
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But yes, so again, Senku really exemplifies what it means to have a extremely sharp, strong
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and resilient mind.
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And of course, translate to his willpower, because again, that counting is the second
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every second for thirty seven hundred years is that's not easy.
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That's not easy.
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I can't I can't even count to a hundred without messing up at some point or getting distracted
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or, you know, other things like that.
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But that just shows how capable of a person Senku really is with what he has.
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And so that kind of brings us to the next point.
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So Senku Senku's whole motive and mission throughout the story is essentially to bring
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modern society back to the Stone Age.
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Or bring it bring the Stone Age out of the Stone Age.
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Words escape me right now.
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But essentially, essentially to bring everything that was lost back, you know, it's just nice
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and nice and simple.
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And part of the key to that is Senku's vast knowledge of science.
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Because he's because the thing that for me that gets me with this series is that it's
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not so much that he just has the knowledge.
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He knows how to apply it.
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He knows how to create modern things like a cell phone, you know, a car.
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The other thing like telescopes and there's all types of refrigerator things that we have
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nowadays.
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And you think, OK, how can he possibly make these things in the Stone Age?
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My answer to that is go watch the anime.
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But but now I just go show you how just knowing a lot of stuff isn't enough.
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You actually have to apply it.
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You have to apply.
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You have to keep applying even when it's wrong, even when you're not sure if it's going to
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work out, you have to at least try and do it.
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And in this one thing I really love about this whole, you know, this kind of idea about
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going back to the basics.
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And if for each of each of the characters I'm going to cover in in this season, they
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all exemplify that that idea of going back to the basics in different ways.
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And Senku's way is essentially using your previous knowledge, your previous experiences
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that you've already gone through in order to essentially rebuild from the ground up.
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Again, I think I think I said in last episode, you're you see YouTube videos of people all
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the time who are like, if if I were to, you know, learn how to trade stocks again in 2023,
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if I were to learn how to do real estate, if I were to learn how to create YouTube videos
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in 2023, and these are people who are already at the top of your fields or, you know, even
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if they're mid level in their fields, essentially they're not novices anymore.
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They've they've been in it for a while.
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They know they found what works for them and they've they've been successful at it.
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But they make these videos for a reason to one help new people.
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And two, I truly believe is to help, you know, create new ideas for them.
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And I think I've been in that mind space again of, OK, when I was, you know, just starting
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out on my career, what was what were the things that are available to me then and what can
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I replace with the things that are available to me now and see, you know, and see what
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I can use and pretty much what all Senku does.
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He sees what was available to him and he recalls what you know what things were available back
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3700 years ago in modern times, and he sees what he can make out of it.
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And in also he just relies on his basic understanding on the world and what makes the world tick
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in order to improve himself, like his own living conditions and things like that and
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those around him.
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Because Senku goes on to found what they call the kingdom of science, whereas, you know,
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he goes and he finds the survivors or the descendants of the survivors of the world
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petrification.
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And he essentially brings science to them and shows them all the wondrous, wonderful
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things that they can do for people.
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And honestly, it's just it's really amazing how they how they take to it.
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Because at first, you know, he's just random outsider, spitting nonsense about, you know,
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the science stuff, and then he shows him what he can do and how it can benefit all of humanity.
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And now, you know, they're his best supporters and it's honestly pretty cool.
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And and again, so I'm going to kind of go kind of backtrack just a little bit.
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Please forgive me.
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They're kind of going over the idea of, you know, using what you have.
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And because each of each of us have different gifts, have different things available to
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us, different circumstances, different gifts, different experiences, all these things that
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who that make us unique, that make us who who we are, essentially.
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These are all valuable things that we can bring, not just in this post apocalyptic type scenario,
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right.
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But just in our everyday lives, right.
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When we're whether you're working, you're working on a team project, when you're in
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school, or you're at home with your family, and even when you're just by yourself, being
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aware of these things and knowing how to apply your strengths to whatever you know, whatever
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it is that you're working on.
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And that's just a fundamental skill that isn't really taught.
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And I think for a long time, I didn't believe it could be taught.
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Because again, you're talking about your own experiences, your own passions, your own strengths
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and things like that.
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Most of it is self work that you have to do that you have to discover for yourself and
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just experiment with.
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But I do believe that, again, if you find somebody who's further along in their journey
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than you are, you know, who's, you know, more experienced in life, more experienced in what
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it is that you're trying to do, who can kind of show you the do's and don'ts and kind of
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give you some helpful tips and tricks that may or may not help you help you.
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But hey, at least you know, they've already someone else has already tried this, you have
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to reinvent the wheel.
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And that doesn't just mean your own experiences, you can leverage the experience and talents
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of other people.
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That's why that's why sites like Fiverr exists.
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People don't know what Fiverr is.
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It's a freelance service where freelancers go and they just they post their skills more
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or less.
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Whatever it is, digital marketing, you know, graphic design, podcast creation, wink, things
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like that.
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order to essentially make your idea come to life.
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And so I just want to make sure people are aware of not just their own strength, but
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the strength of those around them as well.
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And the answer the biggest thing is, don't get caught up on what you don't know, or what
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you can do.
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Just do what you can with what you can and do it to the best of your ability.
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Because at the end of the day, that's all any of us can do is just do our best.
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Right?
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I'm not asking you to do my best.
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I'm not asking you to do your parents best, your siblings best, your boss's best, you
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know, everyone from all the different levels, we're all at different stages of life of our
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careers or journeys in this whole this this thing we call life, right.
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And it's crazy to ask somebody to live up to somebody else's expectations.
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And as crazy as that sounds, we tend to do that with ourselves anyway.
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Right?
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We tend to try to live to other people's expectations of us when they're not us.
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But just think about that.
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That's really, really crazy.
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At least to me, maybe I'm alone in this.
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I don't know.
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Yeah, just let me know in the comments or something if that seems crazy to you, too.
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But you know, if when you're only living for your own expectations, when you're only trying
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to live up to your own expectations and you have realistic expectations about yourself,
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you know, not not dealing with the perfectionist aspect of it.
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And I'm speaking from personal experience because for the longest time and truthfully,
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and sometimes now I have a perfectionist tendencies to, you know, I need to get everything just
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right and perfect the first time every time.
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And again, I'm human.
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So that's never that never happens.
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And before it used to hold me back, used to stop me from even starting something, even
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attempting something new.
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But now, now that I'm a little bit older and I've gone through that and do a lot of self
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reflection and just just been in prayer about it.
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And yes, God just said, he told me that, hey, you need to let let yourself off the hook.
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That's essentially what it all perfectionism is.
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You holding yourself on the hook for you to try to live up to this grand idea that you
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have in your head.
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That's never going to happen because you're not perfect.
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But you expect yourself to be perfect.
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And that's kind of where this whole thing starts and it goes.
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And then you just think you're not good enough.
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You know, I don't deserve this.
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I'm like, I can't do that.
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And that's when the negative self talk starts to really creep in.
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But I'm just here to remind you just, hey, forget all that.
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Throw all of that out of your mind, out the window.
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You're going to you're going to suck at stuff.
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You probably suck at stuff now.
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I know I do.
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And that's OK.
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Really, it's OK.
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I think the point of all this is just really to let you guys know that it's OK.
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It's OK to suck.
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It's OK to fail.
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It's OK to give up.
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I mean, I know on a lot of motivational kind of uplifting things, you know, don't give
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up, don't quit and things like that.
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I say it's OK as long as you don't stay there.
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That's the key.
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That is the key.
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Because if you're doing something that's not giving you results, if it doesn't if it just
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doesn't feel right, then by all means, stop and pivot.
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Well, stop.
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Pray about it.
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Think about it and then pivot.
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Right.
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Because I mean, I've tried a lot of different things in my life that just they just didn't
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feel right to me.
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Just didn't feel like it wasn't me.
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It wasn't what I wanted to do.
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And instead of just being just a bull head and just running straight through it, keep
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to keep going about something that I just didn't feel like it was me.
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I just stopped, prayed about it, asked God to show me if if this was what he wanted me
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to do, if it was if it was something else and then just kind of take it, take it from
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that point and then do what you want with it.
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And I mean, that's that's it.
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These are these are just the building blocks that I want you guys to kind of get from this
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is that, you know, it's OK to fail.
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It's OK to try new things and fail.
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And we're all going to suck right until we keep going, keep getting better, keep getting
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consistent with it and just start building up that confidence.
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And then you can get to your Senku level of knowledge and just complete dominance over
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your field.
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Right.
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I mean, thank you has complete and other dominance.
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I think for my understanding, he may be the smartest or maybe the second smartest person
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in the entire series.
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But I think I think he is a smart.
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I can't readily recall right now.
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But yeah, and that that just started from him experimenting.
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I mean, I think that's part of the whole thing about, you know, science, engineering, things
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like that.
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And it feels like that.
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I mean, even things like cooking and artwork and media, all these things come from experimentation
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and experimentation means there's a possibility that you're going to fail, that this artwork
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isn't going to resonate with people or this project is going to blow up in your face.
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And if you stop there, then the the greatness that you have in you, that grand idea, the
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purpose that God put you on this earth for is just going to fizzle out because you can
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handle the pain.
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You can handle the stress, the suffering.
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And I'm just being honest, right.
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Because I had to be honest with myself about this stuff, too.
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It was like you can't you can't allow yourself to stop.
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Right.
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Because God put you here for a reason.
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You still have breath in your lungs for a purpose.
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I don't know what that purpose is.
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That's between you and God that pray and ask and reflect on about and to really go about
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it that way.
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But once you do, and then it's up to you to work on it and refine it.
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And that's not going to be easy.
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It's not going to be quick, but it's going to be worth it.
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It's going to be so much worth it.
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And in the beginning of that is going back to the basics.
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When I get every new venture that you start with new skill, new task, whatever, it always
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starts from the ground up.
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We go back.
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We start with the basic building blocks.
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And then we just build up from there and keep going, keep going, keep going.
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The tower is going to fall over.
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You have to start back over.
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But now you can, you can build that tower back up faster because you already know how
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the pieces line up.
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And eventually you're going to get to the top and you're like, man, look at all the
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work I did.
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Look at all the stuff I put in, you know, and I didn't give up.
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And now I'm at this level now.
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And then you're going to look up and see, oh man, there's a whole bunch of other levels
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that I can, I can still go up and reach.
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And for me, that's awesome.
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And I think that aspect because you get to continuously improve yourself, continue to
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really push yourself, push yourself to really strive for a, just, just, just to better yourself.
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I mean, I mean, again, like I always say at the end of every episode, you know, we are
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the main characters of our, of our stories.
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And I don't know about you, but I don't want to be some wimpy main character.
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I don't want to be just someone who just gives up all the time and cries and complains.
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I don't want to see that.
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I don't want to see that on the shows that I watch.
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So why would I want to be like that?
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Right.
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And again, that doesn't mean it's going to be easy.
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It doesn't mean it's not going to be full with heartache and headache and all the other
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aches.
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But again, it's going to be worth it.
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So again, in summary, it's a Senku story, you know, encourages us to essentially tap
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into our own strengths and just to keep learning and adapting and just to make the most of
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what we have in order to just to thrive in his life.
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Right.
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When adversity hits us in the face, we know that we are equipped to, to go through it,
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you know, to hit it back, hit adversity back in the face.
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Take that.
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Anyway, I just want to thank you guys for tuning in today's episode.
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And hopefully if you guys knew new listeners, I didn't scare you off.
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Please come back because next week we're going to look at a character who's resourcefulness
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pretty much rivals Senku's genius.
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And that's the stone world's, you know, man of science himself, Chrome.
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And like I say, again, just want to thank you all for tuning into today's episode and
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I pray that you got what you needed out of it and hopefully you learn something new about
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yourself.
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And if you didn't, you know, take some time to just reflect on what you heard today and
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see what you, what comes out of it.
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And always remember you are the main character of your story and that story doesn't end until
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he says so.
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All right.
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Thanks for watching.
