Chris Williamson
speaker
81,758 appearances
251 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard today
Chris Williamson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That if I said I was going to wake up at a certain time, the snooze button would be hit three times.
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Right.
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If I said that I was going to stick to my diet or go to the gym or do this thing,
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Maybe it would happen, but it wouldn't happen quite the way that I'd meant it to.
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And there would be some negotiating and some cajoling and some falling short.
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You know, how can you have faith that you're going to go and do all of the things that you want in life when you can't not hit the snooze button?
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Right.
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Or you can't not cheat on your diet.
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can't not do, you know, you are constructed by the tiny decisions that you make every single day.
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So imagine that you had a friend and every time that you invited this friend out for lunch, they showed up an hour late or they didn't show up at all.
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After a while, you'd stop trusting them and stop inviting them out at all.
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You are that friend to yourself.
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Yeah.
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And I think this is such an important lesson for people who want
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to be liked, who want to struggle socially and want to become better.
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People like people that make them feel good.
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They don't care that much about how impressive the person is.
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We give up our twenties for our thirties.
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We give up our thirties for our forties, our forties for our fifties, and we trade everything we achieved in our thirties, forties, and fifties to get back to our twenties.
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We give up the thing we have.
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