Cyan Banister
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346 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Cyan Banister’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
When it happened, I just... surrendered, it was one of these things where I was just like, I have no control over this situation. I have to trust that the medical doctors that are coming to me that are the best there is at UCSF hospital are going to do what's right. And all I have to do is sit here and try to maintain my calm and try to find all the joy in all of it.
When the students were coming and sticking lights in my eyes and lining up down the hallway because they'd never seen an edema in an eye before, I was like, yeah, line up. Come look. Come look. Everybody come look. I've got diamonds in my eyes. Come. It's obviously precious. You want to see it. Every time I did an MRI, I found it joyful.
Every time I had to do a blood draw, I would just sit there and know that I was contributing to medical science because my stroke was one in 5 million a year. It was even rarer than that because I was young. So it's one of these things where you could either just say like, this is it, I'm going to die and cry.
Or you just say like, you know what, what if these are my last moments, I may as well make the best of them. So I did. And I honestly believe, granted, I can't prove it. But I believe that that's what helped and aided in my recovery and why I recovered so quickly.
Why is it so rare? I think we've lost touch with our child minds. Inside of us is a child yearning to be free. That's cosplaying as an adult. I think we, over time, build our personality. We get told what we can and can't do. We wear certain clothes. They're just costumes.
If you really think about it, you really could wake up tomorrow and dress as SpongeBob SquarePants if you want to, but something's keeping you from doing it. And it's really just a perspective shift. For me, I go out and stare at four-leaf clovers. I haven't found one yet, but I go out looking for them. Sorry, I don't stare at them. I go out looking for them.
Did you know that there's a four-leaf clover in every 10,000 clovers? So your chances of finding one are real. It's not fake. It's not made up. And children, when you show them a four-leaf clover and the pattern of a four-leaf clover, find them within like 20 seconds.
They're able to find them because their mind is not clouded with all of this, frankly, garbage that we grownups carry around with us. And so for me, I'm constantly looking to reconnect with my child self, with the spirit that's inside of me that yearns to be free, that yearns to learn about everything. I think a lot of people take for granted what's around them.
They think they've got it all figured out. There's like, there's nothing new to learn. even about maybe your bedroom. But if you look around with curiosity about your bedroom, I bet you with a new set of perspectives could see your room in a whole different way. You could see your backyard in a whole different way. You could see your friendships in a whole different way.
I just don't think a lot of people understand that that curiosity is inside of each one of us. So it's really about allowing yourself to be silly, allowing yourself to relax and more, be comfortable with who you are and let who that person is out. I think we are really, really afraid of that authenticity that's inside of us and how people might judge us.
Like I said, if we dressed up like SpongeBob and came to work.
That's right. That's right. That's exactly right. If you actually think about what you are, we are an animal. When we die, we decompose and we become dirt. So what else are we? All of this is just an avatar. But there's something inside of us that yearns to be creative, that yearns to build things, that yearns to change the world, that wants to have a purpose for being here.
And we deny that spirit its existence every day. I am guilty of this. Everyone's guilty of this. You spend time with children and you spend time with dogs and you go out in nature and you bathe in nature. You start to realize the things that truly matter. Like when I came out of the hospital after having my stroke, I fell to my knees because of the air.
When the air hit my lungs and I was like, whoa, what if I never got to breathe that again? How magnificent. The sun was on my face and I was like, how splendid. That's what truly matters in the world. Like we make up all of these stories inside of our heads about what's important.
But what's really, really important is remembering just how precious life is and how we have a short amount of time to accomplish all of our dreams. And they're all accomplishable. And I really, really hope that when people listen to this, they try to figure out how to tap into that creative, curious side, because I'm endlessly curious.
My biggest complaint is there's not a thousand of me, that I'm not scalable. I would love to have multiple Cyan agents out there roaming the world.
Yeah, learning as much as they possibly can. So for me, my appetite for knowledge and for everything is insatiable.
If you think about it, business is just art. The US Constitution is a piece of art. Money is art. Contracts are art. Code is art. So the art of storytelling is art. So when someone's in front of you and they're giving you a pitch, they're telling you a story about who they are and what they want to build.
So immediately I'm a visual thinker and I start spinning up a universe in my mind of what they're trying to build. Ideally, I've already thought about what they're trying to build by daydreaming, by sitting around and immersing myself in the world. I go to strange conventions that most of my colleagues would be like, why on earth are you spending time at these places?
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