Danny Miranda
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first heard Jan 2025
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And so when I'm really upset about like Wi-Fi or something, I'm like, OK, maybe this isn't as big of a deal. You know, and if you if you go back, you know, let's go back 20 years. Like what thing really bothered me 20 years ago? I probably can't even tell you what really bothered me 20 years ago. And so I can probably expect that what's bothering me today, I'll feel the same way 20 years from now.
And so if it's not going to matter, then it probably shouldn't matter now. And a different frame would be like, okay, well, look at the ancient accents. And when I say that, I mean like the Romans, the Babylonians, the Sumerians. And in 5,000 years, we will be the ancient Americans.
And we'll look back on this and we probably won't remember maybe even just the leaders' names, let alone the day-to-day strifes that we deal with. And again, if it's not going to matter then, then it's not going to matter now or shouldn't matter now. Another one is the frame of the veteran, which I like a lot, which I got from Dr. Kashi, which is
Imagine whatever this bad circumstance is happening once a day, sorry, once an hour every day for the next year. Okay, so that's, you know, let's say it's 12 times a day times 365, a lot of times, right? Well, how would you feel on the 2000th time of that happening?
Well, by that point, if you really thought about it, you'd be like, well, this is probably, you'd probably just be like, well, this is just how this is. This is how life is. And then you wouldn't be upset by it because you just adjusted your expectations, which meant if I could change my expectations on my 2000th time of my maids putting the spoons in the wrong drawer, then I can readjust.
And I say that it's somewhat tongue in cheek, but you can replace that with whatever. You know what I mean? With somebody double parking you, with your boss being short with you. Like if your boss was always short with you once an hour, every hour of every day in a year, it wouldn't upset you because you would expect that.
And so a lot of the angst that we experience, the anxiety, the sadness, the anger, whatever it is, it comes from the fact that our expectations are unmet. And so either we can demand that an uncaring universe changes to meet us, Or we can change our expectations. And I think that if it's you versus the universe, unlike what most of the Americana propaganda will put out, the universal win.
And so I think that that is one where you surrender to reality through acceptance. And you say like, this is period. And it's not good or bad, which is probably the sixth frame, which is that. we have this situation, let's say the spoons one, because it's ridiculous, right? Where I say, I have this problem, right?
And so one of my favorite ways to solve a problem is to stop defining it as a problem to begin with. And so it's the least effortful way to actually solve stuff. It's like, is this really a problem? What if this was good? And here's a weird one, is that most short-term problems are actually long-term benefits. So think about this.
It's like you've probably heard the story of the man and the boy and the horse. So, you know, kid gets a horse. Everyone says this is amazing. Kid falls off the horse. People are like, oh, that's terrible because he broke his foot. And then army comes to recruit, but he can't go to the war because his foot was broken. People said that was amazing.
And so, like, you keep going through this cycle and that it's only within the time period that you measure. But over a long period of time, we don't know whether the thing was, quote, good or bad. And if we don't know if something's going to be good or bad, then why even bother ascribing a label to it? Because the only thing that we actually know is that it happened.
And so I see it a lot like the weather where you say like, People will describe a situation like sunny days or rainy days. And they say sunny days like they're good days and rainy days like they're bad days. But if you're in a drought, rainy day comes from heaven and another sunny day comes from hell.
And on the flip side, if you have a wedding the next day, a rainy day sounds horrible and a sunny day sounds amazing. And the crazy thing is that there's two people praying for the same thing at the same time. One's going to be upset and the other person isn't. And I remember when early dealings with Christianity and I was thinking about just having a God, I remember praying for...
good weather because I had some outdoor event. And then I thought to myself, man, there's a farmer who's really praying for rain right now. And I was like, shit, maybe this is flawed. Not to say that praying in general is flawed, but just that construct of this, it being my way is therefore good.
And I think getting used to not getting my way, comma, and saying that that's okay has been one of the big psychological hacks that I've had in my life that have decreased my anxiety levels and my anger levels around responding to stimuli that I wouldn't at the onset say was what I wanted. Because I might not know. And maybe today's rainy day is tomorrow's sunny day.
And maybe sun is neither good nor bad. It just is. Mm-hmm.
Yeah. So I had a mentor way back when I was starting my gyms and he was like, yeah, we do flyers. That's how we get customers. I was like, okay, so I'll do some of those. He said, you should try that. So, you know, print out 300 flyers and, you know, advertising was expensive and I was broke. And so 300 was the appropriate amount of advertising that I could stomach.
And so we put out 300 flyers and I waited. And then the next day I got a call. I was real excited. And as soon as I pick up the phone, I was like, Oh, hey, it's like I got one of your flyers. I was so excited. And he says, yeah, you dinged my Mercedes. And I just immediately panicked and hung up the phone. Thankfully, he never called back. But that was the only call I got from my 300 flyers.
And so I called the mentor back and I was like, hey, you you told me to do that. Think, you know, a decade plus ago and way more entitlement. I was like, hey, you told me this was going to work. Right. And and he didn't even respond to that. He was like, well, how many how many did you put out for your test size? And I was like, what do you mean by test size?
He's like, well, what was the first batch that you tested on so that you could then scale it? And I was like, well, I mean, I put out 300 in total. And he just started laughing. And I was like, why? I'm like, I'm having this very serious moment. You know what I mean? I was like, what are you laughing at? He's like, hard to know if anything works with 300. He's like, well, we test with 5000.
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