John Dinsmore

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186 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Hidden Brain · Making the Most of Your Mistakes · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, if you're going to take the other side of that,

If there's something you don't want people to understand or pay attention to, you make it very complex.

And I would imagine that, you know, with Maria, a lot of those gotcha aspects were hidden in the complexities of fine print.

No, I think that's fair.

I think there's some amount of seduction in getting people to think about living the life that they aspire to, even if it's not a life that they can afford.

And showing, say, you work hard, and of course that person does work hard.

Don't you deserve to be skiing on the slopes of Aspen?

I mean, deserve, sure, but you still can't afford it.

So it's easy to get swept away when things like that are presented to you.

Well, you know, I'm a drummer and right after college, before trying to get on with quote unquote adult life, I was actually a touring musician.

playing with a jam band, playing drums, and I ended up being talked into buying drums that were way out of my price range by a very skilled salesperson.

And I think a lot of it was, you know, it was so tied to my aspirations of who I wanted to be and how I wanted to be looked at, that yes, the salesperson was very skilled, but I think I was also very kind of ripe for the picking, given where I was at the time.

Well, the salesperson took a big interest in me, asking me all sorts of questions, and then went about having me imagine, you know, they always say there's an old adage in advertising saying, you know, don't sell the journey, sell the destination.

And him painting a picture of me kind of as an accomplished musician with, you know, adoring fans and having, you know,

climbed the mountain of trying to be a professional musician, and I just, I was seduced.

Absolutely.

So we started with, he said he wanted to play bass.

So there was a starter bass kit at Walmart for $100.

So we started there.

And I said, show me that you're going to stick with it, that you're going to practice.

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