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John Gafford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

There's a lot of โ€“ there's more power in that statement than saying something dumb that you're regurgitating that you heard online.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

But I think that's getting harder and harder because with the algorithms through social media and Twitter, they have one job, keep you on the platform.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

That's it.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

So they've placed you in this echo chamber of just the same repetitive voice coming through you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And you're

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

most people don't take the time to say, hey, what does the other side maybe of this coin look like?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

What does the other side of this issue look like?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And I have found, I mean, that's the majority of the American population now is incredibly polarized because of this.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

So from a behavioral science standpoint, two-point question, number one, how important is it that we break that cycle?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And two, how do we break that cycle?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

What I was going to say is my default mechanism for that is literally just to say that any time that I am triggered emotionally by something that is not living and breathing in front of me, there's an excellent chance I'm being manipulated somehow.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

Oh, I'd say 98% of the population is a little closer.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

No, but how many people, I mean, I know, I mean.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

People that I know that I'm friends with that are so โ€“ get so angry over things that are being โ€“ like this is just being fed to you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

Like you have a choice of what you can do.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And it's so funny because we're โ€“ I was talking about this the other day.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

We're entering this age of โ€“

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

of advanced health enlightenment i feel like i think you know alcohol consumption is down people are eating better um i you know now peptides are the rage you know we're all trying to live forever those if you're north of 50 you're like i just got to make it 15 years and ai is going to keep me alive for the

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

Whatever it is, I just got to make it like 15 more years, then AI is going to keep me alive.