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Reggie Watts

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

I'm, you know, it's that feeling of being alive in the dream.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And then like, okay, well now what are you going to do with this awareness?

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Like now, you know, what are you gonna do?

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And that excitement is,

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Like that doesn't, you know, that's the thing to shoot for.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

It's like to always try to remember that.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Oftentimes, like when I lived in New York, I'd be standing on the subway platform and I would imagine myself tripping and falling onto the rails, you know, like as the train is approaching or someone pushing me, you know, last second.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And that's why I usually would stand by a pole or something like that.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

But I was doing that constantly.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Imagine, like, my ankle rolling off the sidewalk and me falling in, and I was just as a car is passing, you know.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

But even though that's a weird exercise, it's not even an exercise.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

It's just something that naturally happens.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

But imagining those things, and then those things not happening, and then you continue to be walking on the sidewalk, it created, like, these, like, micro-mini...

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

you know, Christmas carols or like micro mini, yeah, it's a wonderful life.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

So whatever.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And, or Huck Finn, you know, like experiencing, you know, pretending he was dead or whatever.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And then, you know, like being in the rafters and watching people celebrating his death and like, you know, whatever.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Point is you start noticing these things and you start appreciating what, where you aren't.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And that kind of reinforces your appreciation of where you are.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

You know?