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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

And, you know, the Hawaiians or whoever it was, you know, it's like, they were like, oh, if I take this stick and, oh, I can stand, oh shit, I can stand on the stick.

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

It's like, yeah, and once you're on the stage, you know, whatever, the evolution of that.

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

Yeah, I'm sure it did.

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

They're just like, dude.

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

And they're just like, oh, that's pretty cool.

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

They're like, how can I do it?

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

Oh, no, it's kind of like this.

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

And they're like, oh, look what I just figured.

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

Oh, fuck.

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

Now they're, oh, fuck.

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

no i'm gonna start doing you know it's like this is ours it's like no it's ours too but um you know i mean i mean i'm sure it came from probably just like sharks you know because the sharks surf you know like there's always those pictures of like sharks like surfing which is crazy to me that like they're like yeah but they're just killing machines it's like nah there's something in there they like to have fun um sure they're hungry all the time but they do like to have fun no but you know it's like we observe nature and then we're like but i think like that idea of uh

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

the experience of surfing, which is that flow state that people talk about, where some people are like, I'm not good at anything or I'm not an artist and stuff like that.

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

I'm like, that's not true.

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

There's like plenty of things that we do.

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

You could like make a smoothie really well or you can make a cup of coffee really well.

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

And that artistry and and and

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

awareness that goes into that.

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

It's like, again, you can apply that.

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

It's scalable.

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

So you can apply that to other things in your life and not compartmentalize and say, I'm good at this.