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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 not good at this.

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

It's like, well, that's only as true as you want to believe.

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

So I think, yeah, improvisation

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

It's like once you experience the flow state, you can start experiencing the flow state in all things, even when you're watching people in their flow states.

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

Like when I love seeing contemporary dance, you know, and you see these dancers that have trained all of their lives and they're performing this piece choreographed by this choreographer who has a vision, you know, and like the dancers are expressing that vision.

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

And the movement that they're experiencing, you feel like the movement, you know, it's like what white people like sports, you know, like they embody the movement of what they're watching.

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

And that gives them the sense of action and drama and liberation, you know, or disappointment sometimes, but whatever.

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

But you kind of become it.

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

And so that's kind of the flow state.

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

It's like, that's how I like to look at it.

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

So when I'm observing something like that, I can use that movement.

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

It doesn't mean I have to be good at the thing necessarily, but I can understand what it would feel like.

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

Yeah.

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

I mean, I, it's one thing that's like, I'm not a big fan of people compartmentalizing saying like, I'm not an artist or, you know, or it's like, I'm a creative, you know, or whatever, you know, it's like capitalist terms or whatever, but like, um, everybody's an artist, you know, it's like, we're all creative.

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

That's all we're doing is creating, you know, even like we're creating our relationship to reality every nanosecond that we're alive, you know, it's like, so we're always creating.

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

And I think, um,

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

when you decide that you are creating, I guess.

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

You're like, now I'm creating, you know, whatever.

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

It's like, oh, now I'm on the clock.

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

I'm creating now.