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Visakan Veerasamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
576 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

I don't know, like 13, 14, and they start caring about their peers. And so, yeah, kids, like toddlers, like three to seven, they are excellent freaks. And I think several artists have quotes that's like, the challenge is to remain childlike and not let the world, whatever, which is difficult.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But yeah, so if you go inwards and express what's really true for you and what you feel, you know, like what you'd like daydream about, what you dream about, literally. So like that stuff, and you express that, you end up being more quote-unquote contrarian. You end up being away from the herd. I think this is another thing where people who make predictions within a group

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But yeah, so if you go inwards and express what's really true for you and what you feel, you know, like what you'd like daydream about, what you dream about, literally. So like that stuff, and you express that, you end up being more quote-unquote contrarian. You end up being away from the herd. I think this is another thing where people who make predictions within a group

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But yeah, so if you go inwards and express what's really true for you and what you feel, you know, like what you'd like daydream about, what you dream about, literally. So like that stuff, and you express that, you end up being more quote-unquote contrarian. You end up being away from the herd. I think this is another thing where people who make predictions within a group

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

they tend to, it's like they're playing the price is right, sort of, you know, they all kind of calibrate their guesses in relation to everybody else's guesses. And so there's like a bell curve of what all the people guess. And sometimes the answer is way out in the field, far away from the bell curve, right? It's like a thousand times more, 10,000 times more than, in whatever direction.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

they tend to, it's like they're playing the price is right, sort of, you know, they all kind of calibrate their guesses in relation to everybody else's guesses. And so there's like a bell curve of what all the people guess. And sometimes the answer is way out in the field, far away from the bell curve, right? It's like a thousand times more, 10,000 times more than, in whatever direction.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

they tend to, it's like they're playing the price is right, sort of, you know, they all kind of calibrate their guesses in relation to everybody else's guesses. And so there's like a bell curve of what all the people guess. And sometimes the answer is way out in the field, far away from the bell curve, right? It's like a thousand times more, 10,000 times more than, in whatever direction.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the person who figures that out is the person who wasn't listening to everybody else. And the way, yeah, so the person who isn't listening will from time to time be more radically edgy than the person who's trying to be edgy. It's kind of a trip. You think about it for a while and it's like, whoa. Just following your own rhythm gets you somewhere else.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the person who figures that out is the person who wasn't listening to everybody else. And the way, yeah, so the person who isn't listening will from time to time be more radically edgy than the person who's trying to be edgy. It's kind of a trip. You think about it for a while and it's like, whoa. Just following your own rhythm gets you somewhere else.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the person who figures that out is the person who wasn't listening to everybody else. And the way, yeah, so the person who isn't listening will from time to time be more radically edgy than the person who's trying to be edgy. It's kind of a trip. You think about it for a while and it's like, whoa. Just following your own rhythm gets you somewhere else.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Yeah, man, I sound better in writing than when I speak.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Yeah, man, I sound better in writing than when I speak.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Yeah, man, I sound better in writing than when I speak.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Yeah, I should get you to speak my audiobooks. Yeah, that's true. What is there to say about that? It's really... Well, when I hear that, I find myself feeling some empathy for... you know, people who don't know how to be better than a hater.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Yeah, I should get you to speak my audiobooks. Yeah, that's true. What is there to say about that? It's really... Well, when I hear that, I find myself feeling some empathy for... you know, people who don't know how to be better than a hater.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Yeah, I should get you to speak my audiobooks. Yeah, that's true. What is there to say about that? It's really... Well, when I hear that, I find myself feeling some empathy for... you know, people who don't know how to be better than a hater.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

You know, it's like, nobody, you know, like some people say they want to be haters, but, you know, I kind of believe that if you could know how, if you could figure out how to be adored

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

You know, it's like, nobody, you know, like some people say they want to be haters, but, you know, I kind of believe that if you could know how, if you could figure out how to be adored

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

You know, it's like, nobody, you know, like some people say they want to be haters, but, you know, I kind of believe that if you could know how, if you could figure out how to be adored

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

for your idiosyncratic personal flavor and style and essence like you wouldn't want to go around disturbing like annoying people for engagement right like you just like again we live one short life and like you want to look back and be like oh yeah I really you know critiqued well Yeah.