The new series continues! Michael and I sat down today and discussed a few topics through the lens of experience in different decades of life. For those of you familiar with the show you know that often on Friday I answer Q and A, today is no different, except that Michael is joining me to give his perspective from a younger generation: Social Circle Interactions Mental Discipline and Accountability Avoiding Becoming Overwhelmed Today's Sponsors: TrueWerk: Check out the full lineup and get 15 percent off your first order at https://TRUEWERK.com/clearedhot Mando: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code "clearedhot" at https://shopmando.com
Chapter 1: What is Negligent Discharge Friday?
It's Friday. We made it to the end of the week. I hope your week was good, ready for the weekend. Before we go into the weekend, I still haven't figured out exactly what to call these episodes. I had some really good suggestions from the listeners, whether it was Malfunction Friday, Single Shot Friday, Bolt Action Friday.
I think what might encapsulate it best, though, is Negligent Discharge Friday with young Michael Shelton. And he and I were talking about – we walked over here from the coffee shop. We were both talking about it. More enjoyable than I thought it would be to just not only answer some of the questions that I get in a Fallout on Friday segment or series, but bounce off –
Him, who dude's 20 years younger than I am, a different vernacular, a different social circle. I don't want to say different moral values because I don't think that's the case, but different interests, different story arc of their life.
And to get his take on things that seem reasonable to me, straightforward to me, and hear from a different perspective, a different generation, how he is feeling about it. Now, having said that, he's like a 90-year-old trapped in a 23-year-old's body. A guy goes to bed at 8 o'clock and gets up at 4 a.m., getting after it in his own words. So there's that. But, yeah, it's enjoyable.
I'm definitely going to continue to do these, and I think I'll stick with negligent discharge Fridays with young Michael. So before we get into it, though, give me 90 seconds of your time. Let me pay the bills here real quick. That way I can keep bringing the podcast to you for free.
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Chapter 2: How to navigate social circles and make friends?
Should we be focusing on things that go bang and boom? Or do you start at an individual level? And I'll broadly say what this person is talking about is attention to detail.
Yeah. Um, well, I think you need to, to me, it seems like it would be good to start at that attention to detail level because, um, If that's not set, then you're building everything else on a shoddy base.
Yes, yes.
And if you have a shit foundation, then everything above that is going to be shit. Do you have a contractor's license? Have you ever built anything? I have actually poured a foundation, though. Was it a good one? It was really bad.
I totally agree with you.
Yeah. I mean, it's like, have you heard of the broken windows theory? Yeah. Refresh me. I might have. Do you know who Malcolm Gladwell is? Yes. So he wrote a book. He's written many books. His books are good. Really good books. I don't know if he came up with this theory, but basically there was a study that it was about graffiti in New York subways.
And they instead of trying to crack down on the like actual people doing the graffiti, they went back like five steps and started repairing all of the like stalls that were out of use, boarding or undoing the boarded windows and putting a nice windows up and making everything look very nice.
And from that, the graffiti and the crime and the stall jumping for not paying tickets went down drastically.
Really?
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