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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week I talk about why I hate making important decisions, how hard it is to know what choice to make, and how that impacts happiness.
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0:00.0 | Now that I don't have my office anymore. I record these at my mom's house and I'm in her office. |
0:07.0 | And she has hanging up on the wall. |
0:10.0 | I don't even know what they would you'd call them from my bar mitzvah my aunt and her |
0:17.3 | They took pictures of my childhood and and my brothers for his and made not a centerpiece but I think I'm almost positive it was hanging up or at the front of like the party because you if you didn't know a bar mitzvah is the day that us Jews |
0:38.8 | they take we take our 13 year olds and we we tell them all of our secrets to run the world. It's a very important |
0:46.7 | day and we get to have a party because now we can run the world. And I'm just looking at it at mine, thinking about how I run the world now. And there's one, there's a picture of my brother and I and I'm wearing this Abercrombie and Fitch shirt. |
1:08.0 | Now I wasn't as fat as I got obviously. I wasn't't a 12 year old 10 year old 300 pound kid thank God |
1:19.0 | But I was chunky and I felt I was insecure and I just I wanted to be cool and so I got this |
1:31.0 | Abercrombie and fit shirt and I remember I hated it because the words Abercrombie I think it was just Abercrombie |
1:40.1 | I have terrible eyes like it's like 10 feet from me and I can't see what was written on the shirt almost |
1:45.5 | positive just an Abercrombie and it was stitched on and the stitching would tear me, I don't know if you can see, I'm wearing an aw shirt from the office. |
1:58.5 | It was like when Andy did the 5K and the office and his nipples got chafed, my entire chest would be on fire from wearing this shirt. |
2:12.0 | And I would wear it occasionally because back then, back when I, I don't know, late 90s, early 2000s, |
2:22.4 | Abercrombie and Fitch to me was like the cool kid store and I wanted I remember going and buying it and at the Natick mall and I thought it would |
2:37.7 | first I don't know if it would make me cool or make me fit in I don't know what I |
2:42.1 | thought or made me fit in. I don't know what I thought. But I'm just looking at it because I was trying |
2:48.7 | to figure out how to talk about what I wanted to talk about today and it's about being happy. It's a weird topic. |
3:01.0 | I think I'm, I'm I it's very weird. I I'm both very happy and then I can also be a kind of a blue kind of a negative kind of person but I was just thinking about it like |
3:16.7 | even going back to that shirt I've always I've always wanted to fit in I always |
3:21.6 | wanted people to like me and I wanted to be just like I got happier I guess. |
3:28.4 | And I had a very happy childhood but right around that age probably right around like late elementary school, early middle school, |
3:36.0 | it's when you start to figure out like, oh, like, maybe I'm not the best athlete, |
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