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🗓️ 24 July 2017
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the round table of dim lighting. I'm Micah. I'm Colin. And today we're going |
0:07.3 | to see if we can remain positive about some traditionally frustrating or negative things. |
0:13.0 | Yeah, you know, there's a lot of negativity in the world and most of it comes directly |
0:17.6 | from Micah and I. Yeah. So we thought it would be a fun exercise. If we could just talk |
0:23.9 | for a whole hour about things that we know bothers the other person, but just doing our best to, |
0:30.8 | you know, stay positive about it. Yeah. Do you consider yourself to be an overly negative person? |
0:35.6 | Absolutely. Yes. I've worked on it for the last 10 years. I've made a little bit of progress, |
0:39.5 | but not that much. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm super negative. A lot of times people, I'll be an accidental |
0:46.4 | Debbie Downer by someone will be like, I had a ham sandwich and I'm like, ah, ham's gross. |
0:54.6 | That's how I reacted. And then I go, I'm sorry, that was really rude. Yeah. Because just let someone |
0:59.0 | enjoy their ham sandwich. Yeah. It has nothing to do with you and your, yeah. I get it. So I don't know why. |
1:07.4 | I'm such a pessimistic person. I mean, it's so easy to just default to it. Right? It is. Yeah. |
1:14.0 | It's just the easiest thing in the world to look at everything glass half empty and be annoyed all |
1:20.0 | the time and just like, yeah, pointing out everybody's flaws and stuff. You don't think it is. |
1:25.8 | What's that? For me, at least, it's like, I assume that everyone's going to be on board and be like, |
1:31.5 | yeah, nothing does suck. And then we're going to have a moment and we're going to get to like, |
1:35.5 | vent about it. Yeah. Like, you're against the world. Right. Like, you're going to be the one that rallies |
1:40.4 | everyone to hand sucks. Right? Yeah. We don't want to. Yeah. I hate him. Yeah. But really, they're like, |
1:47.5 | you just ruined the thing I like. Thanks. Yeah. So what I was in high school, I saw this book cover. |
1:58.5 | Yeah. And the name of the book was a power of positive thinking. And I didn't read the book. |
2:04.0 | I figured I would have had it. Like, okay, yeah, think positively. |
2:06.8 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's essentially what we decided we wanted to do here. We want to talk |
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