Hello, hello, hello, welcome. I'm so excited to be chatting with you today. You know,

you likely found this podcast due to something relational, right? Maybe a breakup, maybe a struggle,

maybe not knowing whether you should stay or go how to process

thoughts as a single person how to find a relationship how to not repeat certain patterns and you

certainly will be able to go through all of the past episodes and gather and garner all that

information it's there and it's. It's going to keep coming,

keep iterating, keep going deeper, keep looking at different perspectives. And that allows us these,

you know, the complexity of human thought and the human experiences, we mostly experience it

through the first person, which is me seeing through my eyes, what is in front of me.

And what goes on on a very unconscious level is all of the beliefs that I have that actually

either allow me to see more or less, because ultimately my eyes will look for what validates

my beliefs, what validates my wounding, my, whatever it might be, right?

So if you think about this, you know, have you ever bought a car?

And then when you're driving down the street, you see that fucking car everywhere.

And before that, you didn't know there were so many Honda Civics or whatever it is.

And now you're seeing them freaking everywhere. And that shows you that your mind is primed to begin to see things. And you know, when they look at the science of luck, there's a great article called The Luck Factor, I believe it's a book too. And they take people who are unlucky and they study them. And of course, unlucky people are like, I'll volunteer for that. Shit, I can't wait to prove how unlucky I am. And then they study

lucky people. And they teach the unlucky people what lucky people do and they become lucky. Now,

it's a matter of perspective, of course, because the science of luck is really the science of optimism,

the science of seeking miracles, seeking possibility.

And, you know, these people didn't do anything that was sort of like, you know, meditate every day for an hour and hold beads and chant the secret.

They just changed the way that they went about the world. They talked to people that they wouldn't

normally have spoken to. And one example of that is like the one guy was saying, normally I found

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