#203: Do Something About It
Arnold's Pump Club
Arnold's Pump Club
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Arnold has a warning: There is an epidemic around the world of complaining about everything. Maybe it came from social media; maybe people are bored, angry, or frustrated. The reason doesn't matter; Arnold argues we've lost the plot and tricked ourselves into believing that whining about something is the same as doing something about it just need more to do. Arnold shares his solution and reveals new research about coffee and asking better questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club. |
| 0:03.0 | Today I want to start with a simple but important question. |
| 0:09.0 | What could you accomplish in life if you just focused on what you can control? |
| 0:14.0 | This week I was at my institute at USC. |
| 0:18.0 | There was an event about environmental communication and someone asked me a |
| 0:22.6 | question. I'm very used to hearing what do we do when the president disagrees with us on environmental |
| 0:27.7 | issues? My answer might surprise you and it applies to many things in life. So I want to share it. |
| 0:35.4 | I told the audience that I think people should stop worrying about what the |
| 0:39.9 | president thinks, cut the complaining and get to work. It is bogus politics. I know because I've been |
| 0:48.4 | there before. When I was governor, the president didn't agree with me on the environment. I didn't whine. We built |
| 0:55.8 | a million solar roofs provided incentives that helped the electric car market take off and cut |
| 1:01.9 | pollution by 25%. We didn't waste time complaining about what we couldn't control that the federal government didn't agree with us, |
| 1:13.2 | because there was too much work to do that we could control. It's the same now. You might disagree |
| 1:19.2 | with the president on environmental policy. It doesn't stop you from doing what you can, |
| 1:24.7 | and pretending otherwise is frankly just an excuse. I promise you he will not be |
| 1:30.3 | waiting with handcuffs on your roof if you decide to install solar panels and you don't need to |
| 1:36.4 | worry about being arrested driving your new clean car away from the electric car dealership. This isn't a political issue. |
| 1:47.0 | There is an epidemic of complaining around the world about everything. |
| 1:51.0 | Maybe it came from social media, maybe people just need more to do. |
| 1:55.0 | People just cannot stop whining. |
| 1:58.0 | They've tricked themselves into believing that whining about something |
| 2:03.0 | is the same as doing something about it. Let's be clear. It isn't. I see this in every category, |
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