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🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | We are in a mythological landscape. |
0:03.9 | It's a dreary swamp in what is now Germany. |
0:06.6 | And a man named Baron Moonchazen, |
0:09.0 | he's riding his horse, his mighty steed. |
0:11.4 | Moonchazen is one of my favorite. |
0:14.0 | That's a yellowish fishback. |
0:16.0 | She's a psychologist who studies human motivation. |
0:18.1 | And she told me this story about the Baron, |
0:20.2 | because she finds it instructive |
0:21.7 | about how we can do really difficult things in life. |
0:25.4 | So the Baron, he gets himself into this bad situation. |
0:28.8 | He rides his horse into this swamp, |
0:31.6 | and he starts sinking into the mud. |
0:33.6 | The swamp is taking him like he's going to die. |
0:37.4 | This guy indeed got stuck in a swamp. |
0:40.4 | And he basically takes his hair with his, |
0:44.8 | like both hands, and pulling himself by his hair |
0:48.6 | outside of the swamp. |
0:50.1 | And he's strong enough so that not only can pull himself, |
0:53.7 | it can also pull the horse that he's holding |
0:57.3 | between his legs. |
0:59.2 | So that if you can imagine the picture |
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