Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 840. 800, what is it? 884 even.

And in this episode, we're talking about a subject which you might not know the word. If you do,

it's great. But it's not to be an NPC, a non-playing

character.

It's kind of in computer games where you got all these other, like you're the main character

in the computer game, but you got all these other people.

Or you can think about it like in the Matrix and the movies, right?

There's programs being run, not real people.

And I thought it would be a good idea to go into this subject

because sometimes I feel like many people become a bystander of their life.

They become like a passenger of their life.

Where it being an effect of life, of the experiences we go through, or could be because of the significant events we've gone through, it could be just because we've just started to believe that, like, I'm not really active in my life.

I'm not really in control. I feel like I'm just that an effect of my

situation. So that's what we're going to be talking about today. And when I thought about this

subject, it also reminds me about the book, which I have and also the audio program I have in outwitting the devil, where it's like a

conversation with the devil. And in this metaphor, it's the idea to make people feel like they

are just a drifter, like just drifting through life. And I thought those

kind of two things that being a non-playing character, being a passenger, just drifting and being

a drifter through life, is something really, really important. I think it's a subject we should

dive into and then how we can transition into

gamifying our life as if it was a computer game where you get to level up, where you get to gain more achievements, where you get to explore new worlds and that you are ultimately in control, like a controller, right, in control of your mind,

your results in every single way. And even if that were not to be true, it's a convenient

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