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Hello, Aubrey. How are you today? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you? Doing fantastic.

I am so excited to get back into our series today on being concise. Aubrey, do you consider yourself a passive person?

Ooh, good question. No, I don't think I am. I get, if I am really passionate about something or I feel

like something is unjust or someone is being treated unfairly, I am not passive at all. I become

very, yeah, active like I want to do something. So I don't think I'm

passive. What about you, Lindsay? Oh my gosh. Yes, I've been in the streets a lot lately for

sure. But when it comes to for me, when it comes to, if there's a goal, there's something I really

want to achieve to create, I'm definitely not passive. I will go after that goal

and I will get a little bit obsessed with what I'm trying to build or create for sure. So I think

neither of us are very passive. Correct, right? But this is interesting because today we're talking

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