Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

Have you ever had this experience where you have bought a new pair of shoes or you bought a new car

and now all the sudden everywhere you go throughout your day throughout your life

you're noticing that pair of shoes that car that product that serve whatever that you

just have engaged with in your life you start noticing everywhere.

Mm. And it feels like all of a sudden everybody decided to buy your car.

Yeah, and you're like, man, I thought it was so unique.

I did this when we were, when we named our daughter Piper.

I was just thinking the same thing, yeah.

Like, we were like, ooh, it's so unique.

And then all of a sudden, like, TV show characters and like random people that I meet now are named Piper.

Yeah and so it was it was frustrating at first because we thought we were I mean it wasn't just the uniqueness of it, we actually legitimately

like the name Piper, but it was frustrating because we thought that we had done something

unique and then it felt like Piper's were everywhere.

And the truth is that Piper's aren't everywhere. I mean if you go to an

amusement park and look for a key ring that says piper you're going to be SOL because

there's really just not enough pipers to justify it but just like when you know

when you buy a new car or you purchase something or name your kid a specific

unique name all of a sudden everybody has that thing.

And it's not, it's not, the reality is not that that thing is now prolific.

It's that your subjective reality is now seeing it. It's looking for it and so it's

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