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We have a very, very strong will as humanity.

We are capable of doing some very extraordinary things.

And the one thing I want to show you right now real quick is a website from psychology today.

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And it's it's a very good. They've been hitting at home on a lot of this

stuff lately. So I've actually been, you know, pretty excited about this. So, um, you know,

what is the will? You know, we always talk about willpower. We always talk about willing

things to happen. So it's, it's almost a energy in and of itself, the human will.

It is like the manifestation of the desire of the observer.

So I, you know, I've always found the human willpower very interesting.

I've always found the concept of will very interesting.

And I mean, it's talked about in a lot of ancient spiritual traditions as well.

So I think let's kind of dive into this. So you know, what is the will?

The will is an understudied concept in psychology.

The will, we can define the will as the intensity and duration of investment towards some end goal or state.

The will can be described from the bottom up as the animal drive and from the top down as self-conscious desire.

Developing the will might be an important element of character development.

And I completely agree with that, you guys. I mean, you know, we talk about nowadays how this country has gotten soft, okay?

And I agree with that to a degree. I really really do it is like the collective backbone of humanity

at this point in time is no longer bone it's cartilage it's flimsy it's it's it's uh you know what

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