Welcome to chapter 17 of Indoor.

Each week I released you on this podcast feed, a little snippet from my book Indoor,

a guide to spiritual stamina, which you can find at GetEndoor.com.

Let's dive in.

Chapter 17, Babies.

Comedian podcaster and UFC commentator Joe Rogan has a fascinating thought about how

parenting has changed the way that he interacts with people.

On multiple podcast interviews Joe describes how having children of his own forced him to realize

that we were all babies and children at one time and that many adults are just kids walking

around in a grown human shell, still thinking and acting with many of the same built-in belief

patterns, habits, tendencies, temptations, and struggles as they experience in childhood.

Often simply molded and shaped by a multitude of life experiences that have happened since the

time they were tiny, crying newborn baby. But not as far removed from who they were as a child,

as we might be led to believe. Your doctor was once just a nerdy kid who was fascinated by the

human body. The greatest violin virtuoso used to be four feet tall standing in their bedroom with

a tiny bow trying to squeak out a teeth gritting version of twinkle twinkle little star for the first

time. Your favorite fantasy fiction author used to be a freckle-faced adolescent who would hunch

over his or her keyboard sipping on a soda and scratching their head about how to describe a dragon.

The biggest Hollywood actors and actresses used to be tiny humans nervously huddled backstage

at the school play, reciting their lines over and over again and hoping they didn't mess anything up.

Prolific modern day inventors and business figures like Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Bill Gates

used to be teenagers tinkering in the garage with model airplanes, computer hard drives, and

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