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🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | So I'm going to catch you guys off guard and ask you a question that we may have talked about recently, but maybe not. |
0:08.0 | Is there a thing that you're interested in that you would be willing to learn that doesn't relate to the business that's |
0:14.8 | just purely for your own like to get better to be broader to be more, I don't know, just to expand yourself. |
0:25.4 | What would be a thing that you would be willing to put in like daily study or |
0:29.8 | daily practice or something like that just to learn a thing that's not related to making stuff. |
0:37.0 | Languages, I've tried several times, I've tried Farsi because I was in a long-term relationship with an Iranian young lady years ago and that didn't last. I learned stuff, it went away. |
0:50.0 | And then I was always going to China, so I was trying to learn how to speak Chinese. |
0:54.4 | And that went away, that didn't last. |
0:57.0 | And then Taylor and I were trying to learn Italian together, and I gave up on that. |
1:02.2 | But yeah, learning another language is |
1:03.7 | it's impossible for me. It's not impossible. Not impossible, |
1:07.2 | not impossible, but it's impossible for me to stick with it, so therefore |
1:10.6 | defaults to impossible. |
1:11.7 | But it's not impossible. Now it's just one of those |
1:16.8 | things you got to really really want it and then you know I figured when I was |
1:20.4 | learning Farsi which is the Iranian language I was learning Farsi, which is the Iranian language, I was learning because we basically |
1:26.1 | lived together. |
1:27.1 | This was when I was in my 20s. |
1:28.6 | And so that was easy, but if you ask me now, can't remember anything but you know when you're |
1:34.2 | with somebody and then also in Hong Kong working with a lot of the factory |
1:37.4 | managers and stuff everybody spoke Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese and I was |
1:41.8 | learning a little of both and I had I don't know 25 words 30 words back that you know I can't remember anything now I can't actually count from one to 10 I think but I'd have to think about it for a minute. |
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