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🗓️ 30 September 2016
⏱️ 94 minutes
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0:00.0 | Naughty check. Naughty check. Naughty check. I was a bit naughty. |
0:06.8 | You know how I don't like totally understand the difference between you and I when it comes to |
0:11.2 | objects and memorabilia and mementos and things? What's not to understand? It seems very clear. |
0:17.6 | Well, I realise we're different, but I'm just always trying to understand it better. So I've come |
0:23.1 | up with a hypothetical scenario. Oh, okay. And I want to know how you would read it. And I know |
0:27.4 | this is just a crazy hypothetical scenario, but it will help me better understand you. So just go |
0:32.6 | with me for a second. Okay, so we're doing a thought experiment. A thought experiment. Yep. I was |
0:37.6 | trying to think of someone who's famous who I think you hold in high regard. So I've gone for |
0:42.1 | Elon Musk right? Okay. All right. Say Elon Musk came to London. And for some reason he emailed you and |
0:49.0 | said, oh, CGP Grey, I hear you live in London. And I've liked a couple of your videos and I just |
0:53.6 | wonder if you want to go for a coffee. Okay. I'm assuming you would say yes to that. So you go for |
0:57.7 | a quick coffee with him and you just chat about whatever you two want to chat about. And while you're |
1:01.8 | at coffee, he like has a napkin or something and he's just sketching and drawing. And he draws |
1:07.6 | like just a funny picture of you two sitting at a table and at the end he just signs it and says, |
1:11.6 | oh, do you want this? I just drew this of us sitting here having a chat. To Grey, great to meet you. |
1:16.3 | Elon Musk. What do you do with that napkin? Well, there's two things that occur here. One of which is |
1:25.6 | trying to navigate social graces. Yep. So I think there are many times when you need to be |
1:30.8 | seen as receiving a gift that you have no intention of actually keeping. So you're not going to |
1:35.8 | screw it up and throw it in his face obviously. Because as I have learned my interactions with people |
1:42.7 | over my life, sometimes you have to try to accept what the person is doing, not like the actual |
1:51.3 | nitpicky details of the situation. Yep. A person is just trying to extend a nice gesture. Yeah. |
1:59.5 | And you need to accept the gesture because rejecting it is a whole other indication that is not |
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