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Now administering the third eye drops. My friends the list of things we don't have any control over is endless. It's downright disconcerting really how many things we don't have

control over. We can't control other people. We can't control the writing on Game of Thrones no matter how hard I clench I can't fill out

this one goddamn patchy spot in my beard.

Furthermore, I've finally been meditating pretty consistently

for the past month and a half or so and that's actually a incredible exercise

in realizing how many things are out of your control. Things just manifest in your consciousness.

Noises, smells, other sensory input of course, but even thoughts, thoughts just kind of meander into being

and then they fade away like psychic weather so we can't even control our most intimate

dimension we can't even control our own mental landscape at least not fully

but there is one thing we can control that is more important

than anything else without a doubt and that is our perception. Our perception is the difference

between despair and glee really. I've talked about it on the show before. I've done quite a lot of cold showers and ice baths and cold water swims and what

changes first the very first thing that allows you to do something so terrible sounding as an ice bath, which is pretty objectively terrible.

But the very first thing that changes is your perception, the idea that, hey, this is kind of fun. This is actually a tool I can use to better myself. And then upon that perspective change and doing it several

times, of course your physiology and your neurology actually follow suit. You get better at

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