And we are live. Welcome to Friday, everybody. And as you can see by the shirt I'm wearing,

I am still not participating in their new norm. And I don't want you to either. But we

are going to talk about some of the things going on inside their new normal today. And then

as we usually do on a Friday show when we do that, we'll take a turn and we'll talk about

things that are more practical for us in our own lives. Remember, we only talk about what's

going on in society to understand it and prepare for it. In most of our daily activities,

we should be really heavily focused on what I call our sphere of control. I learned

about the sphere of influence and the sphere of concern or circles of influence and circle

of concern from Stephen Covey many years ago in the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

And over time, and I'm not the only one that's done this, I've added a circle inside the

circle of influence, the circle of control. And so it is way more important that we focus

on our circles of control than even our circle of influence. Because, well, it's human

beings, we have this weird ego thing that even people that are very introverted and don't

actually talk to a lot of people, still have this idea that our influence is bigger than

it is and that our actual thoughts, like what we think about a thing actually influences

the thing. And I do think thoughts can influence a thing, but only if it's a mass thought and

that's used against us. And the only thing we can do to change that is to focus again

on what we actually control. So we're going to talk about some really cool stuff today,

but we're going to talk about some current event stuff too. Since I can't stop getting

emails and comments and seeing people posting it in social media, we're going to lead

off very, very, very, very briefly friends with the Will Smith smack that was seen around

the world. What a pile of bullshit. You just watched an info commercial for a Pfizer

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