Raise Your Hand If You're Totally Copacetic with Failure

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🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:28.2	Raise your hand if you're totally copacetic with failure.
0:34.4	You know, I don't know why I keep doing that.
0:36.9	This is radio.
0:38.0	I cannot see your hands, but I'm imagining them.
0:43.0	And I'm imagining that in 5 million people who interact with this program at some point,
0:49.3	one of you raised your hand and said, yeah, I'm cool with failure.
0:59.4	Yeah, I am totally, no, nobody is.
1:05.7	When we're little kids, if you have siblings, oh my gosh, or next door neighbor kids that come over, the competition is right there. It's built in to the animal. We are not plants or minerals. We're animals.
1:16.1	And we're mammals. Fertibrates mammals on top of that. My God. So there are certain things we have to do
1:24.3	that are just animal, and that's survive. And if you look throughout the
1:29.9	animal kingdom, there's all this fighting going on for territory food and reproduction. And this is
1:41.0	usually not done sweetly.
1:45.5	It's done.
1:47.1	Yeah.
1:49.1	You ever see crocodiles?
1:54.5	When they're making more crocodiles, it doesn't look pretty.
1:55.7	Okay?
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