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Within the Wires

Season 8, Cassette 9: Sell the Idea of You!

Within the Wires

Night Vale Presents

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

"It does not matter if the evidence is accurate to who you are now. It simply needs to be true to who you will be in the future." # The voice of Tony Tollinger is Joey Rizzolo, joeyrizzolo.com Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Within the Wires T-Shirts & Posters, Episode transcripts Support this show on Patreon Logo by Rob Wilson Part of the Night Vale Presents network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're getting close to the end of our journey together Brian. It's been a long road.

0:08.8

Of course for you, the journey is just beginning. I hope I've helped you set your feet more firmly on

0:14.6

their path. That's all I can really do. You're the one who has to walk it. Do you still

0:20.4

feel up to the challenge?

0:23.8

Over the course of the last nine weeks, I've given you all the tools you need to get ahead.

0:29.1

Time to bring them together into one cohesive package, the package of Brian. This is the package you're going to sell to the world.

0:37.2

This isn't about what's going on inside your mind. It's not about what efforts you're making

0:42.0

behind the scenes.

0:43.0

This is the version of yourself you want other people to believe in.

0:48.0

The version of yourself that other people can trust, can invest in, can look up to. Now I understand, and you understand, that you are not

0:58.0

this person yet. You have only just embarked on your journey of discovery. It will be years before you realize your own potential. In fact, it is highly unlikely you ever will. That is the idea.

1:17.0

Your potential is an asymptote and your reality, the line that curves ever towards it, growing closer every day but never meeting.

1:29.0

Did you study algebra, Brian, when you were in school? I don't think you did. Maybe you were going to but then someone mentioned the idea of

1:36.8

studying geology and suddenly that seemed more appealing to you. Well, you're not doing

1:42.4

anything with geology now are you?

1:45.0

But it doesn't matter. What you did in the past doesn't matter.

1:48.0

What you're doing now doesn't matter.

1:50.0

What matters is what you can promise to be doing in the future.

1:55.0

What matters is what people can expect from you.

1:58.0

When people have high expectations, they entrust you with more important tasks.

2:03.0

When they have high expectations, people make more opportunities available to you.

2:08.0

It's crucial that people have high expectations of you.

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