Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast. I want to also bring

into some exciting things that are happening here. If you go to the Mosaic app, you will learn

about our conference coming up this year, about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and be more involved in mosaic in so many

different ways and by the way we now have the mosaic YouTube channel and you

go access not only these talks but

other fresh and new materials that are being created specifically for that

channel and so if you want to be connected in a richer and fuller way, not only be a part of the

podcast, get to the Mosaic app and get to the channel and we'll see you there.

There are times where I think ahead and I plan what I'm going to talk to you about.

Sometimes weeks ahead, sometimes months ahead.

And we'll even do a series wrapped around a particular theme or idea, concept, a journey that I want to take you on.

But this is one of those rare moments where I didn't even know I was doing a series.

And then I realized, oh, I'm doing a series.

But it actually began on a Wednesday night

in Santa Monica at Mosaic Venice.

And I'm not sure why I was particularly inspired by that community, but I began a series

that I called How to Stop Being Stupid. And I've realized that that theme has stayed with me

over the last several weeks and that every talk I've given from that point

forward has really been around this subject on how to stop being stupid.

And I've realized that it's a much more complicated thing because when you're stupid,

it's hard to stop being stupid, because you don't know you're stupid.

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