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🗓️ 9 June 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | So, Leva, here's a question for you today. |
0:29.8 | Would you agree that you and I are fundamentally pretty different people? |
0:33.8 | Yes. |
0:34.8 | Okay, I would too. |
0:36.8 | But of all the ways in which we're different, what would you say is maybe the biggest difference? |
0:43.8 | Probably that you like people and I don't. |
0:45.8 | Yeah, that's not what I was thinking of. |
0:47.8 | Okay. |
0:48.8 | Here's the one I'm thinking. |
0:49.8 | You seem to be almost entirely unaffected by your physical surroundings. |
0:56.8 | That's true. That's completely true. |
0:59.8 | Whereas you ridicule me for being too sensitive like if the lights go out or something, |
1:05.8 | you're like, hey, don't you just keep working. What's the problem? |
1:08.8 | But like when you're working or even you know, filling out your horse bedding stuff, |
1:13.8 | you could be in the desert, you could be in a room with 150 decibels, |
1:17.8 | and you're just a machine. |
1:20.8 | It doesn't matter to you. |
1:22.8 | Would you agree that that's a pretty fundamental difference between us? |
1:25.8 | I think so. Yeah, but there's a downside to it too, which is that when I get dragged to nice places, |
1:30.8 | I never appreciate it. |
1:31.8 | Yeah, you don't know how to behave. |
1:32.8 | I don't know. |
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