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Those of you who have, get ready. It's happening now. Do you remember, some of you have been watching me for a while, I once told you that if you take the Dale Carnegie course, one of the things that it teaches you is really, really valuable for some situations. One of those situations is happening right now. And let me tell you a little bit of a story before I get into that. Yeah. Um, years ago…
← Previous segment →into these situations as I did. I just gave a speech because you just always have one. Now it's usually pieces of speeches, right? So you have these little components that if you get in one of these situations, you can just take them off the shelf. You say, okay, I'll take one of these, one of these, one of these, and I'll just put them together on the fly, which is what I just did.
So that story about the bookstore, some of you have heard it before. And the point of it is it's one of my shelf points. Always keep a few on the shelf so anytime you get a little situation like this you go, oh, I'll introduce it by the Denver bookstore story and then I'll have a good momentum going and then I'll find other pieces as I go.
I'm going to give you today my first mandatory Twitter follow recommendation. You ready? Now when I say mandatory, I'm going to the next level. I'm taking it up. Because I've told you before there are some people you should follow. I'll probably mention them again. But there are a number of people who are just way better to follow than other people because they have some kind of insight or they're just good at tweeting or something.
And I'm going to give you my first ever mandatory follow, meaning that if you follow me, I'm telling you it's mandatory: Glenn Greenwald.
Now if you don't already follow Glenn Greenwald, here's the first thing you need to know. Has nothing to do with politics. He talks about politics, so his domain is politics, but that's not the recommendation. He's one of the few people who every time he writes or tweets, he can take the curt
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ain of reality, it just pushes it back and then he's done. And then he brings it back, you know, after you're done reading them. And then you have to live in that other artificial world for a while. And then Glenn Greenwald says something and he pulls the curtain back again and you can see the real world for a little bit. Now usually he's pulling back the curtain on the media itself so that you c…
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