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w we're in good shape. All right. Question for all of you. I was just chatting with the local subscribers before I fired up YouTube, and I'm going to ask you the same question on YouTube. Is body language real? In other words, is it a skill which you can learn and apply, or maybe you've already learned it and then you apply it? Is body language real? Go. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Yes.…
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Now if I asked you, should you do your own research and talk to your doctor to decide what to do, most of you would say yes. Should you do your own research on, let's say, anything but vaccinations and then talk to your doctor? That's the way you should handle it, right? Do your own research and talk to your doctor.
How many of you think you should only do one of those? Only your own research or only talk to your own doctor? Nobody, right? You would all agree 100 percent that you should do your own research and then talk to your doctor. You know doctors are saying different things, right? They're not all saying the same thing. So how do you know you got the right doctor? You're basically imagining that you were good at picking a doctor. You probably didn't pick your doctor. Most of you just sort of took the doctor that was there because you don't know how to pick a good doctor from a bad doctor.
And similar to getting a financial advisor, there are more financial advisors than there are stocks. How do you know you got a good financial advisor? They don't beat the market more than a monkey with a dartboard. They usually do worse than a monkey with a dartboard, let's say, compared to index funds.
So here's the problem that we run into all the time. Body language is totally real but you can't do it. You just think you can. Financial analysis, in which you look at the pros and cons of companies and study their balance sheets and look at their business model and study the management quality, that's very real. You can't do it but you think you can. Likewise doing your own research to decide what you should do about vaccinations. You think you can do that but you can't. You can't. Likewise almost everything that you see on Twitter that's a graph or a chart or is proving something. You think you can read that and come to a decision that's pretty good but you can't. You don't have those skills. Nobody does. Basically nobody does.
You know, the reason that I continually promote people like Andres Backhouse and Anatoly Lebarsky is that they seem to be very close to having those skills, but of course nobody's right all the time, right?
So when you don't know how bad you are at something until you see somebody who's good at it, would you agree with that? Would you agree that generally speaking it's impossible to know how bad you are at something until you meet somebody who's good at it?
Take singing for example. I suppose if you had never met a good singer you probably thought you could do it, and then you meet Mariah Carey and you say, oh, okay, I don't know what I was doing but that wasn't singing. That singing, whatever I was doing, I don't even know what that was anymore, right?
So the problem is you'll never meet somebody who's good at body language because there aren't many of them. I don't know if there are any of th
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em really, but I'm assuming that the people who study it professionally probably are pretty good at it. Pretty good. But you're never going to meet them, right? And it's not you. So what I would encourage you to do is have some humility about the assumption that you can do your own research. Now let me give you my macro opinion of Aaron Rodgers. A bunch of people sent me his video and said, hey,…
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