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today. All right. How would you like to take your experience up to levels which have never been seen before? Well, all you need is a coffee mug or a glass or a tankard or a chalice or a canteen, jug or flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better.…

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he simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

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Now, before we get into all the ugliness, because of course we're going to talk about Israel, I have a few topics before that. But I wanted to share with you something I shared in the man cave last night with my subscribers on Locals. And it's a difference between wanting something and deciding. And you'll see this distinction in a lot of places, and it's really important to have.

When you want something, you can see the pluses and the minuses of going after it. But you're seeing the minuses pretty strongly, and you say to yourself, ah, you know, I tried to do something but it was hard so I gave up. But when you decide to do something, it doesn't matter how hard it will be because you've already decided.

I noted there was an example of that as I'm playing with my technology here. I wanted to be able to livestream on multiple platforms using third-party software. But the first several times I tried it, I probably tried it, I don't know, five to ten times, and always I ran into some problem or complication. And I said, it's too much, too much work, too many problems, not going to do it.

So that's when I wanted to do it. I kept running into a problem and quitting. For years, actually. Every now and then I would just keep trying. But after YouTube did the last set of sketchy things — now I don't know what's real and what they're doing or what I just imagine they're doing, but whatever it was, it was sort of the too-far level — then I decided.

And it's amazing how easy things are when you decide. Because the problems don't look like problems anymore. They look like something you're going to solve. So as soon as I decided that no matter what it took, no matter how hard it was, no matter how embarrassing or frustrated it became, I was going to make it work on multiple platforms, which it is right now, and it's just astonishing

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how easy it became. As soon as I realized that there was no alternative, I had already decided. And then I just lined up the problems and just knocked them down. So today I probably solved the sound problem. I turned up my light a little bit. I've got another camera ordered. I've got a new laptop ordered so I'll have better resolution in the camera. So there's nothing that will stop me at this po…

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