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the extreme thing needed to do to maybe get something stable. This was it. It was an extreme thing. Nobody wanted it to happen but it did. So now they have a chance of building something stable maybe with Saudi or somebody else having some role. We'll see. But I see two wars that are likely to wind down. I don't see a war with China starting. I see China on the decline. I see Russia sort of should…
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I think Elon Musk has that problem too. That if you don't like what he's doing you worry because he's too smart. Too smart is scary to most people. So you need to be too smart but also clearly empathetic. So the thing that Vivek has to do is make sure that he's communicated his empathy with the same power as his capability. If he gets his capability higher than his empathy he looks like a monster. If he gets his empathy up to the level of his capability it's called charisma. Do you get that? That's a very important point by the way. Let me say it again because it's so important. If his capability is higher than his empathy he'll look like a monster because he's capable of doing anything but you're not sure he's on your team because he doesn't have the empathy. But if he gets his empathy to the same level as his capability which is extraordinary you're going to say to yourself oh we can't have anybody else. He will become what's the word just guaranteed. If his empathy and I don't think it does yet by the way. The reason you're afraid of him is that he hasn't done it yet. His empathy has not achieved the same level of his capability but not because he doesn't have empathy. It's exactly because his capability is so high it's really hard to get that much empathy even if you have plenty of empathy because he's just operating at such a high level.
If he gets it there and he could easily because it's more of a communication thing than a real thing. If he just tweaks his communication to get his empathy to the same level it's magic. Have you seen the viral videos of Vivek I'm going to say turning a critic in the audience? I've seen two of them so far. I think there might be more but in both cases the way he turned his critic was he said I'll give you the microphone and let you talk and let his critic fully express everything and then where he could find places of agreement he would agree strongly and then without losing any empathy he would tell you why his version actually shows the most empathy. And once he had done that because the person had talked themselves out in both cases they realized that he was coming from a place of empathy not a place of technical you know Republicans like this. It was actually derived from an empathy position.
Now that's not obvious. It's not obvious that all of his policies are empathy based. It's just that he thinks capitalism fixes your problem better than socialism or communism and he thinks you know the truth works better than a lie right? So he's definitely has an empathy first approach. It's just that he knows you have to go through a certain path to get to the best outcome and not everybody knows that. So he looks a little off model because people are not as smart as he is about how you get to the best place. But given his level of capability could he ever bring his perceived empathy because it's perception his perceived empathy up to his actual empathy where his capability is? If he does that he goes supernova. Supernova.
Now I would say that's what Trump gets right. One of the things that makes Trump so popular is that
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his empathy for regular Americans is through the roof. Would you agree? I've never seen anybody more consistently. And here's the key. Genuinely. Trump is full of it about a lot of stuff but if he doesn't genuinely have empathy for the let's say middle class of America that would be the greatest trick ever because he looks completely consistent. Everything he does in person every little act of kin…
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