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So I've told you before how weird my life is. My life is so weird it's hard to imagine what it's like to be me. Let me tell you about my experience in the last twenty-four hours.
I got my televisions fixed in my house. Had some technical problems. And so I decided to watch some television. So I turned on one show and I'm watching Fox News and "The Five," my favorite show. And I turned on the TV and they're talking about me. Like Greg was mentioning something that I'd mentioned. And I thought, how weird. I'm turning on the television and the television's talking about me.
And then later I saw an article. I saw an article somewhere on the internet. It was in Forbes magazine and it was about the value of mushrooms as hallucinogens that can help people with a whole variety of mental issues. And I thought, well this is an interesting article because I have an interest in this. I'll talk about it a little bit later. So I'm reading the article and the article's about me. I mean it's not the entire article about me, but I'm one of about five people mentioned in the article who have brought up this topic as something beautiful. I thought, how weird. I turn on the television, it's about me, and then I read an article, one of the few articles I was interested enough to actually read the whole article, and it's about me.
This morning, about five minutes ago, somebody was nice enough to tweet me a video in which MMA champion, you know, one of the greats of all time, Conor McGregor, his coach, a guy named John Kavanagh, is talking about training Conor McGregor. Now y'all know Conor McGregor, right? One of the most famous athletes of all time. If you don't follow MMA, maybe you haven't heard of the name, but within that world he would be one of these superstars that everybody knows.
And John Kavanagh, I want to ask about his training. He says that they're going to use systems instead of goals, and then he name-checks me. So apparently I'm some important part of Conor McGregor's training. Is that a weird world? Imagine waking up to that. I was strange.
So I'm very, very happy for anybody who finds value in that stuff, these systems being better than goals. And now I'm a bigger fan of Conor McGregor than ever before, so I'd like to see him win since he's using, at least to a small extent, he's using something that I promoted in my book, "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." I think it's over my shoulder there.
All right, let's talk about some of the news, and then at the end
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I'm going to cure a number of you of some anxiety problems. If you don't think that's real, stick around, because I know some of you don't. Others of you are saying to yourself, I've been watching this guy for a while and I didn't believe any of the other things he predicted until they happened, and I didn't believe the effect it would have on me until it did. How many of you joined me in the sim…
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