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So as I often do, I was watching myself in replay. I play back my Periscopes now and then just to see what it looks like and see if I could make it better. And I gotta tell you, one of the systems you should implement in your life, and it really, really helps you understand yourself, is making a real concerted effort to monitor your personality after certain conditions have changed.
For example, monitor your personality after you've had a good night's sleep and then compare it to a bad night's sleep. You get to see a difference. Hungry versus not hungry. And as you all know, I've mentioned it, I'm coming off of a prednisone. So I had some prednisone for some sinus stuff and it completely changes my personality. And so I noted before I take it so that I could watch myself like an observer, which is really hard because when it's you, you don't really feel like you're observing yourself. You're just you. But you can do it if you practice.
So I've been watching myself sort of objectively to see if I turned into a different personality on prednisone. And when I watch myself on the playback, I really did. So you know I'm on the tail end of it now, so we should be normalizing. But as I was watching myself I thought, I don't think I'd watch that guy. He seems kind of intense and angry and a little belligerent. So my judgment of myself is that I was a little belligerent yesterday and a little bit unkind. I was definitely hard on the president. I doubt I've ever been harder on Trump than I have this week. I think you'd probably agree.
Let's talk about all that stuff anyway. So it's a good technique to learn to watch yourself objectively and say, hey, is that my normal personality or is that because of
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the meds I'm on or I didn't get enough sleep or something? All right, there's a whole bunch of stuff happening. Number one, I understand that the Chinese government really, really, really hates it when you call this any kind of a Chinese flu or the Wuhan virus. Now once I learned that the Chinese government really hates it when you call the virus that, I decided that from now on I'll only call i…
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