#336 Episode 3 Transcripts Don't believe everything you think

The Youngbloods

Segment 2 – Don’t Believe What You Think

F: Ochona Delwayo said “One who looks around him is intelligent. One who looks within him is wise.” Or in other words, don’t believe everything you think.

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in a whispered tone P: Transcripts

D:So that is actually from a book I am reading.

F:I need to read it.

D:I will get you the…I will get you a copy of it.

F:Ar you reading it or are you listening to it, audiobook

D:I’m cheating, yes

F:There’s no cheating in an audiobook

D:You know, I read a lot, but time is always a thing. And so because time is a thing, I have to do things…yeah

F:I need to read more because I used to be an avid reader and I always read like, not actual educational books, more of the Sci-Fi…Piers Anthony was one of my favorite authors as a kid, I read all his series, it was amazing, I just, I read a lot and now not so much, but as a Lyft driver, I need to put on those audiobooks

D:You should, audiobooks are seriously they’re amazing. Makes your life easier, makes your life…you can get a lot done, I mean have you finished “Greenlights?”

F:I have not finished it because it actually deleted off of my phone, I have got to find it again

D:I can add it back to your phone

F:Oh thank you for…

D:Matthew McConaughey…

F:Matthew McConaughey, “Greenlights”, amazing, amazing stuff,

kind of along the lines of what we are doing here with ‘Transcripts’

D:Yeah, I mean his is more of about his life

F:Yeah, I mean but…

D:But he talks about how it applies and if you listen to what he does and how it applies and how he has taken it and applied the things that he has done and you apply it to your life, on the Greenlights side, I mean this is a green light right here

F:This is true

D:Yeah, this book is, yeah, ‘Don’t believe Everything You Think’ by, uh, Joseph Nguyen. I probably destroyed his name, but it is what it is…but

F:How do you spell it?

D:Um…go back to it…N G U Y N, E N

F:Oh that’s Nguyen (w e n)

D:Ok

F:That’s pronounced w e n

D:There we go, Joseph Nguyen, ok, there ya go, I destroyed it, but that’s ok

F:You did destroy it

D:I don’t know, again…

F:Is Joseph offended?

D:Probably…we’ll get to that

F:We’ll get to that segment

D:Ok, so

F:That, that, when you showed me that quote, it really hit me because , um, intelligence and wisdom…

D:Well, so this is actually chapter 2 in the book, it says ‘The root cause…’ basically it is talking about the root cause of all suffering

F:Ok

D:And then go back into the title of the book ‘Don’t believe everything you think, ok, so we, we literally are coming off talking about religion.

F:Absolutely

D:And…

F:And how a lot of religions the culture takes over or the people within the culture take over and then they start taking their own ideas

D:People focus, so it, culture is easy to grab a hold of

F:Well because you want to belong

D:Correct and that’s part of it, now when you grab a hold of a culture then, (sigh) cause you wanna belong, what happens is you’re trying to fit in and you want to fit in. Now there comes a point in everybody’s life, and most people don’t get to this point, but there comes a point in life where you need to say ‘I’m ok not fitting in’ Yeah…

F:Is that more on the kinda, the self love/self care kind of…

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D:I, I think it is

F:Aspect of things…

D:The only reason is cause, you’re you and, you need to be, everybody needs to be unique in themselves. We can have things in common, religion can bring us something that is in common, you know politics can bring us something in common, you know, school cars, you name it. Right? We, we we’r culturistic people anyway. We all are.

F:Correct. The challenge within those cultures, I think, is that cliques are formed.

D:Correct

F:Because you, you get those segments, you know. Like, think high school…

D:Ok

F:You know in high school you had the jocks

D:Yeah

F:You had the richy rich girls that were

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