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somewhat of a strange episode maybe not strange, but deep episode for you this week. On the topic that is more around mindset, a couple weeks ago it came to my attention of when we learn months, the order of months, and I spoke about this briefly on threads yesterday. I had the random occurrence of me of tweet something out about I graduated high school before I knew the order of months and today I'm running a business that gets to work with some of the most innovative thinkers and smartest people I know and that really being a slow learner is not necessarily a disadvantage and it doesn't prevent you from having future opportunities. This is kind of like abstract, throwing this out there, different, you know, turn from normal content and sharing here. But yeah, a couple of weeks ago it hit me and I'm 35. So that like 35 or 36, 35, that I didn't know the months and I had a bit of a, you know, uh interesting upbringing. You know, a lot of deaths in the family. That probably caused, uh, definitely like a rocky kind of normal seed to my growing up in development and you know this is not going to be like a oh trauma. This is my backstory. It was so hard, nothing like that, but it definitely, you know, dealing with a lot of death from very early on made my upbringing different, and I'm figuring out things today that I'm like, wow, that wasn't normal. You know, do you ever do that when you've gone years and you're like, wait, I'm just learning, wow, that wasn't normal, you know, do you ever do that when you've gone years and you're like, wait, I'm just learning that that thing wasn't normal. And one of those things was just learning something simple like the order of months.

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Because I was wondering like when would we teach my daughter this? I have no concept of timelines because I have not spent really any time around kids since I was a kid and that was a different view. So I'll ask chat, gpt, things, like you know, when is a kid supposed to learn the months? And I think it said something around kindergarten or first grade or something and it hit me Like I remember telling my dad I don't even know the order of months. My dad was like astonished by it, like really, and I was in high school at this time. He's like really, and I'm like, well, obviously I know my birthday. My birthday is in June. I know the months around there like August, I know May. May goes into June, and then July and then August, and then I couldn't tell you if it was October, september, which order of November, and then December, like now I know it as an adult, I can tell you the dates, the order of the months, all that.

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But then I remember it being so blurry towards time of, like fall, and then also the time of spring, basically anything that was the opposite of my birthday or Christmas. So once you got into, you know, february, march, it was just blurry and I had no reason and I think because my brother died around when I was three and it was, you know, I don't know. My only guess is like it was kind of like rocky around that time or something, and then I must've like missed it in school, and then you just are learning so much I'm guessing that it just never came back around and I didn't ask because it wasn't like hey, I need to know this. So somehow I missed out on it and I was, you know, going through high school, and not that I'm like developmentally challenged, I might be, I don't think I'm developmentally challenged or anything but I was able to graduate high school, and that's another story. Like they changed the credit system my senior year or junior year of high school, so I had over the amount of credits. I think if I was under the new system or something, I wouldn't have graduated.

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Like I basically skirted by and the person that's recording this, sharing this with you today, and the person that was me in high school very different, like I feel for that guy he was doing the best he could, but very different than who I am today and like my approach to things, how I learned things, very different. And you know, I had a lot going on in my mind. It was very, it was very like solo in high school times and this is not, you know, a broad stroke of Dylan in high school and now, but more so, just of what you see today and what is possible in the future can look so different. Right, if you told me in high school what I would be doing today, I'd be like I don't think my brain would compute as much. Right, my mind was around music, it was around recording, which is funny because I'm recording this sharing with you. But it looks way different, like I couldn't even dream as big for my life at that time. It's way better, way better, but I had no idea at that time that it would look like that, because all I had was my frame of reference of like what's possible.

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And what was possible for Dylan in high school was, you know, let's see, playing music, playing regular gigs on like the weekends, maybe even during the week. I played in a metal band in high school and we started getting fans in the local area One of the Battle of the Bands. That band, I believe, still plays today. That was just like what I saw possible, like more of that, more of what I was currently experiencing and not what I'm experiencing today. But if I was able to choose what I'm experiencing today, I would have chose that at that time. And I say all this because it's kind of a mind bender, like, you know what's possible, but that's your frame of reference and what's actually possible is way bigger than your frame of reference. So, taking it from this podcast, for example, my frame of reference is I'm recording this episode for you.

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What's actually possible and I'm just going to do my best at imagining a scenario that could be the case is I'm creating a legacy that lives beyond me, that is more valuable to certain individuals in the future than I could possibly wrap my head around right now. That's why I'd say it's a bit of a mind bender. Like it affects my daughter in some way of me recording this and then that goes on to affect someone that she comes in contact with. That she shows who knows on to affect someone that she comes in contact with. That she shows who knows. Right. The ripple effect of our decisions go way beyond just what we perceive to be the area of our focus, right? It's funny how something simple, just like the order of the months, highlighted this for me the order of the months.

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I'm like man, that's something everybody should know and nowadays it's second nature. I'm like, yeah, but there's still stuff that I don't know and I'm still stepping into learning and excited about learning. It's like I don't know everything not the best at math especially but I want to learn. Like I have this knowledge to learn and there is part of me that knows that when I learn something like, well, I've figured out that subject, but really have I.

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The more I've done this podcast, the more I've created content, the more I've wanted to not know everything, because it's hard to make content when you feel like you know everything because it's boring. Like you're like yeah, I know this and then I'm sharing this thing, but there's always nuances. So, if you notice in in my short form videos especially, I'll explore topics that maybe have already been explored or very like nuanced niche ideas Like why is there a grill on the microphone, or why does the Shure SM7B have the shape it does, or why is it the most popular microphone? Yeah, I mean, those probably are good for SEO and it's loosely related not loosely, it is related to the niche of the content that I'm creating all that. But yeah, it's because I'm trying to see things from different perspectives regularly to just have a better understanding of the world, and all of these things seem to compound over time more and more and more and, before you know it, you're building these things and people are like I'm really into that. I'm like, hey, I'm really into that too. And you start connecting with these other people.

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This whole, I guess, network effect happens where, next thing, you know you've met people that you never even dreamed of meeting, because you didn't know it was possible. You're working with people that you never thought you would have ever had a chance with working for, because it just seemed too hard, like how do I get in contact with that person Now. That person's contacting you now and asking if they can work with you and giving you a deal that seems quite in your favor, and then you're actually enjoying it. You're actually enjoying the process of doing it all and to me that's the sweet spot of being a content creator is enjoying the process and finding it fulfilling and treating it as a path of this self-discovery and unraveling. To just sit in like the position of I know this and I'm telling you this every day. To me that's unappealing. But to have a mix of here's what I'm seeing, this is quite interesting. Nothing really that I share to me should be taken as like. This is the only way. It's like. This is what I've learned and hopefully this helps you on your journey as you start to unravel your own perspective of the world and how that shapes your world. I'll share with you, like my world and what I'm seeing in an effort to make sure that you have a better understanding of your world, because going back to Dylan in high school, his view of the world was somewhat limited.

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There was a lot of just opportunity, impossibility. I remember telling my dad I just want to move to New York. I don't want a car, I want to ride a bike. And he would tell you that today, like I remember, when you just really wanted to move to New York and ride a bike and I was like a BMX bike, I could picture it. I ended up moving to Denver and rode a BMX bike and I have a picture of me in Denver with that bike. It was music, that was it, that was everything and that was my world.

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As I started to get more information and started to form a better view of the world I was viewing and wanted to create, I would make different, informed decisions, and I think that's partly, you know, an argument for why it's so important what type of information we're taking in every day. Because if you're taking in just junk, you're going to get a junk output, because the worldview that you're creating is that of one of junk. Right, I'm using junk as like a catch-all term. Right, there's times for entertainment and just like mindless comedy, I'm a big fan. But when it comes to like knowledge and feed me good information, I know that it affects my output of like what I give to you, down to the foods I eat. Right, like, everything is connected.

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This is getting very hippie for just a moment, but I really have found that to be true. And maybe this is a midlife crisis during recording, who knows? Uh, but I think also I'm not even at the midlife stage. Based on science, technology, how long people are supposed to be living. I don't know. Anyways, maybe I should buy a motorcycle, or I should just congratulate myself on learning the order of months.

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What is possible is absolutely anything for you. I believe that with all my heart, and I say that not even being in the spot of I'm living my you know thing that I wanted to live. No, no, I'm not at that part yet, right, I'm constantly living a dream, if you will. I'm constantly letting myself be wowed by what could happen next and what opportunities are still available. I feel like I'm just getting started and there is a high probability. Well, actually, I'll say I know the same is true for you too.

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I was going to say I don't know your situation, but I do know your situation because I've talked to enough of you that I know the same is true for you too. Only way you're at the end is if you've passed away, if you're done right, like, then your work could live on and all that. But like you don't have to worry about that, right, your work could live on and all that. But like you don't have to worry about that, right, you don't have to worry about your legacy after you're gone, because you're gone Like you can't control that. Why be anxious about that? But here in the now, if you're still breathing, if you're still creating, if you're still letting yourself not just only be the expert who knows it all, if you're still letting yourself learn and be open, you're still creating the opportunities for there to be something so beyond of what you even can fathom possible, and for that I congratulate you, because that's exciting stuff. I'll see you in the next one.