i did want to kind of just talk about some of the themes some of the other themes that are in the book one of them is is kind of this idea of being obsessed with random things which we all certainly do i do we all end up obsessed with these random things and if you look at it from the outside it doesn’t make any sense so jiu-jitsu surfing archery uh rock climbing music guitars nascar uh lawn super into your lawn right super into fishing super into yoga super into cooking super into grill like there’s all these things that people just get into and that level of obsession could be about anything right and that was that was one of the fun things that i had with artie was i was thinking what would be the most random kind of thing that you could be obsessed with how about laundry doing laundry but there’s not that much difference between being obsessed with doing laundry and and archery yeah and i’m believe me i’m pretty obsessed with archery i spend a bunch of time doing it i spend money on it like why man i could be making super clean clothes jiu jitsu hey we’re super into jiu jitsu yeah we could talk about this freaking skill and this and that but at this point we have kind of the basic skills that we need to defend ourselves we’re just doing it yeah it’s for a whole nother reason right lawns right yeah like lawn care people get fired up for that stuff oh yeah so that’s something that we do it’s an underlying theme in the book is man think about what you’re doing what are you obsessed with why are you obsessed with it yeah we get into some weird stuff yeah that is weird um consumerism buying stuff that’s another thing we do you wrap that you wrap the obsession around also around consumerism buying stuff and if you’ve ever been to a big box store which i certainly have been to many and still go to or i should say still shop at because because i don’t go to them very often my wife my wife kind of gets that done but you go into those places and it’s all we consume a lot of stuff right and here’s here’s what i think is interesting and nowadays you know this this this book takes place in the early 90s late 80s i’m going to say early 90s so there’s no cell phones um but one thing that i’ve found that i think i believe and you can tell me what you think i think we i think have you ever built something yes sir i have and it gave that took you some time and effort mm-hmm what’s the biggest thing you’ve ever built big biggest one yeah i don’t know but that wasn’t that did not come from ikea yeah so what okay so i i don’t know the biggest thing that’s gonna take a while for me to think of but the thing that did jump out at me was i used to make slingshots when i was a kid okay so um you’d go down in our in my case i’d go down the valley the canyon mm-hmm whatever um and you’d find a guava tree i like the guava tree wood uh you and then you find where there’s like a perfect y it can’t be like too narrow of a split right gotta be and it can’t be too wide either there’s a lot of those you gotta find the perfect one boom you cut it you cut it all three spots and you bring it back you you skin it let it dry for a little bit like a few days or whatever um i used to this is when i went extra on it i’d sand it down so it looks kind of cool uh you can put finish on it i never really did that um and then you go by it’s called surgical tubing yeah stuff then you uh yeah you attach them and then you cut off the tongue of your shoe like an old shoe or whatever cut it off and then poke the two holes use a knife or even like a whole puncher it’s harder to do the whole puncher but you you know you do the two uh holes attach the surgical tube tubing what i would do is i do this circle the surgical tubing go in the hole curl back i’d super glue it together wrap it with thread not too tight because it might start cutting into when it starts to oxidize a little bit and then tape like small piece of tape so it’d be super strong super strong do the same thing both sides or all four attachments and boom there you go looks nice too how did you feel when you were complete bro amazing that’s why i do a bunch of them like i don’t need like five slingshots but yeah oh yeah i got two or three going so i think there’s some i don’t know there’s probably some chemical dopamine hit or whatever that you get when you actually do something when you build something like i’ve built so like like redoing my house like reema like ripping out gutting my hat one time i did my kitchen and i gutted it in 72 hours i gutted the whole thing demoed it got it out redid the electrical read the plumbing um put in a sub box what’s that called i put in a a sub box for the electrical i forget what it’s called uh but i put it in like a whole new electrical system and then i dry walled it and i did that all in 72 hours and but you feel like accomplishment right yeah building like fences at my houses building uh i remodeled my other house so so like these major projects you feel this good sense of satisfaction when you’re done well in the modern world we do a lot less of that right so so you can replace that sort of satisfaction by clicking on the amazon whatever buy now right and all of a sudden you feel like but the thing is since you didn’t put much effort into it it’s not that gratifying so you want to do it again yeah yeah so i think that’s why people roll into freaking costco they roll into costco and they roll out with way more stuff because they just walk through those aisles getting that dopamine hit dopamine dopamine hit because they feel like they built that thing or they harvested yeah it’s the same thing when you go hunting and you like harvest the meat it’s super gratifying super like 1 000 times more gratifying than buying a steak at the store and believe me buying a steak at the store is kind of gratifying too but you get that dope i mean you’re like oh yeah then we’re just gonna be so good but it’s way less so you can buy another one right you know and then you buy this and you buy that right yeah that’s weird huh so it’s kind of like when you kind of maybe cut it all the way down to what the hell is going on with that little transaction it’s like you know like almost for like a better way of putting it in the wild or in the you know nature whatever you put in this work and then you uh you run through some challenges you overcome those challenges then you get the reward right any pursuit that’s sort of the system and your brain you know follows along accordingly boom you put in the work you get obsessive over it you you run into a challenge you overcome the challenge and you’re back on your path to you know for that main goal you know and the harder you work the bigger the reward usually right as far as in your brain like the bigger the payoff you know so it’s like if you overcome all and then you then you re you finally reap that reward in your case it’s hunting the elk or you know whatever whatever the reward is the prize right there boom there’s your your ultimate satisfying dopamine hit whatever but now it’s the same thing except you reduce the work part so much but you still get the little reward you know but here’s the thing you reduce the work the reward you get rewarded but it’s less work less reward so what do you do you do it again less satisfying yeah but you just do it again oh yeah like coleman order this i’m gonna buy that yeah and so you end up in this sort of weird cycle of of satisfaction by just buying stuff brady and you know and we’ve talked about this too brothers the people who make the stores the layout and stuff oh they know about that kind of stuff that’s why they that’s why there’s a thing called impulse buy right so they put the candy right there by the checkout stuff that you didn’t plan on getting but it’s like oh i’m gonna use one of those right now you know kind of a thing it’s like an impulse buy you ever get i don’t see you doing this but maybe you do i don’t know but you know when you’re shopping on amazon right and me i i get a lot of carry relate to this where i get a lot of little cables and little tools yeah and whatever you know just for this thing or that thing or whatever um and then when you check out or when you add it to the cart they’ll introduce all these other things people also bought yeah and then i’m like yeah you sure you’re like double me oh yeah i could use that never gonna use it but i could i could imagine myself using this pair of pliers you know so many i have two pairs of pliers by the way already oh but that one with the red handle and that one’s kind of dope and it has a little thing on the side i am the i am the most i research stuff to the point where it’s stupid you trying to get me to buy something i was looking at uh someone’s i was looking at one of my i was looking at one of my kids yeah my kids instagram and my my daughter was like oh i have an advertisement every third whatever picture is an advertisement and i go on that no like oh i hardly have any and i she’s like no way and i showed her and i have like almost no promoted ads you know why i never click on them and they know i’m like low low not even wasting their money throwing that thing across in front of me because you you could have the best freaking id in the world and i’m gonna start like i’m gonna have to research that yeah i’m surprised amazon just doesn’t check me out without showing me anything because they’re just over don’t even try
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