The Apology Equation

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Speaker 0 (0s): Good times. It's bet, buddy Friday, you made it man. Time to celebrate and to celebrate this weekend, you made it through a lot down. You made it through five days of monotony. You made it through five days of propaganda. Five days of people flapping their gums and yapping their mouth out of the TV and the radio. You made it. 

Go ahead, go ahead. Put two fists out. Give yourself a little fist bump or take your hand, reach over your back and just keep yourself a little Pat, Pat, go ahead and Pat it down. You deserve it. You deserve it. I hope you, you set yourself up for a little prize at the end of the day, man, maybe your prize, the glass of wine. Maybe it's a cold beer. Maybe it's a bong load. I don't know what it is, man, but I hope you celebrate. You got to celebrate the victories in life and sometimes just making it a Friday, tell you what, that's a victory, especially in today's climate. 

You know, some people see things the way they are and say why you should try to see things the way they've never been and say, why not? Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. 

Today is the Friday wrap up. We're going to wrap this thing up with a tight little bow on there and hopefully give you something you can use in your life. I had a pretty eventful week. I had a pretty eventful weekend. I learned a really good lesson this week and I want to share it with you. I'm excited too. You ever had like a pretty tough week where you felt kind of off. Maybe you felt a little aggressive, you felt a little anxiety, maybe a little anger. 

You know, you just felt awful little bit. You felt like short fused things are kind of getting to you. I think a lot of people are feeling that way. I think it has a lot to do with the propaganda coming out of the airwaves and it kinda got to me this week. I want to share with you what happened. I learned a really good lesson, but I had to go to a pretty dark spot to get there. And I'm not proud of what I did, but I'm proud to share with you what I learned from it. 

Speaker 1 (3m 1s): You know what it is. I'm sorry. You know what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry guys. Hey, I fucked up the importance of an apology. Let me back. You know what, how about, I shouldn't say like this, the importance of a sincere apology you guys ever think about why an apology is so important for a lot of reasons, for a lot of reasons, you know, nothing ever gets better until you would admit that something's wrong, but most people never want to admit they're wrong because they don't want to confront the thing that they're wrong about, or they don't want to get in trouble. 

But if it's not at the level you want, it's wrong. If it's not something you're proud of, then it's wrong. You know, a sincere apology usually comes from telling yourself the truth, but we all know the truth can hurt. Right? Well, that's what happened to me. I did something that I'm not proud of. Let me set up the week for you. 

Let me, let me, let me try to not rationalize why I did what I did, but let me try and paint you a picture of what I went through this week, which led me to an incident where I had to apologize. I'm going to tell you the story, and then I'm going to tell you what I learned. And then I'm going to tell you why I think it's important. 

So this week was a bit rough where I live. The lockdown is really starting to come into effect and they're, they're starting to clamp down. And the affects on the community are no longer able to be ignored. Starting to see the mom and pop businesses boarded up, starting to see the banks, not open, starting to see people in the community, getting upset at their neighbors about having parties and rightfully so. 

We're starting to see the distribution of information, be suppressed. We're starting to see the laws being pushed upon people. We're starting to see the rights of people taken away. 

And it's easy to feel like the frog and the pot of water. You know, that analogy. If you put a frog in a pot of water, he'll stay there and you can slowly turn up the heat until the water begins to boil. And if you do it slow, if you do an incremental, you can boil that frog, call it the boiling frogs and the frog will stay in there. He doesn't realize the water's getting that hot, that fast. He doesn't realize, and he'll stay in there and burn to death. 

If you were to stick a boiling pot of water and put a throw a frog in there, he'd jump out. But if you do it incremental, he'll stay in there and die. A lot of people have used that analogy for human behavior. And it seems to me, that's something that could be applied to our situation regardless of where you live. 

So where I work, I live in Hawaii and as I'm seeing all these things happen, as I'm seeing the ramifications of the virus begin to take hold. Some of the things that are happening in my place of work are they're beginning the contact tracing. And that happened at the beginning of this week. However we weren't told about it, you know, I'm on the fence with contact tracing, like as a man, as a leader, I want to help the community. 

I'm willing to make sacrifices I'm willing to do what's right, because I'm not the youngest man, but I'm still a man and I'm strong. And I want to help out people that need help. People are scared. They want to know if they got in contact with the virus, they want to know if they should get tested. And what I know about contact tracing is that it can help a lot of people with that. Like I said, I'm on the fence. I want to help. 

However, the way it was introduced at my workplace was rather nefarious. And let me explain what I mean by that. I went into work earlier in the week and there was a, a young girl, probably in her twenties, sweet girl, she's standing outside and she's acting very suspicious in that. She's telling everyone, Hey, we have this new policy where we want to make sure everyone is safe. 

And the best way we can do that is by, everyone's got to open their phone and scan this thing so that we know you don't have any symptoms. Now think about that. You want to make sure everyone's safe. So I have to open my phone and scan a code. So, you know, I'm safe. That's a logical fallacy, right? It's a, non-sequitur like your, it doesn't your premise. 

Does it lead to your conclusion? What do you mean I'm to open my phone so you can know him safe. So while a lot of people were just like, Okie-dokie, they just opened their phone and they started scanning this QR code. I thought to myself like, wait, that doesn't make sense. So I, I asked her, I said, I don't understand how does this make us safe? And then the suspicious behavior became more intense. Not in that. 

She's waving her hands, all nuts or crazy like that. But her answers were just, they didn't make sense. I'm like, I don't understand. She goes, well, if you have any of these symptoms, you can't work. I said, okay, but why, why do you need me to scan that QR code at this point? I didn't know it was contact tracing. I just saw this code. And she ...