January 11, 2024 • 34 mins
Ever found yourself so fixated on the end goal that you've forgotten to enjoy the journey? That's the heart and soul of our latest conversation, where we unpack the 'Super Mario effect'—a fascinating look at how our response to setbacks can define our path to success. Join me as I candidly reflect on days when my energy isn't at its peak and how the pursuit of authenticity can be more fulfilling than a flawless facade. We'll also explore the Buddhist teachings of non-attachment through the ephemeral beauty of sand mandalas, finding peace in the temporary and celebrating the present moment.
This episode isn't just a solo mission; friends from Instagram live, like the motivational Tosh from my fitness saga, join in to share how facing failure can be a powerful catalyst for growth. We dissect the impact of traditional point-based education systems and open up about personal battles with shame and embarrassment. The cherry on top? A spontaneous dive into Taoism, inspired by a thought-provoking question from a viewer on Twitch. So, whether you're looking to transform your approach to learning or simply in need of a Cafesito-fueled chat that traverses the landscapes of philosophy, education, and self-improvement, this is where you want to tune in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're about to hear what's coming up next on this
episode of Cafesito with Noah.
So you have these two opposingviewpoints.
One of them is like, set thesegoals and go get them, and the
other one is like, well, you'regoing to be unhappy if you set
these goals.
So what I think is cool aboutthe Super Mario effect is it
says it's not about the goal orthe journey.
Regardless of whether you'refocused on outcome or if you're
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focused on journey, how youprocess failure is what is going
to define the quality of yourexperience.
That's what we're talking aboutright now, and we are live, if
I'm not mistaken, for anotherCafesito with Noah session.
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Cheers.
Today we're actually havingCafesito real coffee.
Let's see.
We're doing a Nitro Brew withvanilla sweet cream, and I
should get started on Instagramas well.
This is Instagram right here forthose of you on Twitch Hello,
hello.
Hope everybody is having afantastic Monday.
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Let's go ahead and do an audiocheck, because we know my record
with that.
Yep, it's live, it is happening.
Very nice, welcome Instagram.
We got started with Twitch amoment ago and we're here.
Oh hi, sophie, first person tocome say hello, how's your day
going?
So today is interesting.
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The vibe is chill.
I've been in a bit of a heavyspace all day, so it's
especially confrontational to myego to try to go live in the
middle of having a weird heavyday.
The ego likes to say that well,if you're not having the best
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day of your life, then what thehell are you doing?
Going live, and I think that isa bar that is way too high.
You know, I'm me and that'svaluable any given day of the
week in any emotional state.
So here we are and I want toshare with you guys.
You know, and at the end of theday, all of that egoic thinking
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just keeps me alone in a room,not sharing with anyone.
So here we are despite all ofthat.
Funny enough, I had a nice joltof energy today.
I dropped off a bunch of stuffat Goodwill, did some recondoing
, like two days ago.
So many ironic things, so muchlife happening all at once.
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Right now I've been working onthis space.
It's a studio space, it's anoffice space.
I've been working on it forabout a year now, getting it
just beautiful.
And it's there.
You know, it's there.
We made it and this recentGoodwill drop, I finally got rid
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of a bunch of clutter.
So we've arrived just in timeto potentially not even continue
to live at this place.
So that is ironic, that is wild.
It is incredible to walk thislike long journey to get to this
place where everything is likeso organized and gorgeous and
wonderful, only to basicallyhave to say goodbye to it.
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I brought this up in therapy Ithink it was like last week, and
my therapist had somethingabsolutely incredible to share
with me he this is what this is.
I always tell him this is whyhe gets paid the big bucks.
You know, he made thisconnection and he made a
connection to the, to the sortof Sandman dollars that the
monks do.
I don't know exactly whichfaction of monks do it, but
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there is a faction of monks andthey get the little colored sand
and they sit outside orwherever it is that they're
doing this at a temple and theymake an artistic, beautiful
mandala on the ground and ittakes them, takes them a while.
I mean it takes them at.
I think it's a few days, maybeeven a week, maybe even a few
weeks.
I'm not sure how long it takes.
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It depends on how intricate andhow large the piece is, but by
the end of it they destroy it,so they finish this huge thing
and then they just, you know,wipe the sand all over the place
.
And it's remarkable because itreally is embodying non
attachment and embodying thatsort of releasing and really
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acknowledging the impermanenceof life and and all of these
things that we create, and sortof an homage to the fact that
the one thing you can count onis change.
But anyway, when he put it inthe context of those guys, you
know, doing their mandalas andwiping away the sand, I was just
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like, yeah, all right, if theycan do that, then, you know, I
can find joy in making theoffice beautiful just for the
sake of making it beautiful.
I mean, if I have to wipe itaway and move it, you know,
sooner than I expected or everwanted, but yeah, so that's one
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of the nuggets for this week forme.
That's kind of coming up thingsI'm going through, things I'm
thinking about.
What are some other things?
If you guys have any nuggets,things you're going through,
things you're thinking about, Iwould love to start a dialogue.
Cofisito with Noah really issupposed to be something of a
dialogue, but insofar as I'mhanging out here by myself right
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now, I'm going to keep onriffin'.
So about riffing and abouthanging out by myself, I've got
my podcast, god Mode A Player'sGuide to Life.
God Mode A Player's Guide toLife is a jam.
I put my friends on there.
We talk about things.
It's a great time Also gives mea mine, if you will like
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something for mining, like areservoir, a trove to go to and
get cool content and share that.
Again back to this concept ofsharing.
But there's a lot that goes onaround it.
You know, got to book people.
They got to come here.
I spend an hour talking to them, get them on camera, set up the
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microphones.
Then I get to process all theaudio color, correct the footage
, cut the footage, make an introvideo, splice it together, post
that thing to the internet andthen go through, find the clips,
edit the clips, edit themhorizontal, edit them vertical,
post the clips.
So it's a whole process, right.
So I've been thinking what ifthere was like another offering,
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which was something likeAficito with Noah, except not so
long form?
Hi, yarras, thank you forsaying hi on Twitch.
What was I saying?
Oh, so it's not going to be solong form.
It might be a bit more shortform, kind of like a YouTube
video style talking head thing,but the idea that I would just
come on and sort of be a podcastof one.
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I've only heard of one exampleof this in the past.
I don't know many other ones,but she apparently does quite
well and she has listeners, andthat would be neat because I am
definitely the unending resourcein my own life and you know I'm
already thinking about amillion things every day.
So what if I just put them onthe internet and kind of made
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the audience, aka you guys, theparticipant, right Like the
audience, becomes the guest ofthe podcast.
So that's something that's aninteresting idea I've had and,
in a sort of expression of thatidea, we can kind of mess around
with it right now.
So what happens this week?
Obviously, like every week,there's current events, things
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that come up.
Maybe I see a meme or somethingon social media, that kind of
thing.
Let's send some waves, I hope.
Maybe that makes that's likenice, look, everybody got waved
at.
Anyway, it's current events,right.
So right now I think AI artgeneration is popping off.
They've got the chat, gpt Gosh,the freaking Instagram limit.
There we go.
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Instagram limit hits me again,but we're back.
So we got AI art popping off.
We got the chat GPT whateverthe hell it's called GPT, let me
see, I'm going to look it upGPT, yep, open AI chat, gpt.
So it's very funny because mybuddy, like Hunter, and I have
been following this for a while.
There's like a whole Redditwhere AI chatbots have been
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commenting.
So one AI chatbot will post amain post on the Reddit and then
all the other chatbots actuallysometimes it's the same exact
bot, right, but they'll postcomments and a lot of times this
can be very funny.
But one of the big things that'shappened like in the last week
or so, that's like kind of comeinto vogue or like stepped into
center stage is people are likegetting answers to tests.
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Now they're getting scripts toYouTube videos.
They can get the AI to writethem a rap song Pretty wild, to
be honest.
I haven't fully dove into thatyet the writing part of the AI
situation.
I've been more playing with thedigital art side.
You know I've been playing withmid journey.
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I played with the journey abouta month ago.
For a few weeks I've been usingHunter stable diffusion app.
Nick says Skynet is here.
Yeah, skynet is here.
Hopefully.
You know, man at the end of thelike God.
I don't know, maybe I've justbeen pessimistic lately, but at
this point in humanity'strajectory AI might be more
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compassionate towards humansthan humans are towards humans.
So I mean, at this point I'mlike man.
Maybe AI is going to help usout, you know, I just it's like
God damn, we could use somesupport On that note, I was.
We've been watching, I've beenwatching a neon Genesis
Evangelion again for like thethird time.
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They have the magi system,right, the three supercomputers
that crunch numbers, predict thefuture essentially, and then
vote on how they should proceed.
And it's pretty interesting,you know, because we just got, I
mean, what this was, when was,let's see, when neon Genesis
Evangelion was released.
The release date was 1995,right.
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And one of the things they saidin the recent episode is how
the government in Eva is just asort of like puppet government
and they're just doing whatthese computers say.
Pretty interesting.
You combine that with theSkynet concept, you combine that
with this idea that maybe thecomputer would be more
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compassionate than humans and,who knows, I mean definitely
challenges the idea of free willIf everybody just blindly
follows what a bunch ofcomputers say.
So not necessarily an obviousaspiration in that regard, but
maybe some sort of cooperationis useful.
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We'll see.
So, yeah, ai chats, ai art thoseare big.
Those have been big things thisweek and generally, I find that
like I have like something tosay about the media that I
consume in general.
For example, it's somethinglike a reaction video and maybe
I'm not.
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I have to figure out sort oflike the form of how I could
create this content for theworld and for you guys, but it's
kind of like a reaction video.
For example, this week I sawColin and Samir.
Colin and Samir is a super coolYouTube channel and it's
centered around interviewingcreators on a podcast, seeing
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what's working for them, whatsort of systems they have in
place, how they're viewing thecreator economy, etc.
Etc.
And I caught a video this weekwhile I was messing around with
some AI art generation, and thevideo that I watched was about
Mark Rober.
He's an engineer.
He used to work at NASA.
He has worked at Apple I don'tthink he works at Apple anymore
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and he makes these awesomevideos on the internet that are
very fun.
He's always engineering somecrazy shit.
I actually took his engineeringcourse online about a year and
a half ago.
It was really fun.
So I was watching this Colin andSamir video about Mark Rober
and in it Mark talks about theSuper Mario effect.
He calls it the Super Marioeffect and I'll share it here,
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because this is the kind ofthing I'm talking about.
Right, I heard this and I hadan original sort of like oh Noah
, I have a personal response tothis.
How can I share that withpeople?
Here I am, I'm sharing it inKapasita with Noah.
This is the form it's taking.
So the Super Mario effect isbasically.
Mark points out how, when weplay Super Mario Bros and we're
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like jumping through level oneor whatever, there's like those
holes and if you've like missedthe jump, then you just die and
it's like boop, boop and youstart over again.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,da, da, da, da da.
Hopefully that wasn't as bad Ihave had the headphones on
whatever, so anyway, you knowyou start over again.
So what he's talking about iswhen we die in Super Mario Bros,
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we don't say to ourselves like,oh, I'm putting down the remote
and I'm never playing this gameagain.
We don't do that.
We are like, oh, I ran tooslowly and I hit this gap, I'm
going to run faster next time.
I'm going to jump later nexttime and then we run a little
bit faster, we jump a little bitlater, we make it past the gap
and we keep going.
Well, he ran an experiment withhis followers where, essentially
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, they were given a puzzle tosolve and it was an A-B test.
So half of the followers weregiven this puzzle and there were
no points involved, and theother half of his followers were
given a puzzle and there werepoints involved and the points
were completely arbitrary.
They didn't buy you anything.
They were just like points,completely arbitrary, vacuous
points.
For the B people, he would takeaway five points every time
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they lost, but he would givethem like 10 or 15 or 20 or
whatever every time they won.
For the A people, he would.
There were no points at all.
They just played the game justto play the game, and I actually
have a piece of content aboutinfinite games playing the game
to play the game, right.
Anyway, it's cool how that'sgoing to overlap right now,
because what ended up happeningwas the people who got the minus
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points would quit playing thegame sooner, because they would
not.
The way that they wereconceptualizing failure was that
they were not only failing butthey were losing something every
time that they failed, whereasthe people who just played the
game for the game's sake didn'thave this perception that they
were losing resources and sothey continued to invest and
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they just kept trying to problemsolve the game, and they were
twice as good at playing thegame as the other people who
were getting points taken offthe Super Mario Effect.
I thought this was really neatand interesting because I mean
in my own life, a million times,no doubt about it you know when
it feels like I mean, even inschool, specifically right,
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school was brutal with this butwhen you feel you're getting
these points off, you don't wantto keep chomping over the gap
because it feels like you'rebleeding.
You know like you're justbleeding these resources but at
the end of the day, what Markpoints out is it's really
arbitrary and it's all happeningin our head Like we're the ones
who give it the meaning.
It's not like there were noreal points, like there was
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nothing lost.
And I guess in life what we'retrading constantly is time and
it's ironic because byparticipating in this idea that
I'm losing points, knowing thaton a psychological level it's
going to get in the way of meultimately learning, which
theoretically, the idea is Icould learn anything.
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I'm actually losing time, moretime, by engaging in the point
system because I'm ejecting fromthe learning process, whereas,
even if it took me a littlewhile longer to learn something,
maybe I'm struggling, althoughI'm experiencing failure often,
but I'm not conceptualizingfailure as terminal or a waste
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of resources.
Then I'm just going to keepattacking the problem and I'm
actually going to get better atit and I'm actually going to
learn, which means I'm going toend up spending more time in my
life having acquired the thingthat I sought to acquire in the
first place.
In that regard, even though youmight spend more time jumping
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over the gap and you might spendmore time failing, you're not
losing time.
Losing time, in my opinion, ifyou really pause and think about
it, happens when you basicallyquit early and then are now
spending hours of your lifehaving not integrated the thing
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that you went to go after and tointegrate.
So if that's learning, ifthat's achieving some sort of
goal or whatever it is, you'renow losing time if you have
stopped playing, if you'vestopped jumping the gap.
So Saturday says you're justfocused on the journey and
learning when you're notconstantly being affected by an
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expectation of an outcome.
That is an interestingstatement.
Let's see this slowly now.
Well, you know, what's kind offucking cool about this whole
Super Mario effect is becauseI've heard this thing about.
You know, there's like thewhole internet and the whole
self-help community seems to besplit in half around outcomes
and results and shit like this.
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You know, half of everything welearn is about don't be
attached.
You know that allows you tolike follow the cheese when the
cheese moves, it allows you tobe agile and it also connects
you to happiness.
You know, I've heard that.
You know a goal is a contractyou set with yourself to be
unhappy until a certain datewhen a certain condition is met.
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I think that's funny.
So you have these two opposingviewpoints.
One of them is like set thesegoals and go get them, and the
other one is like well, you'regoing to be unhappy if you set
these goals.
So what I think is cool aboutthe Super Mario effect is it
says it's not about the goal orthe journey.
I mean, I guess ultimately itbecomes about the journey.
But the people who play SuperMario, their goal is to beat the
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game Like.
Their goal is to get over thatgap.
You know, and they're veryfocused on it, like even me, as
an example, like I was veryfocused on, like beating that
level.
It has to do with this pointsthing and it has to do with
failure.
It's almost like as if thewhole Super Mario effect concept
is saying, regardless of whatyour goal is and regardless of
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whether you're focusing onoutcome or you're focusing on
journey, regardless, how youprocess failure is going to
determine how you're progressingand and also maybe even color
your general experience ofeither.
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So maybe it's saying how youprocess failure is going to
determine if you're enjoying thejourney.
How you process failure isgoing to determine if you arrive
at the outcome, which I imagineyou would enjoy it once you
arrived at the outcome, and howyou process failure could also
make the journey extremelypainful and not enjoyable, at
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which point you'll eject, likely, from the journey and never
arrive at the outcome.
It's a whole trip.
What's up?
Like the do?
How's it going, bro?
Let me.
I can barely see you guys onthe Instagram chat, so I've got
to whip this up.
I've got my computer open.
There it is Dwight.
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I thought it was Dwight.
How's it going, brother.
Here you have a wave.
Hi, tosh.
Thank you so much for jumpingin and peaking.
Hello, hello, how are you doing?
Well, I think about you all thetime, tosh, like for real.
I've been doing a whole workoutprogram and trying to get
myself in a great shape and I'malways like dude.
I got to catch up to Tosh, gotto catch up to Tosh, never
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forgot.
How's it going?
How am I?
I'm doing great.
I've got my coffee seat here.
So if you've got a littlecoffee, cheers to you, cheers to
Tosh.
I'm going to put everybody inhere right now.
This is my Monday.
It's usually like a 30 minute toan hour long stream and we just
chat.
We're chatting about life.
I like to start a dialogue, myguy.
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So if you're hanging around fora minute, please tell me how
your week is going.
Tell me what's on your mind,what are some?
You know, what's like a postthat's popped up in your life
lately that got your attention.
Maybe you had something to sayabout it.
What we were just talking about,if I could do a quick, you know
recap for you Something calledthe Super Mario effect, and what
we boiled it down to is,regardless of whether you're
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focused on an outcome, which is,like generally regarded as like
a way to propagate suffering.
But regardless of whetheryou're focused on outcome or if
you're focused on journey atleast this is where I'm at right
now with it how you processfailure is what is going to
define the quality of yourexperience.
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That's what we're talking aboutright now.
And, just so you know, whenyou're in an environment where
it seems that you're leakingresources per failure, human
psychology suggests that you areless likely to continue
engaging with failure, which,ironically, engaging with
failure is ultimately what leadsto competence and success.
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So you need to be able tocontinue engaging with failure.
So, which means we got torethink the way we're managing
resources and just be reallyconscious.
I mean, we can't alwaysdetermine the arena that we're
in, and sometimes other peopleset the rules.
And for you know that I thinkschool is a perfect example of
that Like, at least for now.
You know I didn't get out of it.
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I know there's millions ofpeople currently in it and where
we've just proved, basically,that losing points impedes
progress, and yet school iscompletely based on that.
So tough, tough little piece ofinformation there.
What am I saying?
Oh right, if you're in thearena.
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You can't choose the arena, soit's up to us then to be aware
of this and make a sort ofconversion in our minds.
So if I was in school right now, for example, I would have to
be very conscious ofreinterpreting the point loss as
something other than a pointloss.
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I mean it's, you know, it'sdefinitely extra steps, but yeah
, so that was the Super MarioEffect.
You know me doing a little blurbon it is kind of like a
potential another form ofcontent for me.
Yep, school taught you thatfailure equals embarrassment.
Uh-huh, I get that Brutal manBrutal, you know, it's funny
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when we went to MITT Dylan.
Dylan is big on education andit's kind of like his whole
mission to be involved in theeducational institution and to
upgrade it, basically, and wereally connected on that front,
because I too would like to helpeducation in some way.
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For me it's a bit more abstract, I guess.
Personally, I think it wouldalso be neat for me to explore
some online educationalopportunities.
I enjoy watching Veritasium,which is a fantastic YouTube
channel, and they're alwaysplugging this like company
called Brilliant, and apparentlyBrilliant has like these
awesome modules on the internetwhere you can learn things like
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economics, statistics, physics,stuff like that, and they have
these like little likeinteractive lab, sort of like
games that you can play, and I'munder the impression that these
websites are implementing thesebest practices in terms of like
encouraging students to learn,rather than making that process
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more difficult than it needs tobe.
I just felt the other aid ofthat, the other side of that.
This weekend, I finally didropes.
Dude, please tell me about that.
What do you mean?
The other side of that?
You felt the accomplishmentside.
I don't want to put words inyour mouth, so please clarify,
which side did you feel?
Also, was it cold?
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It feels like it must have beenreally freaking cold.
You experienced the other side,but which side?
Which side were you on andwhich side did you go to?
By the way, for everybody onTwitch, I'm interacting with my
Instagram following right now,the Twitch chat is actually
really quiet.
Oh, it was warm.
What would you look at that?
That's nice, wow, yeah,actually I saw an awesome
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Russell Brand and JordanPeterson video this week too.
So, yeah, dwight is saying thathe would normally have failure,
be a heavy weight to him andfeel shame, or actually shame
himself for it.
Dot dot, dot.
He is typing Rebecca.
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Welcome to the stream, rebecca,hello.
Hello, we're talking about howwe process failure.
What is Taoism?
We have a wonderful questionthat just popped up in Twitch
man.
Taoism is, if I'm not mistaken,one of the three ancient
Chinese philosophies.
The other two, I guess they'reconsidered Eastern philosophies.
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In my estimation, the three ofthem are Taoism, buddhism and
Taoism, buddhism and Confuciism.
So that is what Taoism is.
It's phenomenal man.
We can get into it.
Let me know if you have anyother questions.
Doing the leap of faith, Ididn't reach the appointed goal,
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but the accomplishment for mewas that I jumped.
Yes, dude, I'm not sure ifanybody's ever done a ropes
course, but it's a challenge,it's a challenge and a half and
it's definitely it's so mental.
It's incredible how mental itis.
I mean, it's certainly aphysical challenge too.
It just really, when you'rethinking about it the right way,
a ropes course is so powerfulin terms of representing
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everyday challenges in avisceral, visceral way, it
really facilitates an incredibleamount of presence.
Yes, dwight.
So Dwight's saying, basically,he's at this ropes course, he
has a goal, he wants to achieveit, he wants to beat the feature
, whatever the feature is at thecourse.
Sometimes it's like a jump, orsometimes you're walking,
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balancing on a balance beam,things like that.
So he has the goal to beat thefeature.
But in this case he did notcompletely beat the feature, but
he attempted and he even jumped, which is one of the scariest
aspects of the thing.
And what he did do during hissession there was he learned to
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be in relationship in a healthyway, without shame, with the gap
, the gap between where he is inthe goal.
So basically, oh, it's so,super Mario.
Actually he took the jump, hefell into the gap literally and
instead of processing it as likeshameful failure, he's in a
space now where he's like okay,cool, this is where I'm at and
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what's next?
That's useful.
That keeps you in motion.
Diz, I'm curious if you have anyother questions about Taoism
For everybody else in the chat.
I want to say something aboutTaoism just to clarify it a
little bit and make it a bitmore distinct.
I just gave you the overall.
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This is the category it fits in, but there's this awesome
painting and it's called theVinegar Tasters, and the Vinegar
Tasters does a great job ofsetting Taoism apart from the
other traditions, which is, youhave three people and they're
each the head of a differenttradition.
One of them is Confucianism,the other one is Buddhism and
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the other one is Taoism.
And they're each sipping,they're taking a spoonful of
vinegar out of a bowl and thisis like a, it's a well, it's
almost like a sketch, it's apainting, right.
So they each take a sip and theway they react to the vinegar
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is supposed to be emblematic ofthe philosophy.
So for Confucianism orConfucianism I'm not exactly
sure how to pronounce that theapproach through that philosophy
is very rules-based andstructured-based, and so there's
a lot of judgment towards theVinegar, which is to say it's it
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is sharp and intense, a flavor,right, and so that that
person's face, when he tastesthe vinegar, scrunches up and
he's kind of like mmm, bracingright.
And then for the Buddhist, theysip it, and for them, again,
being in the body and sufferingin general, et cetera, life is
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suffering, blah, blah, blah.
So they're tasting it, mmm,again intense, intense feeling.
Well, in the Taoist tradition,the idea is that life is just
life and that the vinegar isjust vinegar, and that when we
sort of allow the experience,then we don't and we don't brace
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ourselves, we're not like mmmabout it, we can just experience
it as it is, and so the theTaoist is tasting the vinegar
and they're just kind of likesmiling, right, and the idea
there that just it showseverybody's sort of relationship
in terms of the greaterphilosophy.
So I guess Taoism's a lot aboutallowing and being with the
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flow, with the force.
You know, if you will, a littlebit from like Star Wars there.
Hello, hello, all right guys.
Well, thank you all for tuningin, dwight and anyone else who's
here.
If you haven't seen the podcastyet or you're not subscribed to
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my YouTube channel, I'd reallyappreciate it.
If you go check it out, I thinkyou might like it.
My YouTube channel isNoahTalon44.
The podcast is called God Modea player's guide to life.
Let's do a little test realquick.
If I go incognito mode and Itype in God Mode a player's
guide to life, boom, it exists,it's here, awesome.
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So yeah, if you type inGodModaPlayer's Guide to Life,
it will come up.
You can see.
Episode one is here.
There's the trailer, but yes,it's at.
The YouTube channel isNoahTalon44.
You can go check it out.
Please subscribe so you can getupdates.
Obviously, the people onInstagram are already following
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If you're on Twitch, myInstagram is NoahTalon.
You can get a bunch of theshort form content on Instagram
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that way.
But yeah, I'm getting into thishabit of not talking about
things that I haven't done yet,so I'm not even going to talk
about the thing I haven't doneyet.
I'm going to do it and thenI'll talk about it once it's
done.
But there's yeah, it's tough,it's tough, yeah.
So there it is.
We're just going to leave it atthat.
It's a bit of a cliffhanger,it's a mystery.
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So I guess you'll just have tostay tuned to see.
When I flip from oh, I'm nottalking about this thing too,
I'm talking about this thing.
And then, voila, big reveal,somewhere in the creator verse,
I'm feeling like, oh, I just dida cool thing, I just created a
hook, I hooked my audience.
They're going to be waiting forthis big reveal.
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We'll have to see.
So, man, that was a greatgoffecito guys Today.
Oh, let's see, right here, yaddasays Leap of Faith is so
incredible.
The breakthroughs you can haveare endless.
Dude.
As a matter of fact, if youguys go to my second episode of
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the podcast, behind me as I siton the bed doing the podcast
episode is the photograph of medoing the Leap of Faith.
So that's a fun fact foranybody who's curious and
interested.
I'm watching my little clip ofit on my Instagram right now,
and right now it's reallyfocused on Michelle.
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If we can jump it over, thenthere it is.
So the second it jumps over youcan see me right there in the
background holding onto the Leapof Faith.
So that's pretty funny.
I love that it's actually frontand center.
Thank you so much for tuning intoday, guys.
Very nice chatting witheverybody.
I hope you guys have a greatweek.
I hope that some of these ideasyou all think about throughout
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the week, specifically thisSuper Mario Effect Next week.
We'll be back again on Mondaywith another Gaffsito with Noah
and maybe you guys can tell mehow it went and how the Super
Mario Effect principle appliedthroughout the week.
Dis, if you discover anythingelse about Taoism for anybody
else interested in Taoism, oneof my favorite books on it is
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Taoism Made Easy.
Let me see if I can get youguys the author for that.
Oh no, it's called the Tao, theTao Made Easy.
The book is by Alan Cohen.
And then another fun book aboutthe Tao is the Tao of Poo, and
this is the teaching of the Taothrough Winnie the Pooh as a
sort of metaphor.
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Anyway, thank you guys so muchfor tuning in.
This has been another sessionof Gaffsito with Noah.
I'm going to wave at our newviewers here on Instagram.
Love you guys.
Thank you so much and I hopeyou guys have a great week.
Hasta luego.
You're about to hear what's coming up next on this
episode of Cafesito with Noah.
So you have these two opposingviewpoints.
One of them is like, set thesegoals and go get them, and the
other one is like, well, you'regoing to be unhappy if you set
these goals.
So what I think is cool aboutthe Super Mario effect is it
says it's not about the goal orthe journey.
Regardless of whether you'refocused on outcome or if you're
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focused on journey, how youprocess failure is what is going
to define the quality of yourexperience.
That's what we're talking aboutright now, and we are live, if
I'm not mistaken, for anotherCafesito with Noah session.
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Cheers.
Today we're actually havingCafesito real coffee.
Let's see.
We're doing a Nitro Brew withvanilla sweet cream, and I
should get started on Instagramas well.
This is Instagram right here forthose of you on Twitch Hello,
hello.
Hope everybody is having afantastic Monday.
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Let's go ahead and do an audiocheck, because we know my record
with that.
Yep, it's live, it is happening.
Very nice, welcome Instagram.
We got started with Twitch amoment ago and we're here.
Oh hi, sophie, first person tocome say hello, how's your day
going?
So today is interesting.
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The vibe is chill.
I've been in a bit of a heavyspace all day, so it's
especially confrontational to myego to try to go live in the
middle of having a weird heavyday.
The ego likes to say that well,if you're not having the best
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day of your life, then what thehell are you doing?
Going live, and I think that isa bar that is way too high.
You know, I'm me and that'svaluable any given day of the
week in any emotional state.
So here we are and I want toshare with you guys.
You know, and at the end of theday, all of that egoic thinking
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just keeps me alone in a room,not sharing with anyone.
So here we are despite all ofthat.
Funny enough, I had a nice joltof energy today.
I dropped off a bunch of stuffat Goodwill, did some recondoing
, like two days ago.
So many ironic things, so muchlife happening all at once.
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Right now I've been working onthis space.
It's a studio space, it's anoffice space.
I've been working on it forabout a year now, getting it
just beautiful.
And it's there.
You know, it's there.
We made it and this recentGoodwill drop, I finally got rid
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of a bunch of clutter.
So we've arrived just in timeto potentially not even continue
to live at this place.
So that is ironic, that is wild.
It is incredible to walk thislike long journey to get to this
place where everything is likeso organized and gorgeous and
wonderful, only to basicallyhave to say goodbye to it.
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I brought this up in therapy Ithink it was like last week, and
my therapist had somethingabsolutely incredible to share
with me he this is what this is.
I always tell him this is whyhe gets paid the big bucks.
You know, he made thisconnection and he made a
connection to the, to the sortof Sandman dollars that the
monks do.
I don't know exactly whichfaction of monks do it, but
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there is a faction of monks andthey get the little colored sand
and they sit outside orwherever it is that they're
doing this at a temple and theymake an artistic, beautiful
mandala on the ground and ittakes them, takes them a while.
I mean it takes them at.
I think it's a few days, maybeeven a week, maybe even a few
weeks.
I'm not sure how long it takes.
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It depends on how intricate andhow large the piece is, but by
the end of it they destroy it,so they finish this huge thing
and then they just, you know,wipe the sand all over the place
.
And it's remarkable because itreally is embodying non
attachment and embodying thatsort of releasing and really
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acknowledging the impermanenceof life and and all of these
things that we create, and sortof an homage to the fact that
the one thing you can count onis change.
But anyway, when he put it inthe context of those guys, you
know, doing their mandalas andwiping away the sand, I was just
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like, yeah, all right, if theycan do that, then, you know, I
can find joy in making theoffice beautiful just for the
sake of making it beautiful.
I mean, if I have to wipe itaway and move it, you know,
sooner than I expected or everwanted, but yeah, so that's one
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of the nuggets for this week forme.
That's kind of coming up thingsI'm going through, things I'm
thinking about.
What are some other things?
If you guys have any nuggets,things you're going through,
things you're thinking about, Iwould love to start a dialogue.
Cofisito with Noah really issupposed to be something of a
dialogue, but insofar as I'mhanging out here by myself right
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now, I'm going to keep onriffin'.
So about riffing and abouthanging out by myself, I've got
my podcast, god Mode A Player'sGuide to Life.
God Mode A Player's Guide toLife is a jam.
I put my friends on there.
We talk about things.
It's a great time Also gives mea mine, if you will like
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something for mining, like areservoir, a trove to go to and
get cool content and share that.
Again back to this concept ofsharing.
But there's a lot that goes onaround it.
You know, got to book people.
They got to come here.
I spend an hour talking to them, get them on camera, set up the
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microphones.
Then I get to process all theaudio color, correct the footage
, cut the footage, make an introvideo, splice it together, post
that thing to the internet andthen go through, find the clips,
edit the clips, edit themhorizontal, edit them vertical,
post the clips.
So it's a whole process, right.
So I've been thinking what ifthere was like another offering,
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which was something likeAficito with Noah, except not so
long form?
Hi, yarras, thank you forsaying hi on Twitch.
What was I saying?
Oh, so it's not going to be solong form.
It might be a bit more shortform, kind of like a YouTube
video style talking head thing,but the idea that I would just
come on and sort of be a podcastof one.
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I've only heard of one exampleof this in the past.
I don't know many other ones,but she apparently does quite
well and she has listeners, andthat would be neat because I am
definitely the unending resourcein my own life and you know I'm
already thinking about amillion things every day.
So what if I just put them onthe internet and kind of made
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the audience, aka you guys, theparticipant, right Like the
audience, becomes the guest ofthe podcast.
So that's something that's aninteresting idea I've had and,
in a sort of expression of thatidea, we can kind of mess around
with it right now.
So what happens this week?
Obviously, like every week,there's current events, things
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that come up.
Maybe I see a meme or somethingon social media, that kind of
thing.
Let's send some waves, I hope.
Maybe that makes that's likenice, look, everybody got waved
at.
Anyway, it's current events,right.
So right now I think AI artgeneration is popping off.
They've got the chat, gpt Gosh,the freaking Instagram limit.
There we go.
(08:08):
Instagram limit hits me again,but we're back.
So we got AI art popping off.
We got the chat GPT whateverthe hell it's called GPT, let me
see, I'm going to look it upGPT, yep, open AI chat, gpt.
So it's very funny because mybuddy, like Hunter, and I have
been following this for a while.
There's like a whole Redditwhere AI chatbots have been
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commenting.
So one AI chatbot will post amain post on the Reddit and then
all the other chatbots actuallysometimes it's the same exact
bot, right, but they'll postcomments and a lot of times this
can be very funny.
But one of the big things that'shappened like in the last week
or so, that's like kind of comeinto vogue or like stepped into
center stage is people are likegetting answers to tests.
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Now they're getting scripts toYouTube videos.
They can get the AI to writethem a rap song Pretty wild, to
be honest.
I haven't fully dove into thatyet the writing part of the AI
situation.
I've been more playing with thedigital art side.
You know I've been playing withmid journey.
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I played with the journey abouta month ago.
For a few weeks I've been usingHunter stable diffusion app.
Nick says Skynet is here.
Yeah, skynet is here.
Hopefully.
You know, man at the end of thelike God.
I don't know, maybe I've justbeen pessimistic lately, but at
this point in humanity'strajectory AI might be more
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compassionate towards humansthan humans are towards humans.
So I mean, at this point I'mlike man.
Maybe AI is going to help usout, you know, I just it's like
God damn, we could use somesupport On that note, I was.
We've been watching, I've beenwatching a neon Genesis
Evangelion again for like thethird time.
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They have the magi system,right, the three supercomputers
that crunch numbers, predict thefuture essentially, and then
vote on how they should proceed.
And it's pretty interesting,you know, because we just got, I
mean, what this was, when was,let's see, when neon Genesis
Evangelion was released.
The release date was 1995,right.
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And one of the things they saidin the recent episode is how
the government in Eva is just asort of like puppet government
and they're just doing whatthese computers say.
Pretty interesting.
You combine that with theSkynet concept, you combine that
with this idea that maybe thecomputer would be more
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compassionate than humans and,who knows, I mean definitely
challenges the idea of free willIf everybody just blindly
follows what a bunch ofcomputers say.
So not necessarily an obviousaspiration in that regard, but
maybe some sort of cooperationis useful.
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We'll see.
So, yeah, ai chats, ai art thoseare big.
Those have been big things thisweek and generally, I find that
like I have like something tosay about the media that I
consume in general.
For example, it's somethinglike a reaction video and maybe
I'm not.
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I have to figure out sort oflike the form of how I could
create this content for theworld and for you guys, but it's
kind of like a reaction video.
For example, this week I sawColin and Samir.
Colin and Samir is a super coolYouTube channel and it's
centered around interviewingcreators on a podcast, seeing
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what's working for them, whatsort of systems they have in
place, how they're viewing thecreator economy, etc.
Etc.
And I caught a video this weekwhile I was messing around with
some AI art generation, and thevideo that I watched was about
Mark Rober.
He's an engineer.
He used to work at NASA.
He has worked at Apple I don'tthink he works at Apple anymore
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and he makes these awesomevideos on the internet that are
very fun.
He's always engineering somecrazy shit.
I actually took his engineeringcourse online about a year and
a half ago.
It was really fun.
So I was watching this Colin andSamir video about Mark Rober
and in it Mark talks about theSuper Mario effect.
He calls it the Super Marioeffect and I'll share it here,
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because this is the kind ofthing I'm talking about.
Right, I heard this and I hadan original sort of like oh Noah
, I have a personal response tothis.
How can I share that withpeople?
Here I am, I'm sharing it inKapasita with Noah.
This is the form it's taking.
So the Super Mario effect isbasically.
Mark points out how, when weplay Super Mario Bros and we're
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like jumping through level oneor whatever, there's like those
holes and if you've like missedthe jump, then you just die and
it's like boop, boop and youstart over again.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,da, da, da, da da.
Hopefully that wasn't as bad Ihave had the headphones on
whatever, so anyway, you knowyou start over again.
So what he's talking about iswhen we die in Super Mario Bros,
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we don't say to ourselves like,oh, I'm putting down the remote
and I'm never playing this gameagain.
We don't do that.
We are like, oh, I ran tooslowly and I hit this gap, I'm
going to run faster next time.
I'm going to jump later nexttime and then we run a little
bit faster, we jump a little bitlater, we make it past the gap
and we keep going.
Well, he ran an experiment withhis followers where, essentially
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, they were given a puzzle tosolve and it was an A-B test.
So half of the followers weregiven this puzzle and there were
no points involved, and theother half of his followers were
given a puzzle and there werepoints involved and the points
were completely arbitrary.
They didn't buy you anything.
They were just like points,completely arbitrary, vacuous
points.
For the B people, he would takeaway five points every time
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they lost, but he would givethem like 10 or 15 or 20 or
whatever every time they won.
For the A people, he would.
There were no points at all.
They just played the game justto play the game, and I actually
have a piece of content aboutinfinite games playing the game
to play the game, right.
Anyway, it's cool how that'sgoing to overlap right now,
because what ended up happeningwas the people who got the minus
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points would quit playing thegame sooner, because they would
not.
The way that they wereconceptualizing failure was that
they were not only failing butthey were losing something every
time that they failed, whereasthe people who just played the
game for the game's sake didn'thave this perception that they
were losing resources and sothey continued to invest and
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they just kept trying to problemsolve the game, and they were
twice as good at playing thegame as the other people who
were getting points taken offthe Super Mario Effect.
I thought this was really neatand interesting because I mean
in my own life, a million times,no doubt about it you know when
it feels like I mean, even inschool, specifically right,
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school was brutal with this butwhen you feel you're getting
these points off, you don't wantto keep chomping over the gap
because it feels like you'rebleeding.
You know like you're justbleeding these resources but at
the end of the day, what Markpoints out is it's really
arbitrary and it's all happeningin our head Like we're the ones
who give it the meaning.
It's not like there were noreal points, like there was
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nothing lost.
And I guess in life what we'retrading constantly is time and
it's ironic because byparticipating in this idea that
I'm losing points, knowing thaton a psychological level it's
going to get in the way of meultimately learning, which
theoretically, the idea is Icould learn anything.
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I'm actually losing time, moretime, by engaging in the point
system because I'm ejecting fromthe learning process, whereas,
even if it took me a littlewhile longer to learn something,
maybe I'm struggling, althoughI'm experiencing failure often,
but I'm not conceptualizingfailure as terminal or a waste
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of resources.
Then I'm just going to keepattacking the problem and I'm
actually going to get better atit and I'm actually going to
learn, which means I'm going toend up spending more time in my
life having acquired the thingthat I sought to acquire in the
first place.
In that regard, even though youmight spend more time jumping
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over the gap and you might spendmore time failing, you're not
losing time.
Losing time, in my opinion, ifyou really pause and think about
it, happens when you basicallyquit early and then are now
spending hours of your lifehaving not integrated the thing
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that you went to go after and tointegrate.
So if that's learning, ifthat's achieving some sort of
goal or whatever it is, you'renow losing time if you have
stopped playing, if you'vestopped jumping the gap.
So Saturday says you're justfocused on the journey and
learning when you're notconstantly being affected by an
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expectation of an outcome.
That is an interestingstatement.
Let's see this slowly now.
Well, you know, what's kind offucking cool about this whole
Super Mario effect is becauseI've heard this thing about.
You know, there's like thewhole internet and the whole
self-help community seems to besplit in half around outcomes
and results and shit like this.
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You know, half of everything welearn is about don't be
attached.
You know that allows you tolike follow the cheese when the
cheese moves, it allows you tobe agile and it also connects
you to happiness.
You know, I've heard that.
You know a goal is a contractyou set with yourself to be
unhappy until a certain datewhen a certain condition is met.
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I think that's funny.
So you have these two opposingviewpoints.
One of them is like set thesegoals and go get them, and the
other one is like well, you'regoing to be unhappy if you set
these goals.
So what I think is cool aboutthe Super Mario effect is it
says it's not about the goal orthe journey.
I mean, I guess ultimately itbecomes about the journey.
But the people who play SuperMario, their goal is to beat the
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game Like.
Their goal is to get over thatgap.
You know, and they're veryfocused on it, like even me, as
an example, like I was veryfocused on, like beating that
level.
It has to do with this pointsthing and it has to do with
failure.
It's almost like as if thewhole Super Mario effect concept
is saying, regardless of whatyour goal is and regardless of
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whether you're focusing onoutcome or you're focusing on
journey, regardless, how youprocess failure is going to
determine how you're progressingand and also maybe even color
your general experience ofeither.
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So maybe it's saying how youprocess failure is going to
determine if you're enjoying thejourney.
How you process failure isgoing to determine if you arrive
at the outcome, which I imagineyou would enjoy it once you
arrived at the outcome, and howyou process failure could also
make the journey extremelypainful and not enjoyable, at
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which point you'll eject, likely, from the journey and never
arrive at the outcome.
It's a whole trip.
What's up?
Like the do?
How's it going, bro?
Let me.
I can barely see you guys onthe Instagram chat, so I've got
to whip this up.
I've got my computer open.
There it is Dwight.
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I thought it was Dwight.
How's it going, brother.
Here you have a wave.
Hi, tosh.
Thank you so much for jumpingin and peaking.
Hello, hello, how are you doing?
Well, I think about you all thetime, tosh, like for real.
I've been doing a whole workoutprogram and trying to get
myself in a great shape and I'malways like dude.
I got to catch up to Tosh, gotto catch up to Tosh, never
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forgot.
How's it going?
How am I?
I'm doing great.
I've got my coffee seat here.
So if you've got a littlecoffee, cheers to you, cheers to
Tosh.
I'm going to put everybody inhere right now.
This is my Monday.
It's usually like a 30 minute toan hour long stream and we just
chat.
We're chatting about life.
I like to start a dialogue, myguy.
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So if you're hanging around fora minute, please tell me how
your week is going.
Tell me what's on your mind,what are some?
You know, what's like a postthat's popped up in your life
lately that got your attention.
Maybe you had something to sayabout it.
What we were just talking about,if I could do a quick, you know
recap for you Something calledthe Super Mario effect, and what
we boiled it down to is,regardless of whether you're
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focused on an outcome, which is,like generally regarded as like
a way to propagate suffering.
But regardless of whetheryou're focused on outcome or if
you're focused on journey atleast this is where I'm at right
now with it how you processfailure is what is going to
define the quality of yourexperience.
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That's what we're talking aboutright now.
And, just so you know, whenyou're in an environment where
it seems that you're leakingresources per failure, human
psychology suggests that you areless likely to continue
engaging with failure, which,ironically, engaging with
failure is ultimately what leadsto competence and success.
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So you need to be able tocontinue engaging with failure.
So, which means we got torethink the way we're managing
resources and just be reallyconscious.
I mean, we can't alwaysdetermine the arena that we're
in, and sometimes other peopleset the rules.
And for you know that I thinkschool is a perfect example of
that Like, at least for now.
You know I didn't get out of it.
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I know there's millions ofpeople currently in it and where
we've just proved, basically,that losing points impedes
progress, and yet school iscompletely based on that.
So tough, tough little piece ofinformation there.
What am I saying?
Oh right, if you're in thearena.
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You can't choose the arena, soit's up to us then to be aware
of this and make a sort ofconversion in our minds.
So if I was in school right now, for example, I would have to
be very conscious ofreinterpreting the point loss as
something other than a pointloss.
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I mean it's, you know, it'sdefinitely extra steps, but yeah
, so that was the Super MarioEffect.
You know me doing a little blurbon it is kind of like a
potential another form ofcontent for me.
Yep, school taught you thatfailure equals embarrassment.
Uh-huh, I get that Brutal manBrutal, you know, it's funny
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when we went to MITT Dylan.
Dylan is big on education andit's kind of like his whole
mission to be involved in theeducational institution and to
upgrade it, basically, and wereally connected on that front,
because I too would like to helpeducation in some way.
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For me it's a bit more abstract, I guess.
Personally, I think it wouldalso be neat for me to explore
some online educationalopportunities.
I enjoy watching Veritasium,which is a fantastic YouTube
channel, and they're alwaysplugging this like company
called Brilliant, and apparentlyBrilliant has like these
awesome modules on the internetwhere you can learn things like
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economics, statistics, physics,stuff like that, and they have
these like little likeinteractive lab, sort of like
games that you can play, and I'munder the impression that these
websites are implementing thesebest practices in terms of like
encouraging students to learn,rather than making that process
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more difficult than it needs tobe.
I just felt the other aid ofthat, the other side of that.
This weekend, I finally didropes.
Dude, please tell me about that.
What do you mean?
The other side of that?
You felt the accomplishmentside.
I don't want to put words inyour mouth, so please clarify,
which side did you feel?
Also, was it cold?
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It feels like it must have beenreally freaking cold.
You experienced the other side,but which side?
Which side were you on andwhich side did you go to?
By the way, for everybody onTwitch, I'm interacting with my
Instagram following right now,the Twitch chat is actually
really quiet.
Oh, it was warm.
What would you look at that?
That's nice, wow, yeah,actually I saw an awesome
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Russell Brand and JordanPeterson video this week too.
So, yeah, dwight is saying thathe would normally have failure,
be a heavy weight to him andfeel shame, or actually shame
himself for it.
Dot dot, dot.
He is typing Rebecca.
(25:21):
Welcome to the stream, rebecca,hello.
Hello, we're talking about howwe process failure.
What is Taoism?
We have a wonderful questionthat just popped up in Twitch
man.
Taoism is, if I'm not mistaken,one of the three ancient
Chinese philosophies.
The other two, I guess they'reconsidered Eastern philosophies.
(25:45):
In my estimation, the three ofthem are Taoism, buddhism and
Taoism, buddhism and Confuciism.
So that is what Taoism is.
It's phenomenal man.
We can get into it.
Let me know if you have anyother questions.
Doing the leap of faith, Ididn't reach the appointed goal,
(26:07):
but the accomplishment for mewas that I jumped.
Yes, dude, I'm not sure ifanybody's ever done a ropes
course, but it's a challenge,it's a challenge and a half and
it's definitely it's so mental.
It's incredible how mental itis.
I mean, it's certainly aphysical challenge too.
It just really, when you'rethinking about it the right way,
a ropes course is so powerfulin terms of representing
(26:31):
everyday challenges in avisceral, visceral way, it
really facilitates an incredibleamount of presence.
Yes, dwight.
So Dwight's saying, basically,he's at this ropes course, he
has a goal, he wants to achieveit, he wants to beat the feature
, whatever the feature is at thecourse.
Sometimes it's like a jump, orsometimes you're walking,
(26:55):
balancing on a balance beam,things like that.
So he has the goal to beat thefeature.
But in this case he did notcompletely beat the feature, but
he attempted and he even jumped, which is one of the scariest
aspects of the thing.
And what he did do during hissession there was he learned to
(27:15):
be in relationship in a healthyway, without shame, with the gap
, the gap between where he is inthe goal.
So basically, oh, it's so,super Mario.
Actually he took the jump, hefell into the gap literally and
instead of processing it as likeshameful failure, he's in a
space now where he's like okay,cool, this is where I'm at and
(27:39):
what's next?
That's useful.
That keeps you in motion.
Diz, I'm curious if you have anyother questions about Taoism
For everybody else in the chat.
I want to say something aboutTaoism just to clarify it a
little bit and make it a bitmore distinct.
I just gave you the overall.
(27:59):
This is the category it fits in, but there's this awesome
painting and it's called theVinegar Tasters, and the Vinegar
Tasters does a great job ofsetting Taoism apart from the
other traditions, which is, youhave three people and they're
each the head of a differenttradition.
One of them is Confucianism,the other one is Buddhism and
(28:20):
the other one is Taoism.
And they're each sipping,they're taking a spoonful of
vinegar out of a bowl and thisis like a, it's a well, it's
almost like a sketch, it's apainting, right.
So they each take a sip and theway they react to the vinegar
(28:41):
is supposed to be emblematic ofthe philosophy.
So for Confucianism orConfucianism I'm not exactly
sure how to pronounce that theapproach through that philosophy
is very rules-based andstructured-based, and so there's
a lot of judgment towards theVinegar, which is to say it's it
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is sharp and intense, a flavor,right, and so that that
person's face, when he tastesthe vinegar, scrunches up and
he's kind of like mmm, bracingright.
And then for the Buddhist, theysip it, and for them, again,
being in the body and sufferingin general, et cetera, life is
(29:24):
suffering, blah, blah, blah.
So they're tasting it, mmm,again intense, intense feeling.
Well, in the Taoist tradition,the idea is that life is just
life and that the vinegar isjust vinegar, and that when we
sort of allow the experience,then we don't and we don't brace
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ourselves, we're not like mmmabout it, we can just experience
it as it is, and so the theTaoist is tasting the vinegar
and they're just kind of likesmiling, right, and the idea
there that just it showseverybody's sort of relationship
in terms of the greaterphilosophy.
So I guess Taoism's a lot aboutallowing and being with the
(30:08):
flow, with the force.
You know, if you will, a littlebit from like Star Wars there.
Hello, hello, all right guys.
Well, thank you all for tuningin, dwight and anyone else who's
here.
If you haven't seen the podcastyet or you're not subscribed to
(30:30):
my YouTube channel, I'd reallyappreciate it.
If you go check it out, I thinkyou might like it.
My YouTube channel isNoahTalon44.
The podcast is called God Modea player's guide to life.
Let's do a little test realquick.
If I go incognito mode and Itype in God Mode a player's
guide to life, boom, it exists,it's here, awesome.
(30:57):
So yeah, if you type inGodModaPlayer's Guide to Life,
it will come up.
You can see.
Episode one is here.
There's the trailer, but yes,it's at.
The YouTube channel isNoahTalon44.
You can go check it out.
Please subscribe so you can getupdates.
Obviously, the people onInstagram are already following
me on Instagram.
If you're on Twitch, myInstagram is NoahTalon.
You can get a bunch of theshort form content on Instagram
(31:21):
that way.
But yeah, I'm getting into thishabit of not talking about
things that I haven't done yet,so I'm not even going to talk
about the thing I haven't doneyet.
I'm going to do it and thenI'll talk about it once it's
done.
But there's yeah, it's tough,it's tough, yeah.
So there it is.
We're just going to leave it atthat.
It's a bit of a cliffhanger,it's a mystery.
(31:42):
So I guess you'll just have tostay tuned to see.
When I flip from oh, I'm nottalking about this thing too,
I'm talking about this thing.
And then, voila, big reveal,somewhere in the creator verse,
I'm feeling like, oh, I just dida cool thing, I just created a
hook, I hooked my audience.
They're going to be waiting forthis big reveal.
(32:04):
We'll have to see.
So, man, that was a greatgoffecito guys Today.
Oh, let's see, right here, yaddasays Leap of Faith is so
incredible.
The breakthroughs you can haveare endless.
Dude.
As a matter of fact, if youguys go to my second episode of
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the podcast, behind me as I siton the bed doing the podcast
episode is the photograph of medoing the Leap of Faith.
So that's a fun fact foranybody who's curious and
interested.
I'm watching my little clip ofit on my Instagram right now,
and right now it's reallyfocused on Michelle.
(32:47):
If we can jump it over, thenthere it is.
So the second it jumps over youcan see me right there in the
background holding onto the Leapof Faith.
So that's pretty funny.
I love that it's actually frontand center.
Thank you so much for tuning intoday, guys.
Very nice chatting witheverybody.
I hope you guys have a greatweek.
I hope that some of these ideasyou all think about throughout
(33:08):
the week, specifically thisSuper Mario Effect Next week.
We'll be back again on Mondaywith another Gaffsito with Noah
and maybe you guys can tell mehow it went and how the Super
Mario Effect principle appliedthroughout the week.
Dis, if you discover anythingelse about Taoism for anybody
else interested in Taoism, oneof my favorite books on it is
(33:29):
Taoism Made Easy.
Let me see if I can get youguys the author for that.
Oh no, it's called the Tao, theTao Made Easy.
The book is by Alan Cohen.
And then another fun book aboutthe Tao is the Tao of Poo, and
this is the teaching of the Taothrough Winnie the Pooh as a
sort of metaphor.
(33:50):
Anyway, thank you guys so muchfor tuning in.
This has been another sessionof Gaffsito with Noah.
I'm going to wave at our newviewers here on Instagram.
Love you guys.
Thank you so much and I hopeyou guys have a great week.
Hasta luego.
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