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In today's episode, I'm making a statement.
I'm staking a claim that it is okay to be foolish.
Are you ready?
Let's get started.
Well, this is releasing I mean,
you can be watching this anytime, but this is releasing on April Fool's Day.
So it seems like a good time to talk about this topic.
Marissa, who is behind the camera, said, are you going to.
Are you going to talk about April and April
Fool's Day trick to play on your leader?
No, I'm not doing that.
Maybe next year. But here's the thing.
If you look up the word foolish
in my favorite dictionary, which is Merriam-Webster,
you find two definitions, one of which is pretty cool.
The other. Well, not so much.
Let's take a look.
Here's definition number one foolish
having or showing a lack of good sense judgment or discretion.
I'm not suggesting that.
Like good sense judgment. Discretion.
That's a good thing, right?
But the other definition of foolish is absurd or ridiculous.
Now we're talking like we might have to pick our spots.
But what if we are occasionally absurd or ridiculous?
What if we didn't let ourselves get stuck with.
I'm not showing a lack of sense or judgment or discretion,
but rather said it's okay to be just a little bit ridiculous.
Just a little bit absurd.
Just a little bit foolish.
Right.
What about something like doing anything outside of the norm?
Because, you know, anything ever
that was outside of the norm, someone looked and said, they're wrong.
That's not good sense.
They're being ridiculous,
including pretty much every invention
that we rely on every single day.
Right.
How about being foolish to have a little fun?
Not at other people's expense, but to create an experience.
To have a little fun. To have a laugh.
To laugh with others.
Why not? Next.
For learning something.
If we do something ridiculous. Absurd.
Something that makes us feel a little foolish.
That takes us outside of our comfort zone.
We might learn something that's not so bad and would be a pretty good reason
to be okay with a little foolishness.
And lastly, creating a memory.
You've got
memories in your life, things when you had a really good time,
when you were laughing so hard, you were crying with a friend.
Those are our memories.
And some of those things were times
when you might have been being a little bit ridiculous, a little bit
absurd, a little bit foolish.
Now, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I do something that
hopefully isn't foolish.
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Now that we've got that out of the way, let me finish
today's video with a summary as your remarkable reminder.
Be willing to look or feel a little foolish, ridiculous or absurd
if it doesn't hurt others but helps you have fun,
learn something, or maybe expand what is possible.
Why not?