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promotion, marriage, house, things like

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that. But now picture that line

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with all its little juts and outpoints and

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endpoints, but it's hitting 20 or

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30 points of joy. Those

8:11

represent the 180s, the

8:13

times where you let yourself find joy. Even

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if you're in your 30s and you've never played tennis before

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and you pick up tennis, or you start a new job

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at 25 or even 30 or 40, who cares? Or

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you take two years off from dating from 28

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to 30 just to be your best self and

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invest in travel, or you move

8:32

cities, you up and move cities and you try

8:34

that a couple years. You go somewhere you've never

8:37

been or you start creating music or art, even

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though you have no idea what you're doing. 180s.

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Those are 180s from expectation, 180s

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from pressure, 180s from the path you've been on.

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When we allow ourselves to deviate from

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the path, we open ourselves up to

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joy. Truly, when

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we embrace 180s, we give ourselves freedom

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that we can learn from and

8:59

that we can build on. And let's bring

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this back to the real world. I'll give you two

9:03

examples here that have really struck me. Two

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examples. One is like the 180s

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given to you and the other is just

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someone that you could learn from

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about embracing and creating 180s for

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yourself. The first, I saw this on TikTok

9:17

that I love. It's about how embracing

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180s, the ones thrown at you,

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they're preparing you for your life's

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bigger moments. So I'll repeat

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what I saw in this video. It was from someone named Rick

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Reardon. He was talking about an artist.

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Her name is Chapel Rhone. I

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listen to mostly house music, just who I

9:36

am, I guess, but you probably know

9:38

who she is. She's having her moment. She's an amazing

9:40

singer. She's blowing up everywhere. She

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sung at Coachella this past year and now

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she's like on tour with Olivia Rodrigo, all

9:47

this crazy stuff, Chapel Rhone. But

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here's what he said about her. Just take a couple minutes and

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I really drive this home. She goes, he goes,

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Chapel Rhone is living proof that it takes 10

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years to become an overnight success and that the

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universe is preparing you for your. really

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represent this idea of

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not living a linear

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left-to-right life. Right?

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Both him and Chappell Rohn embraced

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these 180s that were given

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to you or that you create for yourself,

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not living just one single narrative. Both of

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them and you and I are capable of

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rewriting our story as many times

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as we want. So that's the idea here. You know,

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the ability to do a 180 in life is not

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just reserved for these people. It's

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a mindset. It's a willingness to

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see life as entry points

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for joy, as many as we're willing

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to embrace. It's a willingness to embrace

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change and it's an unyielding

16:37

belief in our capacity to grow and

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adapt and create joy for ourselves. So

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I hope this episode, if anything, just

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gives you some perspective to create or

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to embrace the 180s in your life.

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But that's it. I'll end it right here. I hope this

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was helpful. If it was, it'd mean a lot to me

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if you'd share the episode with a friend, just send them

16:56

the link to Apple Podcasts or the Spotify.

16:58

Thank you for doing that. It means a lot. But

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that's it. As always, thank you so much for

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listening. Thank you for supporting me and until next

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episode, I'm out. you