Summary
Joe and Brett explore the practice of “Question the Assumption” — a core exercise from Art of Accomplishment workshops that functions as both a practical problem-solving tool and a deep self-inquiry practice. At its simplest, it involves examining the hidden assumptions embedded in any problem statement (“I’m slammed,” “I’m not enlightened,” “I don’t have enough money”) rather than trying to solve the stated problem.
Joe shares his personal journey with the practice: first avoiding it because he associated questioning with lawyering and skepticism, then using it as rebellion against authority (which was still being controlled by the system), and finally going “hardcore” for about a week and a half, questioning every assumption mercilessly. This destabilized him — the ground got ripped out — but as it integrated, clarity about right action emerged. He references the Tibetan Buddhist phrase “mind is wide as the sky, action is fine as barley flour” to describe how expansive perspective paradoxically leads to precise, compassionate action.
The episode covers how questioning assumptions relates to right and wrong (seeing through moral judgment doesn’t eliminate morality — it shifts it from a thought process to a felt, embodied experience), identity dissolution (the sense of self is itself a thought that can be questioned), healing (holding someone as “wrong” prevents healing from trauma), and the inner critic (seeing through repetitive thoughts takes away their power).
Key Concepts
- Question the assumption is self-inquiry, not skepticism
- Right and wrong dissolve into embodied morality
- Contrarian thinking is still controlled by the system
- Questioning assumptions destabilizes before it clarifies
- Making someone wrong prevents healing
- Identity is the deepest assumption to question
Key Quotes
“We usually do is we go and try to solve the problem that’s been announced instead of actually question the problem itself.”
“The more I saw through every perspective, the more it became crystal clear what I was supposed to be doing.”
“Mind is wide as the sky, action is fine as barley flour.”
“For me to judge you means I have to close my heart. To close my heart hurts. I’m not closing my heart. I’m not judging you.”
“The sense of right and wrong prevents a lot of healing in this world.”
“The sense of self is a thought. The most basic thought is there’s an I.”
Transcript
why would somebody want this for examp especially in this like questioning your core beliefs about how you engage with the world who you are what you are what the world is I can tell you a lot of reasons you wouldn’t want it you know like you’re not going to be right there’s going to be nothing to defend it’s definitely destabilizing for some people for a short period of time why you want it is because it’s a tremendous amount of Freedom one of the exercises in our workshops is question the Assumption and you could say that this is an exercise you could also say it’s a lifestyle you could also say it’s kind of a personality type there are just people who do that as that’s just who they are and and it’s also really really impactful it seems really simple but it you can go infinitely deep with it and there’s a lot of different things that it can mean to do that it can be really annoying really abrasive and it can also be really really uh revealing and yeah uh might we even say enlightening so I would I’d love to do an episode on the topic of questioning the Assumption that’s that sounds fantastic because it is it’s in many of our courses that I different exercises around it it’s really important piece yeah that sounds good yeah great well let’s let’s start with what is it what is what do we mean by questioning the Assumption yeah so in any statement that we make any problem statement that we make um I’m slammed right now I I I don’t have enough money I’m not enlightened there are there are some assumptions in there that usually aren’t questioned we we usually do is we go and try to solve the problem that’s been announced instead of actually question the problem itself and so well are you enlightened are you not enlightened is there a you that gets enlightened is is like is that how it works is Enlightenment something that you achieve or is Enlightenment something that just happens how would you know if you were enlightened there’s all sorts of assumptions to the question of or the problem of I I’m not I’m not enlightened or I’m slammed or anything like that and so question the assumption is a way to see through our problems and in the scene through of the problem sometimes they fall apart and sometimes they’re just easier to solve and so that’s what it is at its most basic it’s its most basic form and its more complex forms or you know if you’re working on you know the head heart and gut and you’re working on the head in particular being able to see through your thoughts is a really important piece to not like have them so solid and to be able to see that all all thoughts have some truth and all thoughts don’t have truth and so on a secondary level it is the inquiry um that that is one of the practices that will help somebody get to a place of Awakening or more freedom or less self-abuse and so and so that’s also what it is you know there’s lots of forms of inquiry out there in the and in you know there’s vicar which is like the what am I that the Hindu did There’s Byron Katy you know the four questions there’s you know the Socratic method there’s all sorts of inquiry forms and question the assumption is is a way to congeal a lot of those different forms of inquiry yeah I can’t help but notice that you went straight to the like ephemeral like the the enlightenment the esoteric here and I’m also curious for people to get grounded a little bit in you know like this this is something that comes up in business all the time we’re like oh wait are we asking the right question what’s the actual problem statement here um there’s a million books written on out of the box thinking which is sort of a similar like a like a nephew to questioning the Assumption yes and yeah the reason yeah and and how you manage people instead of saying here’s how to do it it’s here’s how to do it and what am I missing there’s so many places where it applies in so many places but if you’re doing it the way that we’re talking about doing it for pretty soon you’re going to get to a place where you’re like what what the fuck do I believe if everything can be questioned and that’s can be disconcerting yeah so but I agree with you it’s practical and all those ways but it isn’t the the reason I say it is there is a distinction between the way it’s used in business which is really really useful and problem solving which is really really useful and when it’s used for self-inquiry yeah yeah yeah and so what what makes it so important for self-inquiry in particular yeah um so if you are continually believing your thoughts then there’s really your identity just sticks in place and it’s very hard so one of the ways is like you hear it all the time and I think in Buddhist reference comparative thought comparative mind is is causes a lot of pain which you can also see in the stoics which is this like comparative thought comparative thought is just a set of thoughts that you can question the Assumption on right and wrong thoughts that can create a lot of pain at times can shoulds can all be seen through with question your assumption so to be able to see through that also and and it’s core is seen through your identity a little bit at each time because most of us identify with the thoughts that we’re thinking yeah yeah so it’s a way it’s a way of exploring the like identity the projections the thoughts the worldview and when you question it you can then try on different worldviews and find the one that works works the best you’re always going to be in one in something there’s there’s generally going to be some some assumption somewhere you trade off one assumption for a different assumption but the idea here is is what I’m hearing is that you try different ones and they also they also become more transparent when you are actively switching them and you can see them and you can see that like you can see the the lens you’re looking through and so that creates a way in which they dissolve they just become less real less personal yeah yeah so why why would somebody want this for examp especially in this like questioning your core beliefs about how you engage with the world who you are what you are what the world is what what would make that tell you helpful and not just a stabilizing I can tell you a lot of reason you wouldn’t want it you know you’re not going to be right uh there’s going to be nothing to defend there’s um yeah there’s it’s definitely destabilizing for some people for a short period of time um uh also like the the like I literally I think we’ve spoken about this once but I remember working with somebody where we saw through a lot of this and they had a hard time like going to the grocery store and deciding what to buy you know like it can because they’re what’s happening here like I don’t even know that like even that is questioning and so those are all the things that can be uncomfortable about it most of them very fleeting um why you want it is because it’s a tremendous amount of Freedom there to not have to defend your thoughts to not have to defend yourself to be able to see through the things that cause you pain to be able to um shift your worldview um and see the truth and different perspectives makes it so that your relationships are usually a lot better um so there’s just a lot of benefits but mostly it’s just the freedom you know if you’re not constrained by this is what is true this is what is right this is what is wrong not to say that there isn’t there’s in a weird way it right and wrong becomes even more like even more like it’s more commanding is the way I would say it but the idea of right and wrong goes away which is a very strange thing um so yeah so so those are all the reasons you’d want there’s just a tremendous amount of freedom in it and and really good for problem solving like if you can if you like if someone can say you’re totally full of shit and you’re like yes here’s exactly how boom boom boom boom and here’s what I see boom boom boom boom and what do you see like it’s so easy to problem solve when you’re not when your thinking is flexible yeah and one one thing that I that I observe when people are questioning the assumption is a lot of times there are certain assumptions that we’re ready to see and we’re ready to question other ones that we just not and you can see this where a lot of times people would take on the identity of like oh I am a questioner of the assumptions I I’m not going to take what you know Society tells me I’m not going to take what the government tells me I’m not going take what YouTubers and I’m just going to take on a different like and that’s just natural I think when we start to actually question our assumptions there’s certain sacred cows that we’re just not going to even see that we’re not looking at and so we can kind of go on a a journey of uh you know questioning questioning things that are low hanging fruit that seem like seem like they’re getting us somewhere but they’re actually getting us deeper into a particular worldview and I’m curious for for your experience in working with this Tool uh over over the course of your life what what did you wrestle with and how did you wrestle with it on that Journey towards like finding a finding the deeper assumptions to question and the sincerity to question the ones that are the most scary yeah that’s a great question well um so I would say the for for my journey I kind of avoided questioning the Assumption in a bit in a weird weird way because I saw a lot of people who were like naturally questioning the Assumption it was like it was just them trying to prove themselves right right so it just felt like there was a lot of really why is that like it was lawyering it was it was it was there was like debate to be right you know that kind of stuff so it didn’t appeal for a while then there was a Socratic questioning yeah exactly exactly it was a they were skeptical and it was their questioning was a form of their skepticism so which is definitely not what we’re talking about when we’re talking questioning the Assumption and then I questioned as you were said like a like a questioning assumption because I’m not this or I’m not that and but that was really just me rebelling against the authority figure that was my dad and so and you see that a lot with like even people who say they’re contrarian investors it’s like really so tell me about your Rebellion against your father who was an authority like it’s almost always there um so so that contrarian is it it’s it’s also I and I discovered it’s where I found the tool but I discovered the way that I was using it at that time was very much still in being controlled by the system because I was rebelling against something so I couldn’t see the truth in the the thing itself it was just to find the other way that there was more right you know it wasn’t actually seen the truth in both sides and the and the lack of Truth in both sides so so then it just in my journey it just it slowed down a bit and and I started to question my assumptions at one time I literally just I think it was like a week and a half I just questioned everything I just questioned every assumption like and everything ended up to be this is and isn’t and it it made me a little crazy to be honest with you it was definitely like what what who like it felt like the ground got ripped out from underneath me I didn’t know what like how do I make a fucking decision from this place if there’s no clear right and wrong and what the fuck going on and and that was really destabilizing for me for a little bit and but I did it really hardcore just like I was merciless for like this we questioning everything and um and then over time as that integrated what happened was the more that I saw through I could see different perspectives the more I saw through every perspective the more it became Crystal Clear what I was supposed to be doing um and there’s this phrase that I only learned recently and it’s a Tibetan Buddhist phrase and it says um mind is wide as the sky action is fine as barley flour which is very fine meaning basically your mind the way I take it anyway is that your mind can see everything can see all the perspectives and it’s it’s as wide as the sky it’s vast there is no truth or there’s no right and wrong on that level but the rest of your system it is incredibly painful to act in a way that is not kind not compassionate not the the what what we might call right the right action so it’s not a morality of a thought process it’s not a morality you’re bad you’re good it’s like oh for me to judge you means I have to close my heart to close my heart hurts I’m not closing my heart I’m not judging you and so and in that there’s only one action for me to do is keep my heart open I can’t do anything else and so it’s what was interesting is that as the thoughts dissipated as I couldn’t believe them anymore as they fell apart and I could see through them the reality of what was painful the reality of a Consciousness that didn’t serve me became so apparent because I couldn’t be distracted with a thought saying this is right or that’s wrong or this person’s right and that’s and it just became all of a sudden my my behavior became far far more moral but not moral like a sense of morality moral is in like it is painful to take to to move away from myself to to leave my Center to do something like lie or um you close my heart or be self self-serving in a way that didn’t consider other people doesn’t mean I still can’t act out of ignorance that’s something different but but still so so it it’s it’s a very strange thing and and the and so that’s what I meant earlier when I said on one level right and wrong is completely gone in the head but the action is very clearly just it’s very fine because you have no choice but to act in a way that is that is that is compassionate okay so that’s that’s sort of answering already the kind of next question that I have which is a question that I guess I had but I still want to dig into a little bit more which is how how would somebody make decisions if they’re questioning every assumption and they’re just in this constant freefall and then that kind of just branches off into the the sub question of like how do you know that you are actually questioning the assumptions and not just taking on an unquestioned identity of I’m the one with no thoughts I believe in good or bad I’m just going to chill here and I I I would presume that a litmus test for that is are you taking clear and precise action because if you’re not if you find yourself uh if you find yourself uhuh go ahead please yeah I I imagine that one one of the concerns of just questioning the Assumption going all the way hardcore mode would be that no action would be taken and it also seems like that would be one of the side effects of not really doing it all the way yeah I I it’s a great question I don’t know if it’s a step process like if there’s just this necessary time of like I have no idea I know that a lot of the people that we teach will have moments that they have I no idea how to act anymore it doesn’t usually last more than a couple weeks and and even though they don’t know how to act they are acting so there’s there’s still shit happening they there their brain can’t make sense of it because the brain didn’t make the decision so there’s it’s a very interesting piece so I think there is a step where seems like that’s required or at least natural for most people so I can say that it’s a what’s a great question is how do you know if you’re doing it um I would say the way that you know that you’re doing it while you’re doing it is that it gets uncomfortable like the the assumptions that are the most important to question are the ones that you hold most dear and to question them is is uncomfortable so there’s so there’s a moments of discomfort there’s a moments of embracing intensity that come with this practice if you’re not doing that then it’s not actually and the other thing that happens is if the other way to know that it’s actually happening is if someone like attacks your ideas and you get defensive is like that’s a that’s an idea you haven’t seen through so that defensiveness is another really good litmus test of like because you need to be right you’re you’re valuing correctness yeah I would imagine also aggressiveness in you like to the extent that you’re aggressive even if you’re questioning an assumption but doing it with force uh right yeah then there probably something you’re defending there probably an assumption in your world yeah it might be necessary to do that for a bit but yes generally like it it’s e more and more joyful and heart opening even if it’s scary even if it’s oh shit what if this is true oh shit what is this oh shit this this could make my whole world fall apart I think there’s another litmus test in there too which is really such a great question you asked um that there’s going to be a couple moments where you’re like I don’t know if I’m going to be able to relate to anybody anymore you’re going to have those moments I don’t know anybody who’s really deeply questioned their assumptions and not thought to themselves oh I might not be able to like I might be going too far out there and I might lose people I love Yeah I think that’s an experience that a lot of people have just in life as they as they grow up in a different world and their parents grew up in and they go out there and live a different life there’s there’s a way that that kind of fear just comes up I think for anybody unless you are like the most strictly adhering to the ideology that grew up in and somehow live in a piece of the world that stayed the same enough that actually that works somewhat for somehow you didn’t come into contact with something that breaks that so I think that’s a that’s kind of a universal Human Experience of yeah like I’ve had these experiences whatever they are in my life and now how do I relate will I be able to relate to yeah to home to where I came from from my Origins from my friends my family yeah my political party up and that will come up because you’re questioning all that stuff so I don’t think you’re right I I think it’s like all squares or ruses but all ruses aren’t squares meaning that like if that’s happening it doesn’t mean you’re questioning the assumption but if you’re questioning the assumption that is happening yeah from time to time um so I think those are the good litmus tests for it that that feels right to add a piece right there it sounds like life experience leads us to question of something but we can do it more explicitly if we choose to we can make it a practice yeah yeah that’s right that’s beautifully said yeah I mean I I really to see through all of my thoughts and and when I was doing it originally was a see through the painful thoughts you know the shoulds and the and the self-abuse and stuff like that and that’s something else that’s like something else that happens is it like you get to see through through those thoughts as well but eventually I was like looking to see through everything yeah yeah if you see through the comforting thoughts yeah I I’ve found personally that when I see through the comforting assumptions I see that they actually weren’t that comforting at all there was some fear there was some that they were actually held in place they were holding holding some other emotion at Bay so I had had the assumption that I’m safe on some level like you know kids have this assumption at some point where they’re like oh we all live forever of course cuz it would hurt to imagine mommy and daddy dying and then eventually life experience comes us brings us into contact with mortality and we’re like oh boy there’s a whole layer of assumptions whole like depth of assumptions to uh to explore there and to whatever extent we do we do uncover those really uncomfortable emotions that are also very freeing very freeing exactly because it like there’s some freedom in saying oh I’m never going to die there’s more freedom and absolutely I’m going to die in that and I can’t believe any thought around that that causes constriction oh yeah that that’s gonna happen like yeah all these memories are gonna be poof you know whatever it is I’m doing in the world will fade away or transform without my control yeah and not none of it will be remembered eventually there’s so much freedom and relief in that you know and I remember when those thoughts were scary yeah so we talked a little bit earlier about how there there’d be no right and wrong here and one thing I know from working with people directly is that people often have a tendency to really really really be attached to their notion that there is a right or wrong or that there’s a morality this seems almost religious to even talk about I mean it literally is religious if we’re talking about in the context of religion but without that context even there’s so so how without just kind of casually dropping that bomb earlier in the episode not going deeper into it uh what yeah what else can we say here about how how how right and wrong play into the question the Assumption concept yeah I think I I I I wish I don’t know if this is for sure I’d have to research it so maybe we can research and put in the show notes but there’s there is some thought process of like the more empathetic somebody becomes the less their sense of right and wrong like locks into place I think I think that the right and wrong thing is very religious because like somebody is partially because their identity is attached to it right like so no it’s really wrong what that person did to me because they need to be identified as that or it’s really right and wrong because my religion and I’m very identified in the religion so that’s why I think it becomes really important and and and I’m not it’s interesting I’m not particularly saying that there’s no wrong or evil in the world um so to speak um meaning that there’s actions that pull us away from ourselves in other words pull us away from God that we would call you know potentially sin but we could just call it like pain and suffering because it pulls us away and and the more that that happens I’d say the more you could categorize that as wrong wrong however when you start judging wrong or right when it’s a thought process in which you’re judging wrong and right and this is wrong and that is right that a there’s not a tremendous amount of freedom in it B it’s binary thinking so it shows that it’s fear C you’re not actually understanding all sides of the argument so you’re you’re maintaining ignorance on purpose at that point if you can if you can see through it so that there all of that’s happening and it doesn’t actually help you be more compassionate right so it doesn’t even matter what religion you’re looking at there’s like we’ll use Christianity for instance like how many times is Jesus considered wrong in in the New Testament it’s like endless time like he hung out with hookers like you know like he did all these things that he wasn’t he like you know was hanging around lepers and he shouldn’t have been hanging around lepers like it’s like so much stuff that he did that people got upset with because it was wrong and so there is really no religious figure that isn’t Gandhi Martin Luther King a lot of people said wrong that’s not right that’s wrong right so so it’s it’s seen through it seen through like the idea of it so that you can get to the truth of it I would say is the best way to describe it you’re you’re seeing through the idea of right and wrong so you can get in contact with the truth which is leaving love leaving yourself on some level creates a tremendous amount of pain for yourself and others in the world and the more that we do that the more likely is going to be something that’s painful and the more likely it is people are going to call it wrong yeah I like the framing of maintaining ignorance because in whatever framework or worldview I’m in if I see something that I’m about to do as wrong and that’s where I stop looking then I also stop learning if I see something and I can see all the way through my judgment of it as wrong but I can actually see what might happen if I do it and how it would feel and the consequences of it and the Nuance there then it it’s not wrong it’s just this consequence and the way that it feels and I don’t want to do that and I understand more deeply and I learn more quickly what I want and what I don’t want yeah and how I and the other thing is and the yes and the other thing is the healing process meaning like let’s say something horrific happened horrific happened to you you got raped in your healing process there’s some way that you’re going to have to give up on the fact that the person who raped you was wrong like when I see people heal from Deep trauma deep pain they they have to they go through a process of not holding the other like we call it forgiveness like you know you have to forgive to get to your freedom that’s like one way to say it but basically what you have to do is you have to stop making them this monster you have to open your heart to them you have like and it’s really hard to open your heart to something that your mind at least says is wrong you can say yeah it was totally not okay for that to happen to me it’s totally not okay for that person to do it for me but you can’t see them as wrong and still heal yeah and so that the sense of right and wrong prevents a lot of healing prevents a lot of healing in this world yeah yeah I could say that healing a lot of healing happens from seeing in a in the deepest perspective what was actually happening and to move into just sort of like the childhood trauma type thing where once we see like oh yeah my my parents were scared and that’s like their their fear came out in a certain way and it felt like attack to me and I took it to me and I was wrong or that the world was dangerous or whatever yeah then seeing seeing through it and just seeing the entire situation for what it was both relieves us of any self-judgment we have relieves us of Judgment of the other and also gives us a deeper perspective to avoid those uh outcomes again because we can see them coming from a mile away or if we see something coming and we can’t even avoid it like we’re actively being mugged on a street in Panama yeah then we can at least be in that moment seeing it clearly without making ourselves or others wrong and take the action we need to take yeah there’s this um the other thing that the right and wrong the other way to say it is like you know they talk about like when atrocities have been done by people like in Hitler or Pol Pot or any of that kind of stuff it’s like they made the other the others the the people that they’re oppressing they made them into others you know they’re like they’re not humans they’re not people they’re the beginning of that is they’re wrong the first step of that is they’re wrong right you you have to think that they’re wrong to hate them I mean you can see this in our political divide in our country right now right all everyone you know it’s the first first step of dehumanization it doesn’t mean that just to be really clear that doesn’t mean what this happening is totally not okay and I’m even to the point of I’m going to fight to stop that great not saying not to do that I’m just saying you can do it with an open heart and you can do it without making the other uh an animal or taking steps to make them less than you yeah and to to kind of double click there on the open heart which is a deeply embodied experience like fighting with an open heart without making the person you’re fighting wrong yeah there’s there’s something that that does in our beliefs and our Concepts and our strategies but there’s also something that really does in the body and I want to get a little bit more into what the question the Assumption practice does with our connection to our bodies with our embodiment yeah yeah so like I was saying before why uh mind is wide as the sky barley you know the action as fine as barley flour it what’s happening is that you’re you’re aware of the pain your body becomes a a big part of the morality so to speak of right and wrong the like the the action that you have to take because there’s no other choice cuz everything else is painful it’s painful because you’re aware of your body also it just the more you see through your thoughts the more you’re in your body by nature like you just can’t like like you can’t trust those things so you can’t like live in your head you got to also they’re trustworthy in certain ways there’s some ways that they’re fucking fantastic and you love them and they’re it’s not like they be get thrown out they just get they just get seen through is uh I guess the way I would say it is like they’re not the operating system they’re the like Windows layer you know what I mean and yeah so you’re just like oh that’s not the computer that’s just windows so so it’s the same thing and that and that just lands you in your body naturally yeah yeah we’ve talked about this before but a thought you can see a thought as a form of management it if you really pay attention every thought you have is comes from the management of a an emotional or physical state most yeah definitely at least most yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so what does this then what does this how does this affect the the voice in the head in general we we’ve talked about this a little bit so far here but I just want to kind of Zone in on that piece for a moment since we totally just takes the power right out of it just takes the power right out of the negative negative reoccurring voice in the head the reason I said most is because there’s like these Epiphany thoughts that happen there’s like the spontaneous first time thoughts that sometimes are management but sometimes are just like whoa check that out or oh wow look at that or epiphanies I would not put them in the category of always being in control of trying to control or manage but all the reoccurring ones I would say for sure are and that’s what starts dying when you see through your thoughts yeah those reoccurring managing ones you’re just like nonsense nonsense nonsense I don’t know like checking in with that myself and anytime I’ve had an epiphany it’s been a completely like non-conceptual physical experience the moment before it became described before so it’s almost even a way that like the thought that is that I would call The Epiphany is actually the the result of the Epiphany and my tendency to want to make sense of it and then communicate it or do something with it but it happens very very quickly yeah on that level absolutely yeah I see what you’re saying yeah cool yeah so lastly just uh since we talked about the body and the voice in the head I just want to talk about identity what what can somebody who is really deepening into this practice of question the Assumption expect yeah we touched on it a bit we touched on it a bit and I yeah it’s just that a lot of us identify ourselves with our thoughts and in and when you stop when you start seeing through all your thoughts you also see through the sense of self in fact one can say that the sense of self is a thought there like the most basic thought is there’s an I I am this I think this that’s just a thought like really there’s an I like prove it it’s an incredibly hard if you really look into it it’s incredibly hard thing to prove and and it’s like so per example of this would be Oh I thought that there was I thought that there was some thoughts that weren’t managing right and uh well who had that thought exactly like was I think did I say I’m gonna have this thought and then I had the thought or did the thought just appear and I noticed it so is it me who had the thought or was like I was receiving the thought what was noticing it exactly exactly was was awareness the thing and then I claimed awareness as me you know so you can and that in that if you really go into that question if you really go into the question what am I which is the core thought to just that that when you see through that the identity shifts when you see the truth of the question what am I which doesn’t particularly have an answer you just have to sit in the question then all of a sudden I would say the question dissolves in a way the identity totally flips at that point and you the identity stops being personal becomes Universal that is of course assuming you want your identity to shift and that you have any idea what’s going to happen when it does and that that’s you want or or yeah or I I would also question the assumption that you would have a choice to make that a question if that question didn’t like already like turn you on and flip a switch in you and I remember when that question came to me when I was introduced to that question I asked that question like 10 15 times a day for fucking seven years or something I asked that question and like it took no discipline it wasn’t like working out it wasn’t like you know drinking enough water okay I got to drink enough water that thing just happened and so was it me who even had the question in the first you know it wasn’t even the discipline there was yeah and that was part of the seeing of it when when that question dissolved I was like oh it wasn’t even me asking the question it was more it felt more like the question was asking me the question was like I am fascinated with Joe so to speak any awesome yeah feels like a good stopping point thank you Joe thank you man all right yeah talk to you later yeah and thank you everybody else please if you enjoyed this episode share it around like us rate us uh we love love seeing reviews uh we’ve been getting some good ones lately and they make my heart sing every time 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