DailyJim: Did I just talk for almost 13 hours straight?

Hello everyone and welcome to another daily gym this is the episode for gosh i don't even know what days we are uh april 23rd which is a tuesday 2024 today i want to talk about did i just talk for almost 13 hours straight oh my goodness if you can't tell my voice sounds a bit rough. I probably haven't had enough water.

But I saw some old friends today and a semi-old friend of mine that I met last time I was here. The old friends I haven't seen. I've known them since probably 2009 when I used to live in Tanzania. And I went out and caught up with them. I had seen them once since, but we didn't have a lot of time to catch up. So I had some really really deep conversations. One had to go back and then went to the other one's place and talked with her for longer and longer. And then her family came back and I got to meet her sister and her mom and her dad. And then I ended up staying for dinner and I talked with the mom and the dad and then the friend. And then there was another friend of mine who was supposed to see tomorrow but is actually leaving town. So I went over and I hung out with her and we talked and talked and talked and talked and talked. And hey, man.

And so now I'm getting home, I'm like, the sun is coming up, I should have gone to bed a lot earlier, but I think sometimes in life, we crave certain things, because I haven't had a lot of in-person conversations with people, especially at this depth in a long while, I've been staying at home and inside most of the time, and if I'd go out, it'd be a short thing, and to have such deep, long conversations in person is something I like, which excites me, because, hey, now I can do this for the podcast. I can start doing more in-person interviews, in-person conversations rather. And I'm excited for that. I'm also tired. I'm also thinking about long conversations and just how much that's almost a training for having conversations in life. How many of us give up and we get so damn tired in the conversation. We say, I'm tired. I'm exhausted. I give up. I'm done. And I'm sitting here going, man, I had long conversations. Now, fair. Many of them weren't so, excuse me, antagonistic.

Or there wasn't a lot of...

Strong disagreement or anger coming up or a lot of those emotions. So maybe I wouldn't have been able to last so long, but it got me thinking about, I think it's when I took a hostage negotiation course. And I think someone asked the trainer, what was the longest negotiation that they ever did? And I can't remember the answer, but I think it was maybe a day, two days, something quite long. And I talked about how they had a team and they rotated through with the negotiators. But my goodness, it is a skill, it is a physical skill to be able to breathe that much, to pay attention that much, to be able to speak that much. Just the wear and tear on the voice, the wear and tear on the posture for sitting at a table or however one is situated.

And this is a physical activity, not just mental, but it's also very mental, verbal, emotional, whatever you want to call it. To be able to engage for so long in conversation, especially one-on-one conversation where you can't just drift off. I can't just drift off and stop paying attention and neither can the other person, because it's very noticeable. If there's three people and two are talking, one person can kind of look in different directions or take a break. But one-on-one conversation can be really, rather can require really intense concentration so just grateful for that also grateful to sleep because i'm tired uh but uh yeah just grateful to be able to meet some old friends and again somebody that's kind of a new friend but i met last time and whom i've chatted with a lot, and to go deeper and talk about such a wide range of things from relationships to emotions to work to, I don't know what else is in there. We talked about climate change. We talked about, I can't even remember. My brain is almost fried. So on that note, I am going to rest my voice and hope you all had a good night, morning, afternoon, evening. I don't know where people are listening from. Please let me know.

Please join the, again, the name now is community, community.jimclyber.com,

and just join the community and respond. I still might go back to Jim and friends. I don't know. It's just got a better ring to it. But anyways, y'all, I hope you have a good time, and talk to you all soon. Good night.