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Hello and Welcome to Another Dailyjim It is May 27, Well technically it's saturday, technically it's not, it's May 28th, but I think sometimes in my mind, I think the day doesn't end until I go to sleep, so I'm believing it's still friday. Anyways, I probably should have recorded the episode before, going out to driving out in about an hour to visit a friend and watch her play and then hanging out with her and my other friend afterwards, and then driving back home. So it is a bit late here. And what did I want to talk about? I wanted to talk about how oh seeing the play and just seeing live theater and the emotional experience that it can be. We were talking after the play um and both of them are actors and so they have a lot of technical advice and things like this and, she asked me what I thought of the plan, I said to be really honest, I don't know a lot of the technical details of what goes into acting, so I can't give any feedback or comments on that too well. But and to be honest, I was quite uh huh stuck in the story, like I was quite focused on the story. I started reflecting on how this has happened so many times in my life and this other thing happened and really got so wrapped up in the story and she, I was like yes, that's that's the point. That's great. That's really good to hear. I'm thinking what and. It just reminds me how so many of our forms of art, and not even just are, but so many of the things that we do in life have a goal of getting people to reflect or to feel certain things. And despite working on this all the time, it's so easy for me to forget that sometimes where you know, what's the point of going to a play? It's to cry and to laugh and to reflect on one's life and to try to integrate some of the learnings from the third party experience that we see. What's the point of watching tv show very similar. What's the point of going to a comedy show quite similar, you know, to hear somebody else speak on the things that we're thinking about and to laugh collectively, to realize, hey, I'm not alone to feel that, that joy and in, in solitude, solitude in togetherness. Yeah, yeah. And.
That's, it's you know, maybe more obvious than the arts, but you think about, meditation app goal is very similar to feel certain things and also to reflect and try to integrate and and change some behaviors perhaps or become more aware of certain behaviors, but you know, selling a car is not so different. You know, trying to buy an electric car. What's the purpose of the electric car? Well, it's to make someone feel more at ease that they're not harming the environment as much or to feel excited to drive really fast or to reduce range anxiety. These are things that um, you know, I used to work at a company focused on innovation consulting, And we did a project on electric vehicles about 10 years ago looking at adoption and what are some of the things that are going to help or hinder people from adapting them.
And so lots of different things, lots of different products and services and relationships and experiences we have in life often seem to have that drive or motivation to get us to feel.
Sometimes I can feel I'm quite nervous or worried that I'll put something out in the world that will make people feel too much. But you know what I watched that play and you know, she said one line and boom, the tears came and so, you know that can happen in regular life to watching are not regular but like outside of a theater or a closed environment. I can watch something on tv and it hits me, I can be in a conversation with a friend and they say something and I get super angry or super sad or super confused or really insular and reflective. There's a lot of times we intend to say things or do things that make people feel and sometimes we just do things that make people feel. So.
This is the late night long drive ramblings of a man that had a good night and I hope that you're having a good night or day or wherever you may be.
And I'm excited for the weekend and I'll talk to you after the weekend. It's a holiday weekend. So I think I may take one day off which is a memorial day in the US. So here's to talking to you and talk to you on Tuesday.
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