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Memento Mori
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Introduction and Episode Goals
00:00:23
David Isaacs
Hello everyone. It is February 22nd at time of recording. i am here my co-host Brian.
00:00:30
The Big Dog
Hello everybody.
00:00:33
David Isaacs
And we're going to talk about some stuff today and hopefully it'll be fruitful. At least I hope it will be.
Understanding Memento Mori
00:00:43
David Isaacs
But anyways, Memento Mori.
00:00:47
David Isaacs
watched 20 years later the Bone Temple. And I mean, it was mentioned in the first movie as well, but first heard it, i forget where I heard it first. I remember there's like a Carl Sagan thing. So memento mori is like, be mindful of death.
00:01:09
David Isaacs
um Remember that you must die. And I guess it's not a real happy reminder, but a reminder nonetheless that We only have certain amount of time and depending on how you you view things, it's kind of gives beauty to life or it could be kind of dreadful for people that are kind of getting towards the end, unfortunately, for whatever reasons.
00:01:42
David Isaacs
So now you're like a lot about like regrets and things that people wish they did and I think we sometimes just kind of get caught up in the, uh, in the wake of life.
00:01:54
David Isaacs
Uh, don't know wakes a good word, like tide, like waves, you know, it's like you're on a ship and you, um, the weather is kind of determining where you're going or of the ocean or whatnot. You don't have like great steering ability and, um, kind of how you you can kind of get some of that back. And I know we talked before in previous episodes of just,
00:02:18
David Isaacs
having to move fast and feeling like you can't carry all the things that you want to carry with you, you know, type of person that you are and kind of who you are in certain situations. Um, so yeah, I kind of wanted to, you know, just kind of bring that reminder. It was a reminder to myself and, um, to everyone listening of, you know, we're all kind strapped for a time and,
00:02:45
David Isaacs
for urgent things and things that come up at work and things to do around the house or in life in general, but also in the, in the grand scheme of things, we're strapped for time as well.
00:03:00
The Big Dog
Yeah, I think, well, let me go back. First time I heard Memento More, I think, obviously, i because I've seen 28 years later movies, the first time I had ever really heard it it was right before the movie Batman Begins came out, which was 2005.
Cultural Impact of Memento Mori
00:03:19
The Big Dog
You know, Christopher Nolan had got the part.
00:03:21
The Big Dog
um back then wasn't nearly well-known as he is now, you know obviously, blockbuster director, but he his very first high-budget or wide-release movie was called a movie called Memento, which is with Guy Pearce.
00:03:36
The Big Dog
It's about him. main character has anti-grade amnesia, which means he has short-term memory loss and and can't form new memories once he pretty much goes to sleep. It's kind of similar to um the...
00:03:51
The Big Dog
uh was it 13 30 some tells the movie with um drew barrymore 50 first dates kind of similar concept up but um and so like whenever i heard like memento i never heard it in its full entirety as memento mori which i you know i was more like i carry a memento of that person um you know it meaning something translating to um
00:04:19
The Big Dog
from Latin to remember you must die. It's kind of like, at least as far as I've known of the word or, you know, I always carry a memento of this person or have a mental of, you know, it's kind of like a a memory of, or small little trinket that you have of, of, of the person.
Mindfulness and Present Living
00:04:35
The Big Dog
So, um, that's kind of just the way I've always remembered it or, or it lived by it, or understood it.
00:04:42
The Big Dog
um And kind of to David's point, we're all short on time. And you know in today's digital world, we only have short attention spans. If you ask my psychologist, we're all headed into a world where everyone in the world has you know ADHD and short attention span. But um yeah times just take time to really enjoy the moments you're forming. Like I have, I have my five-year-old son and I struggle to, you know, is is is this going to be a lasting impression for him, whether it's on his, you know, in a good way or bad way. So I always try to struggle and to stop and just take a moment of,
00:05:26
The Big Dog
he's not going to be young forever. You know, next thing I know going to be 18 and graduating. I'm going to be like, where the hell did the time go? But think if we take a second to to kind of slow down and just enjoy yourselves and plug from technology, go on vacation, go,
00:05:43
The Big Dog
ah you know, go do that thing that you've always wanted to do Go take that karate class, go see a movie, you know, just slow things down to a point and, you know, do things for yourself. Um, I think it's kind of like what my core message for this episode will be. So, um, but yeah, um,
00:06:09
The Big Dog
i think ah I think it's a very interesting kind of, when I you know when i logged on and saw the the episode name, I just couldn't help but chuckle, but think of 28 years later. But da you know David is a very ah thoughtful person like that. So yeah his thought behind everything, i I was just thinking, I'm like, oh, did you just see 28 years later? He's like, in a way, yeah, but it made me kind of think. So I really enjoy this episode's theme.
00:06:35
David Isaacs
Yeah. Um, so I know Memento, like the movie, uh, great movie. Um, so that means like Memento by itself means remember. And I think Mori is like morbid, like remember that you're mortal.
00:06:49
David Isaacs
Remember, uh, you know, it could be translated in a lot of different ways. And I was trying to find the other part of it, um, with, is it, is it Ralphine Ralphine?
00:07:01
David Isaacs
Um,
00:07:01
The Big Dog
Yeah, rough hands, yeah.
00:07:03
David Isaacs
yeah so memento amoris and uh let me see if so morris and what that means because that was kind of the other part of it memento amoris remember to love and that is a gentle reminder to live with passion and appreciation for love
00:07:25
David Isaacs
So while I meant to Mori highlights that life is short, I meant to Morris is the active positive response to that limit limitation.
Introducing Memento Amoris
00:07:33
David Isaacs
Um, so that's just kind of the, you know, memento just means remember, and then kind of, you can put a lot of things after that and, you know, remember you must live, remember you must die, remember to love.
00:07:47
David Isaacs
Um, and I was wrong. It wasn't Carl Sagan. It was actually Alan Watts. Um, that said, memento mori, be mindful of death. And I'm not too familiar with him. I guess i my Midwest troglodyte brain heard the voice of a like British person and thought Carl Sagan and said it was Alan Watts. And I'm educating myself in the last two minutes on how Alan Watts kind of translated some Eastern religions to like the West in terms of you know beliefs and try to make it more simplified for like those religions and those beliefs, kind of like try to bridge the gap for the West to kind of understand what those beliefs are.
Cinema Themes and Execution
00:08:34
David Isaacs
Um, but I do think like the philosophical aspect, at least for me, like a lot of stuff that kind of sticks with me are, you know, specific quotes or, um, a lot things in movies.
00:08:46
David Isaacs
I don't know never really had the diagnostic criteria of being like raised by TV or raised by movies. Um, but I do think the artistry and the and everything that kind of comes together to be able to tell a story that there are some, you know, kind of higher level themes that come out of it. And, um, they were just discussing yesterday too, with, uh, maybe I said 28 days later, the bone temple, but it's, uh, 28 years later. So sorry if I said it wrong. Um, but you know, the first movie, like just the premise and, um, there was like a lot of things that they did right. And there were some things that they didn't do so well. So, um, I like discussing yesterday is like,
00:09:25
David Isaacs
you know usually the first movie is of a trilogy is like typically the the good one and then you know it will either continue from there or might be a little bit uh less than like the first movie but in terms of 28 years later the first one compared to 20 years later the bone temple like it it just felt like they had a lot there in the first one they just didn't execute it well so i had kind of high hopes for them to take what the criticisms were of the first one and make the second one better, which definitely feel like they did.
00:10:01
David Isaacs
so
00:10:02
The Big Dog
Yeah, like I had watched I had watched the first one right before I went and saw the second one. And there's things that definitely made a lot more sense to me, like and just kind of visually queued up in my brain when I saw it.
00:10:16
The Big Dog
um that I thought because it did kind of feel like the first one was more of like a ah setup more than anything. Um, like with the ending, ah well really the beginning actually, um didn't even really pay off until the second movie. So, um, and that's what, that's what i kind of was telling people about it. It was like, you know, the first one may not make sense with the second one seems to be all
Balancing Life's Demands
00:10:41
The Big Dog
payoff. And,
00:10:42
The Big Dog
you know, I hope they, they do make a third one, but kind of more to the point, um, is that, yeah, I think they executed their themes a little bit more and the movie itself was just had a lot of, had some surprises to it, which you don't really kind of come to expect from, know, that franchise, but, um, you know, I enjoyed my, my time with it. So, um,
00:11:11
The Big Dog
But yeah, I mean, kind of the Memento Mori was, you know, overall arcing, I think, was like the big theme of of the movie. um and you know, lately for me, just it's been trying to...
00:11:30
The Big Dog
amongst other things just to get through this week and get through others to go on vacation. But that's been just trying to, um, you know, document everything so that my team is well aware of everything that happens while I'm out, um, you know, leaving a memento for them, so to speak. But also, you know, i'm looking forward just to relaxing and spending time with my son and foreign memories. Like we're going to like an elephant sanctuary and, you know, we're going to attempt to go to Disney and land. I don't know how well that's going to go, but
00:12:04
The Big Dog
um yeah, you know, I think like I was trying to allude to earlier, trying to
00:12:15
The Big Dog
Imagine trying to have all, if you, if you didn't sleep, like how much more time you could put back in your day, you know, if we just to like spent a time in like some futuristic sleep pod and, or, you know, refreshed and whatever thing else that a sleep cycle complete cycle could do by saving yourself, you know, seven eight hours.
00:12:33
The Big Dog
um But we don't, we have a finite number of time in a day. One third of which is spent sleeping. yeah, And in most cases you're probably going to be working. So that only leaves probably less than eight hours in your day to, to do things. And it's about how you use that time. And, um, you know, not just from a time efficiency standpoint, but it's like, you know, I got, you have a family, you know, if you're going to the gym,
00:13:02
The Big Dog
That six to eight hours that you have that's free is, and it could even be chopped up over the time that you're not at work or sleeping, right?
Digital Distractions and Mindfulness
00:13:09
The Big Dog
So, you know, it's how you use your time and and using it effectively.
00:13:15
The Big Dog
You don't have to be solving the world's problems. You don't have to be writing code. You don't have to be, but, you know, just do the things that sort of make you feel I don't want to say happiness necessarily all the time. Cause I think trying to live your life for every enjoyment is sometimes an unreal expectation, but yeah, just maximize and hit that tiny new little space that you have, or that tiny little opening with everything that got, just put in, put in the effort. and that's what this kind of theme speaks to me. It's just about making every moment you have matter.
00:13:53
The Big Dog
Whether you're playing a video game or ever relaxing or, you know, doing full stretch, you know, family time, spending time with your kids, you homework or while they're at homework or, you know, catching up on emails, whatever the kind case is, you know, just do your, just put in your maximum effort for that little space that you have.
00:14:16
David Isaacs
Yeah, you know when appropriate. Not every no not every Not every moment is going to be a you know life defining moment, but I think it comes back to just the thought of presence you know and being present in what you're doing regardless of what it is.
00:14:30
The Big Dog
Yep.
00:14:33
David Isaacs
And yeah, it's interesting with like the sleep thing. I know like there's like the productivity paradox of once you save time with something that immediately gets filled by something else. But yeah, I think sleep is also just kind of a good example of, you know, the body's most natural way to get rest.
00:14:57
David Isaacs
And sometimes it's, you know, really easy for people. I mean, I have my own sleep issues. I'm sure most people do. But it's like very important to let yourself rest and check in with yourself and having that presence of mind to for yourself to check in and also trying to be present in what you're doing. Uh, so the point that you made too, with, um, you know, short attention spans and, and all that, it's like, um, you know, when you're actively doing something, you don't want to be distracting yourself. You want to be able to, you know, live in the moment, not sitting on your phone or worried about something else, you know, so trying to figure out ways to, you know, make it so you can have these pockets of time that,
00:15:41
David Isaacs
you know, the only thing that you're really focused on is being in the moment. And at least for me, it's been a very difficult thing to do. Right. Um, especially at work or, know, stuff around the house and what needs to be done right now. And a lot of things that tend to need to be done right now or other stuff that just kind of get pushed aside and don't need to be taken care of right away.
00:16:06
David Isaacs
Um, I thought it was interesting too, like, uh, Peter Thiel. I mean, I'm not going to go into a whole feel over Mr. Thiel, but I'm not a fan. Um, you know, one of those corpo billionaire types.
00:16:19
David Isaacs
And, uh, it came out that, you know, he doesn't allow his kids to have like a lot of screen time. And, uh, I think somebody on Reddit commented like something, something drug dealer doesn't get high on his own supply.
00:16:36
The Big Dog
Yeah, right.
00:16:37
David Isaacs
And, uh, yeah, I mean, it's probably the same thing. Like, uh, you know, are the McDonald's executives allowing their kids to eat at McDonald's? Probably not. Um, some of these other things, like they, they know how poisonous stuff is to people, uh, poison meaning like just how bad it is for your mental health. Uh,
00:17:00
David Isaacs
living in the moment. I know like Facebook, YouTube, a lot of these social media sites are set up to try to keep you engaged as long as possible because they're in a competition over your time.
00:17:12
David Isaacs
And the more time that they're able to take from you, the more they're able to, you know, sell your data to advertisers and advertise to you and try to get you to consume more. So it's, um, it's whole lot of like just trying to deal with, um,
00:17:27
David Isaacs
you know, things in your life feeling like you're not being left behind, but also trying to balance so much, you know, so much more information all the time from everywhere in the world at any instant that you could have it. So what, what do you really focus on?
00:17:42
David Isaacs
And, um, Yeah, I think it just kind of comes back to that. Like everything in moderation, you know, doing too much of one thing that's probably not good for you, then it's probably good to cut back and fill that time with something that's healthier. But we know as we, you know, kind of go through life, it becomes harder to do that. It's easier to slip away and not to be able to kind of pull yourself back in. And it's like you're kind of digging a hole in the backyard.
00:18:10
David Isaacs
right? The deeper you go, the harder it is. It's going to be to kind of get yourself out.
Mindful Living Practices
00:18:14
David Isaacs
Um, but there's, you hundreds of thousands of holes that you could be digging at any one time.
00:18:20
David Isaacs
So how do you know, like really how far you've gotten in one specific place that you need to pull yourself back, which again, comes back to checking in with yourself, journaling, mindfulness, being present and, um, and understanding these things and being willing to listen when,
00:18:39
David Isaacs
somebody is brave enough to, you know, suggest that, you know, maybe this isn't healthy for you or maybe you're spending too much time doing this. And, uh, yeah, so it is tough.
00:18:52
David Isaacs
I mean, not to overstimulate anyone say like it's harder. It's real. It is difficult to do these things because you got to manage it most days.
00:19:06
David Isaacs
And, um, Yeah, but I've been doing pretty well with it. At least I feel like I'm going in the right direction.
00:19:17
David Isaacs
Maybe not the speed I'd like to be going, but I think really the the big thing is just being in the present moment and knowing like you know I can't can't always be accurate 100% at work when I'm being asked to jump from one thing to the next thing and get something out for urgency like right away.
00:19:38
David Isaacs
Or, you know, there's going be mistakes that you make and things that you miss. And that's just always going to be part of life. No matter what facet, like, oops, I i only got four hours of sleep last night.
00:19:52
David Isaacs
Let's try not to do that again. um, you know, I ordered a pizza, even though I just went grocery shopping, like, okay, well, what leads to that?
00:20:04
David Isaacs
And, um, just trying to understand more of these you know, kind of what makes me, not like what makes you tick, but, um, I think we've talked about it before, like where in my life that, you know, this kind of started and why is it persisted for this long?
00:20:23
David Isaacs
And, um, when watching shrinking, which I think you've been watching too, I'm not sure, but,
00:20:29
The Big Dog
Yeah, i haven't watched the new season yet, but now that you reminded me, I got to check it out.
00:20:35
David Isaacs
Yeah. So one of the quotes in there by Carl Jung is like, what you resist persists. And, you know, another like high level, but kind of impactful quote of it'll persist as long as you resist it.
00:20:47
The Big Dog
Yeah.
00:20:52
David Isaacs
So that's again, like being more mindful and more present of, you know, not just going on autopilot and grabbing, grabbing the chips from the,
00:21:03
David Isaacs
from the cabinet like I do or cookies or, you know, fill in with whatever you shouldn't be eating. And, uh, yeah, next thing you know, you're, you're down half a bag and you've watched three episodes of something on Netflix that isn't even that good.
00:21:10
The Big Dog
Right.
00:21:17
David Isaacs
And there's like 10 things on my list that I wanted to accomplish that day. And it's like, Oh, okay. Like they really want to take you out of, um, you know, the momentum that you have for doing things that are better for you.
00:21:32
The Big Dog
Yeah, instead of Netflix and chill, it's Netflix and fill. Your gut was shit you shouldn't be eating. Okay, sorry, that was really bad. i just thought of that. ah um But yeah, no, I mean, are our time is... The one thing that, I guess, kind of speaking of quotes, my my boss, when i was working at a comic book shop for...
Career Changes and Motivation
00:21:53
The Big Dog
Uh, yeah, I think I've talked about it before, but he, he always had his goofy ass analogies, but he always had a quote that he'd tell customers, especially when, know, he's like buying stuff from them. Um, and ah a deal was taking longer to, to finish. Uh, he'd always say my most precious commodity is not money. It's time.
00:22:14
The Big Dog
um i was you know if you want to if you if you want to go into the the comparison of uh if you the more you resist the more it persists it's kind of just like the more i just kind of thought about that and i was like in the moment i'm like that's such a dumb saying like yeah i mean time is important but like why like why would you say that but more i've kind of thought of the more i've grown up the more i've like gone into like you know, a career that kind of demands, you know, having all of most being efficient in time. um
00:22:49
The Big Dog
yeah, I, I definitely can understand that. Cause it's like, like you were saying, it's like, especially if something last minute kind of comes up, like, uh, you need to get, you know, records pulled for sales on a particular item. Um, you know, and it's due in five minutes or whatever, you know, obviously just making up a time scenario here. um there's always going to be last minute things we need to prepare ourselves for that. But, um, I think,
00:23:17
The Big Dog
and for me, i guess in more of time, it's like, I make, I like meal prep, like for like two or three weeks at a time. Cause like my motivation to also do cooking and things like that comes and goes as quick as it enters my brain. Like it,
00:23:36
The Big Dog
you know, so I'm, I'm at the end of my three weeks and I have like no motivation to cook. And I'm like, I keep thinking about going to like McDonald's. I keep thinking about just like pulling, you know, like whatever, something, something easy, like a hot dog at like Walmart or like Costco um you know something that's quick and easy but like I fought all those temptations and i actually bought like chicken breasts and I've been following this uh nutritionist on Instagram and doing his meal plans and things like that so um but like I'm at this point now to get back to me to be in the moment now is um I have a lot of time currently because my son's on vacation he left with his grandparents but it's just like
00:24:21
The Big Dog
I don't know how to fill it. Cause it's, I'm like on a routine. It's like my motivation to like make food for myself is completely like not there, but I'm fighting it. I have something in the crock pot that I'm going to you know, hopefully it will get me through like the, this next week. And then when i I'm on vacation, I've already kind of meal planned, ahead of time, but you know,
00:24:45
The Big Dog
my, my motivation is something I'm going to have to fight against is just sitting on, out on the patio in front of a pool, and just laying there and not doing anything. Like I'm going to have to be somewhat active in my vacation. Cause I, I can't eat out, you know, like my,
00:25:03
The Big Dog
in-laws and you know, I'm still on a weight loss journey, so I can't necessarily eat all the ingredients that my in-laws and my wife are going to want to cook. So, you know, I have to kind of take my memento if you will, and go grocery shopping while I'm down there and keep it, keep it separate. Um, or, you know, make a effort doing something, i finding grease under similar to the dinner that we're doing so I can, you know, still participate, not feel like a complete,
00:25:31
The Big Dog
I don't know, weirdo, I guess is the the term I can come to my brain, but um yeah, I mean, the memory of me, we'll say not wanting to die right now is my strongest motivation to to break through all of my laziness that's just been instilled in me. And that the the thing that persists that I keep resisting is my laziness. And like, I'm,
00:26:01
The Big Dog
I'm finally to the point, I think, um where I'm not necessarily really like, I have to force myself to eat, but when I do, it's just like I want to eat like all junk food, and it's like, I have to go to my, if we're in football, that's my my first read if I'm a quarterback, and then i got to go to my second or third, which is much healthier options. So,
00:26:21
The Big Dog
um yeah, I mean, really, it's just trying not to stay in my own head and and defeating my own usual patterns.
00:26:32
David Isaacs
Yeah, I think you make a good point too of like first to second read. Like, you know, it's not like cooking for yourself or meal prepping versus like just going to McDonald's or you ordering a pizza like I will do like, hey, what do we have around that's quick and easy?
00:26:55
David Isaacs
We don't have anything. Well, I need some quick and easy. I'll just order something. Yeah. like there's definitely like, Oh, well I don't have time to cook this chicken right now, but there's definitely some middle ground between just, uh, taking, know, cooking for two hours and prepping everything to be able to eat, um, versus, you know, just the convenience, the toxic convenience of what we've been sold on for however many years, like with, uh,
00:27:23
David Isaacs
just fast food in whatever other what ah whatever capacity, like food delivered straight to your door in like less than an hour. So I know, you know, I used to try to keep like easy things around that, you know, don't take as much prep, like berries are for me pretty good or like cubed cheese or, you know, just like nuts and stuff or, know, protein bars and,
00:27:51
David Isaacs
whatever the fucking, you know, mass food market is putting protein in fucking everything right now, which is just ridiculous.
00:27:59
The Big Dog
Yeah, I know.
00:28:00
David Isaacs
Like when the, you know, big push for protein, but yeah, I mean, there's definitely a middle ground there. And like, you know, if I fall, then how far am I falling? You know, I don't want to be, take all that time to get up like a 12 foot ladder.
00:28:16
David Isaacs
And then all of a sudden you just fall off. And, uh, You know, you're kind of just down there until you can recover and start back again. I think that is part of the the resistance of starting. But where I had an issue for a long time is like that all or nothing approach.
00:28:36
David Isaacs
Like I'm either going to eat healthy, track my calories, drink all this water, get eight hours of sleep, go to the gym three days a week, or, you know, I've failed at this. And it still has been such a hard mental block for myself to, you know, just start something and try it instead of the fear of, you know, well, I could go to the gym today, but what happens if I don't go?
00:28:59
David Isaacs
you know, in two days or what if I overdo it and, you know, it affects my ability to work or, you know, just ah like move around or whatever else. So, I mean, there's, like I said, I mean, there's a lot and not trying to, you know, scope and get into, you know, just kind of this focal point of, you know, where I'm at, who I want to be and where I'm at right now is, is good, but it can be better.
00:29:29
The Big Dog
Yeah, I think that's a, you make a great point. um You just have to be content with you. um You know, that's not some, it's easier said than done for sure. um and know, I've struggled with my identity and who I've wanted to be, where I want to go for a very long time. did, you know, I have two separate associates degrees. Like I don't have a full bachelor's, you know, I just never,
00:29:57
The Big Dog
I'd always try something and then get bored and and quit. You know, i think this is my, my career as a coder or programmer is the longest I've really ever held ah career that even seemed remotely interesting to me.
00:30:16
The Big Dog
um you know, longer than six months, like when I was younger, you know i worked at target obviously had no direction with my life i was working in the back room you know i always kept myself in decent shape when i was younger even out of high school um i guess for being was still over like I've always been over 300 pounds for the most part, or at least two, you know, high twos, but I was, I was in okay shape. Like I, if I were to run like a mile, I'd obviously be tired, but I wouldn't be like a slog, but you know, it wasn't really until I started having a sedentary lifestyle where I really, things kind of really fell off a c cliff. Um, you know, back to my point of, you know, as in my early twenties, I was, I was firefighter for six months and, you know, I,
00:31:08
The Big Dog
obviously I knew I wasn't going to have this apparition or this, uh, aspiration of, I'm going to save, you know, somebody from a burning fire. Like I run in and, you know, have the heroic moment. Like I knew that wasn't going to be realistic, but reality versus, you know, expectation were still even slightly off. Like, uh, you know, the average firefighter, at least back around 2010, you know, it's like you're cleaning the firehouse, you know, you're,
00:31:39
The Big Dog
ah so you know, sleeping for your eight hours because yeah most of the time you're a 24 hour shift. So can sleep on on, shift until you get a call or whatever. um And he was stocking the trucks, you know, cleaning the trucks, cleaning up the kitchen, cleaning up everything. It was just like a lot of more house chores felt like than, you know, actually going. Cause I was at a fire station and got less than 500 calls a day, which is slow. That's very slow.
00:32:08
The Big Dog
Um, but you know, I just got bored with it. I got bored with after six months. I spent a year and a half getting in, in shape for it. And then, you know, I just never, never followed through with it. And, um, I think,
00:32:27
The Big Dog
me being a little bit wiser maybe and just, you know, having a family too, you know, I couldn't just rest on making, you know, less than 50 grand a year. and And maybe that works for most people, some people, but I just, I couldn't do it.
00:32:43
The Big Dog
Um, and when coding came along, it just seemed like, you know, it was high pay. I wasn't, I wasn't trying to follow the pipe dream of, you know, again, six figures, you know, you're working from home. i can work from the middle of the ocean or something, you know, like on vacation and, um, work for work from where you want. I think wasn't what they were saying. Um, but I knew that better pay,
00:33:09
The Big Dog
had to come from somewhere and I, I, I couldn't, I didn't have enough time to go through a university college to get my additional two years. So I took a bootcamp for six months. So I met David. we have kind of been over that origin story several times, but, um it was just fighting against my inner urge, my caveman instincts, my reptile brain, whatever the case, whatever the term is for fighting against your own ingrained um mentality. it was what I had had kind of push out of. And, you know, I'm still doing that for other things today, but I guess that's just the best example I could kind of come up with. But, you know, had I night Sunday for that class, I wouldn't, you know, be as good and kind of open my brain up to new with ways of thinking that I have come to
00:33:56
The Big Dog
learning and respect nowadays. So.
Personal Growth and Life Lessons
00:34:01
David Isaacs
Yeah, I definitely feel the same way of, you know, sometimes it's this complacency that gives you the motivation to do more or see what else is out there.
00:34:13
David Isaacs
And, you what I, what I hope for today is like, you know, cleaning it up around the house or whatever is like when I have the motivation to actually do it, whereas a better system would be, you know, not to leave, um,
00:34:28
David Isaacs
dishes around, you know, at least like put them in the sink or, you know, put them straight near the dishwasher would be better. Um, but it kind of comes back down to, you know, like you said, origin story, or just kind of the five why's on how we ended up here of what led you down the path to what you're doing today, whether that's a good habit, a bad habit, or some things that you've carried with you along the way, like, you know, kind of starts from somewhere. And we can see like kind of some of those positive habits and where it leads you to.
00:35:00
David Isaacs
And then some of the negative habits are just, you know, kind of harder to kind of harder to see where it's leading you until, you know, something happens or, you know, when I look in the mirror,
00:35:14
David Isaacs
or step on the scale or whatnot. It's like, Oh yeah. You know there's just kind of the downstream effect of the compounded interest of sedentary lifestyle and not eating as well as I could be. So, um, no, I think you've kind of nailed it too with me, at least like the getting bored or, um, not exactly knowing where to go. i mean, i have a degree in psychology and went and got my MBA and then few years after just working at a job I didn't like. And I started the coding bootcamp and kind of know the nature of the tech industry at current and that didn't pan out as much. But I think, um, you know, one of the things I wish I would have known like earlier on and like in my college journey of like, um, you know, you're just like, you're so young and even now, like we're both pretty young, but even back then it's like hard to think like, how are we ever
00:36:07
David Isaacs
how we ever made decisions to get to where we are today because i was I was dumb young and dumb still am you know less dumb less young but um all the time it's like these like how you view the world and questioning your own thinking and and all that I mean it comes with like that knowledge of the world and that was again with me in my like movie inspirations but
00:36:18
The Big Dog
Right.
00:36:36
David Isaacs
goodwill hunting like the dichotomy between will and robin williams character is that will is a very intelligent person he's learned a lot through books and concepts and these things whereas he doesn't have the the knowledge and the experience you know the the park bench scene when they're you know kind of going through when they're talking to each other like you you know you have all this uh you have all this, uh, ability to do pretty much whatever you want, but you view the world in the lens of what you've read and how your mind works. And that's not what, uh, that's not what life is.
00:37:20
David Isaacs
You know, life is the experiences that you have, the knowledge that you gained, um, through those experiences and, um, not thinking like you ever really know anything or that, um,
00:37:32
David Isaacs
the the more that you do, the more risk that you have for something going wrong. But those are some of the lessons that you take with you. And if you resist those lessons, then you you don't grow as a person. So, yeah, I mean, there's a lot that comes with it. Like a lot that we learn about, you know, was getting bored a bad thing. It doesn't seem, it doesn't appear to have been so. was feeling like you deserve better a bad thing, not,
00:38:01
David Isaacs
in most cases now are, you know, sticking up or taking action where you feel like being more proactive about those things instead of just, you know, kind of sitting around knowing that you could be in a better place or you could be doing more that you feel like you're being complacent and and whatnot. So there's definitely like those big, you know, big steps, big leaps that we take throughout life. But outside of that, it's kind of like when you dig down deeper, just kind of the small,
00:38:33
David Isaacs
decisions that we make every day and trying to compound on those as well to kind of lift us up higher. So, yeah, I mean, it's a lot. It kind of gets easier the more that you do it and the repetition of things. But again, the more you resist, the more it'll persist and kind of the worst that it'll get in some instances in Whatever concept that you want to think about it, if it's just bad habits, you know, negative thoughts that you have about, you know, the world or yourself or, you know, where you're at currently.
00:39:08
David Isaacs
Versus, you know, kind of the positive aspects of like, you know, this is the foundation, this is where we're at today and it's good. I like it. Um, but there's stuff that could be better and that's what I need to focus on and, um, taking those small steps all the time and, uh, really getting to understand, you know, the smaller steps and where it led to you to and how to kind of break that cycle.
00:39:34
David Isaacs
Um, So yeah, if anything, kind of take that with you for all listening.
Reflections and Closing Thoughts
00:39:41
David Isaacs
and We just passed 300 plays, which I thought was a pretty nice milestone. It kind of gives us some vindication on the effort that we put into these things, which I could be putting in more effort, but you know don't want to want a court comfort corporationalize it too much.
00:40:02
David Isaacs
You know, it's pretty much just as soon as it gets recorded, i publish it.
00:40:06
The Big Dog
Right.
00:40:07
David Isaacs
But, yeah.
00:40:11
The Big Dog
Yeah. I mean, we appreciate all the listeners out there and you know, we kind of do this in our, our spare time, know, it's a way for us to keep up with each other. What's going on in our lives, but also just kind of reflect on, you know, where we've come from. So, um, you know,
00:40:29
The Big Dog
memento ori I don't even know how to use it in a sentence. So I'm just going to kind of it shotgun into the brush here and see if it sounds right. If not, I'm sure I'll get flamed online. It'll be okay either way.
00:40:40
The Big Dog
But um yeah, there you go
00:40:41
David Isaacs
Yeah, we're not really online anyways, so you can you can argue with other people online about what it means because i I'm not online.
00:40:50
The Big Dog
very There you go.
00:40:51
David Isaacs
i don't get I don't get high on my own supply, man. But yeah, memento mori, be mindful of death. Remember that you must die. Whereas memento is like just to remember if you...
00:41:05
David Isaacs
have something that you have to remember. a memento is like a little token to help you remember. So that's like when people will go on a trip and they'll buy like something from there, that's like their memento to, know, kind of have that remembrance of the experience that they had. And then, you know, you can go amento memento, memento, amoris, remember to love, remember to give love, to feel love,
00:41:33
David Isaacs
And then there's another one for memento something about remember that you must live. So in the grand scheme of things, it's just to remember and to remember, be mindful and to remember.
00:41:48
David Isaacs
past experiences, things that you are working on, striving towards, remember things out into the future that you need to take care of. it is tax season right now, so make sure that you're getting all that stuff together. Yeah.
00:42:04
David Isaacs
yeah
00:42:06
The Big Dog
Yeah. Yeah. i don't want to talk about Texas right now. um But yeah. and i overall point is remember, just remember, it doesn't matter. Just remember, you know, remember to brush your teeth, remember to follow, you know, to get your eight hours, remember whatever it is you that you Need to remember to do remember that. That's my really crappy advice.
00:42:36
The Big Dog
Just kidding. um Just.
00:42:42
The Big Dog
I gather my thought here. ah
00:42:49
The Big Dog
What maximize maximize your openings. We'll go with that. Like, I mean, look at team USA sitting hockey. They won one, nothing.
00:43:00
The Big Dog
came Canada came back and tied it and when they had the opening to score they did and they won the game Canada didn't but you know they're that's why they're Canada right now they're in second place go USA baby Memento Mori seize your openings remember remember to live remember to love
00:43:21
David Isaacs
Right. And again, Memento Mori, the different, like, you know, different, don't know, it's like archetypes, but yeah, just Memento, I think is probably the, you know, the top.
00:43:38
David Isaacs
And then, you know, you dig down into Mori, Amoris, Avertis, some, just some more Latin stuff, you know, just sounds cool.
00:43:46
The Big Dog
Yeah. Veni vidi vici the day.
00:43:50
David Isaacs
There you go. Alrighty. think that's all I had. you have anything else?
00:43:56
The Big Dog
No? Good. I think this was good.
00:43:57
David Isaacs
All right.
00:43:58
The Big Dog
Good chat.
00:44:00
David Isaacs
Goodbye everyone. We will see you soon
00:44:02
The Big Dog
Later.