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League of Legends (2009)

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In this video Evan answers this question: How Did You BECAME Aware Of Your Own blind spots BLIND SPOTS?

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how did you become aware of your own
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blind spots
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man that is the ongoing problem that is
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the ongoing question like
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the the biggest thing holding you back
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is the things that you don't even know
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is what's holding you back
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right how's the camera should i move
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this over a bit hold on
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there we go let's go like that that's
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that feels better
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um so how do i find it well one it's
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usually on the other side of your most
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important core value so that's the
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starting point start with your who
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my who is believe so the biggest thing
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that i need to do
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is believe in myself more so all of my
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blind spots from the other side of what
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i believe that
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i can't do so anytime i hear myself
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saying
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i believe i can't do this i don't think
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i can do this that's that's the starting
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point of a blind spot
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um the second thing is being around the
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people who are doing the thing that you
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want to do so i started this with the
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aspirational mentors the people that i'm
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doing on the videos
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right i get to be around steve jobs and
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oprah winfrey and all the people that i
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profile
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on the channel and the more you're
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around them the more you realize oh they
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think differently they see the world
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differently the way they
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attack problems is different than what i
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do and
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i try to imagine myself in their
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situation like what would i do if i were
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them
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um and if it's different then like okay
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they did something else how can i learn
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from that and the more you're around
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that
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the more they will pull you to start to
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think like them and have that mindset
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and then the third thing is uh what was
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the third thing
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what was it where's it going this oh
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sorry before that i've also got a lot of
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value now from actually being around
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them right so
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uh thankfully i've been able to hang out
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with a lot of these people and they've
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they've pointed stuff out and told me
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where uh where i suck and where i need
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help
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um but the third thing is to when you
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are around people
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you ask them to tell you why you suck
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tell me why i suck one of my favorite
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questions to ask people is tell me why i
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suck why do i suck
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tell me why i suck tell me tell give it
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to me
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even when i'm the expert right like if i
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go to youtube events
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a lot of people use my thumbnails as the
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best practice that they want to
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copy what i'm doing for their videos but
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i'll still go to events and tell and ask
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people tell me why i suck with my
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thumbnails
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why i suck and why do i why do i do that
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it's not because
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i have a death wish or i like pain or
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any of that stuff
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it's more i want to give them permission
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to be honest
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so if you're asking for feedback a lot
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of times people will be afraid to
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tell you the truth what's actually on
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their mind because they don't want to
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hurt your feelings
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and so if you leave with tell me why i
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suck what it does is
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gives them permission to be honest so
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what the typical answer back is
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well you don't suck but if you did this
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this and this
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you'd be a lot further ahead and
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if they if you didn't lead it with tell
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me why i suck
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they're gonna couch their response
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they'll tell you maybe one of the three
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things
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the one that's least likely to hurt your
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feelings right so i want to give them
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absolute permission to be brutally
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honest with me so tell me why i suck
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so hopefully in that feedback you also
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recognize
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a flaw in your thinking a flaw in your
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skill set you know one of your own blind
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spots so
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those three things what were they on the
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other side of your who your most
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important core value
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uh being around the people even if it's
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just aspirational watching videos
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reading books listen to podcasts of the
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people you want to think like
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and then actually when you're around
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somebody who you think might be able to
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give you feedback
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ask them for direct blunt honest
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feedback ask them to tell you why you
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suck
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and that is how you become aware of your
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own blind spots

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