Answers elude you?  Can't figure out how to solve a problem?  For me, sometimes I find the answers in the least, most unlikely places.  By doing something completely different and unrelated.

In this episode, I talk about:

* Watching Documentaries

* Taking small side trips

* Finding Answers in Unlikely Places

Transcript:

Good morning everyone. This is the path to 1 million. This is going to be episode 169 yesterday after I did my Sunday fun day talking about that particular topic there Sherry and I had a conversation and I said, you know, what we should do is when I get back to Michigan is that we should make it a point to watch a documentary every week. And she said something that I thought was really cool and she said, well, what we could do is make sure that every week, you know, each one of us can pick a different documentary to watch. So that way I can get exposed to, you know, new ideas or watched documentaries that I would never watch before. And I thought that was actually a very intriguing concept because it reminded me of the fact that human beings as human beings, it seems that we're built on patterns.

And in my life I've noticed that I seem to get into these patterns where I kind of watched the same kind of things all the time. I'll go and watch the same YouTube videos all the time. I'll read the same kind of books all the time. So even like the other day I was talking about throughout several of the episodes from a, from previously before, like one 64 and one 65 I talked about this climbing K2 documentary. And I mentioned before that I absolutely love watching these documentaries about these guys who climb these, the climbing these mountains and the challenges that they have to endure both mentally and physically to be able to climb these mountains. And you know, what happened is sure enough, when I got done watching that documentary about climbing mountains, I started watching another documentary about climbing mountains. So this one wasn't quite as good as the other ones though.

But anyways, I watched this video on this documentary and it occurred to me that, you know, I'm stuck in this pattern of watching the same kind of things all the time rather than randomly picking something new. And it's always occurred to me that whenever I do that, whenever I go and do something different or you know, consume a different piece of content or pick up a book that I normally would not read or go to an art gallery or go to some kind of a store that I would never go to before. It's always opened up my mind to new possibilities. But the only way that my mind is open to those new possibilities is if I break that old pattern. So for instance, an example, this would be yesterday my, my plan for yesterday was to sit around the house and, you know, we continue working on packing and all this other stuff and the truth be told, I am so burned out on packing.

It's not even funny. And so it's like when you get burned out on somethings like, man, I don't want to do it. And, you know, just keep doing, following the same pattern over and over and over again. And so yesterday I made a trip to some store in LA to actually go out and to buy some things for Sherry's daughter. It's a store that's owned by this rapper. His name is Tyler. He has an alternate ego named Igor. I have no clue who this guy is. I've never listened to any of his music. I don't know anything about this guy, but I went up there just so like it gave me a chance to get out of the house, go someplace new and actually do something that was a little bit different. And just from doing that alone and just like being in the store, I mean there was like a, there's like this bodyguard or this doorman out front. And he would only let a certain number of people into the store.

And if you, you know, if there was too many people in the store,