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Season 2, Episode 6

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"About being an asshole"

(4 minutes, 55 seconds)

Inevitability.

Some secrets keep us alive.

Others eat us from the inside out.

Either way, we the people really like to hold on to our shit.

That’s what makes each of us, on occasion, a real asshole.

(1 minute, 19 seconds)

The universal sign to tell someone that you do not intend to listen to them is to plug your ears before and/or while they’re speaking.

This is a Level 5 reminder regarding earbuds.

Earbuds are plugging your ears.

Is plugging your ears likely to bring you closer to your goals, or further from them?

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Season 2 - Episode 4

Level 5

A reminder regarding management and The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

(1 minute, 21 seconds)

According to The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, entropy will always win the universal game.

Worry less about trying to stop it.

Do your best to be prepared for it.

Document and add order to it.

Be sure that you survive it.

Do it better the next time.

This is how someone will be a successful manager:

Do it better the next time. Every time.

Thank you 4or listening to Roger radio.

Play, to win.

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Season 2, Episode 3

Spuyten Duyvil Stories

"The Man in the Water"

(4 minutes, 54 seconds)

"The Man in the Water" is a simple story that asks you to invest 4 minutes, 54 seconds of your valuable time to listen to it, and offers this as an incentive for doing so:

There is a helpful lesson shared within this story that will either be something that you're learning of for the first time, or that you're being reminded of at a time that you're able to make immediate use of it. Either way, it has limitless potential value in your future.

The options are yours:

Choose to accept help when it is being offered.

Or not.

"The Man in the Water" is a Spuyten Duyvil Story. That means that it has at least two beginnings, and no ending.

This is Roger radio.

Play, to win.

What is something that you do every day, or nearly every day, that you believe is not good for you in the long term, possibly also not good for you in the short term – yet you do it anyway? Every day. Or nearly every day.

This is a Level 4or Awareness Training exercise.

Level 4or Awareness Training helps you practice living by teaching you to live more patiently, so you can recognize your options, and then choose the one that you feel is the best for you.

We are Level 5, and we are here to help you along the way that you choose.

You are listening to Roger radio. Play, to win.

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Season 02 Episode 01

Level 5

Regretting means that you want to change the past.

Remembering means that you intend to change the future.

Be not afraid to remember.

(1 minute, 33 seconds)

Ownership can be a legal term, specifying whom officially owns a business, property, etc.

Ownership is also a state of mind, a perspective from which one can approach their professional responsibilities to maximize the potential of both the business and the individual.

Einstein said "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

An employee that approaches each day with an ownership mindset is going to be of more value to an organization than an employee that does not.

Be an owner.

(1 minute, 30 seconds)

I hear a lot of people describe themselves as a "leader". In fact, I used to be one of those people.

Then I began to understand what being a great leader really means, and it starts with not describing oneself as a "leader".

Would you like to know why?

Then this episode is for you.

(1 minute, 16 seconds)

A short - and true - story about a battle of wits between me as a teenager and my Mom.

In which, it would turn out, I was vastly overmatched.

(3 minutes, 25 seconds)

If something isn’t bringing you closer to your goals, then it may be taking you further from them.

This is a Level 5 reminder.

The choices that you make determine how much progress – or not – you will make today, relative to your goals.

Be aware of your options throughout the day and make choices that you believe will bring you closer to your goals.

Because if something isn’t bringing you closer to your goals, then it may be taking you further from them.