0068: One Very Basic Baby Task I Totally Forgot

Raw transcript:

so in my zeal to use babies as an
example for how to take lurching awesome
steps forward in the future in a
different episode of this podcast called
baby steps i was reminded
that the three things that babies have
on their agenda
should actually be four things and i
want to talk about that fourth thing
coming up in this episode of the vo
heroes podcast
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so it was pointed out to me by uh john
copeland one of my vo heroes pros and a
number of other people that i forgot one
very important agenda itemso
for babies uh i talked about in an
episode called baby steps
that babies basically have three things
on their agendas eating sleeping and
pooping
and it was designed to talk about
how simple
their requirements are and how simple
their agenda is and how sometimes we
overcomplicate that
and
what uh
john pointed out and others as well
thankfully is that i forgot one very
important agenda item that each and
every day
makes babies grow and learn and
have fun
and isn’t that something that we all
want to do and that one thing is play
so eat
sleep poop and play
and i wonder
if we all in our
in our headlong rush into being
productive and to being intelligent and
to raising the bar and
setting standards higher and learning
and exploring and growing we forget the
simple joy of simply
goofing off
simply exploring
questions
playing games playing and and this is
kind of
on the point for me
because i was just about to do an
episode of this podcast about how i
simplified my life
by deleting 128
128
apps
from my phone
uh all of those apps being
games
slot machine games and and uh first
person shooter games and strategy games
and bingo games and
you name it
they were a drain i felt on my
productivity
but in the process of of reading uh
john’s comment and others and thinking
about this and how babies use play
not only to enjoy themselves and to
rest and recreate and to just simply
have fun but also to learn and to
explore
and to experience
i realized that yes it was important for
me to get rid of these time sucks that i
had on my phone but it was also
important
for me to remember and i’m thinking it
might be important for all of us to
remember
that playing is so important
uh i have a friend of mine uh who has a
site called nerd fitness his name is
steve cam
and i’ve read a million times
on his site uh
that yes you have to exercise but you
have to give your muscles time to repair
themselves once you’ve over taxed them
and i’m feeling the same thing about
our brains you know we we over tax them
sometimes
in learning and and
uh setting goals and being
uh intuitive and all that and we we need
to take the time to just simply relax
and enjoy ourselves and play gives us
that opportunity so i wanted to take a
moment to remind all of us
to set aside time for play
to use it as whatever kind of tool you
want if it’s simply a rest tool you just
want to veg
great if it’s also a tool that helps you
solve problems cool two for one three
for one who knows
but i wonder if you make enough time for
play
and i wonder if you miss
the times of your life when play was
optional and play was part of your
schedule
and if there are ways that you can
institute play
back into your schedule in a way that
makes sense
and aids you
in your growth as a human being i wonder
if that’s the case let me know in the
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actor that may not have enough play in
their life i don’t know
i’m david h lawrence the 17th i thank
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