Lex Fridman: belief

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…gether a ten-minute version of it, showed it at her 75th birthday. Just watching the old one. Everybody was like, “Oh my God, look how young everybody was. Look how small the nieces and nephews were.” She starts bawling as soon as she gets the key, the gift of the key in the video, because she realizes now what it’s going to mean that she’s going to get this car. And so it’s like, wow, let’s just play the old tapes. We don’t even have to do anything anymore. We banked so much amazing stuff that we’ve all forgotten. That my kids just love watching their old home movies. They hardly remember any of it, but even a VHS to them is virtual reality. Because compared to our memories, it is virtual reality. They’re leaning into the screen to see what’s around the corner and they’re remembering the place and the sounds. And they say, “Oh, we left the living room. It’s like we’re there.” It’s like, wow. I was always afraid they would see this old footage and go, “Ah, this is dog shit. What kind of camera was that?” The limitations of it. You put up one of those files on your screen, it’s this big on your laptop now. That’s how low-res shit was back then, but that didn’t matter. It’s like compared to our memories, that stuff, living is reliving. Pull up that, shoot as much as you can, take as many pictures, but write the journal because you’ll have a picture. Swear. You’re not going to know what it’s from even 10 years from now, you won’t know what that picture’s from. You read the diary, you go, “Oh, that’s what that is. Oh my God.” You can piece together all these things that are important to you or that become more important with time, actually, and you know what’s important later compared to what’s been happening at the time. To add on top of that, so journaling is a raw, or home films is a raw projection of what’s going on in the moment. I think what’s also really powerful because I’ve done that, is to do a high effort description of where your life is just for yourself. So sometimes journaling is low effort. Yeah. Sometimes it’s just, I just want to mark that we had this conversation. I had to go do something at five. I did that. Met somebody that, I know last night I met somebody that’s going to be life changing. I’m going to write a little bit more on that because I could just, now I know, but I’m going to just record it so later if I look it up.…

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