Okay, almost totally unprepared, but here we go. Welcome to the Daily Grateful Podcast. My name is Michael Croce, and I want to know if it's possible to move forward or somewhere around the millennium, somewhere around the year 2000. Did a bunch of people just stop, or is it just me?
I'm thinking it must be me, but I went into chat GPT, and here's what I asked, chat GPT. Are there any studies that talk about people stopping growing or trying to educate themselves or learn new technology after the millennium? I'm talking about people who, prior to the year 2000, were very apt at learning new technology, and then all of a sudden, as soon as the century changed, they stopped dead in their tracks, and are there any studies about that? That's what I want to know.
The short answer, according to chat GPT, is no. There are no solid research showing that people in general just stop learning or stop trying to educate themselves about new technology after the year 2000. Then why am I running into that? Okay, why am I running into that?
I have friends. I knew a guy named Ed. Ed was my computer nerd buddy back in the 80s. I knew another guy.
I can name, and I'm not going to because I don't know what I'm talking about him. I talked about Ed because Ed is no longer with us. But I can name three people right off the top of my head who just, as soon as the millennium changed, they stopped. They just freaking stopped, and I don't quite understand it.
It just boggles my mind. They are living in the 20th century, as opposed to living in the 21st century. But one of the things I like to do is what I call moving forward. I want to always be as long as I'm alive.
I want to always be in perpetual motion, moving forward, learning new things, trying new things. I have listeners to this podcast who I get e-mail from. Some of them didn't stop at 2000. Probably they stopped in like 2010.
It's just weird. I had a friend who literally fought off getting a smartphone and he just would not leave his blackberry, man, that was it. You know, nothing's better than this. I had his whole world around that.
And finally, the blackberry could not connect to the cell towers anymore because they went to a higher technology in the cell towers and the blackberries just died. That was it. They were done and he had to buy a smartphone. And he bought this crap-ass little Android smartphone that is dinky and he bought it and tried to adjust to it.
And I thought he was going to have a nervous breakdown. The past is a teacher, but it's not a home. Lessons from your pastor, they're priceless. Things I learned years ago have stuck with me.
Lots of them. Like, you know, Baker Miley teaching me that the rough edges drag. They'll soon wear smooth. That sort of thing.
But still, I belong to the Tampa Bay Technology Center. I am learning all kinds of crap about AI. I am embracing AI. I don't know if I like it that much, but I'm embracing it.
You know why? Because it's here and it's real. And we use it. I just used it on chat GPT to see if my analogy was right.
And according to chat GPT, my analogy was wrong. But I still have that analogy. It's not controlling me, okay? Aah, gratitude lives in the present, okay?
Nothing wrong with the presence. My other friends that stopped living during the century, they had a big screen TV back before, you know, in the 1990s. And back before the 1990s, big screen TVs were projection, inter-projection. This thing was a piece of furniture that was so giant, so big, probably weighed a thousand.
I don't know, it's giant. Took up half their damn living room. And it stopped working. It just started getting less and less bright, less and less bright.
Nobody would work on it. They couldn't get anybody to work on it. And they watched that thing until it was like next to death. And then they finally got a flat panel TV.
Finally, finally, they got a flat panel TV. But you know, that's what it took. And the rest of their lives are still to this day, living in the 20th century. Everything about them is living in the 20th century, to the point where it's almost in my opinion, a mental illness.
But every sunrise is a clean state, as late as far as I'm concerned. You know, you wake up, the universe resets, you walk out the door, and by the way, it's warm in West Central Florida today. And I like that, this has been so cold, okay? Your identity is not your circumstances.
What happened to you or around you doesn't define what you're becoming. You just keep moving forward, keep having a good time, and keep learning, okay? Stagnation, you know what it does? It masquerades as safety.
And that's what a lot of people, I'm noticing it. According to the technology that I just quoted, it's not. But I'm noticing that people feel safe with stagnation. And I've got to tell you, I know people who are involved in our club, who have stagnated, who will not move forward.
We brought in a consultant at our club. He donated his time, one of the smartest people I've ever met. That is sharp as a rock. And he told us, why aren't you doing this?
Why aren't you doing this? So, you know, okay, we're making changes because we want the club to grow. And we're making changes to it. I write a Wednesday newsletter.
By the way, yesterday I had published the Wednesday newsletter. And I'm not going to call it the Wednesday newsletter anymore. He read it and said, hey, great newsletter. I said, yeah, but in the description line, on the email, it should have been the headline of the newsletter instead of the Wednesday newsletter.
He said, absolutely, you are correct. I'm going to the club tomorrow morning because we put out something called the bulletin on Fridays in email, which is basically a two-week calendar of what's going on with some promotional material like that. We got to stop calling it the bulletin. We've got to move forward.
We've got to get beyond that. I can tell you right now that the secretary of our club is not going to be happy about that. I'm going to talk her into doing it because I'm charming. But we're going to instead of calling it the bulletin, we're going to take the biggest thing that's on that list, and we're going to put stay tuned for blah, blah, blah, blah, this week.
And that we're going to change every week, depending on what it is. We're moving ahead instead of stagnating. We're a technology club, and we were stagnating. Energy that you spend replaying all the bad crap in your head, you could be spending that creating new stuff.
Hope is forward, okay? Hope is forward-looking muscle. That's what it is. And one of my other notes here, people who inspire you are all moving, and that is correct.
That is absolutely correct. When I first encountered Tony Robbins, you all know who Tony Robbins is, he lived in California in a castle. And now he has a multi-billion dollar business in lives on Palm Beach and is just constantly moving, constantly innovating. I had the pleasure of meeting a guy who's controversial, but I like him.
And his name is Grant Cardone. Grant Cardone, a traversal for a lot of reasons. I'm going to tell you something. The guy lets no moss grow under his feet.
He's constantly innovating, constantly moving forward, and that's something that we all should be doing. So think about that. Think about your emotion, your practical philosophy, and your inspiration. You keep it moving, dammit.
You know? Scott Sinethu has the Daily Boost podcast, and it's the original things that I saw of him years ago when I first found him. This is nothing happens until you move. In the name of his business, I was motivation to move.
Damn straight, move. Although I want to take a nap, I need to go out and take a damn walk. Alright, we'll see you tomorrow.