Episode 10 - A Depressive Minisode

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My name is Russell Stuart brown. I'm probably not the rest. So you're looking for. But I am the one you've got right now. And these are things I've learned. Something I've learned is that it's. Very difficult. To tell the difference sometimes between someone who's joking. And then someone who is in a very extreme situation. And I think that is correlated. If that's the right word by Poe's law. I'm a big fan of all the different laws. That uh, exist. Not the, not the legal ones, but the. Things like Murphy's law. And pose line with pose law. Specifically covered satire. Which is to say that there's no satire that is sufficiently ridiculous. That there won't be someone who doesn't believe it. And in the same way, there's no. Story. That is sufficiently serious enough. That's someone out there. I don't think it's a joke. Or we'll think it's a joke. I think it, I think it definitely applies more for the first one. I may even be adding the second part itself. It might not, it might not be real. Um, Some of these laws, like the Dunning Kruger effect works both ways. PO's law. I'm not entirely sure that it does. But anybody who's ever shared an onion article. Not realizing it was an onion article, just thinking, oh, this headline's crazy. That's posed law right there. And that is. Something that I think is very easy to understand. And people are just going to get fooled by things. But there's another weird correlation. Again, I don't really know what the word correlation means. I hope it fits here. But there's another weird thing that goes on. Which is, if you tell someone. Something. To candidly. It sounds like a joke. I don't feel like I'm making too much sense here. But. When people find out I have depression. It surprises them. And if I talk about my depression, It confuses them. I think it's cause I talk about it. Fairly candidly, but not candid might not be the right word. Candid sounds like I'm on television with, uh, an interviewer and we're just shooting the shit. I talk about it. Irreverently reverently. I'll mention. What things. I feel like, or how my brain is working people. I think it's a bit. I get that because I do a lot of beds. It was very difficult to get me. To be serious about certain things. And then. When I get serious about. One. It just seems like it's. Another joke. There's a lot of good laws like that. Like Poe's law. The Dunning Kruger effect. I think I've mentioned that before. That's. The one where the less, you know, about something, the more you think, you know, Dunning Kruger pose law. Murphy's laws, the probably the most famous one. I know the common wording for it is anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Um, I think there's an extra bit of wording to it. It's either, or maybe it's a separate law, which is, um, That, uh, Everything can go wrong. Everything that could go wrong will go wrong at the worst possible time. I'd love to come up with one of them. I'd love to come up with the brown window. Although. I feel like, well, no, because there's something at the end of my name. So it would be pretty, obviously not. Just describing the color of a window. When it's written down. When you say it out loud, it's going to sound horrible. But, uh, yeah, the brown window. So, I don't know if you know this about cats, but. I think there is a. Height. Is that if you drop a cat from. Is fatal. But if you go below it or above it, It isn't. Because. No I'm thinking about this. I'm going to keep talking about it, but, but I really don't know. If I have a source for this. But what I understand it to be is that a shortfall? Won't hurt a cat because it's too short. Um, along fall, it will be able to prepare itself to land. And right in the middle, it doesn't quite have enough time to do. Either. It doesn't sound. But, um, Let's go with it for now. So. I'd love to come up with the brown window. Which. It's difficult for me to say this out loud. Given how I've been talking for the last four minutes, but, um, I. I think that. I've never considered. Too seriously. The idea of jumping off a building. Specifically. That's that's one. I don't think I'd want to necessarily do. Because if it's too small of a fall, You permanently screwed up for life. And if it's too high of a fall, I think you have time to regret jumping. So the brown window. It would be the three floors. The two or three stories, whatever, whatever the window is. Well, you know, you won't survive. But you don't have long enough to regret it. That's that's another reason why. I don't want to drown myself. Feels like a. A process. Or there would be a lot of, a lot of different moments. To regret it. It's kind of grim in that. Oh, well, I hope it didn't sound like a joke though. Another thing I've learned is that. And I think we all know this. It's way easier to see some of these behaviors. Yeah. It's way easier to call out a behavior in someone else. Even if it's a behavior, you are well acquainted. With. Even if it's a behavior that, that you are. Well known for. Y you don't see it. As a behavior, you see it. It's just you you're just existing and it's something you do. But, um, When you see someone else do the exact same actions. You get a very different context. So that's why I found it quite useful. To find. Situations. And I, I suppose. When I say, find situations, I don't mean I go look for them, but when I find someone who has maybe a character trait that I have. That I. Might be insecure about. I find it very interesting to observe it and other people. I think for a lot of people. It's difficult to. To separate those two actions. Sorry, actually. No, it's it's it's it's, it's difficult to combine those two actions. In fact, Um, you do see it separately because another thing I've learned is that w when we see somebody else do something. We judge them based off what they've done. But when we do something ourselves, We judge ourselves based off our intentions. So if you had good intentions, It can feel like a justification for your bad actions. But from the outside, people only see the bad actions. And so while that's important to remember for yourself in the sense that you might need to explain certain things because they won't appear good. It's also really important to remember in other people. That just because someone has a behavior or acts in a certain way that, that. That doesn't mean. That, that was the thing they wanted to do. By the way, trying to understand someone to eat. It's not the same as, as trying to excuse. And I think. That is the difference because we try to understand. And excuse ourselves. In very different ways. And we see people come at us. And the, um, The last thing. That I learned for today. Is that. Sometimes. When things are really, really hard. It can be better to put out a podcast. That's 12 minutes long. With no music or editing. And did you stay. Alone with your thoughts for a day. I have been Russell Stewart brown. These have been things I've learned. Thank you for listening. High fives all around.