Water Off a Duck’s Back: How Resilient People Reset and Move Forward

A bad conversation can last five minutes and still occupy your mind for the next five days.

Someone criticizes you. A customer calls angry. Your child does not make the team. A business deal falls apart. A stranger cuts you off in traffic. The moment ends—but you continue carrying it.

In this episode, Gregory sits down with his brother Brian Vetter to examine one of the simplest and most useful ideas their family passes down to the next generation:

Water off a duck’s back.

The phrase is not an excuse to ignore reality. It does not mean criticism never hurts, failure does not matter, or every problem should be dismissed. It means recognizing that you still have a choice between what happens and what happens next.

You can absorb the moment and allow it to shape your mood, your confidence, and your decisions.

Or you can pause, learn what needs to be learned, and reset.

Greg and Brian explore why athletes are often trained to recover faster than the rest of us. A missed shot, a bad play, or a hostile crowd cannot be allowed to control the next possession. Elite performers develop physical reset mechanisms—a word written on the wrist, a snapped rubber band, a repeated routine—because they understand that carrying the last play into the next one creates another mistake.

The same principle applies to leadership, entrepreneurship, parenting, and everyday life.

The conversation examines how much power we surrender to other people’s opinions, why some criticism deserves consideration while other criticism deserves no room in our minds, and how negative energy quietly contaminates the people around us. Greg and Brian also discuss rejection, rumors, time management, personal responsibility, optimism, and the danger of repeatedly asking for advice while refusing to change.

One of the most practical questions in the episode is also one of the simplest:

Do I care—or should I care?

That pause creates distance between the event and your response. It helps you decide whether the situation requires action, reflection, confrontation, forgiveness, or nothing at all.

Life will continue pouring water on your back. That part is unavoidable.

The question is whether you will carry every drop into tomorrow.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

You start to listen to winners, and they basically are like, next play, fall down eight times, get up nine.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

And one bad experience is like, call it ten cents. And would you throw away your entire bank account for 10 cents? But we do. Worrying is the equivalent of praying for the thing you don't want to happen. Greg Vetter Podcast here with the one and only Uncle Diggs, aka Diglitz, aka Brian Vedder, aka Peaches. Ooh. A throwback. I think Peaches was actually my nickname. Special guest today, a fan favorite, and we're going to be discussing one of his favorite topics. He is the king of quick quips. Who gave you that title? Father Costello at his wedding.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Because I filled out the document with one-liners.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

He goes, he's at he likes quick quips. And we're going to be talking about water off a duck's back. And we say that a lot to our children. We've got a lot of one-liners that are universal laws of success and resilience. But one of Brian's favorites is water off a duck's back. And I think it is probably one of the easiest ways to remember how to shake things off, how to keep moving, not letting uh bad news or any kind of news kind of sit on top of you. Because if you've ever watched a duck in the water, water ain't sitting on them feathers, flows off. So we do a lot of public speaking. We do a lot of helping uh founders and CEOs and helping just people, whether it's life coaching or performance coaching or whatever. And a lot of people get hung up on a lot of bullshit because life is full of a lot of bullshit if you allow the bullshit to sit on your back or your shoulders or in your mind. And uh, Brian, why do you love water off a duck's back so much?

SPEAKER_00 2:25

I think it's because ducks can't choose to let water come off their backs. It just is what it is. God created them to allow water to flow off their back. And growing up, I was always confused, like, why is that person happy? Why is that person sad? Why is that person mean? And our dad would always be like, interesting choice. And I was always like, you didn't answer my question. And he's like, well, son, like humans are uniquely created to choose. And you can choose to be optimistic, you can choose to be negative, you can choose to believe, et cetera, et cetera. And I'm an Aries, April 1st, 1985. Great birthday, greatest one I've ever been a part of. And one thing that always like made a lot of sense to me was to not care. And I don't totally know why, but I just like chose happiness and I chose fun over pouting. And then I also love team sports and I love being a winner. And you start to listen to winners, and they basically are like, next play, fall down eight times, get up nine. You can only control how you react. All of those little things. And I was like, well, I don't do that all the time, and it doesn't serve me at all to pout, it doesn't serve me at all to let the water soak me down. And so I don't know. I just started paying a lot of attention to these little things that are real in nature that animals have no control over, but humans can learn from and choose to participate in. And so, you know, Moe, Annapolis High, Bates Middle always had like the hilarious one-liners uh in there, like swimwear. Not sure what that means, but I like it. Uh get in where you fit in, but never forget to fit in where you get in. Water off a duck's back, dad's if you're gonna be a bear, might as well be a grizzly. And you know, I just choose to be happy and I choose to learn from failures, and learning from failures I think is the greatest gift, but they suck. And I just choose to pay attention to the huh concept, right? Which is like, huh. Guess I wasn't ready for that. I wanted to be ready for that. I had hoped to be ready for that, but I wasn't ready for that, and that's okay. Sitting in the that's not okay has taken me a long time. But, you know, I get a lot of compliments from those who watch me kind of move and flow. Uh, and I can just shrug stuff off if it no longer serves me or if I'm no longer serving it. I'm very aware of a lot of things, even though people don't necessarily know how aware I am and how thoughtful I am. Um, but you know, I want the best for everyone genuinely. Um, I want to compete with the best on planet earth, genuinely. And if I'm just dunking on everyone 24-7, I'm in the wrong circle. So I just gotta shed that skin like a snake and kind of get to the next chapter and keep going.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Well, I also think it's so one of like the greatest resilience doctors and authors of all time is Victor Frankel, Man's Search for Meaning, lived through the Holocaust, wrote a book, and one of his main themes was um there's a moment between an action and your response or your reaction, and there lies the only real control a human being has, is like that small little moment. And I think everything that we've been through that has allowed us to stay positive and healthy and good parents and not susceptible to serious addiction and continuing to move forward and being productive, it does kind of boil down to water off a duck's back because the level of adversity that we have overcome would break most people.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

We should be bald, fat, and very sad.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

Bald, fat, and very sad. I would agree with you there.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

And we are tan, fit with good hair.

SPEAKER_01 7:41

Yeah, yeah. Uh that's a proper choice. That is a proper choice. I wish I was a little bit more tan right now because it is, we are in kind of middle of July. I should be a little tanner than I am, but that's okay. Uh but you know, you sit there with kids and people in general, and you really kind of boil down life, like everybody has 24 hours in a day. That that will kind of fuck your mind up when you start thinking about people being able to accomplish unbelievable things, not only today, but historically speaking. And it will fuck you up more if you think about it historically, because they didn't have the efficiencies that we have today, and they were dealing with so much more shit in terms of health issues and a lack of medicine and a lack of clean water and plumbing and efficiencies in transportation, and these people are building empires, and they are staying focused and resilient, and they're moving forward every single day. And I think it's only been really in the past hundred years, maybe 150 years, where we've become so obsessed with understanding almost like our inner feelings about the problems that we deal with, instead of just being like, man, that fucking sucked moving on. Okay, that was a tough day moving on, and keep marching forward, like the entrepreneurial American dream, rebellious joy. Like, our country's only 250 years old. Like these motherfuckers were starting new parts of a country that had never been discovered before. You want to talk about adversity. Go open up Montana or fucking California. Like that was that's crazy to even think about. Yeah. Yet today we allow road rage to ruin our whole week. Or we allow uh a bad investor to ruin our entire lives, or we allow some, you know, very modern issue of re I don't want to say reputation because that is very important, but someone else's opinion of what we're doing kind of sidetrack our progress. And I think the best thing that we had and still have is a very tight-knit group of people, primarily with the last name better, uh, that if they are not aligned with where we're going, see, like we don't allow haters in the circle. We don't allow negative cancerous energy in the circle, and I think that really does allow for water off a duck's back to be something that we can live and breathe because our kids specifically can look at their uncles and aunts and cousins, and that message is being repeated, right? So, oh man, I didn't make this team, you know, woe is me, my life's over. They look at their uncle and their aunt and their cousins, and it's like, no, we just got to get stronger, we gotta get faster, we gotta get better, we gotta stay focused because we're playing the long game. And, you know, so often when you're dealing with founders and entrepreneurs and people in the business world, they allow kind of like a catastrophic failure to be the end instead of a chapter. And I think the greatest thing that we've done that has allowed us in business and parenting is to understand the next play concept and the reset concept and the water off a duck's back concept. You know, I was um trying to explain that to my son, and I was giving him examples of all these super elite athletes that have their reset mechanism. And uh George Kittle, the tight end from the 49ers, uh, he would tape something around his wrist and it was a reset button. He would draw reset. Now it's tattooed. Yeah, I know he tattooed something on it. But when he was in fucking high school and college, and he was explaining this after every play, he'd hit the reset button. So it was a fresh, blank slate. It's water off a duck's back. And then you'll see a lot of professional tennis players, they'll have a rubber band and they'll snap the rubber band on their wrist. And the snap is a complete reset.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

There's some tennis player I just watched a documentary on. He does the same every time, looks at the same balls every time, and does the same thing every time. Yep. It's one of the top five guys. Yep. One thing you you said that makes me laugh when I think about it is reputation. And people are so scared for other people to talk shit about them. Yeah. And that's always confusing to me in particular because if I hear someone's running their mouth about me, I call them. And I say, yo, dog, I hear you're looking after me. And they're like, What? I'm like, well, yeah, like Johnny told me that you were super concerned about one of our business ventures, and I wanted to thank you for thinking about us. And then they're just like, uh, uh, mmm, and I'm like, and I heard you knew more than I did about my own business, and I just want to talk to you a little bit about it. And then they're just like, my bad, dude. Like, I don't know why I was talking shit. I'm like, no, you do, and I want to know why you don't want the best for me, because I do want the best for you. And when you have a bad day, don't take it out on my hopes and dreams and wishes. I didn't do anything to you. Call me. Maybe what you're really saying is, man, I wish I believed like he did against all odds. I wish I could go to bed at 8:30 like he does, and not talk to anybody that doesn't specifically align to his goals. Because I will help you no matter what you say about me.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

We're different than that. No, we're you and I are we're very different there.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

But there's a birth order thing that comes with protection, and then there's also I think there's like I think the reason I remain optimistic and happy 99% of the time is because like, yes, I can control the way I respond to things, but I don't necessarily think I can make up the way I am. I think that's a higher power. I think that's Mother Nature, birth order, God's plan, the streets of Annapolis blessing me. And there's just some magic sprinkle dust out there in the wild that you can't recreate because like I consider people talking shit flirting, right?

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Well, Kobe's got, if you ever need some amazing quotes for perspective on haters, just look up Kobe Bryant's quotes on haters. He's got some of the greatest one-liners and just overall passages on the haters. And I will say that that's probably really hard for people. Uh I think it's helped us with being athletes, where you go into an opponent's stadium, they figure out your family's information, your dog's name, your mom's name, they're fucking screaming crazy shit. They they say they want to kill you, they say they want to kill your dog. Yeah. And it for them, it's all fun and games, and it does numb you to it to it a little bit, where it's like, this is just sport, this is a part of it. It gets a little harder in business because you're no longer in an arena and your livelihood is on the line, and you've got people out there in the streets talking shit even when the game ends. Yeah. And so then you do have to kind of narrow down who you listen to and then who you allow in, and then who you completely just get out of your life. You no longer allow them in. You mute them, you block them. Um, because, in the words of Napoleon Hill, your mind is a rich garden spot, and it takes daily, constant uh attention, and you got to get all the weeds out. Yeah. And if you don't, you're no longer gonna be growing flowers and vegetables. You're gonna have a garden spot that's full of weeds, and it's gonna be completely mangled. You're not gonna know what you were growing in the first place. And so, in that sense, I do try and curate what I allow in and how I block it, or how I allow it to kind of roll off my back, and that comes back to this perspective thing of why are they talking shit? Do I care? Are they somebody important? And um who are they as people? Right? There was a great quote I read. It was like, I don't care about the people um that are trying to put me down because I see what they celebrate, right? So if you got all these people that are celebrating people that you don't care about, well, I don't give a fuck what you say. We're not aligned, we're on different paths. And so I do think this concept of water off a duck's back is really important because you do have to like snap and you gotta reset and you gotta let it kind of flow off because um the greatest visual ever is the amount of minutes in a day or seconds in a day, and you view it as money, and one bad experience is like call it ten cents. And would you throw away your entire bank account for 10 cents? But we do. Some people do, yeah. I mean, we don't. Yeah. Now we may not only give it the exact time in which that moment was. There's probably a little bit reflection afterwards and some bursting fucking neck veins that are required to kind of like get it out of the system, or maybe a little long walk and some perspective or whatever. Uh, but I will say we embarked on an entrepreneurial journey to accomplish the American dream in 2009. It's 2026. We're still positive, we still have dreams and hopes and wishes, we still have perspective, we still have our health, we still have our family, uh, we're not addicted to drugs that I'm aware of. And just winning. And I do think a big part of that is the routine that we have, but it's a concept of being able to kind of reset, snap the rubber band, water off a duck's back. And I think that's really important, most importantly, with our kids, man.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Well, listen, I've been watching a bunch of like random history stuff lately because of 250 years. Yeah. And then Netflix popped out, uh, Little House on the Prairie. I saw that. It's like in the top 10. Yeah. And Poppy, one of my daughters, was she like that? I'll watch that with you. I'm like, great. And she's like, wait, like when the dad leaves, they just straight up don't know when he's coming back. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. And she's like, and then like all of a sudden, people could just come rob you, and then the dad wouldn't know until he just comes back, whenever that may be. I'm like, yes. And I'm like, sweetie, like, we have it so good in America today that we like humans don't have enough to do. Yeah. We we truly don't have enough to do. And I said, the reason I'm so protective of my time is because I want to fill my time on this earth with progress and learnings and failures and winnings and all these big dream things. But as soon as I have my dream and my goal and I write it down and I share it, then it can come true. But if I don't do that, how is anybody gonna know? And I can't do it all by myself, which is another piece. To water off a duck's back, that I think is the most important is when I want to go get something done, just like dad told us and taught us, go interview the best you have access to. Yep. And if they can't get that done, ask them who they have access to. And because the whole world is just a game of humans that are in control of something. Correct. And as soon as you realize that and you'll pick up the phone and just call a human being and say, hey man, I need some help. That other human has a choice at that point to help you or not. Now, I have been trained that they're going to say no 30 times in some way, shape, or form until I get that one yes. And so after the 15th no, back in 2009, I was like, Greg, there's just no shot. And you were just like, well, 10 phone calls get you one pickup, then another 10 get you the meeting, and then another 10 get you the deal. So you have 30 interactions where they're just going to tell you to go fuck yourself, not because they don't like you. They're just busy too. So then we had to figure out how to do their job for them, then give them the serendipity, like, hey, I'm going to be in Seattle on Tuesday. Yeah. Next Tuesday. You can be around. Like, yeah, you can come out on Tuesday. I'm like, perfect. I'm like, well, got to figure out how to get to Seattle. So all of that stuff, I think it's very empowering to have a goal and to have a routine. Because then you can shed the day-to-day anxiety of like, I got to go to work tomorrow. Sunday's scary. He's like, I never have any of that because I'm so excited about what we're trying to accomplish because it's what we want to accomplish. Um, and I think, like, you know, I told you this maybe a week or two ago. It's like, I'm starting to believe the hype. Maybe we are this good. Maybe we can build all this shit the way it should be built, and we can do it the hard way because we're we're fair. We communicate hard and positive with the same tone. And as someone's cussing me out, I'll just kind of hit them with a you're not wrong. I just can't fix it today. But stay patient, I will fix it. And then when it goes well, I'm like, hey, thanks for not just calling me to cuss me out. Like, we accept good job phone calls too, to all of our customer suppliers and all that stuff. And so I had this really funny conversation now that I'm coaching lacrosse again, as all the tryouts and everything are going on. And this one woman calls me and she's like, Hey, I heard we don't have enough numbers. And this other team is saying, like, they have all the numbers and you have none of the numbers. So I just go on the portal, screenshot the roster, everyone who accepted, and I go, seems good to me. And then I and then I call her and I say, Hey, who's running their mouth? And at that moment, you know they're either lying or they won't share. And I just said, Look, our little third grade boys are gonna be just fine if you don't want long-term development, if you don't want individual contributors in your family, don't bring them to my team. I don't need the name on the jersey to change the way I approach the game. That's meaningless to me. Should be meaningless to you. But if it's not, and you want to surround yourself with the jersey chasers, then just don't come to my team because I don't care at all. And then there was this long pause. And then she goes, You are as optimistic as they say you are, aren't you? And I was like, Well, yes, is the short answer. But two, I'm like, look, I was very good at lacrosse. I had amazing coaches. I was never on the best team ever, but that never changed where I was going. And then I got to the best team once I was a professional. That doesn't change my approach. Then you got to earn it even more so. And then you got to change and evolve your game more and more and more. And so I said, if you have doubts about your son, share them with me. I can help. But if you don't share them with me, because I can see your son, I already know what we need to do. If you think he needs to be this other thing, you gotta look at your husband because you might have married the wrong one, okay? I'm like, the genetics are what, you know, those are what they are. And then obviously she kind of laughed, but I wasn't joking. Right. Um, and you know, I think the 24-hour thing and the way we break down the three sets of eight, and then knowing that we are in complete control of that and only that, and then communicating that to our wives and our kids and our friends. Like, I did this with Roxator the other day. I said, Roxeter has a game at 8 a.m. He's gotta be there at 7 a.m. And I just kept moving my workout time up. I was like, gotta wake up at five. Yep, gotta wake up at six, gotta wake up at four. Yep. And I go, and guess what also has to move up? My sleep. Yep. Now, let's say me and mommy have a date. I can't move that sleep. So guess where that extra two hours I'm missing? That's gonna be one of your games. I'm gonna take a nap in the car because I don't need to be awake for all three of your games. And I'm just gonna replace that. I am in complete control of my day and my time. And I will not deviate.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Nothing bothers me more than the excuse making around time management. If I hear one more motherfucker tell me they don't have time to work out, they don't have time to plan, they don't have time to do this, they don't have time to eat well, they don't have time to do this. Uh it nothing to me is more pathetic than that phrase.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Well, what's so, and this is where you and I always differ, and it kind of makes me laugh, but it's also what makes us great because we have very different perspective perspectives of this stuff. I wonder why they don't love themselves more. Like, why don't you want to be better? Why don't you want to have a better life? And I just don't follow.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

I don't know if it's that. I think they don't because I think everybody wants to be the people I'm talking about want to be elite in every category. They don't think about it correctly, and they put the wrong emphasis in the wrong categories and then make excuses about what's possible. Yeah, but that's what that's where I know they're lying.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

No, I know they're lying too. It's like, dog, just say you don't care enough. That's well that that's my whole point. Yeah, but and then if they don't care enough, that's what I'm curious about. It's like, well, why say it then?

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Again, nothing makes me more angry than when I hear a high achiever ask for my help and I explain to them what they need to do, and they go, well, I can't do that. Well, why? Yeah, it's like just say you don't want to. Yeah. And and here's the other thing. Stop talking to me about it. Yeah. I don't want to fucking hear about it if I'm gonna tell you what to do, and you're gonna give me every excuse why you can't do it.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

Like, I don't it it it drives me crazy. The old Steve Vetter. Sounds like you have your answer. Let me know how that works out for you.

SPEAKER_01 30:14

Yeah. Well, and and then they do the same thing forever. And they're talking about the same shit forever. I gotta lose a couple pounds. Oh, I'm not healthy right now, oh, I'm drinking too much, I'm not sleeping great, oh, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. You could go to bed earlier. Well, I like to watch my shows.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Fuck your shows. Well, it's like, well, then you got your answer. Yeah. And that I think is a really interesting one of everybody. Remember when we used to map the minute? Yeah. Hell yeah. Master the minute. So we would master the minute, and then every like call it season change, maybe every four-ish months, three-ish months, whatever it was, everything would change again. Yeah. And what's cool about living in the mid-Atlantic is the temperature changes, the scenery changes. Scenery changes. So like I don't know what day it is, what time it is, where I am at any time, because it's like I have to have 65 coats just to live in Maryland. You go I have the greatest coat collection. You do have great coats in the history of coats. In every other year, when you get on new peptides, and I get new coats. My new favorite one, Mo, is his feet have been growing lately. So I get new shoes like every 90 days. It's incredible.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

Well, I do think well, you know, you know what it actually is. I don't maybe it is my feet growing. I don't think that's true. But I I buy things and then I assume they're going to break in. And I give them adequate time to break in, right? Let's call it a year. If I put them on the next year and they're still not comfortable and they're not broken in, they're too small. And then you get a great pair of boots.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

I don't I haven't bought new clothing with the exception of golf attire. Yeah. Uh I don't know. I mean, I just gave you with the exception of that one curated box I got that one time. That was sick. Remember Nordstrom? Yeah. I got online with that woman in like Chicago.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

Dude, I remember that.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

She was like, click all these buttons. I was like, oh, click, click, click. What was that called? I don't know. It was great. Nordstrom bought it. Anyways, but um, yeah, the um, and I think just kind of going back to the the water off a duck's back, that I wish more people knew was if you just paused for a second before you responded, and you thought about do I care or should I care? And then kind of think about it again. And the thing that we've always done is the 72-hour rule thing. That's a real thing, which is so annoying, but it works so well.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

You all the the worst is when you get to 72 hours and then you're like, fuck, dude, it's game on. I thought I was gonna be calm and I'm not. Yeah, that's not good.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

My favorite is in the calendar, it'll pop up and it's like, do you still care about this? I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? And I'll have to put notes in now because you know, my little eclectic ass, I'll put in like a zang zang zanger line, and I'm like, okay, I don't even know what the fuck that is. So clearly it didn't matter. Um, but there was another funny one that happened to me the other day. Someone was running their mouth about me. Uh, and I just started hysterically laughing when the story got to me. And they were like, dude, like that's super fucked up what they were saying. I'm like, I love Brian Vetter rumors more than anybody else on planet Earth because do you know how cool you have to be for someone to make that level of shit up and then go around talking about it? I'm like, I guess I'm the fucking man. That's Kobe Bryant. I'm like, I have to 10 out of 10 dope. I'm like, that's a real good story. And like that could really hurt someone's feelings if it was true. Yeah. And I'm like, man. I'm like, tell me who said that again? They're like, uh I'm like, you're gonna tell me because we're friends. And then I call them. And that's that is my favorite of all.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Well, nobody actually likes confrontation except for me. Yeah, that is weird about you.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Well, I've had to defend your fucking mouth since you were could since you could talk. And the 1800 block held me down.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

So now it's just like a weird uh obsession I have with like defending your honor and smashing people in their face. Well, now it's funny, like I don't feel like I'm that offensive anymore. That's wrong. Really? Yeah, but that's okay. I've accepted you a long time ago. I don't that's okay. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

I don't think I agree with this. You don't have to agree. Water off a duck's back, bro. Well, I I I've got to make sure the water's the right temp to get off the back, you know.

SPEAKER_01 35:58

Nah, you're uh you're cold-blooded. Well, that's true. Doesn't matter. Water temp doesn't matter. But I I will say, you know, the the it was either Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln. They said the key to happiness is a bad memory.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

Well, between my eyes and my memory, like I'm out here floating on island time because I don't remember shit and I can't see shit anymore.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

I definitely can't see shit anymore. And I've I'm starting to feel like my hearing is going. Same. Yeah. Uh I'm gonna have to get that checked because I can't hear shit. Well, on the Zoom call today. That's why I don't wear uh I don't wear any headphones or anything. I read something that like this generation, because of airpods and noise canceling headphones and how loud you can make it, it's like hearing loss is up 75% at the earliest age ever recorded or something insane.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

I'm like and I got baby ears. You do have baby ears. I can still move them though. I can't believe you can move your ears. Come on, dog. Well, in school, I used to tell my teachers that's why I can't listen. Like, you see how small these things are? This is the learning disability, Mrs. Jones. Oh God.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

Well, to wrap this up, um I would say water off a duck's back is probably one of the most important concepts that an athlete, a kid, an entrepreneur, or anybody striving for anything great can incorporate into their lives because you are gonna have so much water dumped on your fucking back, and if you allow it to be like Eeyore and Winnie the Pooh walking around with a fucking rain cloud over your head all day, that is gonna be a horrible, depressing, sad state of existence, and you're not gonna get anything done. And just to kind of like give an explanation of why, your energy that you radiate is contagious. And if you are radiating positive energy into the universe, you are gonna get that back. And if you're re if you're radiating negative energy full of fear, all of your fears are gonna realize. I I read something once and it changed the way I thought about worrying. Worrying is the equivalent of praying for the thing you don't want to happen. And I was like, holy shit, because it's true, it's all you think about. It takes over your whole fucking soul, your mind, your brain, your body. It cripples you. And so if you can just kind of let that flow and get yourself back into a positive state where you are Bruce Lee-esque doing his affirmations every morning. Be watered. Be watered. I am the best. I can do it. Yeah, God is with me. Today's gonna be the best day. You're gonna have some awesome things happen.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

Well, yesterday during the seven and a half mile beatdown that Morrissey put me on, I broke out some of the deep ones. Legs feed the wolf. What are you gonna quit? If not me, who? I had some other ones in there. Definitely told myself I'm the man. You know, one foot in front of the other. What else did I say? I don't know. A lot of good one-liners in there, though, on the quick quip side of things. Maybe, maybe I'll write a Substack article on all your quick quips. Well, let me think about a couple to end this then. The first, first and foremost, you can't dip and slip the slip dipper. Yes, that's just true. That's trademarked. Um, everybody has their version of the truth. Uh-huh. Fuck around and find out. Uh-huh. It's not gonna suck itself. You love that one. Oh, it's I mean, it's true, and it's like and you see where people's minds go during that. I'm like, whoa, a little much there, fellow. Um, and then if not me, who?

SPEAKER_01 40:51

Well, we will end with that. Water off a duck's back, Greg Better Podcast, Diglett, aka Peaches, aka Pride Better in the House. We'll see you next time.