Think First. Ask Second.

In this episode, I’m talking about why we might not always need another mentor, course, teacher or person telling us what to do. Sometimes the thing that actually builds confidence is getting our reps in, sitting in the discomfort of not knowing, and learning to trust our own ability to figure it out.

We get into the science of self-efficacy, deliberate practice, autonomy, cognitive offloading and automation bias, and what can happen when guidance stops supporting our thinking.

In this episode:

Why my attempts to find intuitive mentors somehow always fall apart
Why mastery experiences are one of the strongest ways we build self-efficacy
Why the reps are what actually create confidence
How “desirable difficulties” and struggling through the unknown can improve learning
Why deliberate practice matters more than simply putting in the hours
The difference between a mentor who gives you answers and one who teaches you how to think
Why autonomy matters for learning, motivation and self-belief
How cognitive offloading can become a problem when we outsource the exact skills we’re trying to develop
What emerging AI research says about confidence, critical thinking and our reliance on external answers
Automation bias and what happens when we trust an external recommendation over our own judgment

Summit takeaway: Do the thing. Let yourself struggle at the thing. Refine the thing. And keep using your brain during the process.

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Welcome to the Summit of Deck, where science meets goal and you don't have to pick one or the other. Hi, I'm your host, Elena Crocker, osteopathic manual practitioner and viking active teacher. On the pod, we're talking about body wisdom, energy, intuition, and becoming an expert on your own feeling. Whether you're looking to find yourself again, create a new version, or see, just here for the results, you're in the right place. I'm here to demystify spiritual curiosities while adding a layer of humanness to the healthcare experience. No gatekeeping, no pedestals. This podcast is for the woman who is ready to take her power back. Let's do it. Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday! Today is day two of my 38th year. Yes, yesterday was my birthday. Um 38. In numerology, 3 plus 8 is 11. Love it. Angel number. Love that for me. It just feels like we are stepping into a year of new beginnings. And I am very jazzed up about that. I think 38 is going to be a really amazing year for me. I really do. Anywho, I'm supposed to be in New York today, but alas, I am here. I am going to tell you today why I am still in Canada because it's a big ongoing cosmic joke that I have come to realize it's actually serving me in the long run of my career in life. And it's actually the theme of today's episode. We are talking about the importance of thinking for yourself, struggling at things in order to get better at them. And as I always say, you are the only expert of you. Okay, so I think it's hilarious that I provide guidance for a living, be it physical, mental, emotional, you know, all the stuff that I do. But when I want guidance from a physical person outside of, say, a book or an online program or course, not a nothing miente, no, doesn't happen. It's a running joke with my friends because they'll all go to like astrologers or mediums, Reiki, even just other practitioners that have kind of acted as mentors and stuff. Um, and they tell me all this cool stuff, and I think, okay, I'm gonna go check it out. This will be great for me. This really aligns. I kid you not, it never works out. They either cancel on me, they no-show me. I had one Reiki person change, so she was distance Reiki. She changed the appointment on me so many times, and then just said, Okay, I sent the distance Reiki, but your schedule is too hard to give you a debrief, so you don't get one. Which, first of all, like having a phone call after is part of the service, and at the very least, voice note me if we can't connect. But we actually did set up four times, four different times to have the debrief call, and she no-showed me every single time. And I also paid up front for that session, and she refused to refund me, which is wild. I'm obviously still bitter about that one. But I kid you not, guys, this never works out for me. Even with my old care, my old Carol, my old mentor Carol, who I talk about a lot on here, when it came to one-on-one stuff, she honestly would even ghost me sometimes. So in the eight years I've been doing this, I've had I think three actual sessions that have worked out. And they were great sessions. They were, they kept me in this career, they kept me going, they were what I needed, but I've really stopped looking for guidance from a person that I physically sit across from. I very rarely ever feel like I want to book a session with people, and I feel maybe I'm traumatized from how much it cancels. But I know that that's the way it's supposed to be now where I am on my journey. Like I understand that's the way it's supposed to be. It's how I've learned and developed my skills in both the scientific and spiritual world, and it's just kind of the path I teach, right? You're the expert of you. Um, but lately, because I want to offer more evidential mediumship, I have been feeling like I do want more guidance. So lately I've been feeling like I've been looking outside of myself because I feel like this is a new offering for me. So I am what I would consider a spontaneous medium. So what that means is mediumship just kind of turned on for me. And it turned on for me through Claire Cognizance, and this happened to me at an extremely young age. And just a quick background on Claire Cognizance, in case you haven't listened to the Claire's episode, no worries. Claire cognizance is a form of interpreting intuition by just knowing something. So, for example, when I was, I don't know, like five or six or something, I used to tell my mom that there was a woman in my room. And I would essentially describe to her my great-grandmother. And my great-grandmother had died before I was born. I never met her. My mom, and bless her for being open spiritually because she encouraged my abilities. She would ask me questions like, what was her name? And I would just blurt out Mary, and she would say, Where is she where was Mary from? And I would blurt out Scotland. And like the questions she would ask me about my great my great-grandmother were always correct. And my mom always said, I just knew things. There was no explanation for how I knew things, I just knew them. And that's what Claire cognizant is. You just know things, you can answer them immediately with no logical explanation to how you knew that. Now, for a science-minded person, that is a really hard pill to swallow. It's the claire, so the four clairs being again the ways in which our intuition speaks to us. It is the tough toughest one to trust because there's no logical evidence to support it in your brain when it's happening. So a lot of my mediumship work is claire cognizance. I have a hard time stepping into that, especially when I'm trying to work with evidential mediumship, meaning I want the spirit who's coming in to give me detail about their life so I can confirm without a doubt to the sitter who they are. Typically in Reiki, I just say when they come through, you know, grandmother on the mother's side or your husband's mom, because I just know who they are. But now when I'm switching to sit-down face-to-face medium, I want to give the sitter that undeniable evidence of who they are in detail because this really helps them on their healing process. If it is undeniable that this person is coming through. So that's what I'm working on right now. And for some reason, I thought that I needed a mentor. Spoiler alert, I've been offering free sessions to test my abilities and they're going great. Besides the point, really long story short, because mediumship really has nothing to do with this episode. And I feel like I've gone down a rabbit hole here. But I I had I booked a session with this medium I found through a spiritualist community online. She's in New York, so I do this Zoom mediumship session with her. It was amazing. Right away, we started on the call. She was like, Yep, you need to fully integrate mediumship into your work. And she had no idea that's essentially like what I wanted to talk about in the session. So she's taking on mediumship mentees. We have a date to meet up in New York, which was today. Uh, she was gonna email me a bunch of info about that. Guys, ghosted. Ghosted. She was even supposed to email me my session. That is actually part of the offering. When she opened the call, she said, like, don't worry about taking notes, part of the service, and it's outlined on her website. I'm gonna email you this session. Didn't even do that, don't even have the session. So deep down, I knew, I knew that this was how it was gonna play out. I knew, I honestly knew I wasn't even gonna get the recording, but I did need that experience. I really did. I needed to say, like, one, I love the confirmation. I also I've shared before, my mom is uh diagnosed with incurable cancer, she's on this treatment journey. I got a lot of really great information about that, invaluable experience. I'm happy I had it. But I also needed the experience to say, okay, this is enough. I know how to do this, I have other resources, and and this is why I do what I do. I teach people, you are the expert of you. You cannot outsource that shit. So here we are. This episode: the importance of self-trust and understanding, the importance of not outsourcing our learning and our knowing. Now, here comes in my science brain because you know I'm gonna hit you up with some research facts. Science fact numero uno. You need to master your experiences. Self-afficacy is built most powerfully through mastery experiences. Albert Banduras, self-affic Oh my gosh, Alana. I was I was worried about saying his name, you guys, and I tripped up. Okay, so Albert's self-afficacy theory describes four major ways we develop belief in our own ability. So the first way is mastery experiences, the second way is watching others, the third way is verbal persuasion and encouragement, and the fourth way is our physiological and emotional state. Researcher viewing this literature has repeatedly found that mastery experience, so actually doing the thing, is the most influential source of self-efficacy. So all of those other things can help you. I'm not saying they can't, but at the end of the day, you have to get your reps in. You have to do the thing. I talk about this all the time with osteo students or new grads that I mentor. They like to come in and shadow me, which is great. Our boy Albert, he's proved that it helps us. But our conversations, when shadowing, they always come down to you have to repeatedly get the anatomy under your hands to understand this process. For example's sake, I'm going to use the SI joint pain. And I'm gonna say that because you guys have all probably had SI joint pain, right? That low back corner pain. So you can understand this, and you've probably might have had this feeling in treatment if you've gotten it treated. So there is a ligament called the ileolumbar ligament. It's the guy that sits right at that joint that's in pain, that's driving you nuts. And a practitioner puts their thumbs in there and they press it, and you're like, yes, it hurts so good. That little bugger, that little iliolumbar ligament, it takes reps on reps on reps to learn how to treat it effectively. What is happening is the practitioner is inhibiting the ligament, meaning they're shutting it down. They're putting it into a position of ease, and you do that by holding it long enough that the neural loop is like, hey, let's call it a day. Let's shut her down. And that's when you feel relief. In order to do that, as a practitioner, you have to sit there for a while and you have to get feedback from your hands. You can't think your way through this. So for a student or a new practitioner, a new grad, sometimes that gets uncomfortable in their minds, not their hands, in their minds. They're like, Have I been here for too long? Does this person think I'm here for too long? Are they feeling anything? Has the ligament let go? Did I miss it? When will I know? Because they haven't done it effectively enough times to know the feeling of its release. And they know all the anatomy. They can know all the anatomy, they can understand how the reflex the reflex loop works, but at the end of the day, they have to get their hands on it and they have to do it a ton of times to turn their brains off and let their hands do the work. And it doesn't mean that they're a bad practitioner because they're questioning it or they don't know or they don't quite fully get it. It just means that they have to get their reps in. Their nervous systems, the nervous systems of those practitioners, they need the evidence that says, I assessed this person, I made the decision. That's it's the little lung bar ligament, for example, I treated it, it responded, I figured something out. And that is what creates clinical confidence. So watching somebody do it, having them talk you through it, that's all great. And we do love it. It builds our confidence, but the reps, getting the reps in is how you truly become confident. Our science fact number two. Learning science, so not like learning science as a whole, but the category of learning science actually tells us that struggling a little can improve learning. There is a concept called desirable difficulties. Some learning conditions feel harder and may even make you perform worse while you're learning, yet produce better retention and transfer later. Retrieval practice is one example. Forcing yourself to retrieve information rather than simply rereading it actually strengthens your recall later. This poses the question. I have this question all the time, especially with a child who is going to enter the school system. Are we removing too much struggle from learning? In the Google machine, AI, there's a service for everything era. When we feel like I don't know what to do, we can go directly to one of those things and get an immediate answer. And what this learning science is saying is that actually sitting in the I don't know long enough to attempt an answer is part of the learning process. It is critical to the learning process. And I feel like society has made us feel like if we are uncertain, we are unprepared. And in the era of immediacy for everything, that just doesn't fly. You can't appear to be unprepared. But learning science shows us that this way of functioning is actually detrimental to our ability to actually learn. Something I did as an osteo student, and I still do now in a different way. I map at, so I used to map out my clinical cases. And I believe this is what makes me really good at what I do. And I don't mean that to sound cocky because it's not like, oh, I'm just naturally gifted. No, I worked relentlessly. I worked my ass off to figure it out how to do this. And this is how I did it. So I mapped out clinical cases, especially those cases who have multiple symptoms. So this now, in my work now, it extends into the emotional and energetic field, but this is what I did as a student for more simplification. So we're gonna use chronic low back pain as an example. So I females, I have chronic low back pain come in and they come in with clear imaging. No one can really fix it. It comes and goes in pain levels, can't pinpoint a time when it happened. And sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's not, but it's always kind of there. I also see on their intake they have painful periods, they have terrible PMS, they have problems sleeping, they have headaches, and they have constipation. This is not just a low back pain problem, even though that's what they think they're coming in to solve, especially because she didn't come in saying, Hey, I hurt my back at this point. This is what happened, and this is when the pain started, because they're not coming in with an onset of injury, right? Talk about this a lot, chronic pain. So, yes, I could type into Dr. Google, how do all of these symptoms relate and what can I do? But I want to be able to treat her physically and I want to understand what's going on in the autonomic nervous system. So, in order to do that, when back in the day and still now, I would map out my treatment, and then on the treatment, I would draw out the nerves, artery, vein, lymphatic I was targeting, and then manipulations I was using for the viscera. So I would use, I would throw viscera on there as well. And I would write out or hypothesize about my intended effects of the treatment. She would come back, I would get info. Um, so I would write down the changes, ones that she told me about, and then ones I physically assessed, like motion capacity, or I'd write the lack thereof. If there was, if there was nothing. Um, so I'd record, you know, her pain, her symptoms, overall well-being, did it change? And I would write down questions I had really for myself or anatomy or physiologically speaking, of what I did and what effect it had. And then I would research that. So for example, I would treat her sacrum with the intention of eliciting a parasympathetic response. But let's say there was no change to elimination. So, for example, she was still constipated. I would go over that cause and effect of sympathetic versus parasympathetic and find ways in which I could affect those systems physically, or it would drive me to, okay, I've done everything I can physically. Is this more of an overall nervous system calm down approach? And we need to integrate that through her lifestyle. So there was and still is a lot of time I sit in the unknown. And it really becomes trial and error and time. And that's all I have to rely on here. And the hardest part of this isn't, am I getting this right or wrong? It's being open with the communication with my client, saying to my, saying to them, like, hey, here's what I'm trying, here's what I know, here's what I don't know. And we need time to work on this and figure it out. And in this day and age, we are so uncomfortable with saying, I don't know right now, or I don't definitively know, because we all have answers ready at our fingertips, and we feel like we need an answer immediately. And I think that that's where we're going wrong. In the age of immediate answers, so much stuff gets missed. So essentially, what I do is assessment, hypothesis, intervention, response, reflex, reflection, and then adjust. So Kay Anders Ericsson, he is a Swedish psychologist. He argued that true expertise comes from structured, goal-driven, and feedback-heavy effort rather than a passive passive passage of time. Passive experience only automates habits and repeats mistakes, whereas deliberate practice constantly stretches a person past their current comfort zone. So you guys have probably heard of the 10,000 hours rule. Like in order to become a master at something, you have to put in your 10,000 hours. And I do feel like, yes, it does, we do have to get our reps in. There's no way around that. But I feel like when we talk about just getting like the 10,000 hours, it underemphasizes Ericsson's work on expertise. You need deliberate practice, effortful, repeated attempts to improve performance rather than simply accumulating knowledge via hours put in. And I feel like that's where I differentiated myself in how I taught myself osteopathy. Not that I taught myself osteopathy, but my approach to osteopathy. And this is where I see so many practitioners go wrong or anyone learning a skill go wrong. They want a mentor they can observe and learn from, but you need a mentor who will make you think. My osteoschool gets shit on all of the time. Yes, it does have a lot of inherent flaws in the way it's run. But one thing students get really mad about is if you asked a question, I'm assuming this still happens. I don't know why I've been gone a long time, but the professors would answer it with another question. You have to understand that classical osteopathy, it's a thought process, it's not a technique. So they put your questions back on you to be like, well, what do you think? or challenging you with a question. And I will admit it was super frustrating in the moment. But that is a life skill. And it's not just for osteopathy, it's for anything. They were teaching us how to think. They were teaching us how to think osteopathically, osteopathic reasoning, which is so important because anybody can memorize a technique protocol. I have the best coach right now. Shantae Cofield, her handle on Instagram is the Movement Maestro. Go follow her. She has two podcasts. I'll link them in the in the show notes. She has a weekly email that honestly blows my mind. It's my favorite. I even responded to it this week. She has it all, guys. Honestly, just 11 out of 10 on everything. Here's why I love her, and here's why I continue to purchase things from her. Because one, she makes me an all around better human. But literally everything I just listed above is her approach. She teaches me how to use my brain. For example, I think I've talked about this on here before. I joined her eight-week how to make a podcast course. So big claps already, because look at us guys, we're on episode 28. When last December I didn't even know how to turn on a microphone. So in her course, she gives us the basics of here's what you need to make a podcast work. You need a hosting platform, you need a title, you need a description, you need an intro, you need something to talk about for a minimum of five minutes, and you need an outro. So week one, she gives us some suggestions on how to do that. Now she says, week one, go get your hosting platform. Come back week two. Okay, questions. How did it go? Good, keep doing it or revisit and refine. Next, we need a title and an intro. Here's some suggestions on how to do it. Go do it. Come back. Week three. Okay, what are some problems we ran into? How can we fix them and try again? Come back next week and then we're gonna try talking about something. You get the point on how this is going. We had to get our reps in to do the thing, to understand how to do it, to feel confident to do it, to have better questions on how to make it better or how to change things. Like we could talk to death how to make the best podcast, how to do it, the gadgets, all of that. But we just got out there and we did it and we learned as we went and we got better. And here we are, episode 28. I'm pretty sure every single person who was in that podcast group has a functioning podcast right now. It's the whole give a man to fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats forever, you know? So now I'm in her accountability program. But how I got there was I had a one-on-one with her. So I said, like she does business coaching in my one-on-one. I said, hey, I love teaching. Like, yes, I love being osteo, I love all these other things. I'm not gonna stop doing them, but at the end of the day, I love teaching and I want to teach more. I want to help people help themselves. So what does that look like? What type of service is that? And she said, in order to know what that looks like, you need an audience to tell you what they want. So you need to grow your socials, you need to grow your platform so that people can tell you what they want to learn from you. Mic drop. That right there was a dead stop for me. Here's a woman I'm paying to give me guidance. And I've worked with a lot of coaches before who will say, go do this. This is the thing, do it, pay me my money. So, yes, we've decided it's probably gonna be some sort of program, right? That's the only way I could teach right now. But I have to go build a group of people to talk to and get feedback and refine and do the process of learning and mastering to figure out what the end goal is. So now I'm in the accountability program because I was failing at doing that. Social media is hard for me. I'm not consistent with it, but I need to be in order to get to this next step. So now in this program, I create accountability goals for creating content. She isn't saying, hey, write about this and do this. She's saying, get your freaking reps in, learn, refine, define. But the most important part is actually doing the thing and getting better as you go. And this is why she's amazing. One more side quest, because I cannot underestimate how much Shanta's done for me in my life simply just by leading by example. Again, follow her on Instagram and you'll you will see how so freaking handy she is. She's always like fixing things with power tools. I've always wanted to be able to use power tools. It's so inspiring to watch. And in our group programs, she's instilled in me like, be a beginner. Don't be afraid to be a beginner. Don't be afraid to be bad at something. Just get the reps in and get better. You guys, I have fixed not one, but two air conditioners, and I've half fixed an espresso machine. Really, the part that I was gonna need was gonna cost me so much money. So it was just I got a new espresso machine. I'm obsessed with my new espresso machine, so I'm not mad about it. But our AC stopped working in the like second heat wave in Ontario this summer, so it was 37 degrees inside of my home. Ray was trying to sleep, it was so hot. I told Jay, like, there's no way Ray's gonna be able to sleep. We have to fix this. Jay's like, it's 8 p.m. No one's gonna come and fix this. He's gonna be mad at me for using that voice for him. But immediately in my mind, I was like, Shantae would just fucking fix it herself. I'm gonna fucking fix it myself. Couple YouTube videos later, I borrowed a hose nozzle from my neighbor and I got some tools at a J shed. I did it. AC back on, baby. That leads me to my next science point, number three, last one. Autonomy matters for learning, too. Sometimes the lesson is figuring out what you think before somebody else tells you what they think. A 2023 meta-analysis pulled 378 effect sizes from 179 samples involving more than 213,000 people and found that autonomy support while positively related to learning outcomes, particularly autonomous motivation, engagement, and self-beliefs. So in English, what does that mean? Autonomy doesn't mean like, hey, you're on your own, push out the door, good luck. It means someone supports you without taking away your agency. And that is the distinction between a great mentor and a mentor we become dependent on. And when I say mentor, that can be a mentor who is helping you, like at your craft or teaching you like a service or a thing, but also someone who is giving you guidance in life. A mentor shouldn't be like, hey, here's what you should do. What they should say is, what do you think you should do, and then support accordingly. I in clinic people have said I help you interrogate the answer to your question. We get we get spicy, but it's kind of what I mean. That's not kind of, it is what I mean when I say you are the expert of you. Yes, I give guidance for a living, but I am just a support tool to help you down this path of discovering that you are the only expert of you. And sometimes you just need a sounding board to help you figure that out. The people who have helped me most in my career and in my life are exactly that. And a big point is they help me think better. Which lastly leads us to AI. And yes, I realize the irony that I asked AI to help me find research that supports the points I want to make in this episode. And I'm absolutely not going to sit here and tell you that AI is inherently bad or that using it makes us stupid, but I do think we need to pay attention to what parts of our thinking we're handing over to AI. There's already some interesting research emerging around these concerns. So a 2025 Microsoft research and Carnegie Mellon study looked at 319 knowledge workers and collected 936 real-world examples of people using generative AI at work. They found something really interesting. The more confidence people had in AI, the less critical thinking effort they reportedly used or they reported using. But the more confidence people had in their own ability, the more critical thinking they reported doing. That interests me because we have always outsourced some of our thinking. It's there's a term for it, it's called cognitive offloading. And it basically means that using something outside of your brain to reduce the amount of mental work your brain has to do. We do this all the time, whether we realize it or not. I don't memorize everybody's phone numbers anymore. My contact list does. Back in the day, I bet you you can still list off your three best friends' phone numbers. I don't need to mentally calculate 17% of something because I have a calculator. And to be honest, I could not calculate 17% of something. I don't even remember how to do that. I don't memorize how to get somewhere anymore because I use a GPS. I have lived in Burlington for 13 years and I have no idea how to go anywhere because I shamelessly use my GPS. I write shit in my calendar because if it isn't there, it doesn't exist. Case in point, I thought there's no way I would forget the date of my sister-in-law's wedding that I am in and I booked a camping trip. No, that is cognitive offloading. And I don't think cognitive offloading is bad. In many situations, it's incredibly useful. It frees up mental your mental resources for other things. But I think where we need to be careful is what happens when we start outsourcing the exact cognitive processes we're actually trying to get better at. If I am trying to become a better, better writer, but I don't struggle to find my words because I let AI write everything for me, what happens to my writing? And this is like I'm using this as a real life example, guys. I am very guilty of this. I used to be able to write content at the drop of a hat. I loved it, I enjoyed it, I have and still do a notebook beside me to always write down ideas. But to save time, I was cognitive offloading, right? I would word vomit my idea into AI and let it write it for me. And now my shit looks exactly like everybody else's on Instagram. For one, I I hate that. That's I don't want to be everybody else. For two, for two, for second, oh my god, we're not even speaking English now. I am now finding it hard to write, which is scary to me. Like, hands up, guilty, take me to jail. I did it. I'm I am so guilty of letting AI write for me. I have to stop. It's a crutch. I don't want to be like everyone else. I rest easy in the fact that I don't ever ask it for ideas. I always use my own ideas, but I was being lazy and being like, make this sound good. And now I sound like everyone else. And I want to sound like me, right? It's not gonna be aesthetic. Um, AI writing is really aesthetic, but if you actually like sit there and read it, it doesn't fucking make sense. So I don't care anymore. I don't care. I'm not gonna be aesthetic. But to my point, because I just digressed there. If I'm trying to become a better practitioner, but every time I'm I'm unsure and I immediately ask someone else, like, what would you do? How am I supposed to develop my own clinical reasoning? If I'm trying to strengthen my intuition, but every time I feel something, I immediately ask, like, a psychic or an energy worker, a mentor, Google, Chat GPT, what do you think this means? How am I practicing self-trust? I have just outsourced, like literally outsourced my thinking brain. And I don't think that we have to stop outsourcing everything. Um, especially like we don't have to stop using AI. AI has its own moral and ethical implications, but that's a whole other fucking episode. But for this conversation, let's think about what should we outsource? What is okay to outsource? Because we're not trying to develop that ability. And what abilities are we trying to develop and we actually want to retain and we need to stop outsourcing? Because if it's a skill you want to strengthen, you have to actually use it. You cannot outsource it or you're never going to develop it. Like me and my writing, I have gone backwards. My English teachers would be ashamed. And this leads to another concept that has been studied long before AI existed: automation bias. Automation bias is our tendency to overrely on recommendations from automated systems instead of independently evaluating the information for ourselves. This research grinds my gears so hard, and it is what is so fucked up about misinformation and social media and this, like again, a whole other podcast for another day, but stay with me. Found evidence that people can overaccept automated recommendations. In some cases, people would actually have the correct answer themselves, but they would receive incorrect advice from an automated system and they would change their correct answer to the wrong answer. Come on! This is just the technological version of what I've been talking about for this entire episode. Look at what freaking happens when we trust the external voice more than we trust our own internal voice. We get it wrong. So, in summary, I feel like I have talked about so much here, I can't even remember it all. In summary, do the thing. Let yourself struggle at the thing, refine the thing and keep using your brain during this process. Yes, we can still ask for help, we can still use AI, we can still get guidance, but I want you to trust that you know what's best for you. And at the end of the day, you want to work with people who are going to bring that out in you. People who are going to make you think and are going to push you to develop your skills instead of rely on something outside of yourself. Okay, big breaths. We did it. I got spicy, it just kept getting more spicy, guys. I'm sorry. Okay, I feel like this is a long one. That's it for me, all for today. I love you all. Have a good week, and I will see you next Wednesday. Bye bye.