0:00:00 - 0:00:28 So as, as some of, you know, uh several years ago, I began a diet change where I, I transition most of my calories to eggs and that worked out for the constraints that I operate under. It worked quite well. It had cascading benefits that were shocking to behold. And, um, saved me a lot of time. Nutrition 0:00:28 - 0:00:50 benefits were, were great. I, I felt my blood sugar was a lot more. Even just lots of energy, stable, energy wasn't so hungry all the time and so on. So, and it ended up being a lot less expensive than things I was doing before. As I went through that, I kept making adjustments so that the way that I 0:00:50 - 0:01:10 was consuming the eggs took less and less time. So less clean up, less time to cook, et cetera. And I went through like boiled eggs and then smoothies and then I was changing the ingredients on the smoothies because I didn't care so much over time if it tasted as good as when I started. And I finally 0:01:09 - 0:01:36 got to the point where basically each day I was cracking and drinking tend to 18 say eggs raw about two at a time, 2 to 3 at a time. So about every two hours I drink two or three eggs and, um, I ate other things too. I'd have a lunch that most people would probably find pretty spartan and then a normal 0:01:35 - 0:01:55 dinner with my family. And the reason again I was doing this was that I'm at a point in my life where food doesn't really give me much joy. And so I'm, I'm just tuning this to what I need to get out of it. And mostly it's a time saving thing because I don't have to fuss around with dishes and cooking 0:01:55 - 0:02:16 and, you know, going to find food. I just, I stay in what I'm doing. So I spend more time, uh, on things that matter more to me. So I was having a discussion the other day with an uncle of mine who I, I'm emotionally close to, but geographically distant from. And he's the kind of guy that, that I, I 0:02:16 - 0:02:37 , if you're not face to face, it's really hard to get a hold of him. He's not, um, usually too excited to get on the phone so it can be difficult to stay in touch. And we're having a good, a good catch up, which is nice and he likes to work out. He's obviously he's older than me and we were talking about 0:02:36 - 0:02:58 health and nutrition and some things he's trying and he asked me about the eggs and he was really interested. And that was nice to have this conversation. And he contacted me after that with um some data points. And he said, you know, I was looking this up and, and according to the internet, if you drink 0:02:58 - 0:03:19 eggs, 40% of the protein in the egg is not available to you, you, your body can't process it. And I said, oh, I hope that's not true. And I, I googled it immediately and sure enough peer reviewed research they've tested it and it's true. And I, I thought, uh, shoot. So I replied back and I said, dang 0:03:18 - 0:03:47 it. Uh, so I immediately stopped drinking eggs and, uh, I enumerated a few options for how I could consume them and still try to save as much time and reduce as, as many dishes as possible. And it was good. I kind of walked through some of the process that I, I had conducted to get to my current or I 0:03:46 - 0:04:07 guess previous now habits, but some information along the way had changed. So if you, if you care and there's a point to all this, these are generalized principles. I'm just starting with the specifics to give context. But in the beginning I was eating a lot of eggs all at once. And that's a really bad 0:04:07 - 0:04:31 idea for me. I don't have a gallbladder and so it's hard to digest large amounts of fat or other things. Um, fiber, for example. And so cutting this down to two or three eggs every two hours. It turns out it calibrates really well with your body's ability to digest protein and use it, apply it to muscle 0:04:30 - 0:04:50 building. And so, uh, that ended up working well for me, but that was something that evolved later. Not in the beginning when I was pounding these egg shakes in the morning and just sticking to the three meals a day path, which meant that I had to eat a lot of eggs all at once. So, and, and a lot of 0:04:50 - 0:05:15 that food ended up getting wasted because your body can only process so much at a time. So with all that in mind, the, the the details had changed and walking through the process again, at least partially came to a different result. And so now if you care again, this is just for an example, it doesn't 0:05:15 - 0:05:35 mean that it's gonna have any application whatsoever in your life specifically, but we're gonna zoom out in a second to the general. Uh What I do is when I wake up in the morning, uh not to tmiu but so before I go to the bathroom, I'll go to the kitchen and I put six eggs right now, I might go to nine 0:05:35 - 0:05:56 . I don't know, but six eggs in a pot and I start boiling them and they go to the bathroom, check the wood stoves, whatever. By the time I come back, the eggs are done. And so then I just, I peel two of them and eat them right away and I'll come back two hours later. Remember I get up in the middle of 0:05:56 - 0:06:16 the night and I'll eat another two and then, uh, there's two more if I go to nine that we can keep going with this process. But basically I've replaced the cracked eggs with boiled eggs and everything works out fine. Now, I was thinking about boiling all the eggs I'd need for a week in a big pot and 0:06:16 - 0:06:40 just keep it in the fridge. I actually prefer warm boiled eggs to cold boiled eggs. And so I'm just gonna do them one day at a time and this works out. So, what the heck's the point of all this Mr Egg man? Well, um my, my point with this was I've said before that everything that we believe is incorrect 0:06:39 - 0:07:05 or incomplete, that's an axiom that falls out of the belief, that truth is infinite and, and it, it turns religion on its head because modern religion is all about dogma, all about this idea that you can be done that. And you find this, there are specific variations of examples that you'll find in any 0:07:04 - 0:07:35 modern religion. But the idea is you can be done do XYZ and you're good as long as you don't do ABC and that's just not true. It's a process. True. Religion is a process. God is a process. He's a being, but it's helpful sometimes to think of him as an outcome. But truly, he's a process. He's the way 0:07:34 - 0:08:02 the truth in the, in the life and that's the life is a flow, the way is a path. It's not an outcome. Ok? It's a path. And so a piece of that that makes everyone super uncomfortable because religion, it's like a bug light and it attracts people who are searching for done. They're searching for good enough 0:08:01 - 0:08:28 , they're searching for final security in the lack of uncertainty. But what God offers is very different. That's, that's false religion, true religion offers you a process by which you can overcome all things. And you might say, well, that sounds like a final outcome. No, it's a process. It's a process 0:08:28 - 0:08:52 . We could get deep into this but just keeping it as superficial as, as we can. It's a process. So the egg thing provided me tons of benefits, tons of benefits. But the second I learned that there's, there's a plausible possibility that a better path exists. I investigated it. It was worth the time and 0:08:52 - 0:09:15 effort to look into. In this case, it was a 12th Google search, search result, search result, the papers I read the one paper but very, very quickly. That's all it took. Obviously, I'm wasting 40% of the eggs I eat. And if you have to drink raw eggs, that's, that's a huge expense to waste 40%. Right 0:09:15 - 0:09:36 . And so I'm thinking, yeah, you know, like my chickens produce these eggs. It's basically by changing this. I can magically get 40% more eggs instantly magically just by cooking them first. Ok. So then the, the challenge became, how do I cook these in the most efficient way? Because I have better things 0:09:36 - 0:09:58 to do with my time than wash dishes if I can avoid it. And I don't like eating tons of oil. If you wanna fry eggs, you gotta use the oil or you gotta use non stick and it has its own issues. So, anyway, um, so I solved that problem. Now, I've got a new path. It only took like a minute to figure all this 0:09:58 - 0:10:22 out and thank goodness someone else was involved. Ok. So, generalized principles are, it doesn't matter how good something seems right now, that doesn't mean that there's not something better. Does that mean you hold back on going all to your current best idea of, of what best is? No, you go all in because 0:10:22 - 0:10:43 you can't find the limits of your beliefs. If you don't go all in, you'll always have this, excuse this, this escape hatch. This, it's like a pressure cooker lid. This pressure release of, well, it's not working but maybe it's because I wasn't going all in, you'll never know. But if you go all in, you 0:10:43 - 0:11:04 know, hey, I didn't leave anything on the table. This is an edge of the belief. It just doesn't do what I need it to do. And so even if I stay with it, I'm looking for something that's better and I know exactly what I need for it to be better. So, another generalized principle with this. So you go all 0:11:04 - 0:11:32 in on your beliefs, but thank God for other people. Right? So, so there's this perverse fetish that I don't know how else to say it, of people loving the idea that they can figure out everything that's important themselves. We were all babies having our butts wiped by our parents at some point or for 0:11:32 - 0:11:53 orphans, you know, whoever is taking care of us, but somebody who's wiping your butt at some point and unless you die young, someone's gonna wipe your butt again. And so to entertain this illusion that so in the middle of that, you're this magical being that doesn't need anyone else, a person like that 0:11:52 - 0:12:21 can pretend that they're subordinate to God. But in their own minds, they are God to, to place yourself above the positive impact of others, from others, to place yourself above a positive impact from others is to believe that you are God because he works through other people amongst many other options 0:12:20 - 0:12:44 he's got. But that that channel is actually pretty important. And so my uncle called me for my advice on something which I was happy to tell him whatever I knew about it. And then he replied to that conversation by saying, I looked into one thing you suggested and here's a limit to it that you don't 0:12:44 - 0:13:18 know about. Did I say who the heck does this guy think he is? I'm the one giving advice here. No, I said, you know, my, my uncle's a rational being and he cares about me because I've, I've seen what he does for other people because, you know, I've been his nephew my whole life and so why would I doubt 0:13:17 - 0:13:46 that? He, he's got a motive of love. You're telling me that, right? But even if he wanted to one up me and say, oh, well, you gave me this good advice, but I'll do you one better. Thank you uncle. Good grief folks. If someone gives you something better, how is that a bad thing? I don't understand. Ok 0:13:45 - 0:14:10 . And so it takes 10 seconds to Google this, that's step one. And am I googling to prove him wrong? I hoped he was wrong. You know, I told you that and it's true. I wish it weren't. So because my life is easier when I can crack eggs and drink them, but it's not better, easier is rarely better. Sometimes 0:14:10 - 0:14:35 it is. And that's awesome. You hang on to that with two hands, right? But better is better and everything else goes below better. And so he says, look for, you're losing 40% of the protein. I don't wanna waste 40% of anything, but there's two ways of seeing this. So I wanted him to be wrong because it's 0:14:35 - 0:15:02 easier to crack eggs. But part of me wanted him to be right. Why? Because recognizing that I've been wasting 40% of something means that I get 40% more right now. Magically the second I push this button. So imagine if someone came to you and said, oh, there's this check box on your tax return. And all 0:15:02 - 0:15:25 you have to do is, is put an X in there and you could have been doing this your whole life. You've wasted 40% of the taxes you've ever paid, but you can do it now. And from here on out you get that 40%. Why would you see that as a bad thing? You'd have to be insane. And guess what most people are because 0:15:25 - 0:15:53 they care more about preserving that perceived value in the past than they do about getting the real thing in the future because it wasn't real in the past. That's what it means. If truth changes your retroactive valuation, it means it wasn't real. That's like, you know, if you're a spouse and you find 0:15:53 - 0:16:14 out if you're married, you find out your spouse has been cheating on you for 15 years. You didn't know. And you're like, oh, the loss of the last 15 years, I thought that I had this and I don't look, you never had it. What you thought was real was not real. You haven't lost anything. You already lost 0:16:14 - 0:16:40 it, it never was there. What you've gained is reality and, and whatever hurt that causes the bright side is the doors it opens in the future. Like, do you wanna be in a fake relationship or in a relationship with a person other than who is real? And this applies to everything we could talk about churches 0:16:39 - 0:17:04 in this regard. So many people, just when someone pokes into their sacred cow, they're like, man, I'm gonna kill you. I'm so angry, I'm gonna kill you or I'll destroy you. I'll destroy your reputation or I'll flee from you because you dare tell me the truth on this or something closer to truth or you 0:17:04 - 0:17:33 could flip that around and say, um, I'm all into my church. And so if something's wrong here, I really got to know because I don't wanna be all in to something that's not right. You see. So it's a, it's a total flip of how most people away from how most people see this. At the end of the day, my passion 0:17:33 - 0:17:59 is not drinking eggs. My passion is the things that I get to accomplish because my life is oriented the way it is. And in my life plan, one of the tasks is drink two eggs every two hours except for lunch and dinner. So drink two eggs every two hours from when I get up until it's time to eat lunch and 0:17:58 - 0:18:22 then I cut off the eggs. I have a little snack at 3 p.m. I, every day. I'm like a little kid. But it's funny, you know, I remember being a really little kid and I don't know, my grandfather's church or something. They had this thing where you got, I can't remember if it's animal crackers or graham crackers 0:18:22 - 0:18:38 . That might have been both and a, a cup of apple juice. And I was all about that. It was like, I was looking forward to that every time it's time to go to church. I was like, I'm getting those snacks and apple juice. And you think that's just for kids, there's no reason you can't use those tricks on 0:18:38 - 0:18:58 yourself. And so every day, around three o'clock, you'll find me rub rummaging through a cabinet to get a jar of peanut butter and I make a glass of, um, it's like a fake treat. I put a little milk in there instead of just mixing protein powder with water. I put a little milk in there. It's like half 0:18:58 - 0:19:27 milk, half water. And in my mind it's a special treat. So I have a spoon of peanut butter and a glass of protein powder with a little milk. And that's like my 3 p.m. Look forward to that every day at three as my snack between lunch and dinner. So, um, anyway, that's the life plan. It's serious and you 0:19:27 - 0:19:47 break it down to that level where it's not that all this is prescribed in your robot that you just go through the motions but you take the time to think about. No, like what would be the best possible thing I could do in a day and now I'm just gonna do that every day. And, but the second new information 0:19:46 - 0:20:10 comes up, which you can't predict when that's gonna happen. If it crosses the threshold, you switch back into planning and you, you analyze this and you say, OK, I know all the reasons I chose to do this, which of those has changed? Oh, none. Ok, then keep going. Oh, this one and this one. So now I have 0:20:10 - 0:20:34 to look at that again and figure it out again. Ok. Well, let's do boiled eggs and rock and roll. But living intentionally like this is orders of magnitude better than the alternative. I was talking to. Uh, it was my mom the other day and she's funny for many reasons. She might watch this. So I have to 0:20:34 - 0:20:57 be careful. Uh, what one of the, the ways she's funny is she doesn't really, uh, watch this stuff much to my chagrin. But I sent her a specific video. I said mom, I laughed the whole time I was making this because I was thinking of you watching it. So you need to watch it because you'll laugh too. And 0:20:57 - 0:21:18 she did and she had a good time. But she, she was like, I was so surprised because I was expecting this super religious message. Her and I don't have the same religious beliefs. Well, of course, that, I mean, I don't know anybody that does. Um, but hers are kind of far from mine and, and further than 0:21:18 - 0:21:39 you might expect because of our relationship. But, uh, she, she was expecting this really religious message and she's like, but you just kept giving advice for how people can have a better life and, I mean, you mixed in scriptures and you rooted that you showed how this was in line with what you believe 0:21:38 - 0:22:01 . But I was really expecting like something preachier and something like more religious. And uh she was saying this as if it were a good thing just to make that clear. And I just cracked up. I said, well, that's great. That's exactly what I'm trying to do. So, you know, people can, can embed themselves 0:22:00 - 0:22:31 in what they think is religion all day long and never change and never actually come closer to something better. Not in my opinion, in their opinion, they're just hamsters on a wheel. So when you get new information, sometimes it has to cause change. And that's always a good thing because if you do this 0:22:31 - 0:22:53 correctly, the only changes you will make will be improvements and improvement always means it's better than it was before. So I, I hope something here may have helped you. But at a minimum, I wanted to share what I've learned about eggs because I know that I've mentioned this in the past and I don't 0:22:53 - 0:22:59 want anyone else to keep making the same mistake. Huh? Ok.