0:00:00 - 0:00:25 OK. Here's a random thought. I was just uh looking at my hand, I was washing my hand hands and I looked at uh my pinky here. So, um, the other day I sliced my finger opened pretty badly. I was doing some work with a segment of stovepipe and it's a double wall stainless. So it's super expensive and I 0:00:25 - 0:00:43 lost my footing and I dropped this thing. So I grabbed it again to catch it and I, I, so the most of it's so smooth that I, it didn't, didn't occur to me that there's one part of it that's super sharp. Of course, that's where my hand went. And um it's particularly frustrating cause I was just at the 0:00:43 - 0:01:05 beginning of a chunk of time that I had dedicated to moving this project forward. And I, I sliced my hand and as a real thumb or in this case, a real pinky, I don't look when I hurt myself because um, like I know it's gonna be bad. And so I just give it a second and um I, so I just had the pipe and I 0:01:05 - 0:01:25 was moving towards what I was gonna do with it uh hoping that it wasn't bad cause I had a lot to do and, and I felt the blood gushing out of my finger dripping on things. And I was like, oh no. So I looked at my hand and, and uh, sure enough it was that all the skin was cut through. I was like, OK, test 0:01:25 - 0:01:44 number one are the tendons cut and I move my pinky and I was like, well, it's moving so it's probably not tendons. And um you know, the next priority was not making a mess. So I, I uh tried to, you know, grab it and elevate it. So it wasn't making a mess and get out of where I was, it was in a cavity 0:01:44 - 0:02:04 of my roof, which is fun. I don't really have an attic in my house. I have cavities. Um So, um I went downstairs and I'm running through options in my head and I'm really wishing it wasn't on my right hand because I'm right handed because I could suture it. If it was on my left hand, I could find a way 0:02:04 - 0:02:29 to do it one handed. And um, and my wife appeared and I went and found her or whatever and because she knows where all the stuff is, I was like, where's the stuff? So she found our little first aid box and uh I was really wishing she knew how to suture cause then she could do it and she's like, well 0:02:29 - 0:02:51 , why don't you go to the hospital? And I said, we're an hour away. There's gonna be a huge wait to get in. They're gonna charge us a fortune for that. And, um, I absolutely won't get anything done and I'm pretty sure that we could figure something out. And so I said, get me a really fat rubber band 0:02:51 - 0:03:12 that she did. And I made a, an impromptu tourniquet at the base of my finger to cut off the bleeding. And um I said, give me some superglue and she got me some superglue and I squirted in there and we have the gel kind, uh specifically for this purpose. Gel super glue is amazing. The, the regular stuff's 0:03:12 - 0:03:36 real runny. So it won't stay where you put it. So I shot, I filled the, the, the gash with, with uh super glue and then, um I asked her to cut me some strips. So we didn't have butterflies of medical tape. So I put that on there and then I went and I found a piece of metal that was um pliable and I it 0:03:36 - 0:03:58 was wire and I made a splint real quick one handed and uh that was curved so it wouldn't open up the wound. And then I use this flexible gauze sticky stuff. That's a medical, that's a technical term, flexible gauze sticky stuff. And I wrapped my, my pinky with that. It was like, all right, good to go 0:03:58 - 0:04:22 . And I went back to work and, um, as I was mostly useless, but I, I got the needle moved a little. So, um, it should have taken him like two weeks to heal up. And long story short short, uh I had all the bandages and stuff off in like maybe six days. I'm not a medical doctor and I don't feel like googling 0:04:22 - 0:04:45 it, but I would imagine that there's a correlation between the time uh that you take to get something stitched or whatever, whatever method you're using to join two pieces of skin together and how quickly it heals and um in the end and, and you can't appreciate it. I mean, if I hold it just right, maybe 0:04:45 - 0:05:08 against my lush eyebrows, um, you can kind of see the divot in there. There you go, see how it's look like. There, there you go. Nice divot, but it healed up really well. And I, I would be surprised if stitches from the doctor's office would have worked better. Um So what's the point in sharing all this 0:05:08 - 0:05:31 ? It's just a brief example in two, at least two principles, one truth is truth. And so when you learn things at a principal level, you can apply them in all sorts of situations. And then the second thing is what is this principle? This principle is think about what you're doing and why you're doing 0:05:30 - 0:05:57 it and ask yourself if there's a better what for the, why in my case, I wanted to get back to full function. And the default thing that normal people would have done is go to the hospital. But that wasn't the best thing to do. I had a much better outcome by using my brain and a little bit of prior experience 0:05:56 - 0:06:15 and knowledge. And I, I knew that super glue could be used to seal certain wounds. And also my wife asked if I should put some alcohol on there to disinfect it. And I said, no, I had rinsed it off, but I was like, look, it was bleeding really badly right away. I'm sure the blood washed off whatever was 0:06:15 - 0:06:33 in there. But furthermore, if we're going to cleanse it, I knew from something I learned a while ago probably when I was looking up how to suture that iodine is what you want to use, which we have some of that for that reason, not alcohol because alcohol will inhibit the sea of the, the skin. So you 0:06:33 - 0:06:56 don't wanna clean wounds that need to heal up incisions. You don't wanna clean incisions with alcohol for that reason. So anyway, I applied all that and I applied some super glue and um, now I'm good to go and, and it healed up really quickly. So, um just goes to show you that uh principles are super 0:06:56 - 0:07:14 valuable because you can apply them in any situation. Rules are limited to specific situations. So as a rule, you might say if wounded go to hospital, but maybe that's not the best thing to do because you have to ask why you are doing it and if there is a better what?