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Why You Never Yell At Your Own Finger | NYC ETHConf

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0:00A: And so, so just understanding the role of how all that, you know, macroeconomic conditions, these, these abusive, various abusive factors that happen, and then, and then looking across and seeing somebody that might look different from you, but they are the same fundamentally. One of my favorite sayings is sometimes when you reach up to scratch your head, you might accidentally poke yourself in the eye. And the thing about that is you’re not going to yell at your finger for being mad because you consider it to be a part of yourself. And so if someone does an injustice upon you, the only real way out of that is to do the same thing, is to consider that person a part of yourself and accept them as identical to you or even exactly the same as you, so that that’s the magic key to kind of fixing all of that stuff. So I’m all over the place a little bit with that.

0:53B: I think you’re killing the game.

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