But personally, to me, it's incredible that I can apply some words a guy said two millennia ago to my life today in Seattle, Washington in 2013. So I'm just going to go over a few of these sayings and try to give an example of how we can think about them in modern times to tie it together. So here we go. Here's one. Quote, if I'm walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. End quote. I mean, this one's really easy for modern people to relate to. It kind of echoes the old saying, Wise men learn from the mistakes of others, fools learn only from their own. So many people in today's world, and obviously not anyone listening to this podcast, walk around as victims of circumstance. They just go through their life waiting for adversity, dealing with it, gleaning a little bit of life experience from the whole ordeal, and then moving on to the next one. At the end of 80 years, they've probably accumulated a bit of wisdom, but not nearly as much as they could have if they used that lovely little prefrontal cortex we were given by Richard Dawkins when he made humans on the seventh day. Confucius seems to be railing against the, I'll cross that bridge when I get there mentality of today's world. Here's