Two days ago, I was holding my beautiful son in my arms like this.

He looked me directly in the eyes and we're having a very good father son bonding moment as he sneezed into my mouth.

Long story short, I have a cold.

So my brain's got tiny chickens in it and I'm not thinking super clearly, but I did watch your video and it didn't make me think a bunch of things.

And I want to work through this.

So let's do a back and forth like we're having a real conversation except that I know what you're gonna say and you have no idea what I'm gonna say.

God, I kept thinking about that.

E E.

Cummings poem that begins spring is like a perhaps hand, which comes carefully out of nowhere.

I like how Here you assume that I know an e e.

Cummings problem.

It's adorable, and I had to listen to this line like seven times to start to get my mind around what it means, which sometimes I feel like it's the point of poetry, like it's one of those boxes that you have to do a secret to figure out how to open it, except it's made of words.

It sounds like I'm whining, but I like those boxes anyway.

None of this is my point back to your video.

For me, doing nothing means not making an active choice to do something.

This is a really great insight, but for me, at least, it doesn't quite get to the whole thing.

I agree that part of what doing nothing is whatever that is, is that it's a passive choice.

But I don't think that's the whole thing.

Doing something feels like making a choice and doing nothing feels like not making what I think.

I'm figuring this out through the haze of a rhinovirus here.

For me, scrolling through Twitter is nothing because it's the default that I end up with when there's no structure left in, all of the things run out.

It's what I bled, too, just like think thing.

But for me, taking my medicine is the default choice.

There are lots of things that we don't really choose to do that are not nothing like work being a pretty big.

That's how I do like 95% of the things that I do I make the non choice off something.

Does that make sense?

I hope so.

Okay, I'm just working this out right now as I'm recording, Here's how I'm trying to understand.

You have active and passive and you have nothing and something you have active.

Nothing's where you choose to do nothing, and that's good.

You have passive nothing's, which is like the worst thing where you end up choosing to do nothing, just cause there's nothing else to do and that doesn't feel good.

There's active some things, which is hard to do.

And then there's the best thing.

And I swear I didn't mean for this to happen.

There's passive something's I'm sorry feels way better for me to use the limited mental energy that I do have to create more passive something like, I'm just gonna be annoyed if everything is an active choice.

I don't have it in me is like most of the appeal of a meal kit delivery service for me, like I have to do it or it's going to go back.

But I wouldn't make the active choice to do it because it's just too hard, and then it's already 6 30 in your uber REITs and crispy cream.

I'm not choosing between doing something or doing nothing.

I'm choosing which something to do.

This is absolutely true, but I can't imagine the world this way.

It sounds exhausting.

So with the choice making energy that I have, I feel like it's better to set up like you do everything I can to set up these passive something.

I want to make some active choices, absolutely.

But I want to also be realistic about the fact that I just don't have that many in me in a Sunday like as an example.

What if every Tuesday is Call your mom day or draw something day or do a podcast with your friend day?

What I need most days is toe have my non choice be not nothing.

How do you do this?

How do you set up passive Some things I don't know.

I've had a lot of practice, and I'm still not great at it.

Like you don't want to see my YouTube history.

I watch a lot off lock picking lawyer videos.

For some reason, I mean, this guy carved a pencil from a pencil from a pencil, so I did not actively choose toe watch.

That video is great as it is.

It's a passive nothing.

Let's be honest with ourselves, Hank.

Thank you for doing this.

Something with me for the last 12 years.

I will see you on Friday, John.

You're welcome, you dork.

I'll see you on Tuesday.