Practice #56 - Walking Down A Highway Barefoot And Shirtless

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So I'm walking down this highway.

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Cars are speeding past me at 60 miles per hour.

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And I am barefoot and shirtless with my friend.

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How did I get to this point?

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Well, it all started in the previous summer when I started studying this man named Russell

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Brunson, learning about business, and then he had this live event, a business conference

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that he was hosting in Florida, which was all the way across the country from me.

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But I wanted to go.

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I told my friend, and he wanted to go too.

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We had never been to a business conference before.

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And we also, this was my first time traveling alone.

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And I'm a high school student too.

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We're both high school students.

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So we find the money and get there.

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Like we're in school, and then we end up, like in the middle of the school year, we

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just randomly get up and leave and get on a plane and go across the country and go to

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a business conference.

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And once we get there, we realize that our place was a 10-minute walk away from the business

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conference, except there was a massive concrete wall in between us and the conference.

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Because we thought that we could just cut through looking at Google Maps, but we could

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not.

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We actually had to go the long way and go literally, the place was here.

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And what we had to do, like just walking from here to there takes 10 minutes.

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But what we had to do, since there was no pathway to get there, we had to literally

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go around all the way like this, and then go like this, and then go like this, and then

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we finally made it.

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And this whole area is a highway.

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It's literally a highway.

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And there's no sidewalk.

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So we literally have to walk on the side of the highway.

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And it's nice outside.

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So we're walking barefoot and shirtless.

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And on the grass, there's like a bunch of prickly things that if you step on it, it

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gets like, you get like burrs all over you and it hurts and it makes you bleed.

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So we didn't want to walk on the grass.

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So we literally had to walk on the asphalt along the highway, next to the cars driving

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past us.

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So just picture that sight.

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Two dudes walking down in the beating sun of Florida, down a highway, shirtless, just

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carrying our backpacks with our hands, like farmers walk style.

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And we have a mission.

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We're getting to that business conference.

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We do that every day, every night.

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We get there and we have to come back.

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Get there, come back.

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And this happens for like three days.

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The conference is a five day event.

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And so we're like going back and forth, we have to walk like hours every day.

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And then one night was the longest night.

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We literally got out of there at like midnight.

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So we were done with the conference at midnight and we still had that long walk down the highway,

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dark outside and they didn't have street lights.

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So like we had to rely on the drivers to be able to see us with their car lights.

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And we did not trust that because people were rowdy.

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We were in a rowdy area.

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Like people were drinking alcohol and we did not want to do that.

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So we like took a risk.

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We started walking.

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Instead of going like the way we should have gone, we actually went straight towards our

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villa.

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And there is a massive wall and barbed wire, a barbed wire fence in between us and there.

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So we're literally just walking along the barbed wire trying to find a spot that we

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can jump the fence.

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It's literally midnight.

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We're walking.

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We are barefoot and shirtless.

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Midnight.

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We're not using our phones.

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And we're just walking along the fence trying to find a spot to jump, trying to find a spot

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to jump.

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And so after literally like 10 minutes of like getting nervous because if we like all of

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this time is us losing time if we can't find a fence and we lose sleep because we have

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to wake up early the next morning for the next day of the conference.

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And eventually we get to a spot like in front of a security camera in front of like a bunch

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of civilian cars, like all kinds of things.

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And we're like, all right, this is our spot.

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And we jump over it.

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We jump the fence.

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And it's not a fence.

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It's like literally a concrete wall that is probably like this tall.

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So we literally have to like jump and then like muscle up to get up.

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It was no easy feat, but we did it.

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And we both brought our phones, but we don't really use our phones.

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We kept them powered off.

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And we didn't realize at the time, but as we were jumping over the fence and jumping

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into our gated community where our villa was, my friend's phone slipped out of his pocket.

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We didn't realize it.

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And we don't use our phones very often.

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So we went to bed and we didn't know like we went to bed none the wiser.

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We're just thinking, oh, we'll wake up in the morning.

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Like we didn't even realize that he lost his phone.

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And so the next day comes and as usual, we get ready, get all of our stuff packed for

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the day.

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And instead of going literally the hour long walk, we're like, you know what, let's just

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spend a little bit more time in the morning at our house, like at our rented apartment

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kind of thing and just like cook breakfast, have a nice morning.

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Enjoy our time here.

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And so we're like, okay, we're going to do that.

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We're going to hop the fence in broad daylight this time to get through to save literally

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45 minutes.

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And so by the time it's when it's time to actually leave and get to the place, we start walking

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over and we still don't realize that he lost his phone because we're not using our phones.

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We don't really check it.

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And so we just assumed it was still in our backpack because there's no need to charge

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it at night time if we didn't even use it at all during the day.

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And we get to the jump.

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We get to the fence.

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And I'm like walking ahead of him and I'm like, I see a phone on the floor.

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I immediately recognize it as his.

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I'm like, what the what?

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And so I grab it, I pick it up and put it in my pocket.

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I don't tell him because I wanted to play a little trick on him because that was not

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the first time he lost something at the conference.

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He lost his hat that he purchased and then we had to go buy another one.

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So I wanted to play a little trick on him, teach him a little lesson.

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So I hop the fence, get over and then I'm like sitting on the other edge waiting for

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him to hop the fence, which is no easy feat by the way, literally a massive, not a fence.

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It's a wall.

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It's literally a wall.

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There is no area to like step on.

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You literally have to jump, reach up for the top of the fence and then pull yourself over.

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No easy feat.

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And we have backpacks on too.

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And we're barefoot and shirtless.

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So we do that.

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I'm waiting for him to get over.

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He gets over.

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And as he's like falling down, as he's adjusting, because he's sitting at the top of the, because

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it's like the top of the fence is like this and then you have to like, you're like this

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and then you have to adjust your legs to get down.

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And so as he's adjusting, I'm asking him like, hey, do you have your phone with you?

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Did you remember to bring your phone?

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And he's like feeling it for his pocket and I could see his face.

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He is spooked.

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He is literally nervous.

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He like jumps down and I'm like, check, check your back.

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And he's like, he's checking his back.

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He checked every single pocket and I can just imagine his feeling right now.

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He's like, his stomach has dropped.

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He's like literally tingling because not literally five days before right or three or four days

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before when we left, his mom told him, do not lose your phone.

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Because his like, his mom knows that he has a tendency to lose some stuff.

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She said, do not lose your phone.

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And so he is literally sitting there in it, like rummaging through his backpack and that

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memory is replaying in his mind, do not lose your phone, do not lose your phone.

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And he is extremely scared.

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And I'm just sitting here, I'm just sitting here looking at him, just having a laugh.

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And then I'm like, dude, where is your phone?

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Where's your phone?

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And I'm like, oh, I found it.

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I gave it to him.

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But that was the time when we decided to walk barefoot and shirtless.

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And then we ended up hopping the fence because we wanted to take a shortcut.

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And it was a good time.