David

We just use them differently.

So, you know, the question really is getting at what are you doing differently that I'm not switching on to get there? And one of the things that came to mind is I was in Italy not too long ago in Florence and went and saw Michelangelo's David.

Just for a non-artist, it's still like breathtaking.

And what I have read about his comments around that is that it was a giant block of marble that when he looked at it, he said he knew that David was in there.

It was his job to chisel away until he found it.

Just such a unique way of viewing the end result in advance.

Help myself in what sense? Well, whenever I see a lesson out in the real world, I'm looking to see what does it tell me about investing.

So as I looked up at the absolutely amazing dome in Florence that Brunelleschi built over or at Michelangelo's David, much as I enjoyed being in the moment, I kept thinking about what are the lessons for investing that I could get from these great Renaissance masters.

So I know this might be stretching and you might not like this particular session, but here it goes.

For those of you who've never been to Florence, I'd strongly suggest that you get there sometime during your lifetime, because to me, this is the most beautiful dome in the world.

And this is the first time for Britain to do this.

And take the David and take it back to England.

So Italy must be in bad shape, at least.

And sell it to the highest bidder.

And one of them is, like...

I didn't look at him as, like, a guy saving this.

I looked at him as a guy who walks past the statue of David who lost a leg in the war and got, like, a... fake leg but it's still the statue of David and he walks past it every morning and he says look how fucking great I am for having the statue of David but basically it's no longer art at that point it's a fucking NFT exactly it might as well be an nft it's not art no one can go and appreciate this or learn from its history or be interested in it or be inspired by it to design the next generation of art which is also something that applies to this department but we'll get to that in a second it's just his now and the it goes to the whole point of one like really was anything ever sacred like did anything ever fucking matter at any point to these people Right.

But also, it kind of goes back to what Greg said earlier in the show when he's comparing children to men to come and see.

When they're biking, you want to make sure there's equal strength on both sides there's different demands left and right so that's sort of the low hanging fruit to help help be aware of your imbalances and prioritize single leg single arm activity and be aware of how do you feel on one leg versus the other does one side feel stronger are you more confident do you feel more centered do you feel your foot differently at one side versus the other you feel um do you feel like you can breathe better when you're on one leg versus the other Those things are important.

The more nuances, I suppose if you can imagine the statue of Michelangelo's David, the famous statue in Italy, where he's positioned on his right leg and he's contrapposto rotating back to the left.

Or if you can imagine someone, if you're waiting in line and you put your right foot back and you weight your body over your right leg and you just hang out over there on your right hip, That's that's sort of a way to picture how humans are biased.

Our pelvis, our hips really want to be over to the right and we want to rotate back to the left.

So that's where we're stuck as Michelangelo's David.

And it's that we're good at rotating to the left as we're biased to the right.

So the left.

Turn your shoulders to 12 o'clock and take some deep breaths.

And so I could totally relate to that.

But then she did this other one where she was talking about going to Italy and and seen Michelangelo's Statue of David.

And then she sort of retold the story of David and Goliath.

And it was just hilarious.

I mean, she's funny, but sometimes she's funny because she's loud.

You know, who do you want? I

mean, wouldn't it be crazy to get David Ogilvie, you know, on to just sort of give us an update on what they think or, you know, Ross or Reeves, you know, uh, the father of the unique selling proposition melt in your hand, not in your mouth or whatever.

Um, we all remember that.

Um, yeah, uh, Bill Bernbach.

So you get to experience something that almost never starts the way it ends.

Creativity is usually like, holy shit, this is a lump of clay.

It's the Statue of David.

But that is composition.