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Have you ever seen that video

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of the ant and the pen?

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They get an ant on a

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piece of paper and the guy

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on YouTube, it's like got millions

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of views on YouTube, just with

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a biro draws a circle around

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the ant and the ant runs

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to the edge of the circle

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and believes it's trapped and it

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will not cross that line.

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Looking down on it from a

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bird's eye view, you go, oh

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no, it's just a figment of

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its imagination.

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They do the same with a

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spider.

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They get a piece of paper,

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there's a little spider on it,

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they draw a circle around it

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with a biro.

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It will not cross that line.

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As the guy's drawing the circle

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smaller and smaller, he accidentally draws

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it so close to the spider

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that the spider steps over the

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biro and then it can never

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ever in its life be trapped

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by the biro again.

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And you watch it just run

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off the page and he's trying

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to trap it again and it

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can never...

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because it realises that that's just

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a wall that's built in its

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mind.

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And I reflect on that always

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in my life and go, there

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was this time I was in

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Boston and I was running on

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a tread machine and I always

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do 10 kilometres on this tread

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machine.

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And when I do 10 kilometres,

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I get this physiological signal that

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I'm tired, that my muscles break

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down.

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I landed in Boston, I've got

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a talk later that day.

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The tread machine doesn't have the

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kilometre dial on it, so I

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can't see how fast I'm running.

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So I think, okay, I'll do

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it the other way round.

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I'll wait for the signal in

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my body telling me I'm tired

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and then I'll get off.

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I run and I run and

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I run and I run.

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I run and I run and

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I run.

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I'm not getting tired, I keep

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running.

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I look up at the time,

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I'm gonna have to get off

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this treadmill at some point.

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I hit the button, 21 kilometers.

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I was perplexed, absolutely perplexed.

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Every time I run 10 kilometers,

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I feel knackered.

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I ran 22 when I couldn't

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see the thing and I don't,

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it was just a limiting belief

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of all I'd built.

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And I told myself that I

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wasn't, that was my limit.

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And you, me, we have drawn

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circles around ourselves and those circles

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are determining how far we push.

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how far we aim, the things

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we decide to do, but they

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are just figments of our imagination.