Rory uses a flat tire to show how perspective changes everything. Tell someone about your day and a flat tire is the whole story. Tell them about your life and it barely registers. What feels huge in the moment shrinks when you zoom out.
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Let's say, for example, if you had a flat tire. So let's say you're driving down the road and all of a sudden you have this flat tire. Well, if somebody asked you that night, they said, tell me about your day, chances are you would probably tell them about the flat tire because a flat tire in the context of what would happen in any normal day is a, is a pretty big deal, right? It's a pretty rare thing. And you go, oh my gosh, you know, I had this flat tire. I was stranded on the side of the road and now the tow truck's taking all my money and like I was getting rained on and ugh. But if you fast forward on the timeline all the way to the end of your life and you're there on your deathbed and somebody says, tell me about your life, there's no way you're going to be telling the story of that flat tire because over the course of your lifespan, A flat tire is a very insignificant trivial event.