this morning I got out of the shower and then I realized I didn’t rinse the shampoo out of my hair let’s talk about that good morning Chia Lincoln it is January 28 2011 I can talk like this very effortlessly today because I woke up with a sore throat so my radio voice is kind of just a default voice but I can kind of pick up and make a little bit more natural like this I’m just getting over a sore throat I think Miami cleanse me of my sore throat inist and we are back in Fuquay Varina bringing you another dose of the Chia the plainly I like it that’s the short name for the show the plane landed fine last night we came in from Miami landed fine a tardy you drove a few Quay took a nap otherwise known as slept through the night here we are again back in the studio yeah so I get out of shower this morning and you know I reach up here and there’s like my hair makes a noise that it normally doesn’t make it it’s not a squeaky noise like it only makes a squeaky noise yeah it squeak squeak it’s more like a mushy crunchy soapy noise and I’m like hold on I kind of go it’s in the rear and it’s just like my hair is white with reticles and I’m like I’ve got to get back in the shower and rinse my hair off this has never happened before well am I going crazy now when you told me this the when you came in this morning I knew that it meant you were thinking about something really hard because you’re so committed to a process and you’re so single-mindedly committed to things one at a time that’s a nice way of saying that you can’t multitask that I knew that something was on your mind but more than that it revealed your commitment to your system and how the system lets you down right that’s what we want to talk about this morning is if when it comes to the daily routines of your life if you have a meticulous system I have systems processes for all types of things I got a degree in industrial engineering and linkage there was some systematic person yeah there were I mean give some example I took whole courses on you know how to optimize a process in order to save time and but you were committed to this before you ever started majoring an industrial engineering yeah it’s like efficiency engineering you were drawn to that because your life consists of breaking up all the routines that you have it on a regular basis into these small elements and then you optimize them in the correct order and you know you you look at every motion of your hand and everything so when I’m in the shower I do the exact same thing every time I take a shower you know I watched my hair with the shampoo I I grabbed the shampoo I look at it I verify that it is not conditioner then I place it in my hair and I shampoo it it’s important usually I rinse it out and at that point I wash my face you want you want to start up here and lend up the soap go down this is efficiency working in your favor and then it begins to pre cleanse the rest of your body even before you’ve washed it yeah because I’ve thought of this and its own you don’t want to praise and then I move down and I get the loofah I’m not ashamed to say I use a loofah okay it has you know it makes a lot of suds watch what rags are inferior but I do use that to wash my feet all at least call it a man sponge or something yeah think of it it’s like brown it’s yeah it’s it’s brown but in it started out brown it’s always been brown good you know and then I I wash I wash down I wash I wash everything and then I you know then I rinse off and then I squeegee myself off wash with my hands in order to enhance the squeaking effective effectiveness effective effect see that’s the dangerous word how do you say I wouldn’t effectiveness efficacy enhance the efficacy say that ten times fast of the drying off process i squeegee off a lot of the water and then i I you know I shake my hair and then I dry off okay well and it was at that point I realized that there had been a glitch in the process evidently and it’s been it threw everything off now let me explain a couple of things observations first of all this clearly can that you are insane secondly debatable you there’s a there is a child a whole family of children and a mother and they’re all on harnesses a lot of people don’t know this we’re not going to show it to you because that we we do this show we do this show right in front of a window people are like why is the lighting so weird and stuff because we just sit down in front of a window and it depends on what the weather is but a mom just walked by on the sidewalk all three of her children were harnessed she’s like a child Wrangler what what she’s like Santa with her / yeah ah I gotta get to my aerobics class yeah the kid in free scullers the kid in front does have a red nose that’s lighting up sorry for that distraction anything could happen on good morning to you Lincoln see that was a glitch in our routine and it threw everything off but to me this not only doesn’t make you insane not only reveals that you’re a little bit insane there’s this wrong most people who have accomplished great things in the past we’re obsessive-compulsive and is saying there’s nothing wrong with being insane a little bit linked but it means that you’re clearly insane and it also means that it exposes a flaw and being so committed to a process that you can do something as idiotic as get out of the shower and still have championed your hair well but this one time in a million I’ve saved so much time the other 999 thousand but I think I’m also games this also goes back to you’re much more organized and systematic than I am however superior I have never like very very rarely lost my keys or my wallet but you lose your keys in your wallet like every month and a half because your process is so tightly bound and wound that if something if somebody throws you off from it it’s like the whole your world falls apart I’ve saved so much time in drying and washing myself efficiency efficiently that I can afford just look for my keys for days and still be ahead of you well listen okay I consider myself pretty systematic I was an engineering major mm-hmm when it comes to brushing my teeth I do exactly the same thing every time okay I start upper right-hand side on the outside do circular motions across the top all the way to the other side come back start on the outside go across all the way to the bottom then I do the tops of the right bottom tops of the left bottom tops to the right top molars I’m talking about tops of the left top so then I go into the top and go all around the inside and then what about that is really systematic you know but I would say that I do that 80% of the time I would say I do that when I’ve got time and I’m like my teeth really need some cleaning but then I would say that another 20% of time I’m just like I kind of commit to the to the outside and I’m like now but watch my wife brushes her teeth she has no system at all she looks like she’s stabbing herself in the mouth with a sword it’s just like there’s no system at all I’m like honey how are you hitting all the surfaces your teeth she’s like well eventually I’m gonna do it you know no system at all she’s going with the odds right is yeah and so I I consider myself pretty systematic but not but not me but not like a robot I feel like you’re almost robotic yes I know exactly how to brush my teeth I have a system for a bunch of my teeth but I cannot deviate from it but I have discipline and how many cavities have you had one my entire life that’s not true I’ve had one cavity mine oh you’ve got fillings all back here man those half of those are pre fillings that there was no cabin and they were just like we want to do something here all right this guy doesn’t have a system go ahead and put fillings where there aren’t even cabbage but I know I think I can help you I think what we what you needed is not about helping me this is about me helping you I know I listen I think that every once in a while you should purposely have someone your wife since you live with your wife throw your system off to make you adaptable so in other words I think that like once every three weeks your wife you’re like throw a cantaloupe in the shower when you’re in there like you know do something to completely distract you but but that’s what happened today and I did fine it’s like I can’t work in shambles over shampoo in my hair oh my gosh my system is broke you threw a cantaloupe in there my system was broken not by a cantaloupe but I think you shouldn’t purposely throw yourself off every once in a while and become completely David maybe that’s what my subconscious was doing who knows do you have a strict routine for things like showering I didn’t even mention my drying off routine I didn’t even get to that well tell us about it wink you know the towel and I start at the top and I dry my face with the top of the towel and as I’m drying my body I’m also moving down the towel so that the driest part of the towel is is is what is absorbing the wettest part of my body you realize that you’re obsessive-compulsive now I am systematic no but but you don’t have to wash my hands oh there’s nothing wrong with it hey listen that’s not obsessive-compulsive no it’s systematic but I was doing do it you get uncomfortable like if you don’t commit to that process it makes you feel uncomfortable if I were to be like link here’s a towel you can’t do your system just dry yourself it would make you feel uncomfortable not because you didn’t feel you were being efficient because but because you’re you’re tied to the presser I’ll probably just do this Oh get out of here I probably just take a joke like this right you see look I’m living life I’m tasting the raisin I’m just worried about you you know I don’t I don’t want you to one day I don’t want you to snap one day and then you don’t have to just do this thing by myself if you’re so tightly committed to these things I can one of you day you care for me you’re gonna just snap and go completely crazy I mean one day you’re gonna come to work and it’s not gonna be just shampoo you hear you’re gonna be like you’re gonna be in nothing but your underwear well let’s at least let’s at least level the scales here and say but I can also help you Rhett hmm I could you know for a small consulting fee I could teach you how to save five minutes in the shower and actually clean yourself thoroughly for once let us know what you think well yeah I want to hear about your process in the comments but let’s check in with chia Lincoln we’ve been away from him for two days but he has changed none and he’s continued to not sprout we just kind of be in a complete static state of non growth not non dying he’s not dying really yeah he’s I would say he’s flourishing I say yeah I think he looks great for what he is he looks great have a great weekend we will see you on Monday