Welcome to Episode 74 of my podcast on August, the 18th, hope you're doing well. I thought I'd make a slight change to the podcast titling and intro, because I want to add the date to it because I figured that there'll be an easier way of searching in the future. Should I or anybody else want to head back to any kind of date. Then, what fun we can have, being able to go through and do that. And I also want to mark a little achievement, and it is a little achievement, but at the same time it's a great achievement and a big one. And so, the podcast software I use anchor. It gives you a stats, how many people listen to each episode, etc. And then it estimates a guesstimate your listenership. And I think it takes like the average listeners of the past 30 days or something or the average plays per episode or something like that. Anyways, I've just gone up by 25% in my average listeners. As of today, so that's big news 25% is obviously a huge percentage, and it reminds me very much of a book that I read called fact fulness, which is a brilliant brilliant book, and I highly recommend it to everybody. At its core, it basically means, it basically talks about how. A lot of people think things are getting worse in a lot of ways, but actually the facts are that things are getting much better in most ways. But obviously the media and the newspapers and everything they present facts in a skewed way to give you the wrong impression. So the book is basically about understanding and not being hoodwinked by facts, but actually kind of reading between the lines and understanding when a fact is impressive or useful and when it's not so right there I said, you know, I've got up by 25% which sounds really impressive and big. But of course, the real question is, well, the context from what to you know from what to what. So, here comes the big reveal the small reveal depending which way you look at it, I've gone from four regular listeners estimated to five. So of course, four to five in real terms is not a lot is one person. But 25% sounds much more impressive. So that just reminded me me that you know one should always make sure that one understands the context of any fact when it's been given before rendering judgement on whether it's a good or a bad thing. And in this specific case, it's a wonderful thing because you're listening to this maybe you're one of the regular four or five, who knows, but I think you massively spend your time and me because, you know, this podcast. If you read our How to make a great podcast that talks about this a bit yesterday. One of the key things that we'll talk about is the audio you know getting the right microphone etc. The other thing to talk about is, especially if you want to build the podcast up and get a big listenership its guests, you must interview people that have guests on and whatnot. Whereas I'm not averse to that in the future. This podcast the the idea behind it isn't about necessarily getting big numbers. In fact, I'd be surprised if it does get big numbers because basically it's just me prattling on and talking about my thoughts and my day and what have you. So, you know, I never really expected that many people to listen to it. I hope that in time more people will listen to it but only out of kind of a more general interest because, as my profile rises. I, you know, I get my music to more people in my writings more people and therefore more people are interested in finding out a little bit more about me or the way I'm thinking or whatnot. Then I am hoping that that will raise the listenership, but the way I always kind of compare it to and this is something I want you to think about if you're ever in business or thinking about raising your profile is the idea that any body or brand or what have you, who has quote unquote made it and by that I mean they've made a success for themselves in some sphere that has enabled them to elevate their profile in the general public conscious kind of whatever t
