Episode 511 Scott Adams: Political Lies, Mass Hysteria, All the Racist Comments, Dopamine

Date: 2019-04-29 | Duration: 45:52

Topics

Is Senator Wyden, the dumbest person in politics? He STILL believes the debunked “fine people” HOAX? Major media is now acknowledging it was a HOAX FBI had unconfirmed, unverifiable Steele dossier Steele then leaked the dossier to the media FBI then claimed to have TWO independent “confirmations” The FBI “seeds” information to the press for confirmation? Press takes one thing after another out of context The press “seeds” the narratives they want to push out Then they refer to each other’s reporting to cement propaganda The psychology of mass hysteria Example: Sonic weapon pointed at our Cuban embassy How many times has WaPo and other media…lied about Trump? WaPo says President Trump has lied 10,000 times Search on “fine people” HOAX gets over a million hits Search for “Russian Collusion” HOAX gets over a million hits Organizing your life around dopamine Exercise releases dopamine Music releases dopamine, but music lyrics program the brain
Accomplishments, even small ones, release dopamine Completion releases dopamine Lighting and color balance, impacts mental state Seek lighting that produces your desired mental state

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pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom button hey everybody come on in here does cuz why I'll tell you why because it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams and the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous app all you need is a classroom or a cup some kind of a chalice or a Stein or a thermos or a flask fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the simultaneous Impa oh yeah that's some good stuff right there alright well so the news is still kind of slow but there's some fun things happening and in no particular order you may remember a character from the 2016 campaign that I called the mole now the mole was sort of a hypothetical

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now the mole was sort of a hypothetical person that I imagined was working on the Hillary's social media campaign because her social media game was so bad it looked like it had to be a trump supporter who was pretending to give her advice because the advice was so bad that it just had to be like a secret agent a mole planted in the campaign and today I saw that beta or orc as it has announced a plan to fight climate change where the price tag of 5 trillion dollars um now when I see a candidate running for president coming up with a plan that's gonna cost you 5 trillion dollars and that's just for one thing yeah that's that's just one policy I've got to ask myself is he really running for president or is he is he he's not even running for vice president with

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even running for vice president with that kind of a plan so anyway it looks like the mole has a new job working for a bet oh coming up with ridiculous plans in bed oh how about universal health care it's only gonna cost you fifty trillion dollars sounds good I'm gonna go with that health care doesn't cost fifty trillion dollars but it's funny all right so the dumbest senator in the world senator Wyden now I say he's the dumbest senator in the world without actually having surveyed all of the senators but of the senators who appear on television I always have the same impression you know you you judge all the Senators that you see on TV all the politicians and you say oh that one no it's pretty smart even if I don't agree with their opinions you can tell they're smart Nancy Pelosi for example I don't agree

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Nancy Pelosi for example I don't agree with her opinions but there's no question she's very smart Elizabeth Warren don't agree with her opinions but there's no doubt she's really smart Kamala Harris don't agree with her very smart cory booker brilliant guy you know he's probably got the highest academic credentials or you look at what's his name mayor Pete brilliant guy then there's senator Wyden every time he might even pronouncing his name right every time he comes on television I just think am I looking at the dumbest guy I've ever seen in politics now I'm not saying his IQ is low because I don't know that yeah Ron Wyden but every time he's on TV suppose it's a WYD en every time he's on TV and he's talking independent of whether I agree with his opinions I just listen to him and I think are you

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I just listen to him and I think are you the dumbest guy in the entire Congress no sois well somebody says how about SWA well swell is a diff the situation because I don't believe he believes everything he say you know he's in a political contest and the truth is is not really an effective tool so I don't think you can say this wall woes Dom you can say you don't like his ideas and by the way he's the swallow is my representative in my area had met him several times and I don't get any impression he's down but don't agree with a lot of things he says all right so Ron Wyden senator because even today he's tweeting about the Charlottesville find people hoax like it's real as if it hasn't already been debunked as thoroughly as thoroughly as it could be now the version that he says is real is

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now the version that he says is real is this is his tweet after Charlottesville Trump called those neo-nazis and white nationalists shouting anti-semitic slurs quote very fine people now that has been debunked by CNN Jake Tapper it's been debunked by Wikipedia PolitiFact the fact checkers Washington Post Vox USA today at least one editor for The Wall Street Journal now I tweeted a separate tweet in which I actually was this week it's write retweeted Ron widens incorrect fake news but he's the dumbest senator in the world because he's the only person who missed all of the headlines o Snopes Snopes just doesn't talk about it somebody's asking me about Snopes they just don't mention it as you were you could imagine that they would and I think I told you I forget if

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would and I think I told you I forget if I told you yesterday that Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia he retweeted a Breitbart Breitbart article Joel Pollock's article in the context of showing it was article about how CNN's Jake Tapper described the fine people quote accurately and it it conflicted with a lot of pretty much all of the CNN reporting up to that point so it was a Breitbart article Joel Pollock and it was talking about a CNN event so his Breitbart article talking about CNN Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia retweets it because as many of you know so the several of us and some of you watching probably right now were involved in trying to get Wikipedia to correct the record so that it would have the second part of the president's quote in which he said that he condemned totally the

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he said that he condemned totally the white supremacists are the neo-nazis and white Nationals so wikipedia was the first let's say media major media site I don't know if you'd call them a media site but there was the first there were not obviously a right-leaning site the first one was to actually recognize that this was fake news and to add the and to add the full context now they don't call it fake news they just add the context so you can tell yourself that it's a fake news as you can see and some people got out of it got on Jimmy Wales for set for retweeting Breitbart because that's a right-leaning site and I quickly noted that it was a right leaving site agreeing with a left-leaning site which was the whole point this is one of those few cases where the left-leaning site and the right leading site were on the same page at least about the truth of this hoax which was that it wasn't true

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this hoax which was that it wasn't true and Wikipedia was on that same page so it made perfect sense it was actually the perfect thing for a Wikipedia representative to retweet because it showed that both the left and right are now agreeing with where Wikipedia got first not not first before the site's on the right but first before the site's doesn't left anyway so I'm using a president Trump persuasion techniques and I don't know if anybody caught this but in my tweet I said the world's dumbest senator talking about Ron Wyden doesn't notice that all the major press outlets debunk to find people hoax this week do you recognize the the persuasion technique I'll read it again find the persuasion technique that's in this so my tweet says world's dumbest senator doesn't notice that all the major press outlets debunked the find people hoax this week how many of you can tell not

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this week how many of you can tell not the name-calling that's not the active part thinking past the sale right yeah it's the all because what this is that the tweet is designed to make people who are inclined to disagree with it to make them argue about whether all is accurate if I can make them argue about whether literally every single major media site debunk it and in the process they will convince themselves that many of them did the New York Times printed an article article an interview with a fine person but that was back in 2016 but it's resurfacing and they're gonna find out okay it is true that Jake Tapper's quoted the entire you know the active part of the transcript that's true sure there's a Washington Post it is true that marks dead and so they're gonna go down and convince themselves

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gonna go down and convince themselves that maybe I'm incorrect that every major media outlet did it but most of the big ones took or took a swing at it you know there's at least one opinion person one editor one representative one one contributor from most of the major outlets now at least you know one voice that has been printed or published or was on air they said clearly that the president said I'm not talking about that group I condemn them totally so what he said do I would I trust Jake Tapper to draw Dilbert again for those of you don't know the background Jake actually drew a week of Dilbert a few years ago for charity and we give gave some money to a wounded or your charity now let me be very clear I like Jake Tapper like as the person I think he's a great guy super talented across all

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great guy super talented across all kinds of different fields you know he's written fiction he knows history he's great on the air you know so talent wise tremendous and personality just as a person so I think he has all the right instincts and he he said the correct the correct interpretation of the Charlottesville hoax so you could disagree with him as much as you want I have lots of points in which I might but he did get this right he did say it on the air yeah contradicting pretty much all of CNN who says it the other way and he's tremendously talented and I think that he's actually interested in the truth so I don't have anything bad to say about Jake even when we disagree on content all right what else was I going to talk about today so to to to I'm looking at

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about today so to to to I'm looking at my own notes so I can tell what I was gonna talk about today why why is my phone so right this user interface is so bad it's not working looking for anything yeah let's talk about all the all the racist comments so thank you for reminding me when I write I write the title of these periscopes and then as soon as the periscope starts I can't see the title anymore so it's anyway so orange to talk about you remember the the trick that allegedly the FBI used allegedly to get those FISA warrants about Russia collusion now the story goes and I'm not so sure you can trust the reporting on this topic no matter where it comes from these days but the story goes that one of the ways that the FISA application to to spy on various people associated with the Trump

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people associated with the Trump campaign directly or indirectly that part of what they did was they created the steel dossier and then it was leaked to the press and then I think it was a sack off but anyway the press rose stories from the content of the steel dossier and then when the FISA application was being put together the FBI said we have two sources we've got the steel dossier but we've also got the story in the news but the story in the news was put there by the FBI or put there by whoever leaked the steel dossier now that allowed them to pretend that there were two sources when there was only one source so the so remember that trick because it's not the first time you'll ever see that now what the press does is they'll they'll take something the president Trump says that's just a normal thing with normal

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that's just a normal thing with normal language which if it were to be understood in its its ordinary form it wouldn't be provocative but because the press twists and turns it and takes that in context and edits out the parts that are inconvenient they turn it into racism so then what does the press report as the proof of president Trump's racism what the press reports is their own mistakes and they so in other words the press takes one thing after another and the context I'll give you some examples so we've already talked about how the fine people thing was fake news for two years because they just edit out the part where the president says I condemn totally the neo-nazis at the white Nash's they just leave that out and turn it into a completely opposite of story they did the same thing with we're a similar thing in terms of their being fake News with the birther issue the

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News with the birther issue the birtherism birtherism issue they've decided to tell the public it's a case of obvious racism there's not another case of obvious racism because it's the most common political attack in political history the most common thing that anybody does to attack an opponent is if it's available to them they say you're not eligible for running to run for office they'll say you haven't lived in the district long enough they'll say this is your guesthouse they'll say this is where you get your mail but you're not really a citizen they'll say that you have they'll say that a Canadian Ted was born in Canada so the president literally used exactly the same technique against Ted Cruz why because it was available it was easy it's the most common normal easy thing to do and say I'm not sure why Kim my my opposition I'm not even sure that they can legally run for this office most common thing to do now what did the media do the media started spinning that

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media do the media started spinning that as if it's obvious racism when it's obviously not because the president didn't mention race he just mentioned lots of questions about the birth certificate whether he believed they were true or not is somewhat irrelevant because it's the most common political accusation anybody makes if it's available you always do it and and so now when the some other thing comes up such as the let's say this comment so the share whole comment was something that was said in the small group which when you take it to a larger group in other words when it leaks and it becomes part of the press the way of feels is completely different just changing the context from something said in a small group of people you're not expecting to blab or you hope they don't it's a bad expectation when you see it larger it all looks worse for example take just about every conversation that

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take just about every conversation that you've had with friends about politics imagine if your private conversation with your friend in which you don't believe you're saying anything outrageous imagine if those exact words were simply broadcast to the world and then the world hears them as if you said them in public because the way you talk casually is so different from the way that you would talk to the public that all you need to do is change the context and it sounds awful that's that's a trick that the press does because the public is not sophisticated they cannot hear the comment that is now a public known fact what we said they can't mentally translate that back to what it must have sounded like when it was said in a small group that's that's what the the the the press does now the che hold the comment was about countries that have low socio-economic situations maybe their education system isn't that good

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their education system isn't that good everybody in the small group knew exactly what he was talking about which was countries that aren't doing so well it may not be producing as many as many potential immigrants who would you know be a positive for the country in terms of economics has nothing to do with race the the the except by coincidence right so the press turns that comment about the socio-economic situation in the country they turn that into well it's obviously a racist statement and how do they prove that the shareholder ments or a racist statement well they go to the FISA application and they say you know sure it's a little bit ambiguous I can see how you're saying it's only about the country not about the people but the way we know it's about the people really is because look at this other comment about birtherism so if you look at the other comment you say well you know if

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other comment you say well you know if you saw any one of these by themselves I can see how you might say I say ambiguous but you have to look at all these other examples that are also made up all of the examples proofs are more fake news individually every single one of them is just made up so the news has created this this amazing structure in people's minds in which they will believe anything that's ambiguous to be a sign of definite racism not because of the thing they're looking at but because of all the other hoaxes that form this structure that people say well if all those other things are true this other thing is probably true too but in fact all of them have been ceded by the press the same way the press are the same way the FBI seated the steel dossier with the press so they could say look it's in the press it's at the steel

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look it's in the press it's at the steel dossier to sources to sources not for to
so anyway so that's that's the source of the great hysteria so speaking of mysterious I saw a tweet by Tony Heller today famous climate skeptic and he was talking about a book written in the eighteen hundreds about the about mass hysteria and his point was that that climate change could be better understand as a mass hysteria than some kind of accurate science now independent of whether that take is spot-on or completely off I will reserve judgment I will agree with the central point which is if you're looking at climate change and you have not studied mass hysteria you are not qualified to have an opinion even if you are a top scientist in the

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even if you are a top scientist in the field you're a top climate scientist and you really really know your stuff and you're working the field and you've written papers and you've peer reviewed even if you're really deeply into it that person if they don't also know the science of psychology about mass hysteria they are not qualified to have a credit opinion on climate change because climate change is a science question right but it's not only the science of chemistry it's not only the science of physics it's not just climatology it's not just tree rings it's not just ice cores it's not it's not just all of those things alone it is also the science of psychology because it's is how we process this stuff that gets us to whether or not we're right or were imagining things so if you were a scientist who knows all of those climate EE Sciences but for some reason and I imagine this would be

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some reason and I imagine this would be rare but if you and if you knew nothing about the frequency of mass hysteria s-- how they're created how easily cognitive dissonance happens how common it is and how and how wrong science can be even when it's completely right if you're if you're not up on that science the science of the psychology science I don't know if you qualified so I'm sure there would be lots of people who are qualified there would know all of them enough about those sciences but if you don't you're not qualified now the things which I would call mass hysteria czar certainly Trump derangement syndrome is somebody said in the comments is an obvious mass hysteria I would say that the the embassy the the thought that there's a sonic weapon that's been pointed at two of our embassies despite the fact that there are real medical problems I think that's clearly a mass hysteria in my opinion now we're still waiting for the ultimate

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now we're still waiting for the ultimate confirmation of that but it's certainly shaping up that that was a mass hysteria [Music] so the vaccine debate yeah I don't know if the vaccine debate is a mass hysteria
it might be I'd have to think about that a little bit I mean that's really a question of just some people not believing some science you know and and accepting the anecdote or having a different risk assessment because it's not it's not as if fact scenes are completely safe so the people who say vaccines are not safe are not completely wrong we don't really know if vaccines have a little bit of risk which I think everybody agrees or more than that we don't really know so what so I'm not sure that quite fits cleanly into the mass hysteria because it's a different risk assessment you know maybe some bad thinking there there's

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some bad thinking there there's something else going on there all right you can't be a vaccine expert unless you understand the mass hysteria I would say that's close to true all right now the Washington Post humorously declared the President Trump according to the Washington Post's database President Trump has told now 10,000 lies since since taking office I think ten thousand lies so I wondered to myself huh I wonder how many lies have been told in the press about the president so I figured well I'll just do a google search and the ones that we know are lies so I did a Google search on you know within quotes find people and Trump and I got over a million over

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and Trump and I got over a million over a million times the press has talked about the fine people hoax and I'm gonna guess that 95 percent of that was told wrong in other words lies and then I did a search on Russia collusion again in quotes with Trump and there were over a million one of them was over a million was one was 1.4 million and then I said to myself I'm gonna write a funny tweet which I'll show the Washington Post tweet that says the president has 10,000 and then I'll all paste him a screengrab to show that there are over a million lies about the president for the firing people a million about Russian collusion and here's what I did I said okay one of them's a million you know there was 1.4 million I'll add them together and I got 3.4 million and I sent off my 12 set off my tweet now some of you might be ahead of

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tweet now some of you might be ahead of me here some of you a little bit better at math and you may have just detected that I added 1+1 and got 3 so I deleted that tweet when I realized that I added 1 plus 1.4 I've got 3.4 not my finest moment I'm not proud of that I'm not proud of that at all so I deleted it and I thought ah screw and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna fix it and retweet it it'll just make people ask more questions so you remember I've told you before that one of my superpowers is an inability to be embarrassed perfect example am i embarrassed that I added one plus one point four and got three point four and then I did it in public yeah not really not even a little I'm not even a little embarrassed about that let me switch topics from politics to dopamine's many of you probably know

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to dopamine's many of you probably know what dopamine is you know that dopamine is that little chemical in your brain well I guess your brain is part of producing it your brain and your hormones are producing that make you feel good so basically if your dopamine is working you're probably feeling happy and if your dopamine is low you're probably not feeling happy and I realized I was reading an article about it and I realized that I've organized my life around dopamine and I wonder how many of you have done the same and what I mean by that is I've figured out all of the things that create dopamine and then I've styled my life to create a lot of it and I thought I would go through some of the things which create dopamine so it turns out that exercise creates dopamine if you needed a better reason for exercising I don't know what it would be like what is the point of life other than being happy while we're here maybe

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than being happy while we're here maybe there's an afterlife that'd be great but at the very least wouldn't you like to be happy while you're here and when people when people talk about hey you should exercise it seems like we don't push the dopamine part when we say you should exercise we say do it for your health you know do it for your looks you know do it for your stress and those are good reasons those are really good reasons but maybe we should hit the dopamine thing a little bit more maybe we should say you know exercise releases dopamine that literally makes you happy now I have noticed that connection so strong that I can actually tell how long I can go without exercising before I will be hard to be with in other words I can get I can sort of turn into angry Scott in about two days so if I go two days without an exercising which would be rare because I'm pretty dedicated to

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be rare because I'm pretty dedicated to getting doing something active every day but once in a while something comes up and you go two days if you go two days without exercising you can tell your dopamine is low your dopamine is low if you have an exercise so knowing that should be and getting people to track that to pay attention just pay attention how do you feel the day you exercise after you're done just just remember was that uh was that a good day or was that a bad day so it's very important to remember so that you can you can build up in yourself the habit that oh this is how I get dopamine I'll go get me some dopamine by going to the gym so that's one way so exercise is one and you know most of the the obvious things there I think there's some music for some people creates dopamine I don't like to use music from my dopamine because music is a form mental pollution and by that I mean your

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mental pollution and by that I mean your brain can't do too many things at the same time so if you're if you're using part of your brain to play music meaning that you're repeating it you're thinking about it you're repeating lyrics in your head you're you're somewhat randomly programming your brain instead of intentionally programming it so if you're listening to a bunch of sad news it could make you sad if you listen to the music that makes you feel stressed I don't know what kind of music will do that but the point is that the music is is jacking your chemistry without you necessarily anticipating or wanting it to happen so if you have a creative job I think you'd have to experiment with this because there's probably a lot of personal difference but for me music is a negative even though it does create dopamine so I do like listening to music in the sense that I can feel it making me feel good so I'm not different from other people in that sense when I listen

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other people in that sense when I listen to music if it's something I like makes me feel good and I'm sure that there's a dopamine connection there but it also makes me repeat music in my head until half of my brain is not working now if your brain can handle all that and you can still do everything you want to do and music makes you happy why not but you should at least question it all right but here's here's the here's the part of the dopamine yet that I found most interesting and it's the reason that I wanted to talk about it and I don't know if most of you understand this but science now knows that one of the best ways to create dopamine is by small accomplishments think about that so if you've organized your life into a series of small accomplishments your dopamine is going to be pretty good and let me give you an example where the first time I noticed this what I was working my my corporate jobs and sometimes I would get assigned the most

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sometimes I would get assigned the most the most trivial stupid tasks of making a PowerPoint presentation for something of not much importance in the corporate world so that be my job and I'd have to spend two days making a PowerPoint presentation with a bunch of slides for whatever purpose and what I found was I really enjoyed those days of work meaning that I knew I had accomplished nothing of actual value in the real world this is the fun part I knew my powerpoint presentation wouldn't change anything about the profitability of the company and I just didn't really change anything in the real world but it made me feel really good I mean I I had the sensation where you'd actually tingle and get excited when you'd look at your slides you're like yeah I nailed that a slide look I got 10 good slides whoa let me let me rearrange them yeah and I would find

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rearrange them yeah and I would find doing a PowerPoint presentation while I wasn't interacting really with the real world it was satisfying in a way that it should not have been and apparently the science supports us that if you have the feeling of these small accomplishments hey I did a page on a PowerPoint slide deck you'll get a little boost of dopamine now I looked at how my life is organized here's how my life is organized I do at least on average I've got to do one comic strip everyday if I finish one comic strip I've done a good day's work so I I have a job where I can have a discrete finished success every single day and I'm sure that that helps my dopamine because I never go I've published or had published a Dilbert comic every day for 30 years I think it's an 11,000 comics or

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I think it's an 11,000 comics or something like that every single one of them gives me a little dopamine hit and and that's lucky I also have been doing these periscopes pretty much every day for several years every time I finish one of these periscopes I get a little hit of dopamine because it was a discrete tasks that I had as my you know my objective for that day I finished it I don't need to go back to it it's done and I feel that sense of accomplishment so that's two things that give me a dopamine here every day so and there's also many of you have noticed if you have jobs in which you're working on conceptual things all day let's say you're working in the advertising business and you're measuring things and you're going to meetings and you're you're talking about what the ad would be and you're negotiating with people you're never really gonna feel at least in the average day you're not gonna have

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in the average day you're not gonna have any sense that you did anything you'll know in a conceptual way yeah I went to work I had conversations it it feels like it moved the ball forward it was probably all worth doing but nothing got completed I I didn't get any dopamine from that and when people are in that situation you know they'll go home on the weekend and they'll clean their garage and cleaning the garage feels really really good because you needed a discrete task that you could just finish you know sometimes cleaning the house sometimes just you know doing a little task doing some errands that have been bothering you for a while it feels good so here's where I'm going with us I would bet that most of you and most of the world that you organize your lives around just I guess your schedule you

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around just I guess your schedule you just say all right what's on my schedule I'll just do the things on my schedule and I would I would suggest that maybe a more productive effective way to look at your life is in dopamine opportunities and if you have a schedule but you don't have in your schedule things that you know will be discrete successes no matter how minor it could be just cleaning the house but you need to have those in your your daily life or you're gonna be dopamine deprived and that's going to affect your your happiness and your effectiveness everywhere I'm pretty sure that it's not an accident that my life has evolved to have lots of dopamine producing events yesterday I got a massage a professional massage it's a it's purely a dopamine event I I watched Game of Thrones last

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event I I watched Game of Thrones last night purely a dopamine event although it was pretty stressful Game of Thrones just turned into an average zombie movie you know Game of Thrones in my opinion one of the greatest things that's ever been produced entertainment wise yeah I know everybody has a different opinion on it but in my opinion one of the greatest things ever produced and this season they just sort of turned into a zombie movie but I think they'll they'll improve so so let me ask you this in your life can you look at places where you could insert some discrete discrete dopamine opportunities it could be that you say I go to the gym every day at lunchtime or before work or after work when it works so that you just build that in it could be you say you know this is the day I do X but whatever it

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this is the day I do X but whatever it is look at look at those discrete opportunities and get your dopamine I thought I would put that out there for you somebody says you don't mention endorphins from exercise yeah when I say dopamine I'm I'm sort of simplifying so that's that's a good a good note there so I don't mean that dopamine is the only thing happening that makes you happy but it's it's good to just talk about that way because if you get your dopamine right probably everything else is fine too all right do I use my virtual reality headset much the answer is no in part because you you fairly quickly run through the content that's available that's good so it's like everything else if you were to look at the body of music you know 99% of it is stuff you don't want to listen to and but if you find

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want to listen to and but if you find the 1% is great so you can kind of quickly run through all of the good content in New York just it's set up with like a subscription so that you're always looking at new content but there it doesn't come very quickly at least not good content but the other thing is it gives you nausea so you can get noise noise just nauseous nauseous you can feel like you're sick in your inner ear is off after like 10 minutes or so so you actually have to deal with the fact that it makes you a little bit sick now I think that that's something that is likely to be correctable in the future feels like there's gonna be some kind of fix that makes that go away you feel nauseated okay thank you what's the best VR headset I don't know I've only I've only used the hi if I think and so you

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only used the hi if I think and so you have a VR headset for sale not yet but I probably should now I'm speaking of dopamine I'm also with Christina's help changing out and Christina's we're leading this effort changing all the lighting in my house so I'm changing it from the warm warm kind of tones that make me feel relaxed and you know want to take a nap I'm changing those down for a brighter light bulbs in the the 5000 range if that means anything to use light bulb experts so it's the whiter light and I've been experimenting I'm going to show you something so I'm at my desk that you see all the time in my office that has windows but they face north so there's no direct light coming through the windows I only get very indirect light coming from the north but when I sit at this desk I find it hard to stay here I kind of want to

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it hard to stay here I kind of want to leave this place as soon as I can because you notice it's hard to tell where the lighting on here but it's a little dark where I am yeah I think it's Lubin's 5,000 lumens is what I was talking about so it's a little dark here and it changes my mood now I'm going to switch the camera so you can see the the opposite view all right so this is the opposite view and it's a little hard to see see if I can lighten that up a little bit yeah a little hard to see but you can see that there's a high top bar height table in front of my window now when I sit there it's hard to tell from this view but when I sit there I'm sort of bathed in the indirect light from the outdoors and just the difference of walking across the room and being in this natural light which is actually much brighter than it looks like in this so this is the worst demonstration ever what I just showed you was actually the bright light but it looks because the

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bright light but it looks because the camera artifacts it looks like it's dark this looks like it's bright but I'm actually in a pretty dark space right now so this just has to do with the contrast anyway the point is that simply walking 12 feet in the same room changes my energy level substantially I mean it's really really noticeable yeah but so noticeable that it almost feels like you took a drug just to walk across the room it's that different and the different feeling that I get in the rooms that have already been converted to the the brighter white light is very different you feel your brain is working better you feel more awake and I would not have chosen these lights because before I thought they felt a little industrial but here's the mistake I was making I always thinking of these white industrial lights as being the

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industrial lights as being the fluorescence because if you work in an office it's almost always florescent and the fluorescence they do keep you awake but it's not it's not a good light there's something about it that just isn't amazing and so now if you have regular lightbulbs or LEDs and whatever that are 5,000 lumens it's a nice white light and I find I find that it really helps me stay awake and alert so I would suggest that since everyone is different that you experiment with that so here's my suggestion for the day if you can find a place where you can spend a little time in bright white light and a little time in yellow or light or even a darker space just see how it feels see see how see how long you could work on something like your laptop in one versus the other huge difference huge difference alright that's all for now

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somebody says so the 5,000 I'm using the wrong terms so it's 5,000 K and not lumens so it's not 5,000 lemons but just look for the Box on your light bulbs it'll say two thousand five thousand whatever it is five K is frequency so the experts are telling me that the frequency of the light is what you want to look at and five thousand is a good good place for that and that's all for now I'll talk to you later