Episode 934 Scott Adams: Learn the True Story About Wuhan, What pairs Well With Fish Tank Cleaner?

Date: 2020-04-25 | Duration: 50:18

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: At home test for coronavirus announced CNN pretending (or believes) the Clorox HOAX How dumb does CNN think their viewers are? Anderson Cooper fears someone will swallow a UV light? Whiteboard1: Math of Life Whiteboard2: Brain Hacking

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come in here come in here come in here if you dare you'll hear a story so dark so awful that you may never be the same tonight the true story of a place called Wuhan in a place called China not long ago people believed that wad was a plain city in China some thought it was a large city in China but it was not oh it was more than that it was so much more than that and we pieced together the clues number 1 wad it turns out is the main centre of fentanyl production that is shipped to the cartels and then the cartels started

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the cartels and then the cartels started a defensive over the kills Americans by the tens of thousands as whoo ha whoo ha the center of all fentanyl but is that the only thing that Wuhan is famous for no no it is not well hot is also a place where horrible weapons are being researched in secret laboratories it is a place where the virus like no other virus not of this world appeared first oh yeah yeah and what about the food is it regular food or is it demon food small animals bats marsupials rip to shreds their bodies slain spread around the market for anyone to

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spread around the market for anyone to just come and eat and Abe no wad is not just a city in China that's the cover story Wuhan is I think I have made the case a portal to Hell
you think those 20 million Chinese folks has suddenly got deactivated do you think they're still in this dimension yeah that was the price there was a price to pay for stopping the plague that came out of the portal from hell and that price was a sacrifice 20 billion Chinese citizens in Wuhan were sucked back into the portal into hell forever and that is the story of one

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scene Alexa turn on studio ah that's better so let's talk about all the things excuse me while I grab my notes I've got to two white boards to the Past yeah double white boards that's right you'd be right like the phone back Becca Dex
Dex all right did you see the president's task force press conference today it was a little bit short a little bit brief took no questions which was perfect so I think the president nailed it today with his press conference he had already answered too many questions earlier in the day so he kept his short I liked it what I really liked about it is that when it was a Steven ha da had came up and started talking about I guess today they approved at at home test what and that whole test now you can't get it

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and that whole test now you can't get it unless your doctor order says so they're you know not enough to go around but doesn't it make you wonder what is the obstacle to take the home test which exists I guess they're a hundred thousand of them already made it's approved FDA approved and they just I think they mail it to your house you you do the sample yourself swab your nose or something and then you just mail the back fat accident you have an answer in like a day and it sounds great but my question is in the context of an emergency why is there though that we can't get done in 30 days this is I'm just curious if we wanted to ramp this home testing thing up from a hundred thousand to you know ten million or whatever and we wanted to get there really quickly probably need more than that probably need undred what would it take to go from where we are to a hundred billion of them fairly quickly because I can't think of

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quickly because I can't think of anything that we couldn't get done in about a month and he said it would take maybe four months to ramp up and that was only going to be another hundred thousand so just a drop in the bucket so it can't be because of lack of money because this would be so important that if you could ramp it up and all you needed was more money well we could get the money almost instantly right it can't be about physical facilities in terms of you know rent and real estate because again it's an emergency so if we needed to find twenty five you know warehouses to quickly turn into little factories to make this I feel like we could do that in a week right because everything's just sort of sitting around idle people would step up they'd say yeah you can use my building whatever so what is that this holding it up is it just supply in terms of some of the raw materials is that the swabs or the

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materials is that the swabs or the little cotton tips the little containers is that is that all because I'm sure I'm trying to think what what in the world would take four months in an emergency because this could actually be the the most important thing if you could test everybody at home and have an answer today I feel like you'd be on top of the virus pretty quickly so just a curiosity I would love more visibility and what it is that's holding it up and maybe there's some way we can help who knows
Stephen also said that there are a whole bunch of therapeutics and some of them sounded pretty promising you know everything sounds promising until it isn't I think at this point our hopes and dreams for something as simple as hydroxychloroquine plus as if through bison and plus think if it works at all yeah of course it would be the the early

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yeah of course it would be the the early stages but if it works at all I feel like we'd know it by now like we wouldn't be wandering we'd say uh yeah it's just so obvious we're gonna stop the trials because it's just so obvious it wouldn't be fair to deny it to anybody while we're waiting so I think you've I think if the even if the three-pack if it really was making a difference I feel like we'd know so I would bet against it at this point so I'm still putting my odds at 60% that in hydroxychloroquine is not the answer but there's someone out there too therapeutics that are being working on that it looks like I don't think we've ever seen such such creativity and you know I said a few days ago that we're gonna see the next two weeks will be the most amazing two weeks maybe of human history yeah that's a lot to say for any

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history yeah that's a lot to say for any two-week period but in terms of how much is going to get invented in the next two weeks or even you know the beginning of completely transforming the systems that you know form our civilization the next two weeks are just going to be off the hook and we're going to see all kinds of stories about the therapies of the type you never even thought could be a thing things to boost your immune system things to protect your lungs things to stop it from spreading there is could be crazy in the next two weeks in a good way
so CNN is if you haven't watched the end today and tonight oh my god it's interesting because see that is pretending or they've talked themselves into it or they believe it I'd actually can't tell that President Trump said in public that you know maybe

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Trump said in public that you know maybe maybe we should consider some kind of imbibing of Clorox and Lysol now CNN is playing a very clever game with us because they're they're preventing their viewers from seeing the full context which would totally explain it away so that that's the first thing to do the other thing they do is they use a variety of words for what they allege Trump did or said that actually didn't really happen what so they they sometimes use the word he used which is injection but sometimes they say drink as if he actually said you know people should drink any of these substances no he didn't say drink it let's purely made up so they're using drink sometimes and also ingest now do you think ingest suggests that a medical professional is carefully you know administering it with

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carefully you know administering it with a syringe no would you here ingest this sort of suggests that the president maybe was thinking people shouldn't drink it which didn't happen right so they're playing a very clever game with their words to describe what he's doing and they're they're using them sort of almost and you know somewhat randomly and you'll never see anybody s CNN answer this question which is who really thought the President of the United States suggesting Lysol and Clorox to scrub the virus and the people's body I mean really is there anybody at CNN who interpreted it that way I totally I totally get the point that the president was unclear and I completely accept that that could be a problem for somebody who's extraordinarily dumb

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extraordinarily dumb how dumb well let me give you an idea of how dumb see you then believes the public is by the way I don't think they're wrong so I'm not going to disagree but this is how dumb CNN thinks our audiences and some of them might in fact be this tub they believe that some people might actually hear what the president said and here's the funny part they think that without them continually reporting on this that there would be enough people who heard the president say it and their own interpretation would have been without anybody telling you how to interpret it yeah this is the magic trick they do if the public had just seen the president talking and there never been any news coverage nobody ever wrote a story about it they just watched it live just as it happened what would the public's opinion of that be this is this is the entire opinion they'd have huh looks like he's just

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they'd have huh looks like he's just brain struggling a little bit I didn't really understand that part yeah now what's for dinner that's it that's it nobody at the public would have even registered that he said something that could be even be a problem because it was just in a list of things he was brainstorming about you don't know what's practical what is it sounds like it could be a thing he's using you know he's not using medical words he's using layperson words anyway so the president put that out there and now CNN is pretending that he really he really somehow bent that so of course they did a follow-up question with the president and I thought that myself thank goodness the president is just going to clarify this and he'll just say no no I wasn't talking about adjusting those things I was saying that those are the things you know the bleach of the most appropriate

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know the bleach of the most appropriate on the outside world and then I was also talking about the light therapy that is injected into the trachea with the ventilator tube and that's a new thing and I was just saying that if the light is a disinfectant is there a way to you know basically scrub the lungs and disinfect them with maybe this light therapy yeah you're right I said it a little bit awkwardly but of course I did mean to suggest anybody would use exterior cleaning products of their body that would be crazy so that's what I thought he might say how'd that go it turns out if you've been following the news the approach that I just outlined was not exactly the path he took I can't say I saw Cometh didn't see it coming what he said was that he was responding

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what he said was that he was responding to reporters in the audience and he was being sarcastic what it was like he wasn't even answering the questions that was asked it was like and and I don't think there was one person in the world what be they supporter or be they critic and the president I don't think there was one person in the world who believed him yeah you said it was sarcasm right and and so I'm thinking all right we can't read his mind but let's just speculate what do we think he was thinking when he said you know an answer this is the most ridiculous answer that not even his arted supporters can buy and then they're like yeah I believe that all over the country there were people

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over the country there were people having to save experience the Trump supporters they were saying all right I got you had this you were taking it out of context I got you back I will I will go in social media and I'll tell those people what really happened just as long as you wait what did you just say what did you just say and then you have to like rethink the whole thing you're like okay ah why would you say that don't know never will know because it was an internal thought he had something happened let me speculate because this is for entertainment over right it's all speculative do you remember when Trump answered the famous Rosie O'Donnell question in the first debate in the primaries at the and I and I told you that the beauty of the Rosie O'Donnell answer is that it was ridiculous didn't really address the question I mean not in a serious way but then he read but he

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in a serious way but then he read but he ran out the clock and everybody laughed and sort of made fun of the way he answered it and somehow it completely eliminated the criticism like the criticism just evaporated because his answer was so much more interesting than the criticism and then we just sort of moved on and then he became president against all odds and I remember that was the moment that I literally stood up and said ah I wonder if he can do that again meaning is this a reaper is this a reproducible thing okay can he just own somebody in real time like that hard with doing something just ridiculous and her sanity cab you can do it a lot so here's my speculation I I wouldn't you know die on this hill being true that makes sense to me I think he said to himself what is my alternative think about it what was the other thing he could have said if he had

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other thing he could have said if he had said any version of what I said that's all we'd be talking about we'd be running his clip and they showed that what he explained that they'd show what he said and then they'd leave stuff out so it looked like he didn't say what he explained he said because they would take the context out then the pundits would lie they would say no you didn't say that you really said this I heard it with my own ears what would it get him if he had told what I think is the truth which is that he was talking about disinfecting the lungs directly with you know either UV light or it could have been a gas because it turns out that there are some situations in which there's something like God Oh hydrogen peroxide gas or something so there are there are therapies suggested by smart people scientists and doctors and stuff that involve some kind of gaseous stuff pumped into your lungs to do something so the president was speculating but imagine tried to explain

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speculating but imagine tried to explain that it would just be a complete and nightmare and a distraction because that's all he'd be doing is like no I meant this and then CNN would say no you did look at the quo we took out of context that's proof that you didn't mean that now you said something crazy about drinking drinking Clorox and we caught you in a lie about it BAM he didn't have an alternative route so my point is the president was completely trapped because simply simply talking about the topic was bad for him the more they talk about it the more they've got a tape the more they can compare what he said look for these tiny details that are different it would just be non-stop packing him to death of this topic so like the Rosie O'Donnell trap where his campaign was over he was in a corner there was no way he's getting out of this this you know this question and

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this this you know this question and that he does right in front of your eyes like like Houdini and so we saw him being trapped by the media and that he says I was being sarcastic and then they say I really don't know what to do with that
the do you see the weird genius of it and again I don't know if that's his the if that was his thought process so I can't tell you for sure it was genius but I will tell you that he has extra tools and what and among his extra tools is the fact that he will use nuclear grade to run out the clock so I believe he just ran out the clock and said something so ridiculous that they didn't even know what to do with it just like the Rosie O'Donnell comment is so ridiculous that a standard news person or pundit can just sort of report it because you don't even know what to say about it it's just so weird because

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say about it it's just so weird because it's so obviously not true and you know it's not true but as long as he acts like he means it's true there's no follow-up question right what's the follow-up question once he says it's it's sarcasm
there's no follow-up question and that's the end of it and then he goes on to something else after he runs out the clock and I'm thinking to myself I don't know how planned it was I just know that he managed to pull a rabbit out of a hat and turn what was you know best-case scenario it looked like it was going to be a terrible terrible thing and he turned it into a slightly less terrible thing that's just sort of weird that I think we'll forget about in a week so I don't know or or he just thought people would believe it don't know we don't know what he was thinking but it was pretty funny all right so this is how dumb CNN thinks you are so Anderson

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dumb CNN thinks you are so Anderson Cooper was talking about the story he was talking about how you know you don't want somebody to hear about these exterior cleaning products that try to use them themselves so that so they're worried is that somebody would try to be their own doctor and had been just administer these deadly poisons that are meant for household cleaning but that Edison Cooper has somebody odd who starts talking about that a UV light therapy that is inserted into the trachea - you know disinfect the virus and then the Anderson because he's sort of on a roll he decides to say that this could be dangerous to suggest that UV light inserted into the lungs or the trachea that are my work because what if somebody home hears that they take their own UV light and they shove it down their own trachea into their own loves and then hurt themselves did it

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loves and then hurt themselves did it sound like I just made that up because I didn't just make that up Anderson Cooper was actually worried that if somebody thought this a special afar UV light was good for the corona virus that they might shove it down their own throat so far that they would be injured by shoving a light down their throat and well I would not want I would not want anyone to do such a thing I have to wonder if we would miss that person would we miss that person you know if if there was a family member of yours who you know of course you'd love your family but if a family member of yours died by trying to shove a UV light down his or her throat until he gagged to death or possibly electrocuted to himself or herself would you say to yourself I'm sure gonna miss Karl or

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yourself I'm sure gonna miss Karl or would you say well that was gonna happen one way or the other I mean the tiber was odd Karl I don't think Karl was gonna live to 80 if you know what I mean Karl was gonna find a way it just happened to be today it was the UV light they got him he you did pretty well I mean it was one of those you know long ones you got it you got about three-quarters down and it was just the last the last edge perforated his his bottom bit his lungs and but otherwise it was a it was a dear biscuit all right one of the things I wonder if the if the virus models have calculated is do you think that the virus models have calculated how good young people are as staying away from old people have you ever seen a young person who really wanted to spend some time with an old person it happens I'm

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time with an old person it happens I'm not gonna say it never happens but if you're a young person how much work are you putting it to spending time with old people anyway and what do you do do you say to yourself I'm sure glad I'm spending time with these old people because that's that's what I wanted to do today in order to spend a bunch of time with some old people no I think more likely people will say are you telling me I have an excuse about to visit grandma really I don't have to visit grandma this is the best day ever and I can just say grandma it's not me it's it's it's the orange man orange band bad says I can't come visit you oh I want to oh oh well I just don't think that the the models have factored in just how airtight that separation is going to be if you give the young just a little bit of an excuse just a little bit of an excuse all right I'm gonna

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bit of an excuse all right I'm gonna teach you some more the secrets of life you're ready for that first of all there's some bath of the the bath of life I'll call it the bath of the external world if you don't know this kind of math and I'm using the word bath pretty liberally if you don't understand these things it's gonna be hard to succeed in life and I'll just quickly mention what they are if you don't know what how to diversify your portfolio or even at it diversify your life you're going to be in trouble because diversification just works it just always works in my case I diverse my bosses so I don't have a boss who could fire me because if I only had one boss that would be terrible so I have lots of customers so lots of my customers can fire me and I still have a job
job so diversify your bosses diversify your customers diversify your portfolio it's one of the most important pieces of math of life you'll ever learn if you put

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of life you'll ever learn if you put together your talent stack I talk about this all the time it's not just that if you had one talent to the one you have it's not that you have twice as much the bath of life is that you have something like three or four times as many options and every time you add something it's like your options double so so the math of talent stacks is that they they just multiply very quickly every time you have a talent here's something else in terms of luck of the odds go where there's luck go where there's lots of energy where there's an industry that's taken enough where it's a it's a happening place if you have the option you know we don't all have the option of travel but if you get the chance go where the energy is when I left college I sold my car from one way ticket to San Francisco why because there was a lot of energy there lots of options lots of stuff and so some of that energy I could take advantage of you need some kind of a strategy for making money here here or

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strategy for making money here here or two one strategy is to sell large things like houses or office buildings or or commercial jets you know just selling really big ticket items and then taking your percentage you get pretty rich that way another way would be to sell something that's less expensive but it could be reproduced easily such as a Dilbert cartoon or a any kind of a license agreement and they can t find a book that sort of thing so it doesn't have to be one of these two things but you should have a strategy of life that if it works out its uncapped it can just grow to the moon well you don't want to do is sell your time because the math doesn't work if you're selling your time and getting paid by the hour there's really a limit to how much money you'll ever have because your time cannot be infinitely more expensive networking with other people is one of those things that increases your odds of success you know buying factors of you

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success you know buying factors of you know five every time you meet somebody that's probably an exaggeration but every time you meet one person it connects you to all of the people they know so the math of networking is meet one person and you sort of somewhat adopt their network because you can always ask that one person for help and that person will say oh yeah I know a guy let me connect you so the math of networking is really strong the math of compounding you know if you just add a little knowledge to to your life every day I try to learn something every day even if it's minimal yeah that compounds so the same way that money and interest compounds so too does knowledge so not just in the talents that way that's a special way but any kind of knowledge it compounds because the knowledge starts forming connections and patterns that will allow you to take from one field and say you know that reminds me of what the the yukon tribes been dead and you

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the the yukon tribes been dead and you know I'll use that when I build my network so you're looking for patterns around the world and the more of them you see the more you can put together and then just risk management in general so you know there's lots of etcetera here and miscellaneous but these are the big things right so these are the external things you got to get right but on the other side of the whiteboard is the fun stuff if you've got the math of life right the next thing you need to do is reprogram your brain to optimize it so that you're an optimized the instrument in this this thing we call life so I was asked in a prior periscope to give you a little lesson on hacking your brain and I'll do this very quickly I know it looks complicated but it's really not it's not so taking it this way think of it in terms of brain hacking is there's power and then there's designed so this is this is just

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there's designed so this is this is just you know how much energy energy your brain is producing you know you think of it it's like horsepower or wattage and to have a powerful brain you got to take care of your your diet and your exercise your sleep you want to challenge yourself to learn new things and add variety to your life so you're not you know bored about looking at the same stuff and it's good to have a purpose to energize yourself alright so in my case you know that I've been trying to teach myself the drums because that for me is a big challenge because that's so outside my my realm of you know any kind of national talent so but I do that intentionally because I've tried to power my brain so I'm always paying attention to these now the biggest mistake people make in my opinion maybe in their whole life yeah this is this might be the biggest mistake people make in their whole life and you're not going to believe it but I'll tell you and that

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to believe it but I'll tell you and that is to think that diet and exercise are the things that you can put off because you're busy you know those are the things you look well I'll just he's so fast food it's faster then I'll skip the gym today but if you get these things right every other part of your life is easier you know your job your your romantic life your health your your brain actually will function better just everything's better so if you don't start here you're you're gonna be in bad shape alright so then the next part is design that this is the fun part you should read a book called habit there are several books you can just google it so learn how to build habits building a habit is doing something in a repetitive way that gives you a reward and there's a payoff so like Pavlov's dogs they would salivate when the bell was rung because they knew this in food was coming you can actually train yourself like a dog to do the things

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yourself like a dog to do the things that you wanted to do simply by giving yourself a reward so I've said before that if I exercise I always make sure that after my exercise I've scheduled some downtime where I'm just relaxing you having the protein shake cup of coffee protein bar looking at my Twitter or whatever stuff I want to do so it's just this really good feeling of being done exercising and you just you know chilling out so build in little rewards for the things you want to make habits and read my book had a failed almost everything and still win big to learn how to build systems to make all this stuff easy ideally you want to build systems that make it easier to do things right then it would be to do it wrong that's the whole thing so you're working on your your brain so don't think in terms of how can I make my muscle bigger that's the wrong mindset you should think in terms of how can I make exercise a habit because if you get that right everything else is going to work

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right everything else is going to work out eventually you're gonna say well I go to the gym everyday maybe I'll try that other machine or maybe I'll maybe I'll talk to Bob and see what he's doing try what he's doing so you end up doing everything right in the long run just by trial and error and learning how to exercise properly but you got to get the habit or have anything right that's what they have a feel book will tell you all right so here are the other things contrast oh did I leave off the most important one I did Association so that's that's the concept behind building a habit so if you associate hey every time I do this I get a reward you've associated a reward and I've used this technique of associating a a reward with a behavior you can change your preferences you can change literally you can change your

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literally you can change your preferences you which would effectively make you a different person if you had different preferences show the full board there you go and do - sorry that's about right and so anytime you want to to make yourself like something that you don't want to like associate it with something pleasurable and eventually you'll just you'll just train yourself contrast is the idea that you use contrast all the time so you would say for example well what's the worst thing that could happen and if you think the worst thing that could happen is you know unlikely and it's over here then what does happened that's more likely just doesn't seem so bad
bad so you've print you probably will recognize the times to use contrast but if you use it wilfully you can fool yourself into liking something that you didn't like as much simply by thinking of something that contrasts with it in

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of something that contrasts with it in the way that it helps you go there that way so you want to focus whatever you focus on the the act of focusing on something causes you to tune your mind to notice notice opportunities I was walking down to the street yesterday and I found a twenty dollar bill laying in the the grass next to the sidewalk and and you might ask yourself well how long has that been there like you know it's a sidewalk how many people didn't see a $20 bill laying on the ground and it was but it was old and withered but I I've always expected to find money since I was a kid one day I found a bunch of money by the side of the street so I told myself when I was a kid to always look for money and so I do so if I'm just walking somewhere but is this just a lifetime habit I'm always looking for money and you would be amazed how often you can find money lying on the ground if you're looking

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lying on the ground if you're looking for it if you're not looking for it apparently you don't see it because I saw a $20 bill lying there I don't know how many people walk by before that so I spend lots of times literally picking up free money because if you focus on anything it Tunes your filter to just see more of it so that's a hack framing is important for example when I say I told you the trick of instead of seeing yourself as you know this creature in the world that's oppressing you don't think of yourself as a victim that's one frame think you yourself as somebody who's gonna win and another frame is to imagine that you're a creature inside a robot body and this is just a game you're playing and when you're moving your big robot body this isn't you the this body is not me the B is inside me and I'm just telling this what to do and it's just like a video game and that's a that's a frame that you can use

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that's a that's a frame that you can use to avoid stress because it just puts you in a whole different world you like up I'm just operating the video game alright well boo now it doesn't have to be true it just has to be an imaginary world that you can put yourself into to get an effect in other words you could hack your brain by simply changing your frame you don't have to believe it that's the important part you simply have to spend time thinking in that way to get the the result yeah ego death is very important your ego is what usually holds you back because you're afraid of being embarrassed you're afraid of being rejected you're afraid of getting fired and your ego is what is what makes you afraid because your ego tells you you're important the moment you realize you're completely unimportant because the universe is just particles bumping around then you know you can get past those fears so these fears will hold you back until you learn

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fears will hold you back until you learn to kill your ego you might use psychedelics to do that alright shelf space is the idea that whatever you spend time thinking about Prowse out the other thoughts so if you have a natural if you have a natural inclination to think negative thoughts there's nothing you can do to stop at negative thoughts directly you can't say stop thinking about that that doesn't work that would not be a brave act but you can fill up all the space with your own thoughts so you can actively say all right I'm gonna think about X think about X thinks about it and if I find some kind of pleasant the hypothetical thought I would often think about being invited to the White House for decades I would think all right what would I do that would cause me to get invited to the White House now yeah because we must live in the simulation I eventually got invited to the White House which is weird you know what are the odds of that but it doesn't matter if

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odds of that but it doesn't matter if it's likely or unlikely it doesn't have to be something you think might happen just think of what would be the most fun thing that could happen and just live in that world for a while especially if you're trying to go to sleep it'll just crowd out the bad thoughts and eventually you learn to those bad thoughts will atrophy after a while because if you don't reinforce them they will shrink over time it might take years but they will optimism is what you fill your shelf space with you the power of positive thinking is extraordinarily powerful because if you're a positive person people want to be around you you're going to take the right kind of risks you're gonna you're gonna you know not be crushed by failure as you say oh you know I'll make it next time optimism is partly I think something that's natural and some people but it is my experience that you can totally hack this one this is one of the most hackable elements in the whole situation you can simply act

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the whole situation you can simply act like an optimist and you get the same results and eventually you become one and so I would say that I spent years pretending to be an optimist and now I am because it because it's just my reflex to say oh yeah that's some bad news but what about all this stuff there's gonna be some good stuff so you simply built a habit a habit of optimism you simply say an optimistic thing or you think an optimistic thing as a rule if anything negative comes out of your mouth this is where the rules I try to follow you know as best I can if I have to say something negative and we all have to sometimes I try to come up with something positive and it's just my rule so that's a brain ACK say something negative because you couldn't avoid it boom and a positive thing fills up your shelf space you want to also travel and you know optionally psychedelics because the more experiences you have the more

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the more experiences you have the more you understand that your point of view is subjective so if you travel you'd be other people who see the world so differently and yet they can survive and their families and good lives you say wait a minute why is it that all these people are seeing a completely different reality they've got a different religion their beliefs it's all different and yet they get along fine their life is fine you really have to experience that to understand how subjective your your experience of life is and of course the talents stack is a way to hack your brain because you're adding talents that are unique I'm sorry you're adding talents that stack well together they just work together well that makes you unique and that literally is changing the structure of your brain but if you have the right talents knack they will also form connections that would not be obvious now an obvious connection would be let's say you're

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connection would be let's say you're good at engineering and then you learn to be a public speaker well it's obvious that those two just go together but that's all they do they just work well together but suppose you learned physics and programming you probably would have more opportunity to just say you know nobody's ever done this in programming before but in the world of physics they solve a problem this way I wonder if I could learn something from physics and then take it over to this other field even as an analogy to sort of brainstorm and then up with a solution so a talent stack will allow you to have accidental connections that can be very valuable and and here's the fun part these are these are actually like physical changes in your brain everything you learned is a physical change in your brain otherwise you wouldn't be maintained you need to learn persuasion the whole topic because it allows you to see it to recognize it and then you know act more

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recognize it and then you know act more act more effectively so this is more of a catch-all visualizing is very important you want to visualize exactly what it is that you want if if you want something specific just think about it and visualize it you could you could call this affirmations the act of writing down and visualizing your goal 15 times that you write it down 15 times they visualize it very important because your brain is a visual engine and so if you get your visual focus on and this is really related to focus as well so if you've got a visual element to your focus and improves your focus you get all those benefits I also recommend having stories of you which is to cobble together the stories of your life that in your opinion would represent you and you can you have the option of forgetting the stories that would be inconvenient or you wouldn't like what that did to you now of course those bad stories may well be part of

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those bad stories may well be part of your occur personality but you can choose to sort of craft yourself into the version you want to be by simply deciding which stories define you I told you that my stories have me winning against all odds and indeed I experienced it in my real life I seem to win against all odds fairly consistently well like way more than the any kind of statistical probability would suggest I assume it's just you know psychological and it can all be explained somehow but make some stories of you that turn you into the person you want to be and then of course setting your priorities is you too and your brain to decide what's important and yeah manage everything else so those are the main hacking techniques if I thought about it I could probably think of a half a dozen or a

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probably think of a half a dozen or a dozen more but these are the ones I use and I would say that you're not gonna get some gigantic benefit on day one these are the things that you should find find a way to use all of your life when I became a trained hypnotist and I could see the the actual mechanical let's say reality of your brain that the the way hypnotist work is they don't have a belief system that's important anyway so hypnosis is just a set of techniques that have been figured out over time and the hypnotist knows well when I do this I get this kind of outcome and that's really that's what it is it sounds very much like programming so you know if you're programming the computer you don't say well what will be the motivation of the of the hardware when it sees my code it doesn't have motivation it just executes the code and

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motivation it just executes the code and a hypnotist learns that the human mind is just like that the human mind artificially assigns reasons to things but the reasons are real they're their rationalizations after the fact the the the reason that the brain did it is because some software was introduced that's all your brain just did with the software told it to do and then after that you say well the reason I did this is because my priority isn't my philosophy and all that but it's not real all right
somebody just said in the comments this is an amazing chat group except for all the trolls true enough I'm just looking at some of your comments to see if any of this was good for you it looks like some if you've got something out of this good yeah norman vincent peale was the author of the power of positive thing that President Trump was influenced by as was I and I will see you tomorrow you

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as was I and I will see you tomorrow you know where to find me why now I don't want to turn it off because all I'm getting compliments they'll so hold on for a second I have to read the compliments because as much as managing your ego is important you know and I very much about being able to turn it down to zero but it's also good for your motivation and your energy if you do something well and somebody notices it so I've actually just sort of enjoying the fact that people were happy about what they saw today very motivating you know I told you that the thing you should the one metric in your life that you should track is your energy so follow your energy that it's the most reliable you know guide for where to go and doing this the the reason I do these periscopes is because I followed my energy there was no plan beyond that except I would learn some

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beyond that except I would learn some stuff I guess but I do enjoy this tremendously all right you're gonna have a great day sleep tonight you're gonna be thinking about all the things you'll probably try some of these techniques before you you before you drift off if there's one that you could do that would be the most important to get to sleep it's the shelf space one think about shelf space and then consciously fill it with the coolest thoughts you can think of don't worry about what you're doing tomorrow don't do the list don't think about tomorrow's day that's the worst thing you can do think about some purely imaginary fun thing that might never happen but wouldn't it be cool if it did and take that thought to bed tonight and I will talk to you in the morning