Anything new with Blight Authority? I still need to do... There are some interesting things brewing with the Blight Authority that I won't tell you about, but there's some very, very high-level activity meaning that smart people are looking at it. That's all I can tell you for now.

Can't log into the forum. I'll look into that. So you're saying that BlightAuthority.com won't let you log in? I'll make sure that it's working. If you tried it the other day, it was subject to a denial of service attack. So if you tried to log into the platform a few days ago, it was down. Some hackers had attacked it. But it was back up. And if it was a few days ago you had the problem, just try it again.

What's my new book going to be? New book is going to be on how to escape your mental prisons. Somebody asked about the URL. I believe that both the URLs work: Blight Authority and also the Blight Authority. I think it'll send you to the other one.

Is the manuscript going to copywriting yet? No, I'm only 20% done writing it. Yeah, so it's brand new. I just started.

Am I happier now or before Trump? Have you ever heard of the theory about baseline happiness? It's the idea that it feels like your happiness is being determined by things happening in your life, but science has debunked that. It turns out that people are born with some kind of genetic biological disposition to how happy they can be. And they can have a bad day and still be happy, and other people can have a good day and never be happy. So you don't have a lot of movement from your baseline. And if you do, it's usually temporary and then you're back to your baseline.

So when you say am I happier before or after Trump, you know, before Trump if you went way back, maybe I had bigger problems and those made me unhappy. But I'd say the same. I'm happy in a different way. I was happy. I'm happy when things are going well, less happy when they are not.

How do you determine your baseline? Oh, you probably know just over the course of your life. Where do you spend most of your time? Are you mostly happy or are you mostly unhappy? That's probably your baseline.

Is being happy the same as being positive? No, but you know I have a very controversial theory, hypothesis. Let's call it a hypothesis that everybody gets angry when I say it. So you know that when people are angry at your hypothesis, it either means you're way off or you're nailing it. And here's the hypothesis. You're gonna hate this by the way. And remember I'm calling it a hypothesis so don't take this out of context. A hypothesis means I am not certain this is true nor am I thinking it's most likely to be true. It's just something interesting enough that is worth saying.

When people are unhappy or even, I think, if physical depression, I won't go that far, but let's just say they're unhappy, they're having a bad day, how often is it that they're also low energy? And I think that people think that they're low energy because they're in a bad mood or they're low energy because they're mildly depressed. And in this context I'm not talking about clinically depressed where that's a little different deal, but just your attitude is somewhat depressed. They're almost always low energy. Meaning that my hypothesis is if you took somebody who is just normally miserably unhappy and you just gave them a shot of some drug that just kept them up, that they would act happy. And if you ask them are you happy, they'd say well at the moment I am.

And so the hypothesis is that we mistake happiness and energy because when we are happy we're also high energy lots of times. Like, hey, you know, let's party. I'm happy. And when we're unhappy we're often, I don't even want to get off the couch. I don't want to do anything. And the way we process that is that our attitude has affected our energy. My hypothesis is that we have it backwards and that if you could directly affect somebody's energy they would act and feel happy more often than not.

Now like I say, I'm not counting clinically, you know, people who have like clinically medical depression and mental problems. That's its own category. But within the normal zone of happy or not, I think it's energy.

If you want to test this, if you have children in your life and those children are like unhappy and fighting and grumpy and you know they're crying and whatever, so try feeding them. Just giving them some food. Now when you eat it gets your energy up a little bit. You know, sometimes you're hungry and it just saps your energy. If you feed kids that are in a bad mood, watch how often they get in a good mood instantly. It's almost phenomenal how well that works. Likewise if your kids are fighting and angry and miserable about everything, ask yourself how much they slept the night before and you'll find an almost perfect correlation with children between those two things. Did they get enough sleep and have they eaten recently? And watch that correlation because those are the energy correlations. Now also hydration, because if you're poorly hydrated you'll actually feel tired even though it's a fake tired. It's actually just dehydration. So if they're hydrated and they've eaten and they've gotten good sleep, watch how rarely children are miserable.

So that's my hypothesis anyway.