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has decreased greatly in recent years that matches observation doesn't it? If I had to ask you I'm not going to show you any studies but what do you think? You know just sort of look around what do you think? Do you think the testosterone level is a little lower? I think most people would say yeah it looks like it. And so the science and the observation match. Doesn't mean it's true but it's bette…
← Previous segment →g about your mate cheating on you or whatever? Just don't do it. Just stay away from all the media that is filling you with bad thoughts. You're not gonna miss anything because it isn't too hard to know what 1984 is about. Just read the Wikipedia page. You're done. You know give yourself 15 seconds of pain to learn something. You don't need four hours of pain to learn 15 seconds of useful stuff. So stop watching crappy movies. Stop reading bad books if they don't teach you or make you happy. Skip it. Because bad news should be condensed not expanded. The last thing I want to do is read about somebody's fictional problems. I got plenty of problems. The world has plenty of problems. I'm not going to read fiction with problems. That's the last thing I want.
You can't take it too seriously. What are your best systems? Well you can see some of my best systems in my book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." But diet and fitness are probably the top of the pile. If you get your diet and fitness right pretty much everything else is going to work out better than it would have. You know your happiness, your quality of life, your ability to get jobs, your ability to just physically feel good, your ability to attract a mate. If you get diet and fitness right there's a whole cascade of good things that happen after that. So those are my two most important systems. I will do a micro lesson on both of those. They're both individual chapters in my book.
Now the difference between a diet and a system is pretty big right? A diet you usually just try to eat differently and use your willpower and stuff like that. Whereas a system is something that you do every day that just makes it easy to lose weight or to maintain the right weight. So if you have a system you're not really working. The system does all the work for you. If you have a diet you're doing all the work which is why it doesn't work. You know people are not successful with diets but you can be successful with the system. I'll give you that. I gave you this simple example but if you haven't heard it one of the systems I use for diet is I don't keep bad food in my house. So I take advantage of my own laziness that when I'm hungry I'm gonna eat something that's already in the house and none of it's bad. Now that's just one thing. It's not the whole system right? You need a number of these little systems to add up to a bigger system. But it's not easy. How hard is it to eat something that's already in the house? There's no effort. I just pick it up and eat it and that's it. And then I've participated in a diet but I didn't do anything. I just picked up what was in the house and ate it. That's it.
Somebody says it is easy for you. You don't care about food. That's exactly right. Yeah the most important thing you need to know about diet is that we have different cravings and desires for food and it will be much easier for people like me because I don't have those cravings as much as other people
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. It is however true that everybody no matter what your level of craving is can greatly reduce the pain of dieting by having good systems. So yeah some people will be better than others but the systems work for everybody. They're universal. Somebody says the willpower starts at the grocery store. I disagree. I disagree. The willpower starts before you go to the grocery store because if you went t…
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