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er Prize except that. That's it. And how many book clubs would have picked the same books? Not many, because each book club would read a different group of books just like the Pulitzer group. The Pulitzer group isn't reading all the books. They're reading a little subset of books. They can't read every book and then compare it to every other book. So it's just a ridiculous prize. I mean it's real…
← Previous segment →he news is designed to look at the bad stuff, which is useful because then you focus on fixing that stuff. But if you're actually trying to understand the bigger picture you could be blinded by the fact that talking about the bad stuff is more fun than talking about the good stuff. Yeah, and somebody's mentioning Steven Pinker on YouTube. I think the context of that is there are a number of people including him who like to point out how we see doom and gloom but that's not really what's happening.
Airports using bio scanning. Well have you tried the Clear system yet? Has anybody done that? I'm going to give a little commercial for it. If you fly a lot there's a system at least in the West Coast and some other places. So I don't know how many airports. Maybe just half of the big ones or something like that. And you use a retinal scan. They take it once and then once you're in the system you can bypass the security line by scanning your biometrics.
Now it's really awkward because they don't really have the regular system and the Clear system integrated in a non-awkward way. So here's what happens. I walk up to the Clear system where there's no line because people—it's like the first days of ATMs. You know, grandma didn't want to use the ATM on day one. So the Clear line has nobody there. So you walk up to the Clear line. They say hello and there's always somebody to help you right there. And you just put your eyes in it and scan it and then they do this. They mark your ticket, your boarding pass. You know that you've scanned, that you've been approved. And then they walk you to the beginning of the line.
Yeah, you do pay for it. It's an annual payment. I forget how much but it wasn't crazy if you're flying. And they walk you to the front of the line and yeah and they do it officially so they're doing it with all the TSA people. But all the people who have to wait in line they don't know why you're going to the front of the line. They just know what's happening. So you end up looking like the celebrity. So if you want to have a celebrity experience for a very reasonable price, do the Clear system and then you'll be walked up to the front of the line right in front of everybody and nobody will know why. They'll just think, are you famous or something?
Now in my case it's weird because I am famous. So I'm being treated like a celebrity but not because I'm a celebrity. But people will wonder if I am. But it's irrelevant that I am because that's not why they're treating me. It's just sort of a weird situation.
All right. Now thank you. Thank you. I told the people on Locals because I talked to them before I go live on YouTube. I asked them to remind me because I had an idea for solving the world's biggest problem and it is based on a conversation I had recently with someone who is having some happiness problems. And then I walked through a number of situations and I said, okay are you happy in this situation? Yes. Are you happy in this situation? No. And then I looked for the pattern. You know what the pattern was? That when this person was with other people this person was happy. And when this person was not with other people in any kind of a social situation—be it family, be it friends, be it boyfriends, girlfriends, whatever—then not happy. It was that. That's all it was. It was that pattern.
And how many people have that same situation? How many people are lonely in 2022? It's probably the biggest crippling problem people have. Here's a little eye-opener. Ask yourself, when you've had a g
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ood social day, if it was a good day the answer is usually yes even if your other problems were about the same. Now take away that good social part for whatever reason. Now all of your other problems seem pretty big, don't they? Because it's your social life that allows you to live and enjoy things and not think about your problems for a little while. As soon as our social life is gone everything'…
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