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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…
← Previous segment →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's the biggest problem in the world.
So could you solve the social life problem? And the answer is yes. Yes you could. All you need is an app that scheduled you to have dinners. It could be a potluck at your house but it also could be eating out at a restaurant. And you do six people at a table because that's the right number. At a restaurant recently I saw what I took to be three married couples about the same age and had a lot in common and I've never seen six happier people at a table. Now they were having some drinks and some good food but they were laughing so hard and having such a good time that I just couldn't stand it. It was like I just wanted to be them. Like you just wished you were one of those six people. You really did. And it looked like they probably just had known each other a long time and had a lot in common, right? And that's all it was.
You should try this. Just have an app that sets you up with people that you don't ever have to see again but you could. You just have—you meet six of you, have dinner with drinks. And maybe this is what the app does. It says do you like drinking? Because if you say yes you're going to want to be with some other people who like to have a drink, like have a cocktail. Now imagine that every weekend you could do this. Every weekend or every night as much as you wanted. You just take out the app. You just look for somebody else who's looking for somebody else to add to a table. And then you make sure that it's equal men and women or because it's an app and you can filter it better you make sure it's a table full of LGBTQ if that's what you want or whatever. But you're filtering high-level stuff instead of compatibility. In other words you're not filtering for a date. You're filtering for, okay, high level—are you, let's say I'll just take an example. I'd like some people who lean right and like to have a cocktail. Right? If you happen to be in that category—you lean right and you like
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to go to dinner and have a cocktail—and I paired you up, let's say you and your partner. I'll say you have a mate. But even if you're single it could be just five other single people. And that's the only thing you know. The only thing you know is that you lean right and you like to have a cocktail over a good meal. You don't think you'd have fun? You would. You would. Now if you didn't have a gre…
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