old this in your head. This is a personal trainer talking to Ye, who's a multi-billionaire. I'm not sure if he still is, but he had a bad week. But this is just the personal trainer talking to Ye. Just imagine this. Hold this in your head.

That the personal trainer says you have two choices. One is you can have a loving conversation with me, and I think the context would be his impact on the Jewish community with his recent comments. So you could have a loving conversation with me. Or the personal trainer gives Ye the second option: or I have you institutionalized again, where they medicate the crap out of you and you go back to Zombieland forever. Play date with the kids just won't be the same.

What? Did that actually happen? First of all, what does he mean "again"? I have you institutionalized again. Is the "again" referring to the fact that Ye was once under medical care, or is he saying that he's the person who had him institutionalized? Did the personal trainer have him institutionalized? Does he have that kind of power? What kind of Svengali-like or whatever power, Rasputin power, does this trainer have over the Kardashian and West household? This is weird. I don't really understand what's going on here. Do you?

So it looks like maybe this personal trainer is a bigger part of the overall story. Maybe. I mean, it's a little confusing. But do people really talk to Ye like that? I've never talked to anybody like that. Have you ever made a direct threat of that kind to an adult? I mean, that's a very, very unusual way to talk to another adult without getting your ass kicked, right? I can't even imagine saying that. And if somebody ever said this to you, that reportedly they had a long conversation after this, would you ever have a conversation with somebody who had said this to you even once? I don't know about you, but I'm an absolutist. When I'm done with somebody, I'm completely done. Yeah, there's no comeback after that. I mean, how do you ever talk to this guy again? Oh my God.

Anyway, how many of you are following Andrew Huberman? He's getting a lot of play on social media lately. Jordan Peterson's talked to him. Joe Rogan's talked to him. I think Lex Fridman has talked to him. So those are the big ones.

So I was listening to some of what he was saying. I didn't catch all of his content, but I caught quite a lot of it when he was talking to Jordan Peterson. And here was my takeaway. Here's the good news. It turns out that there's science that backs up everything I've been telling you for years. Good news for me, I suppose. But my book had a feeling. Almost everything in it, and it still went big, a lot of assertions in it about the best way to run your life, such as systems are better than goals. It turns out that almost everything I said, from take small steps and learn how to be successful at something and let that extend into the rest, basically everything I've told you is scientifically backed by the dopamine feedback system.

But here are some of the little things he said that I thought are worth calling out. He mentioned that if you set yourself a goal, and here I'm not going to get too detailed about what's better, a system or a goal, because even if you have a system, the system does have a generic goal. The goal might be being wealthy as opposed to being wealthy in a specific way. But still, there's some idea of a direction you're going, whether you have a system or a goal. And apparently the dopamine system and your brain's plasticity, if you have a specific direction, your brain will change. It will actually reprogram itself to give you rewards when you're doing something that moves you in the direction of your larger ambitions. That's just the way it's supposed to be.

Now, you know I've been telling you that. Think of what I've been teaching you. I told you that having a system so that you could get rewarded every time you did the right thing was why you wanted to focus on that and not the specific goal, for a number of different reasons. But that you want to find a way that you can get rewarded by the thing you do every day, not waiting five years for your goal maybe to succeed or not. And it turns out that's exactly what you should be doing. You should have your idea where you're going, but when you do anything that gets you closer to it, that should be a dopamine reward. So you focus on the system, get your dopamine reward. Just what I've been telling you.

Also, if you can't do a big thing, do whatever is the smallest thing you can do. How many times have I told you that? That if you can't do the big thing, do the smallest thing you can do that you're able to do. And then when you succeed, what happens? You get dopamine. Every time you do something that you intend to do, you get a little kick. I mean, you might not notice it, but it's there. And it's the operating system that controls everything you do. So if you're not managing your dopamine system correctly, you're not optimizing.

So basically Huberman tells you the science for optimizing your whole dopamine situation, from everything from breathing to how you think about your life and where you're going. And it's all compatible with things that I've been telling you. So it's good to know that there's... Oh, the other thing he said is that your dopamine system will make it easier to learn. So you could rapidly learn if you have a goal and the thing you're learning gets you closer to the goal. Did you know that? Did you know that your brain literally makes it easier to learn if you're on target for something that was meaningful to you?

Now I heard that and the first thing I thought was, don't get ahead of me, don't get ahead of me. I think I know where you go there. I heard that. I said, really? That is amazing. You tell me that the brain can actually reconfigure itself in real time, I mean rapidly, to give you a reward for learning something that's relevant to your goal. And I thought, my God, that's like I really learned something here. And then I sai