d to myself, wait a minute. Is there anybody who doesn't know it's easier to learn something that matters to you than something that doesn't matter to you at all is harder to learn? I feel like I do that. Then you kind of know that. You have survival. Blah blah. Pretty obvious.

But it's good to know that there's a whole bunch of interesting science about how to rewire your brain for success and happiness, and that it's compatible with everything I've been telling you for years. The most interesting part is that although he's a science guy, he gave some credit, sort of. I don't know how to phrase this exactly right because I don't want to mischaracterize his opinion. But he said that if you were thinking about, let's say, that book "The Secret" where you think about what you want to happen, or affirmations where you write down what you want to happen, or intentions. Those are the three things he named. Intentions is where you put your intention into the universe so you have a clear direction, and then things happen. And he's saying that when you do those things, your brain actually turns into the machine that can give it to you.

Now that's my interpretation. If you have a clear direction of where you want to go, your brain will become a machine that can take you there. Again, he didn't use those words, but that's paraphrasing. It's kind of cool, isn't it? And it's also what I've been telling you forever. Now this gets away from the woo-woo magical part of affirmations, which I take you further than that. I definitely understand that affirmations tune your mind, and I've told you that, right? Reticular activation. It tunes your mind. But on top of that, there's something about affirmations that is not fully explained yet by science. There's something observational or anecdotal or experiential about it that seems to exceed that domain. But you know, I guess that's to be discovered in the future.

All right, there's a lot of news. I'll go fast here. All right, this is horrible and funny at the same time. Can you handle that? This is a horrible tragedy, but the way it's described is funny. And I can't apologize because if I apologized I would be lying, and that's not a good apology, right? I'm just gonna be a normal human and see if you can deal with that. I'm pretty sure you can.

All right, I swear this is a horrible tragedy and I shouldn't be laughing at it. I'm going to try not to. All right, the first thing you need to know is that all news that comes out of the Ukraine war situation is not believable, right? Can we start with that? Because I know there's going to be a comment in five seconds: why does Scott always believe everything the Ukrainians