to you."

To connect the two stories: Apparently she's been listening to me. Apparently she paid attention. So what did I say? I said, "Pastas." And then we drove to Pastas and had a perfectly great lunch.

So that's your reframe of the day. This one is the most trivial one in the sense that it's just getting rid of a little frustration, but the book is full of ways to change your mental and physical health and your career and everything else, even your view of reality. So that's your funny story of the day.

Let's do backward causation science. Are you ready? So a tweet by William Costello. There's a study out of Harvard that tracked people over 84 years, and what they found was that good relationships are the greatest predictor of happiness. The people with the best relationships have the best happiness. Huh. That's quite a surprising result. I wonder if there's any other way to look at the same set of data.

Oh, whoa. Let's see. You've got a choice of two people to mate with. One is grumpy and unhappy, and one is happy. Who to choose? Who to choose? Who to choose? Grumpy and unhappy all the time or happy all the time? Other things about equal. I don't know. What do you think people do in that situation?

Backward science. Have you ever seen so much backward science in your life? Yeah, here's how you know backward science. Every time somebody says doing something makes you healthier or doing something makes you happier, it's a lie. Because th