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it and nuts, perfectly healthy all day long. If I eat anything that comes out of a package, I've got inflammation, I'm tired. It's a completely different experience. If I could eat twice as much food, I wouldn't really want to eat twice as much fruit and nuts, just as one example. I wouldn't want to. But you can imagine a lot of people who like to eat processed foods and stuff. They would eat twic…

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illion more men than they have women. 32 million extra men who don't have an option of having their own exclusive woman and a family. Now that was, of course, because of China's one-child policy for so many years, which is now a three-child policy because we're running out of people. 32 million is the entire population of Afghanistan. The entire population of Afghanistan is the same as the number of extra men in China.

Historically, what have countries done when they had too many men? War. Yeah, unfortunately we're built to kind of occasionally cut down on the number of extra men. So I wouldn't be surprised if China ends up with an enormous army of proportions that nobody can even understand, because otherwise what are you going to do with them all? Are they going to start having two men for one wife? Maybe. Actually that might actually happen. That might actually become a thing. All right, maybe that would solve some other problems too. You know, if both the men were okay with it, two men with one wife would probably be a pretty good arrangement for some people. All right, so let's watch for that.

Today might be a short presentation but the most important one you've ever seen. I'm trying to build it up so you can't wait, because it actually might be.

Let me tell you one of my secrets for happiness. I've talked about this in at least one or two of my books. I like to have at least one thing going on in my life that could change the world. Now, what are the odds that any one person can change the world in any important way? Well, on one hand you say it's a very low chance that you could change the world. But if you look at how the world has ever changed, it's almost always one person. One person is usually the only way the world changes. They're first. They're not the only one, but there's always somebody who goes first. So one person can change the world.

So here

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are a couple things that I have going on right now that might change the world. Don't know. One of them is my book *Reframe Your Brain*. It's not written just to have a good time on an airplane. It's written because once you understand this material, you'll be able to literally change how you think on demand in a wide variety of domains. Now if you could change how you think, you would change how…

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