llpower. I will eat fewer calories and boom, I'm done, I lose weight. Doesn't work. And people for hundreds of years keep being confused. Well, why isn't it working? It's so simple. Just willpower and calories.

Well, it's because the reframe is this: you are fighting an addiction. You're not dealing with willpower or calories. You have an addiction. And it's because modern food has been engineered to have the right amount of salt, sugar, and fat to trigger addiction parts of your brain. So if you deal with it as an addiction, that suggests a different way to approach it.

So here's my way to approach it, which I've mentioned before, but now you'll see it under this frame. It'll make a little more sense. The worst way to lose weight is to stop eating as much as you were eating before and use your willpower to stay that way. Willpower. I will eat less than the day before. Never works.

But if you were to treat it as an addiction, which is my recommendation, you would say to yourself, all right, there are about five things I eat that I need to stop eating. Like one would be that big bowl of ice cream, maybe you know whatever your thing is. Maybe it's that big bag of chips or whatever. But instead of stopping all of your eating, which would be a horrible hardship because you'd be hungry all the time and you've already got an addiction to food, it's the worst thing. If I stopped eating, I don't have a serious addiction to food. If I stop eating it doesn't really hurt. I just get a little hungry. But if I were addicted, like I really, really need that food of whatever addictive type, then I don't think I could cut down on food.

So here's what you do. You target just one food and you tell yourself you can eat as much as you want of everything else. And that's it. If you don't eat that one food, whatever it is, let's say it's ice cream, about two months later you'll notice that you have a substantially decreased craving for that one food. And now no willpower required because you lost the craving.

So now you say to yourself, all right, pick the second one. All right, now I also drink too much diet soda or something. You say, all right, I'm going to eat as much as I want of everything else. I'll never be hungry. I just won't have soda. But it's easy not to have ice cream also because you've already lost the taste for it. So if you treat it as an addiction, you never let yourself be hungry. You eat as much as you need to fill yourself up all the time every day. But it might be broccoli by the time you're done. It might be veggies and berries and nuts and stuff, or clean protein, whatever that is for you. So treat food as an addiction, not a question of calories and willpower, and you'll do great.

TikTok has announced that for some users they're going to allow longer videos. I guess the original TikToks were only 15 seconds and then they extended it to a minute and a few minutes. Now they're looking at 15 minutes. Now I've got to say TikTok is doing an excellent job of raising your children. So good work on that, parents. You've delegated the raising of your children to China, and China is doing a good job of raising American children to be non-competitive with Chinese children.

Now if that bothers you that China is brainwashing your children to make them less competitive, here's something you could do about it. Have you tried pickleball? It's this cool sport that'll take your mind off of all that. Yeah, you won't even think about it. Go play some pickleball. You can buy some paddles and balls. They're generally made in China. So if you want to forget about China's influence on your child brain, go play some pickleball. That will totally clear you up.

I saw this series of posts on the X platform from the Prince of Fakes, who's a parody account, does a lot of AI stuff. Some of you might know the Prince of Fakes, but he's anonymous. But he posted this that was fascinating. He said, I took a charisma communication course before embarking on this cruise.