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I think we're leaving out the fact that it's everything. If we concentrate on the one thing, we're going to lose everything else. I think the thing making kids, young people, depressed and anxious is the food supply is bad. There may be environmental pollutants that have an effect. It's the phones of course. It's bad adult advice on everything. How about the homework? Does anybody have a teenager…

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implementation, right?

So implementation makes you the richest person in the world and should. And should. That's all deserved. However, imagine if I can wake up in the morning and say, "You know what, I've got an idea for an app. Form a company, AI. Write that app and let's test it with a few people." And I could actually just come up with hundreds of ideas over the course of maybe a few years, try every one of them or at least to the point of having a viable testable product to see if anybody's excited.

And it should create the value in the creative people. And this is the weird part. I contend that my generation is special, special in one specific way. We were born and we grew up before phones. So our brains are developed before the smartphone gave us all the productivity and gave us

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all the creativity. So we had to come up with creativity and solutions on our own. So I believe my generation developed some skills for creativity if only because we sat there alone a lot and not looking at anything. Do you know how much time I just sat there not looking at anything or doing anything because there wasn't anything to do? Like just nothing. I used to sit on a wall when I was a teen…

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