ic Bell when I was very young, part of the test was a distraction test. Have you ever heard of this? I think it was common in the Bell system at some time. They would literally give you a test and then they would distract you every minute or something, and the entire thing was to see if you could do ordinary tasks in the context of being distracted every few seconds. And if you couldn't do it, they didn't want to hire you because the real world is about lots of distractions.

So it could be that while it's definitely true your kids aren't learning as much, that it's creating a filter that the people who can survive that kind of environment learn to do it better. We might be surprised at which one of these we want. Now I don't think you can disturb the classroom situation. That's a different thing. But we might find that you've got to teach kids to deal with distractions because that's what the real world is. Maybe I'm just putting it out there as a hypothesis. I am not in favor of kids having cell phones in schools. I'm not in favor of that. Just hear that clearly. But I'll just put it out there as a hypothesis. We're not entirely sure what's true. We live in a world where you don't know.

I see what you're saying. Did we forget something? Something very important called the simultaneous sip. And you feel the lack, don't you? Yeah, you can feel it. You're incomplete. Well, if you'd like to be complete, all you need is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice, or stein, or a canteen, jug, or flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen now. Go.

This brings me perfectly to a topic that was upcoming. Did you feel the need for the simultaneous sip because you developed a habit and it had a reward? You felt it, right? So you can feel that I have rewired your brains in a very specific way intentionally, you know, with your permission because you obviously knew what was happening. And you now have a new habit or a new piece of circuitry. This is something the hypnotist can do, right? Not just hypnotists, of course, but hypnotists know how to add a little brain circuitry where there wasn't one before. We can connect two things that weren't connected, and they'll stay connected because the circuitry is physically there once it's created.

Now take that thought and apply it to the next topic. Coincidentally, I have a theory that time blindness, so-called time blindness — do you know people who have time blindness? They used to call it ADHD or it's an element of it or maybe it's something else — but it's the idea that some people can't be on time because they're just blind to time.

Now how many times have we seen that? I've cured a condition that was incurable. If you're new to the stream you just said, "What?" All right, here. This is for the new people. This is just to give a shock to the system. If you're new to the stream, I've cured more people than Jesus. That's literally true. Now Jesus is better than me. Let me be clear. Jesus is way better than me. I'm not comparing myself to Jesus. I'm just giving you a data point. See, Jesus didn't have social media. So when he was doing his cures, he was doing one-offs. It's like, "What'd you do today, Jesus?" "Well, I cured three lepers and a blind guy." Well, that's pretty impressive. That's really impressive. I can't do that. But if I come up with a cure for something, I can tell a million people, right?

So I've cured probably thousands of people of peeing shyness, that's shy bladder, just with the hypnosis essentially. I've cured the common sneeze. I wrote about that in my book *Reframe Your Brain*. Not every kind of sneeze, but I taught you a mental trick to make a sneeze go away by imagining you're sneezing instead of actually sneezing. Now you didn't see that coming, did you? I've also cured a number of people of an incurable speaking problem, one I had, and I've suggested people maybe looking for the surgery, and a number of people got the surgery and got cured. So I've cured them just by information in that case. They didn't know there was a cure. I set them up, they got a cure. Likewise with the reframe. Alcohol is poison. Probably hundreds, maybe more, have told me they stopped drinking forever just from the words "alcohol is poison" because that allowed them to see it in a different frame and then it was easier to quit.

I get hundreds of people, maybe thousands, who told me that they dropped 50 and 60 pounds. How much healthier are you if you drop 60 pounds? Probably a lot. So I do have a track record of literally curing people of — and that's just a partial list — of debilitating, uncurable, or hard-to-cure problems. You have to know that because the next thing I'm going to say is so wildly improbable that if you didn't have the context you would say, "I'm not even going to listen to what you say because you're so wildly crazy." But if you knew that I have in fact cured a number of major problems in public — I do it in public and then people can see it. You can see the comments. You can see it yourself. I'm going to cure time blindness now.

Now you're going to say to yourself, "Scott, Scott, why don't you just listen to the experts?" Are you kidding me? Have you heard from the experts lately? Apparently the experts are wrong about just about everything all the time. That's not true, of course, but it feels like it lately. So I don't even blink when somebody says, "I'm going to tell you something that's opposite of science now and I think I'm right." There was a time I would have said, "Come on, don't waste my time saying that you know something that science got wrong." But these days I'm willing to listen. I'll tell you I'm a lot less cocky than I used to be about my science. I used to be one of those. It's like, "Yeah, I hear what you're saying, but do you know that all of science disagrees with you? How about that? I win. Science is on my side. Yeah, yeah, me and science. We're like bros together. We can conquer everything." And then I found out that my bro science was a big liar. Science is — I can't trust it at all.

All right. So with that setup, I give you the following. I don't think that people have time blindness. I think that a hypnotist with a little bit of work — and it would take some A-B testing. I don't think I can get it on the first try — I think you could find a piece of circuitry that you can connect for the first time with people who say they have time blindness, and you can cure it. In other words, you can build a habit that would just be automatic as much as the simultaneous sip. And I don't know exactly how to do it, but I'll give you some things I would try.

I have an observation, and I don't know if any of you can back this up. So this is not real data. This is just anecdotal. I believe that people who have time blindness often were in a situation where they could spend lots of time alone. In other words, they had their own bedroom when they were young and maybe their own bathroom so that they could be time blind without any external thing affecting them, and so it would never get fixed. So their lateness is when you're not watching. In other words, if somebody who has time blindness stood right next to me and I said, "Here's what we're going to do. We're going to chop up these vegetables." All right, and I'll take a piece of broccoli. I'll say, "Okay, you take a piece of broccoli right now. Do it the same time I do it. Right now. Let's see if we can finish at the same time." We're just chopping broccoli. I'm chopping, you're chopping. Do you think that they couldn't do it? Do you think that the person standing right next to you would be time blind and then they wouldn't be able to chop broccoli and be done about the same time you were? No, they would, because you would be their external clock. You would be the clock. They wouldn't think of it that way, but they would just automatically match your pace.

Now suppose you put that person in a repeated bunch of situations where you create artificial situations where they just have to do things at the same way, in the same time, and the same exact sequence as a person who doesn't have time blindness. Then secondly, you do a little test. You say, "Hey, we're going to do a little test. Try to tell me when you think seven minutes is up." And then you just see how close they get. Now sometimes they'll forget to even answer. It'll be like an hour later and you'll say, "Okay, do you remember that you were going to tell me when seven minutes was up?" And it might be wildly impossible at first. But I'll bet you that if you get people to feel physically what it's like to be next to somebody who knows what time is and feels it, that you would learn