ore minutes of your day you spend thinking about not bad things, the better your mental health.

So if you make somebody focus on the visual part of their brain — you have to use the visual part of your brain to do the Tetris because you're moving things in your mind before you make them real — that's just a different part of your brain and that doesn't involve your memory, right? Your memory is the one that's giving you the PTSD. Oh that thought, that intrusive thought, that intrusive thought. Well every single minute you're not doing that breaks the habit.

PTSD and OCD and those recurring thought ones, the ones where you can't get the thought out of your head, that's a habit. The only thing you need to do to break a habit is something else. That's the solution. You just have to find something else. The more time you spend doing the something else, the less of a habit it becomes.

So sure enough. And apparently not only does it work while you're doing it, here's the real payoff: it's a lasting benefit. Your PTSD symptoms stay reduced after you've played for a little while. It stays that way not just the day but like years, you know, presumably.

So what are the odds that I would tell you speculatively that Tetris would solve your mental health and then within a few days there would be a story about Tetris doing exactly what I said it would do? Now I'm not going to brag about being smart although I'm pretty smart. I think I got this one right because of talent stack, meaning that I'm a trained hypnotist and so I really pay attention to the brain as a machine. So when I think of the brain I don't think of magic and free will and your soul and things I don't even think are real. I think of it as a machine. What did it spend most of its operating cycles doing? This? Or did it spend most of its operating cycles doing this other thing? Because you can tell like a machine what the difference would be depending on what part of the machine you're stressing.

So that's the way I see it. As a hypnotist I see it as a machine. Certain parts are stressed, certain parts are used, and then you can just kind of figure out what would happen if you do a certain change.

Well there's the hurricane disasters looking pretty bad. Five states in the East U.S. Five states got hit pretty hard. Millions are without power still. People are missing, presumed dead. We don't know the numbers yet. And there's a lot of pressure on FEMA which people say are not getting it done. But it was pointed out today that FEMA's number one goal — their number one goal is to make sure that when there's a disaster they save as many lives and as much property as they can. That's their number one goal. Number one goal for FEMA.

Oh wait I read that wrong. No, their number one goal — that's not their number one goal. Their number one goal is, quote, "instill equity as a foundation of emergency management." So more of a DEI thing. That's their number one goal. So if you're going to judge FEMA because a bunch of people died or they didn't do enough, I don't think that's fair because you'd be judging them against a standard which is not their standard. Their standard is how much did they support equity and DEI. And I think they did a good job on that. So all of you complainers who are saying "oh but the lights are off and we don't have food and people are drowning and we can't find them and there's not enough resources," stop whining. They got the equity just right and that was t