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Well, I'd like to tell you a little bit about human minds before we get into all the politics of it. Last night I was doing a live stream with my subscribers on the Locals platform that you can only see if you're a subscriber at scottadams.locals.com. And I needed my remote control for my TV because I was going to show them something really cool that was on my TV behind me. But I could not find my remote control, which is very, very unusual because I have strict rules for remote controls.
Number one, this particular remote control was touched by nobody but me because it was the man cave, so there's nobody there but me. Number two, when I put a remote control down, I only put it on an exposed clear surface. That's like the rule for all of my life. You cannot put the remote control on a couch because then it might fall in between the cushions and stuff. You cannot lay it on a pile of blankets because then it might get covered up.
So what I knew about myself is that that remote control was in a roughly 10 by 10 area, roughly the room around my desk right now. So I knew for sure that it was on an exposed surface on the top of something. It was in full view and that it was within 10 feet. And 300 people watched me look for it for 40 minutes and not find it. Finally I did find it. You know how I did it? I went and found a separate remote control from a different Apple TV one I don't use as much, and I said to myself, well, if I can't find the real one, I'll at least reprogram this one to replace it.
And so the process of reprogramming means you have to get close to the TV box. So it says you have to be within three inches and you push certain buttons and stuff. So I walk over there and I lean on the top of my speaker and I look down, and there it was. There was the remote. It was on a flat surface within 10 feet
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of me in full view. Now here's the interesting part. I predicted to the people that were watching me unable to find it that it would be on a flat surface within 10 feet in full view and that I wouldn't be able to find it. It was only because I was doing something that wasn't involved in finding it that I accidentally encountered it. Now here's what you learn from this. Your perceptions are guide…
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