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and it looks all professional and somebody spent money on it and there's a diploma, they will get hypnotized much more easily than if it was just your neighbor Bob. Hey Bob, I hear you're a hypnotist. Yeah, just sit on this dining room table and I'll hypnotize you. That would still work if Bob is good at it. But we were trained that you should make it look like it'll work because it makes it easie…

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monly studied things you've ever seen. So of course people who are naturally curious are going to spend more time doing intellectual things to satisfy their curiosity. So did they really need to do a study to find that curious people are more protected from Alzheimer's? They did not. They could have just asked me. I would have saved them a lot of time. Curious people, they would use their brains more. We're pretty sure that using your brain more protects you from Alzheimer's. Yes, it will protect you. Got it.

There's another study. Eric Dolan is writing about this in the Post. They found that men tend to look at women's mouths when rating their attractiveness while women focus more on men's eyes and hair. Now this again might be exactly true, but I have questions. Question number one, did the women in the photos, were they all wearing makeup? In other words, were their eyes all tricked out with eye makeup? Because one of the things I've noticed is that pretty much every woman's eyes look pretty good if they have eye makeup on. I don't even know the words, but eye makeup, fake lashes if you need them, that sort of stuff. So it seems like it's a little bit unfair because it's unusual to run into anybody whose eyes are special. I've seen it. My last ex-wife had world-class eyes. You know, the kind that give you five million followers on Instagram. But it's unusual. Your average woman just has good eyes. Your average woman just looks great. Their eyes are just perfect. So looking at the eyes isn't telling you a lot.

But here's my speculation. I believe men are trained not to make too much eye contact because it's intimidating. What do you think? If you're having a conversation with a woman, especially one

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that you don't know well, would you spend most of your time looking into her eyes? Let's say there wasn't some romantic connection there. Or would you sort of just naturally know that as a male it's intimidating to do too much eye contact? I look at the mouth and the reason I look at the mouth is because it's usually moving. So it's something to look at. And I do make some judgments about the mout…

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