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ars ago. Every six months I see a story that baldness has maybe been cured. Do you know how much baldness has been cured in the last 50 years of great advancements in curing baldness? Not a lot. And generally, if they find something that does cure your baldness and makes your penis not work, it's pretty much a guarantee. So no, I don't believe anything about any story that says they're going to…

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and build up my brain.

Do you think the psychopaths, when they're very young, they can tell they're unusually attractive already? And they're not psychopaths yet, but they quickly learn that because they're attractive, they can get away with murder. So I think being attractive turns you into a psychopath because you don't need to worry about consequences whereas I have to worry about consequences. So that's why I'm such a nice guy.

But you know you've heard that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Is that all that's going on? Could it be that the attractiveness power of the psychopath, well it starts maybe it just starts as attractiveness power but then they just become psychopaths? I don't know. Just my hypothesis.

Here's a study that I found interesting. If you want to change your location, well apparently Nobel Prize winners are more likely to be Nobel Prize winners if they have changed their location more times. So in other words, if you used to live in one place but then you moved and maybe you moved again, you're more likely to become a Nobel Prize winner. And there's a reason for that.

If you were, let's say, a genius and you were born in Silicon Valley with other geniuses, you would fairly soon become like the other people. So it would be really good that you were around other geniuses. That would be a real advantage, might make you smarter, but only to a certain level. And then you would be sort of into groupthink.

This is the thought from this study from Ohio State U

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niversity. But if you were, let's say, a scientist and you learned everything from the other scientists who lived where you live because you'd have some association with them and then you moved, you'd get a whole new bunch of scientists and that could take you to another level. But I would extend this from Nobel scientists to just ordinary creative people trying to create because one of the thing…

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