u could. You know, even though there are some people who have legitimate mental problems that would cause them to have repetitive negative thoughts, doesn't it make sense that you could force yourself even for 10 seconds to think something positive? And if you could do it for 10 seconds, do you think you could do it for 20 seconds? Like if you just started small, I feel like most people if they really worked at it could at least increase the percentage of the day they're having a positive thought. Seems to me.

Some of you asked me to solve the mating problem, the demographic collapse. And so I thought to myself, that seems impossible. So I'm going to take a swing at it.

It starts with this story. Nate Silver in his latest blog post apparently was saying that conservatives are up 31 points among those with self-described excellent mental health. Now, we've talked about this before. It turns out that the people who are on the left tend to have terrible mental health compared to the people on the right.

Now, I'm going to tell you why, and you're going to say, "Oh, that actually makes total sense." Here's why. And this is totally my own hypothesis, but once you hear it, you're going to say to yourself, "Huh, that explains a lot." It goes like this. You can only be happy when you're connected to the most important part of life. What is the most important part of life? Well, if you believe in science and evolution and biology, the most important part of life is making more life.

Now, you might say to yourself, what about my search for meaning and all that? Well, that's great, but the single most important thing that any animal can do is to make more of itself. Now, the good