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Back to episode — Episode 2947 CWSA 09/03/25

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was a wonderful thing but so many of his base are dead set against the idea that that was ever a good idea and that it was they think it was his biggest downside for Trump. So I like the fact that he's not just trying to lie to us and say something like oh no trust me it was the best thing that ever happened to the country. He's saying out loud that he doesn't know which is very brave actually. An…

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it the number of autistic people would have been much higher than we imagined it was and therefore the rate increase from then till now would be much smaller than what we are alarmingly looking at. I don't know. It feels like it's part of the answer but I don't know if it's 10% or more than that.

Well Russia is attacking Ukraine's energy facilities a little more aggressively and also their transportation hubs and Ukraine is doing the same thing to Russia. So they're going after energy infrastructure and transportation in some ways. And it makes me wonder if that's signaling anything that the real war since the war is about sending electrically charged things into the air to go kill your people if they kill the electricity production in the other country then they can't even charge their drones. I mean I wonder if it could go that deep. Do you think they could ever destroy enough infrastructure that even if you had a million drones you just couldn't charge them? You're sitting there in the dark maybe. So I'd watch this energy attacks strategy that they both seem to have.

All right. I saw a story in the South China Morning Post, Richard Havis, that it asks a question can you train your mind to be happy? And it says yes expert says. Would you like to know how? Would you like me to train you with my hypnosis experience and my reframing experience into how to be happier? Somebody says no. All right. Well I won't hypnotize you. I'll just tell you how to do it.

All right. Number one whatever you think about the most is who you are. And you can change what you think about the most. It's easy. Watch. Think about your favorite animal. Could you do it? Of course you could. You all had a different favorite animal but when I said think about your favorite animal you could do it. So that was when your brain was focusing on a cool thing that you liked your favorite animal. Probably made you a little bit happy. I mean just a little bit. But during that time you were thinking about your favorite animal. You weren't thinking about some bad thing that could potentially put you in a bad mood or affect your energy or make you anxious or anything. So I just proved to you that if you just remember as a habit to change your thinking from whatever negative stuff to positive stuff and it's really that easy. Just think about stuff you like. Everybody likes something. Think about a person you like, experience you had, a walk on the beach if that's your thing. Just think about it and reduce the shelf time that you give to the bad thoughts because how much you think about something is what creates the structure in your brain that becomes semi-permanent. You can usually change it but some it becomes a little semi-permanent. So the more you think about positive things the happier you're going to be.

I would also say that although the science says that your happiness is not that affected by your environment that's not true. Your happiness is totally affected by your environment. If your environment is a loving family you don't think you'd be a little bit happier than if you were sitting all alone in your little apartment like some of you are. I think it's absurd to imagine that changing your situation won't make you happier. You don't think that going from poor where you're panicked about eating to well off you don't think that that would make you happier because you didn't have to worry about starvi

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ng? Of course it would. I guarantee it would make you happier. So yeah fix your physical exposure meaning go outside you know make sure that you're around some beauty and that you're not looking at depressing gray things. I would even change my commute if it took a few minutes to go through a more attractive place. If you're going to look at it every day it's better to expose yourself to the attra…

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