self-driving cars and AI. So for all the wrong reasons, we might be moving really quickly in the right direction because the climate change people are going to love these new sources of energy. The AI and robot people are going to say there's no limit to how much energy we need so you better do everything. So suddenly for completely different reasons the entire planet was on the same page about energy, future energy, meaning that left and right would say yes we would prefer a world where we have all this clean nuclear and finally, you know, we make the economic argument for solar. We solve it in 15 years, you know, with batteries so that you don't have the can't watch your TV at night problem. And battery technology is having these huge advantages too.

All right, here's some more good news. You ready for this? This one's really good. Apparently according to the Post Millennial, Wilborn Nobles III is writing about this. There's a small school in which they can put kids in this school and the way they teach is they teach them how brains work. So they teach them, you know, what to do to maximize your brain. Just think about that. They teach young kids how to manage and maximize their own brain. So they teach them how to think critically. But they do a whole bunch of other exercises where they just learn sort of about their, believe it or not, their amygdala and they do projects on how the brain works. And by fourth or fifth grade they're doing that stuff and they have to do illustrations of how the brain works and how people learn and social and emotional regulation.

But here's the thing. Apparently they've already demonstrated, although it's smaller samples, but they've demonstrated that they can get more of their kids into a college and get a college degree than the regular schools. But here's the fun part. Their low economic students, their poorest students, handily exceed the college success of the richer students in regular schools. Let me say that again. They have already built a model and demonstrated it in the real world in which the way they teach the kids is really teaching them how to learn. Not just learning, they're teaching them how to learn at a level I've never seen before. I've never seen this level. And they've proven it works. And they've basically erased income as the major factor in how you do in life. Income when you're born.

So basically, you don't have to be a JD Vance genius to go from low income to Harvard to vice president. At the moment, that's what it takes. You know, you've got to be unusually smart to get past that low income barrier and into something else. But apparently, you could just randomly select people and teach them, right? And they would become superstars.

Now, you know why I'm so excited about that? This is what I've been working on for years. That's what my books are. Let's see. You can see most of them. The four books on the top of my shelf are written so that a 14-year-old and up, and I make sure that I write it with the kind of language that a 14-year-old can follow easily, but it works for adults because adults like simple writing as well. And it's written to teach you how to think. Reframe Your Brain teaches you how to reframe. How valuable is that if you were a teenager to learn how to reframe all your experiences and see examples of it? Life-changing. When Bigly is teaching you persuasion instead of just logic. So you can see why persuasion rules and our common sense gets overruled. How valuable would that be if you learned that at 14? Invaluable. How about The Loser Think where it teaches you how to avoid the bad dumb arguments? Well, that's exactly what you need to know how to do. Imagine learning that at 14. And then, you know, my seminal book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big is really, I believe it's the most influential book in its genre for teaching you how to go from nothing to something, whatever your success looks like in your mind. Now, again, that was written specifically for a 14-year-old and up.

And so I'm all in on this concept that if you teach people how to think, then they can carve right through any income or other barriers. Doesn't matter what your race is, doesn't matter what your gender is, probably doesn't matter too much what your age is, you'll be able to carve right through it. I'll bet you if you even had a prison record, but you mastered all three of my books, you'd probably be fine even with a prison record. So that's how powerful this stuff is. And when I see it, when I see a version of it, obviously it's not based on my work, but when I see a like-minded version of this working for young kids in fourth and fifth grade and elevating the poor kids above the rich kids, not just equal, well above, just by teaching them, right? So exciting. Probably this is the most exciting thing that I've seen in years on any domain. There's nothing I've seen more exciting than this. So good on them.

This is also why I like King Randall's work. He wanted to come and visit me and I didn't know if I'm healthy enough to do that, but I might see if he wants to stop by and do a podcast. Anyway, King Randall is a youngish black man who has a school for young kids, most of them black, but they don't have to be. There's at least one white kid in there. And he's simply teaching them life skills that you wouldn't normally get, which would make you more confident. And you would just have all kinds of advantages. You learn etiquette. You know, if you're a poor kid, imagine being a poor kid and learning which fork to use and where to put your napkin and stuff like that. If you couldn't do that, that's the cap on your success right there. If you didn't know how to eat with proper people who could be your mentor, invest in you, hire you. If you didn't know how to eat in a way that the other person says, "Oh, this person knows etiquette." If you didn't know that, that would be a cap. You're done. You don't get a better job than somebody who can't eat in public. That's it. So what King Randall does is amazing, and I'd lo