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Well, at the end of today's podcast, I'll probably have a reframe to change your life from my book, Reframe Your Brain. So don't leave before you get that.
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So I do not have a source for this next—well, the first story—but I saw somebody say it and I knew it was true, so I'm going to repeat it. They did a study to find out what it is that women can say to men that would make the men feel as good as when the men say to the women, "I love you." Does anybody know the answer? What two words? The answer is "thank you." So apparently if you say thank you and show appreciation to a man, his brain lights up about the same as if you had said "I love you" to a woman. How many women knew that?
Now, I've always thought that one of the problems with relationships is that people feel like it's a power battle and that if you show appreciation to somebody, you're giving up your power and it's like you owe them. If you say thank you to your mate, it's like, oh, now I owe you something. So I feel like people don't want to say thank you too much.
Actually, I'm going to skip ahead. I told you that I might read a reframe from my book Reframe Your Brain, but I think I'll do it right now. So this is in the section on social life reframes and it's about compliments. So here's the usual frame. Here's what we usuall
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y think about giving compliments. Usually giving compliments is awkward, creepy, or it feels manipulative, as in, you know, you're trying to get something for your compliment or something. Here's the reframe. Withholding a compliment is almost immoral. If you have a compliment in your mind about somebody and they're standing right there or you could easily reach them and you don't give them the co…
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