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rtland is also so small that if you imagine it's a big problem, that's just imaginary. And I don't know what is right. Is it possible that the news is exaggerating the real danger in Portland? Because I think it could be a little of both. It could be that the danger is not that great, but at the same time, the police do want help because the police have been degraded so much that they can't even h…
← Previous segment →t it would be 60 times fewer mistakes than before. Because, you know, gene editing, if you could do gene editing quickly and efficiently and economically, there's a whole bunch of stuff you can fix. And this is just a movement in the right direction. But if they could actually make that much of an improvement in the gene editing technology, well, you might get yourself a new head, you know, that new head you've been wanting. It's getting closer.
All right, that's all I have for today. It is a Saturday, so you should be petting your cats and having a good time.
I did promise you that I would read you a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain. I started with one, but I think I'm going to randomly pick another one because they're so useful. If this works out, maybe I'll make it a thing. So it's from my book, Reframe Your Brain. And I'll just pick the first one from the social life category. There's reframes for every domain, but in the social life reframe, the first one is the old frame used to be "be yourself." Anybody ever used to give you that advice to be yourself? Terrible advice. Here's the reframe. Become a better version of yourself. If you're satisfied being yourself, people aren't going to want to be around you. You're not that good. You need some work and you should admit that you're a work in progress. People will like you better if you admit you've got some work to do. Try being better. You should be working on some kind of a system or a process or finding some way to be the improved version of yourself. You should be getting smarter, healthier. You should become wiser, kinder. You should be trying to get your depression down and get your mental health better. You should be trying to get different in every possible way.
People ask me—I've told you this story before—but people asked me if when I hit it big with Dilbert and I went from not having money to—well, people asked me if being famous and successful changed me. Did it change me? And I'd always laugh and say, "Well, I hope so. That was the whole point. Why would I go through all that work to be the same person?" The whole everything that I do has at least a secondary ambition of changing me. Like I don't go to the gym because it doesn't change me. I don't work hard in my career because it won't change me. I do it so it will. If I want to feel confident, what am I supposed to do? Just sit in a chair and try to gin up some confidence. No, I'm going to go do something and then if it works,
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guess what? I get more confident. So no, I'm every day in every way I'm trying to figure out how to be like a little bit better version of myself. So if anybody ever tells you the key to success is be yourself, you're getting some bad advice. Be better. Just be better. All right, that is your reframe of the day. Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces right after this. Give him a few minutes to—y…
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