Back to episode — Episode 2986 CWSA 10/12/25
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r Brain. It's full of reframes to make your life better. And I'm just going to give you maybe one or two a day. All right, here's one. Have you ever had somebody that you know needed your advice and you wanted to give them your advice? So your normal frame is, hey, here's somebody who needs my valuable wisdom and advice. I better give it to them. How does that work out? I've got a better frame. I…
← Previous segment →needs your advice, slow down, slow your roll. They might not need your advice. They might need something else. So that's the reframe. I'll have another one at the end of the show. It'll change your life.
I wonder if there's any science that didn't need to be done. Hm. Oh, here we go. Eric Dolan at Writing in Cipher says there's a study in the Journal of Emotion, which you didn't even know existed probably. The Journal of Emotion says that boredom will encourage people to seek new experiences. Really? Are we just finding that out? Now, how much science did we employ to find out that bored people will look for a new experience? I'm pretty sure I could have answered that question without any science at all. Scott, what do you do when you're bored?
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Oh, the same thing I always do to make me bored. No, I look for a new thing. But what they're adding here is that people will even choose a negative emotion like disgust as long as it doesn't bore them. Now let me give you another way to look at that. The only way you know you're alive is unpleasant things, especially unpleasant things you weren't expecting. Nothing else makes you feel alive. If…
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