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will. It will.

So as tradition dictates, I've been giving you each one reframe a day at the beginning of the show from my book, Reframe Your Brain, the highest-rated book I've ever written, changing people's lives like crazy. All right, let's find a new reframe. Remember, not all of these will change every person's life, but some of these you will find very helpful to help other people, if not yourself.

All right. Here's one. This is one I use a lot. Now this will not work for everybody, but do you have in your life a lot of repetitive, boring chores such as folding laundry? You know, it's like the boring repetitive chore. What I find is if I reframe my boring repetitive chore as a thing I can learn to do so gracefully and efficiently that it feels like play.

So I think I've given some of you demonstrations before of folding bath towels. If you're just folding the towels because you want them folded, it's just boring. But if you say, "How efficiently and impressively can I fold a towel?" you know, you hold it, you throw it up in the air, you catch it just right, you let it fold over itself, flop, flop, flop, flop, and then you slap it down and it's perfect. You can't tell me you wouldn't enjoy that. So if it's a boring task but it's physical, try to see how impressively you can do it for yourself. Nobody else has to see it, but you'll find it's fun.

I used to go to this restaurant called Potti in Danville near me. And for several years they had a busser, the guy who buses the dishes away, who was like a wizard. He would take all the plates somehow. He would hold all the plates and everything for the table and he would just sort of set them down in the middle of the table and then he would go and the table would be perfectly set and everybody would stop to watch because it was like, "What? What? What did I jus

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t see?" So he took the most boring job, picking up, and he did the same when he picked up the plates. So there'd be an entire table that was just full of dirty plates and he would be like, and he would have this gigantic pile of plates that nobody should ever try to carry, but he could do it. So he put on a whole floor show for a kind of boring task. You can do that too. There's a study, ZeroHedg…

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