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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 yo…

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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, ZeroHedge is writing about it. This says that brain wave analysis shows that listening to music can restore your energy if you've done a fatiguing process. How many of you didn't know that if you stop doing something that's making you tired and instead you just sit there quietly and listen to music that you like that it will make you feel more energetic? Didn't you all know that? Every one of you. Well, you could have asked me. But apparently there's more to it than just the fact that resting when you're tired is a good idea. Apparently they say the brain waves are doing something more dramatic to your brain so that it's actually better than just resting without music.

So they say there's a ZeroHedge, which you need to know sells creatine as part of their business model. They've got new information on some studies about creatine that say it's not just for helping you in the gym, which it does very well helping you build muscles. But apparently creatine has all these other benefits that they're finding out. Again, this is based on new studies that are probably unreliable, but allegedly it helps you with lean tissue strength even without exercise. So it prevents you from losing muscle at least as fast as you would and also helps your cognition and memory they say and may even push off early stage Alzheimer's and it might help with sleep-deprived college students.

So don't take any medical advice from me. That's the only medical advice you should take from me is that don't take medical advice from me. But the people who sell this creatine and therefore can't be trusted and the fact that it's on scientific studies that at least half the time are fake. So you can't really trust this, but it's good to know that there are several studies that show it's safe and maybe useful.

Speaking of things like that, did you know there are about a thousand ketamine treatment centers where they use the ketamine to treat you for other problems such as depression, mental problems? This is another one that I don't recommend. Ketamine is some dangerous stuff is my understanding. So if you had a severe medical problem and you're

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working with real doctors and or real professionals who can keep you safe when you're doing the ketamine treatment, I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea. I know I wouldn't do it alone. So if you know somebody who's got like a little batch of ketamine and you think, "Ooh, I don't want to go to one of those centers, but maybe I'll try it." Don't recommend it. I don't recommend it. I thin…

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