? I want to see how many of you have gotten some kind of immediate benefit. Watch the comments. How many people got an immediate benefit from at least one of these reframes?

All right, I’ll pick another. Where did I leave off? There we go.

Have you ever heard people say you should measure twice and cut once? Carpenters say that. Look at all the yeses.

Carpenters say you should measure twice and cut once. But did you know that if you’re talking about things like software, it should be the reverse? You should just try things, because if you’re doing software and you just try something, it doesn’t really hurt too much. It’s not like cutting a board and then needing a new board.

So in the modern world, the reframe is reversed. It made sense for most of human history to measure twice before you use up your limited resource of one piece of lumber. But now you should just try a lot of things. And if it doesn’t kill you, try another thing. And if that doesn’t kill you, try another thing.

Even if none of those things work, you’ll probably be building a talent stack that makes it more likely the next thing will work. So if you see it as a cascade of probability, the more things you fail at, the closer you are to success. And that’s your reframe for the day.

I wonder if there’s any science that didn’t need to be done because they could have just asked Scott.

Here we go. From the American Psychological Association. They did a study and found out that self-affirmations—basically just talking to yourself and saying that you’re a good person—is good for you. It increases people’s general well-being.

Now, seriously, was there anybody who didn’t know that? It’s the entire basis for all self-help everywhere, all the time, and always has been. If you don’t say good things about yourself, you will program yourself not to be that good person. Your brain is completely malleable. If you tell your brain you’re a good person who can do good things, it will just sort of become that.

Now, obviously everybody has a limit. We can’t all play in the NBA. We’re not all rocket scientists. But if you want to figure out what your limit is, you probably don’t know until you program your brain. That’s what *Reframe Your Brain* is all about. It’s how to program your brain.

And yes, the simplest and yet most important part of reprogramming your brain is self-affirmations. I can do this. I can figure it out. I’ll survive. I always win. That’s why I always tell you about my Prisoner Island story.

There’s a story in my head—most of you have heard this before from me—that who I am is a survivor, which is kind of handy to have at the moment. No matter how many times you drop me off on Prisoner Island, the place where only the prisoners are so they’re killing each other, if you come back in five years, I’m going to own Prisoner Island. It’ll be tough, but if you come back in five years, I’m going to be in charge of Prisoner Island. So that’s the story I tell myself. Doesn’t need to be true. Doesn’t need to be true.

Speaking of Prisoner Island, most of you know that I have a terminal cancer diagnosis—prostate cancer, which has metastasized all over my body. So I’m riddled with tumors at the moment.

What I was hoping for, for my possible but only possible escape from this particular Prisoner Island—you know, the death sentence, the death sentence of certain death through cancer—my hope was that I would someday be approved for this brand-new drug. It’s only been a few months approved in the U.S., called Pluvicto. But you have to go through a process with your healthcare provider to make sure that you’re qualified, you have the right kind of cancer. They do a test to see that the radioactive stuff will stick to your tumors, which they did with me.

And as of last night, I’m approved for Pluvicto. We still have to schedule it. If it’s scheduled too far out, I’ll be dead anyway. But Prisoner Island just turned from an absolute guaranteed death sentence to maybe. Maybe.

And it’s only a maybe in the sense that it’s definitely not a cure. Just to be clear, this is not meant to be a cure. They don’t sell it as a cure. The people who make it are not claiming it cures anything. All it can do is knock back the tumors so that your sense of the thing would be less.

Now, if it knocks it back enough, and let’s say I got lucky and bought a few years, then we would be solidly in a domain of probably dozens of new AI-generated potential cures, going from treatments to cures. So I feel like my Prisoner Island escape path is just to stay alive long enough that the almost certain better stuff that’s coming down the road gets to me before I get got. You know what I mean?

So that’s tying it all together for you folks. We’ll see if that becomes good news. I’m failing pretty fast. I won’t give you all the details, but my body’s really falling apart fast. So I don’t know if it’ll be in time, and I don’t know what functions I can recover. I can just barely use my left hand now. May or may not be because of a tumor. Don’t know yet.

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