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What would that be? Oh, huh. Looks like my appointment at Kaiser just changed. Or are there two appointments? Don't know. I guess I'll find out. But since you're here, I thought I would read you some reframes at least. You want some reframes from my book, "Reframe Your Brain"? Man, do I need that. Yeah. Yeah, right. Trump was not on vacation. Damn right. Damn right he wasn't on vacation. And Don…
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Oh, here's a good one. Damn, these are good. So the usual frame. This is one you've heard before, but no matter how many times you hear it, it's not enough. The old way of thinking about luck is that it's random and can't be managed. How many of you think that luck by definition, which would be a reasonable thing, it would be reasonable that you thought that luck is completely random and therefore it can't be managed. So you're just a victim of chance.
Well that's the old way of thinking. Here's a reframe. You can go where there's more luck. You can go where there's more luck. If you wanted to be an entrepreneur and you made the mistake of moving to the desert and you didn't even have neighbors and there was no jobs there, how much luck would you have? It wouldn't work out. But if you wanted to be an entrepreneur and you moved to the Bay Area and you did all the things that network and meet people and take the right jobs and go work for the right company and learn the right skills. Yeah, you can totally manage your luck. Are you kidding me? Luck might be the easiest thing you could ever manage. You just do all the things that bring luck like be around successful people, build your talent stack, have a system instead of a goal. Absolutely. You can control luck. Absolutely.
All right. Here's one that's more about just not. This one's ve
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ry relevant to me. So the usual old frame is that if you're having some bad luck, you think that you're unusually unlucky because they happen to you. You think of all the things that could happen to anybody and then you think, "Oh man, why are all these things happening to me? Why me? Why do I have all these problems?" That's the old way of thinking. Here's the reframe. Everyone has problems. Eve…
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