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e way up to the mental health reframes from the book. I'll do at least one a day if I remember. We did a bunch of them yesterday, but let me get to the one I haven't got to yet. How about this one? The usual frame: If somebody insults you, you think to yourself, "Ah, that insult is damaging my brain. That insult hurts me. It's causing me damage." Right? We act like an insult hurts us. Well, it do…

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o 20%. University of Texas said, "Awesome." Now, how many of you knew that this refers to helping or volunteering outside the home? I don't know why they said outside the home. Seems like helping anywhere would be good. But does that make sense to you that if you become a helpful person that it would be good for your own brain?

Here's why that makes sense to me. I have to admit I didn't know that. So if you'd asked me, I'd say it feels reasonable to expect it, but I didn't know it. And the reason I would have expected it is you've heard me talk about how people are healthiest when they're pursuing whatever is closest to their biological evolutionary reality. So I believe that people stay healthier. This is just a hypothesis, but I think it's true that if the closer you are to the mating process, the single most important thing that a human can do, because mating is sort of organized our entire evolutionary path from a million years ago. So if you're an

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y part of the mating, producing children, taking care of children process, your body probably stays healthier. I'll bet if you did a study of that, you'd find that to be true. So it doesn't surprise me that if you're being helpful, which is really another way to protect the tribe, which is really another way to protect the mating instinct or the mating process of the tribe because you're just hel…

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