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Well, I don't know about you, but all morning I've been sitting here thinking, what is today's date? If only I had some kind of a calendar device that I could keep on my desk at all times and entertain me and also tell me valuable information about what today is. It's called the Dilbert calendar. It's available now only on Amazon and you got to be in America. I'm sorry if you're in Kazakhstan. You cannot buy this. You'd want it. Oh man, you'd want it. But you can't buy it. No, you cannot go to Amazon Kazakhstan and buy this. Only America. It's made in America, too. And it has a comic on both sides this year. The Dilbert Reborn. The spicy ones are on the back so you don't alarm your co-workers.
And then also we're going to start out as tradition requires with a reframe from my book Reframe Your Brain, the best most important book in your whole life. Here's one of the best reframes for me. I just love this one. The usual frame is that whatever you think of as your ego is you. You are not your ego. Because if you're protecting your ego, you're actually protecting your enemy. Your ego is your enemy. Elon Musk said this recently in a podcast. He basically said ego is the enemy. Your ego is the enemy. If you won't do a thing because you think, "Oh, that's beneath me, but it needs to get done," well, that's not a good strategy. So if you can learn to eliminate your ego, you can hire people who are better at a job than you are. Have you ever worked wit
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h somebody who refused to hire somebody who was smarter than them? I have. I've worked with somebody who wouldn't hire somebody who was smarter than they were. How do you think that worked out? I mean, just take a guess. How did that
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