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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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work out? Yeah, exactly like you think.

So get rid of your ego first, whatever that takes. I recommend things like the Dale Carnegie course or anything that gets you in an embarrassing situation. So embarrassment is not something you should avoid. It's something you should practice. I learned that from Dale Carnegie. Let me say that again because that's the key point. You ready? Your ego is something you should look to destroy and you should look to embarrass yourself as often as possible because that's how you build that superpower. The more you embarrass yourself, the more you get used to it until you realize, wow, I didn't die any of those times.

After this show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting his afterparty on spaces. All you need to do to find that is go to Owen Gregorian. Just do a search on his name and you'll see the link. So it'll be on spaces. That's the audio-only feature on X.

I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked Scott Adams. Oh, here's some. Eric Dolan writing for the NY Post. I love Eric. I wonder if anybody has ever told Eric Dolan that I mention him almost every live stream. I do like his content. But it's just funny that he's always on the list of things you could have asked me.

All right, here's the latest. There's a study that says that higher fluid intelligence is associated with more structured cognitive maps. Let me explain what that means. In nerd talk, fluid intelligence and cognitive maps are two kinds of things that are important to your brain function and how smart you are. I can simplify this. You want a simplification? Smart people are smart. No, really. If you find somebody who's really smart in one domain, the odds of them being dumb in the other domains are rather low. Now, it's possible that you could be a genius in math but bad at something else. It could happen. But generally speaking, if you're just looking for the averages, yeah, generally speaking, smart people are smart in general.

All right, here's another one. This is also from the NY Post. Vladimir Hedri is writing that women, this has been tested now, women can read age, adiposity, and testosterone levels from a man's face. Now, adiposity is fat. Basically, they can tell if you're overweight by your face. Did you know that you could tell somebody's overweight by looking at their face? Yes, you did. You didn't even have to ask Scott. Did you know that women can identify more testosterone? Maybe they don't think of it as more testosterone, but when asked to identify it they're way above average. Yes, you knew that because the men with high testosterone look like me, don't they? I have the classic high testosterone chin. If you want to know what it looks like, it's that. Now I also have the high testosterone male pattern baldness. So basically I have every sign you could have. I have sort of an angular face. You know, it's all obviously testosterone. Now at the moment I have no testosterone at all because I'm on the testosterone blockers, but you know, I had already been fully formed by then. So yes, anybody, women or men, we can all tell who has the most testosterone.

The government of Denmark has announced what they call an agreement. I don't even know what this means. Why is it an agreement as opposed to a law or something? They announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15 in Denmark. I assume that just means the residents, not if you're passing through. I don't know. Maybe if you're passing through too. But they're concerned that you

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ng people are getting too caught up in the online world. What do you think of that? Do you think that first of all that will work or will they just do VPNs? Can't the kids just do a VPN and suddenly nobody knows who's what? Well, it feels like the kids will get around that, but maybe it'll reduce it. I like it directionally, but it's worth testing. So I won't criticize the details because this is…

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