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Well, looks like everything's working. Yay. Yay. Everything's working.
Some people like it when I do a reframe before every show. How many of you like to see a reframe before the show? A reframe from my book, *Reframe Your Brain*, the most important book in the English language. In all the other ones too, but it's not in those languages. It's just the most important.
All right. Here's the next one. This is still in the mental health reframes section of the book. Well, actually, you've heard this one before, so if anybody hasn't heard this one, this was very viral for reasons that kind of surprised me. So see if you think this should have gone viral. It did at the time.
So instead of the usual frame that you're a priceless work of art that must be protected, how many of you think that, I mean it's an exaggeration of course, but you think that you're important, don't you? You think I'm more important than, at least to myself, I'm more important than other people. The trouble is that's kind of limiting. It would be better to say you're a potato that is easily replaced.
Here's the background on that. If I told you to carry a priceless piece of art across the road to another museum, you'd be pretty worried that something would go wrong, right? But you're the priceless art. So when you're taking care of yourself, you're the priceless art and you're just worried all the time about taking care of it. Would you like to worry less about what's happening to you and what's going to happen to you and will a bad outcome happen and is it going to be the worst case scenario? Wouldn't you like to worry about all that less?
All you have to do is think of yourself as a potato and think, if I were delivering a potato, like just an actual potato across the street, it wouldn't even matter if I dropped it. It wouldn't matter. So as soon as you think of yourself more like the potato, which ag
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ain is not insulting yourself, has nothing to do with your ego, just assume that you're not so important that if something bad happened to you, it would be somehow the end of the world. You're more like a potato than a Mona Lisa. So when I came up with that one, I have to admit I didn't think it would be powerful, but it's one of the ones that people have most commented on. Did Greg mention it? I…
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