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← Previous segment →t. You love it. You love to get reframed. Well, it's from my book, Reframe Your Brain, the best reviewed book I've ever written, which I wasn't expecting actually. But people loved it and that was awesome.
How about this one? You've heard this one before, but it works so well and you need it so often that I'm going to give it to you again. You ready?
So a common way to look at the world, the usual frame would be that history is important. I mean it's how we got here. It explains who gets what. History is pretty important. Wouldn't you agree? And if you don't understand history, you might repeat it in the worst possible way. Yep. History is important. That's the usual frame.
But here's a reframe. History doesn't exist. History doesn't exist. Well, give me a handful. Grab some history. Here you go. Here's some history. Where is it? History is entirely in your mind. If you don't want it to bother you, it doesn't need to because it doesn't exist. You create the history in your mind and then you use it as a spear to poke yourself or a way to torture yourself.
And I'm not even talking about the history of nations. I mean you could go into a whole different conversation about whether you and I should care about what was happening in the Middle East 3,000 years ago. Maybe we don't care. If the people who live there care, that's up to them. But you and I don't have to even pay attention to the fact that any history ever happened because to us it doesn't exist at the moment.
Now it's far more useful when you're using this reframe in your personal life. In your personal life, how many of you have done something that gives you shame, which is a complete waste of time, feeling shame? One of the best ways to make shame go away or any kind of whatever you would call your personal failure is to just remind yourself that it doesn't exist. History doesn't exist. You couldn't find some history and put it in a little bag and give it to somebody because there is none.
So if you're being tortured by history, well I just reframed it away for some percentage of you. It won't be a big percentage, but for some percentage of you, a few of you probably are going to message me later and say, "I can't believe it, but there's this thing that's been bothering me my whole life. You just made it go away by telling me that history doesn't exist." And the moment I realized that that was absolutely true, there's nothing really to debate on that, the actual problem went away.
And there you go. All right, that's your reframe for the day.
How many of you saw the northern lights? Apparently there was quite a show last night. It did not extend down to my little neighborhood in California, but for those of you in the northern part
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of the country and the world, did you get kind of a light show last night? Apparently it's going to be better tonight. So I can't imagine what would be better than going outside and seeing this aurora borealis, like this natural wonder. That's like the best thing that ever happened. I mean what could really be better than that? Oh, here's something that's better. It's the 2026 Dilbert calendar, w…
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