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ing a robot only war. Here's some more evidence of that. So there's an article I just read somewhere that said the ubiquity of precision weapons. I wish I knew who said this. I'm just stealing their good work right now. I apologize. But there are so many precision weapons that if you were to look at the front line from the sky, you wouldn't see much of any concentration of forces because as soon a…

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a lot of people. There's not a lot of people now on the front lines. It's mostly and it's not even not a lot of people. It's also not assets because 100 percent of the assets blow up too. So you can't put a person there and you can't put an asset there. It all just blows up. So it's this weird like empty zone. And I would remind you that was my prediction from a long time ago. That's where it's all going, people.

Now, I believe there was a reframe that I was going to give you that I skipped right over, but it's exactly the time to give you this reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain, the best book ever written, according to everybody. Everybody says it. Everybody. All right, here's one of my favorites. Did you ever and you'll notice that some of these reframes hit the same point but from a different direction. Have you ever been in a situation where you thought to yourself, "No one wants to talk to you because you're boring." Has anybody ever had that thought? I don't think anybody even wants to talk to me. I really don't have anything to say. Nothing to add to the conversation. Well, let me reframe that. Instead of thinking that maybe nobody wants to talk to you because you're boring, you should understand that what makes anybody want to talk to anybody is that they show interest in the person talking. The moment you think that a conversation is about a real high-quality exchange of ideas, then you don't know what a conversation is. Sometimes some high-quality ideas get exchanged, but that's not what they're for. That's not what the conversation's for. It's about how you make each other feel. That's your goal. Your goal is to make the other person feel good. And the way you do that, and it works every time, is to show genuine interest in whatever they got going on. People love it when you show interest in them. Do you know why they love it when you show interest in them? It's because everybody at the party's thinking that maybe I'm a little boring or maybe I already said that. But you can all solve your problem the same way just by asking more questions about the other person and acting interested. Now, ideally, you're not acting right. You should be able to find a way to be interested in somebody's life. You know,

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you might have to guide them into some subtopic that's better for both of you, but you can always find a way to be mutually interested. And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to the top of the hour. You know what I haven't done in a long time is take questions. I thought this would be an awesome time to do that. I'll just do one or two and probably more from Locals just because I have the Loca…

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