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Back to episode — Episode 3037 CWSA 12/05/25

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be, "Hey, you didn't tell me you were going to start early." I'm going to Tim Pool it all over the place here. I'm Tim Pool. And no, I'm not Tim Pool. Nobody's Tim Pool but Tim Pool. Yep. 0700. I'll start. I'll get serious. Watch me go from not serious to serious in seven minutes. All we got seven minutes just hanging out. If you have any questions, this would be a good time to do it. By the way…

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and you can decide if you like it or you don't like it? What would my involvement be worth? You know, yeah, I don't know if the things she says will check out. How would I know? I know that she is very entertaining and very talented and I like her personally. The rest, it's just up to you. Yeah. But I just don't think that my opinion on the topic makes any difference.

Well, while we have a minute here, would you like to hear a reframe from my book, *Reframe Your Brain*, which is one of the best things you could ever buy for a Christmas gift. This assumes you have already purchased the Dilbert calendar. Look, it's a commercial. The Dilbert calendar this year and last year had comics on the front and the back. And on the back were the new spicy ones.

But I had a reframe all picked out here. We'll start the regular show at the top of the hour. This is the pre-show. All right. Here's one of my favorite and most powerful reframes. So the usual frame, the way people normally think is that overeating, if you do overeat, it's a willpower problem. If you had more willpower, you could avoid eating that cookie. Here's a reframe that's better. Overeating is a knowledge problem. It's a knowl

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edge problem. You know how many of you already know that the reframe "alcohol is poison" was enough to make a whole bunch of people stop drinking. So the way you think about things will influence what you do. And I find that if I think about food as a knowledge problem and I know which things are good for me and which are not, I just automatically eat better. So as long as you think about it as a…

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