ng what is called the pre-show. And if you didn't know it, I do a pre-show before this show. The pre-show is only for subscribers of the Locals platform. And one of the Locals people asked me how do you learn to change your mind and how do you recognize people who can do it? And I thought that that's a really good question. How do you learn to change your mind?

And here's the reframe. I'm reasonably sure that part of the reason, it's not the 100% the reason, but a big part of the reason people don't want to change their mind is that it would look like weakness and maybe you would look like, well, you're not so smart, you know, because you were wrong. So the reframe is this. There's something I can guarantee you as an official smart person.

First of all, would you accept my starting assumption that I am a smart person? True. You know, even if you hate me, would you agree that I would be classified as a smarter person? And so I'm going to talk as an official smart person. Nothing is smarter than being able to change your mind. So instead of thinking of your ability to change your mind as a weakness, you should think of it as a strength, almost a superpower.

You've seen me change my mind in front of you how many times? I mean, how many times have you seen me change my mind? A few, right? Did I ever look like I got weaker? Did it make me look stupid? Not at all. You probably said to yourself, "Wow, I wish I could have done that." You might have said, "Oh, that was probably pretty hard to change your mind."

So once you realize that changing your mind, assuming you have reasons for it, is recognized by other smart people, and this is the key, it's not recognized this way by dumb people, but do you care what dumb people think? You don't care what dumb people think. If you want to be impressive, the only people that matter are smart people. If smart people say, "Whoa, there's somebody who can change their mind," that's a superpower. You come out way ahead.

So I think that people mistakenly believe that when I change my mind, I'm experiencing some kind of sacrifice. I'm not. I'm experiencing bragging. It's closer to narcissism, you know, because I'm basically showing off. Look, I can change my mind. So I've never once in my life, not once, did anybody give me a hard time for changing my mind, but a lot of times people have given me credit for changing my mind. It really is a one-way street.

So the answer is reframe it from, oh no, it's not a weakness to change your mind. It is a superpower.

Now the second part of the question was how can you recognize this superpower in other people? And unfortunately I think the only way is to observe it. So if you observe them changing their mind, you should immediately bump up your impression of their mental capacity. You might even mention, you know, that's impressive. Changed your mind.

So that's your reframe of the day.

So yesterday you remember I made a big deal about the talent stacks of a few people, primarily Akira The Don, who's released his Meaningwave music. Well, he followed up with me and this is fascinating to give me a list of his actual talents because the one thing I could tell just by observing, I have no musical ability whatsoever but even I could observe that whatever he was doing, creating this mix of podcast voices including mine with musical beats, however he was pulling this off had to be a combination of a wide range of talents.

But he gave me a list of his actual talents and I thought this is so interesting. I just have to read it to you. So apparently when he was young, as young as seven, he was already making mixtapes. All right. If you've been making mixtapes since you were seven, you know, that's a talent. He was a DJ. And as he points out, if you're a disc jockey, you get this sense of how music affects people physically. That's a good one. If you've experienced live what kind of music has what kind of effect on people's bodies like a DJ would. Wow. What a talent.

He was a rapper for years, over a decade. So he says it gave me a weapons-grade sense of rhythm. You could observe that. I wondered where that came from when I was observing it but he had a decade of practice. He was an ad music composer. So he learned to produce in any genre. He did music production. He was a music journalist and he used to interview people which was helpful for him to go through his podcast and transcripts and pick out the vital points. He was a comic artist. I didn't even remember this, but he does his own artwork. So his album covers are his own artwork. That's a hell of a talent. Of course I'm biased.

He knows video editing. He learned web design. He learned marketing. And he adds to his list that he's been a voracious reader since he was three. And that allowed him to delve into the philosophical writings of people and just be aware of more types of human thought because they just read more than other people.

So I hope that's as interesting to you as it is to me. I find that fascinating. So thanks, Akira The Don. If you want to see what we're talking about just Google Akira The Don and my name or Meaningwave, one word, and you'll find his product.

Well, there's another UFO sighting. Apparently, according to the New York Post, a pilot saw a silver canister that was floating off the airplane's, I don't know, it was floating at the same speed as the airplane. And there's an audio of the air traffic controllers talking to the pilot. And you know what's missing? You won't believe this, but it does not include a grainy video. So the pilots, there obviously there were two of them, were sitting there observing a UFO that they believed was a silver canister that was matching their speed and not connected to anything. And neit