Back to episode — Episode 3068 ChattingWSA 01/10/26
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← Previous segment →ou know teenagers are they love anime and Marvel comics and all of the superhero movies and I said to him, hey, would you like to have a superpower? And of course he was like, yeah, of course we all want to have a superpower. And I said, well, here's a superpower that you can have. You become unembarrassable. And I said, think about it, Brenner. If I'm sorry, I wasn't going to use his name, but I said, think about it. If you could have anything happen to you in your life and you do not you are it's impossible for you to become embarrassed, you will have a superpower. And he started thinking about that and we talked about it a lot and he really loved the idea and I told him where I got the idea was from Scott Adams and the creator of a very famous comic called Dilbert and he I said that you'd written several books and so he asked if he could have one of your books and I'm going to give I what would you suggest for a teenager? How to Fail at Anything and Still Win Big?
Yes. So from age of fourteen on that failed almost everything and still won big.
Okay he's thirteen so on his fourteenth birthday I'll give him that book and thank you for that that would be kind of a tie between Win Bigly and Reframe Your Brain.
I love Reframe Your Brain you know I've done reframing since I was a kid a teacher read some books to us about a character named Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. I don't know if you've ever heard of her.
I've not.
And I used those kind of as an inspiration when I was a kid that I would create a reframe situation where I was my mom would tell me to go clean my room and I didn't want to clean my room but I would pretend that if I didn't get it done in a certain amount of time that a wicked witch was going to come in and cast a spell on me and I would get it done and I would have fun doing it because I know there was no wicked witch coming. But it was a fun pretend game and I did that with all kinds of areas in my life. And so when the Reframe book came out, it just made so much sense to me and I really love it. I read it frequently and I just pick it up for a daily tip of the day. I really like it. Thank you for that.
Good. That's the order I like to hear them being read in. So we should probably close down, but not before we give Michael one more chance.
Yeah. Where is Michael? Where are you, Michael? Looks like he has something else to do. Sean Corey. All right, I think we've done all we can do today. I apologize again for falling asleep on camera, but I warned you. I warned you. This is the most medicated I've ever been in my life. It was a wild trip. So thanks for sticking in there and I will soon figure out how to train you to have more interesting dreams. All right, everybody. Say goodbye to Shelly.
Bye, Shelly.
Thank you. Nice meeting you.
See you all.
Bye for now.
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