e been. Yeah there could have been multiple dimensions. There could have been multiple Big Bangs. And when I say multiple there could have been trillions upon trillions upon trillions like real multiple. It could have been a trillion to the power of a trillion. Remember there's no law that says time had to start. In all likelihood whatever is going on is perpetual. And where are we in the perpetual cycle? Well there's always as much behind you as there is in front of you if it's infinite.

All right let's say somebody told me that computers will never have souls. To which I said neither will people. There's no such thing as a soul. You can't find a soul. That's not a thing. You can't get a bucket full of soul. So you don't need your computer to have a soul because people don't have them either. Somebody said computers will be able to compute but they'll never be able to think. Well that's just word thinking. That's just putting a different word in there. They'll absolutely be able to think. You just have to tell them to. Nobody's ever programmed a computer to randomly think but if you wanted to even I could do it. Like I'm pretty rusty with my programming but even I could say all right here's a little code. Connect some things that you have not connected before. See what they look like. Project them into the future. Draw a picture with those things you've put together. Analyze it. Tell me if you like it. Give me an opinion whether it would work. You could program thinking into a computer fairly trivially.

Somebody says wrong Scott. Whoever said wrong Scott probably must be new but they will not be old because they've been blocked. Anybody who says wrong on my Periscope gets blocked because you have room to give a reason. If you give a reason even if it's just hinting at your reason you don't have to be complete that's fine. But you can't say stop you're wrong and that's it. You give that you get blocked.

All right let's talk about hacking your brain. So here's the fun part. I was waiting for the end. So yesterday I did a video on how to be happy and I talked about the things you can do with your lifestyle and habits to boost the chemicals in your body that make you happy. So that I posted that and I stripped out just the part about the happiness equation and I pinned that to my Twitter feed. So if you want to send that around or see it again it'll sit at the top of my Twitter feed and it's also going to be on my blog. So I took out just the happiness part so you can see that alone. But I wanted to expand on that with some subtle lessons on how to hack your own brain to be happier.

Now as most of you know I'm a trained hypnotist and I've been working on learning persuasion for decades. And there are things that hypnotists understand about how to program a brain that most of you don't. And secondly you don't understand that you can program your own brain so you can be your own hypnotist without necessarily having all the skills of a hypnotist because it's fairly simple. Let me walk you through it. So here's some brain hacks and these are the primary tools you can use to control your own brain. All right so this is how to program your own brain on a regular basis. It's not something you do once. It's something you do every day as a system to reprogram your brain from wherever you don't want it to be to wherever you'd like it to be. And here are the tools.

First of all you want to manage your mental shelf space. And what that means is your brain can only handle so much so be the only person who determines what's on your shelf, the stuff you're thinking about. If you have negative feelings crowd them out with more powerful feelings that are the kind you want. If you keep remembering something that's making you unhappy and you're just going through your day and this memory keeps popping up, think of a sexual fantasy. Think of something great that's coming up. Just put your shelf in front of you and just fill it with thoughts that are more powerful than whatever it is you're trying to not think about. All right so don't try to not think about it. Instead move your thoughts to a different place. Fill all of your capacity with work, with social life, with kids, whatever it is. Take on a hobby. Read a book. Just take your brain somewhere every time you've got something you need to get away from. I do say you should avoid things that you can't fix. All right so thoughts you can't fix just avoid them.

Positive self-talk. This is sort of the Tony Robbins approach but Tony Robbins of course gets this from a long history of positive thinking people and hypnotists and has a long history of being useful. Tell yourself that things are gonna go right and that you're good at things and you know how to figure stuff out. Even if you're not good at something tell yourself you're the kind of person who can figure stuff out because you are. If you got this far you are the kind of person who could figure stuff out. So keep telling yourself that. It's like a program that's running in your head all the time. I never turn that off. I tell myself all the time I could do that. I could do that. I could do that. I could figure that out. That would be hard. I probably get hurt if I tried to do it but I could do that. And I even take that into dangerous situations. If you have to be somewhere that's dangerous you know your first choice is don't go anywhere that's dangerous right? So choice number one do not put yourself in danger. But sometimes you just end up in the dangerous part of town in a dangerous situation. Here's what I tell myself when I'm in a dangerous situation. Man those other people are in trouble. I'd hate to be my enemy. I could kill everybody in this room. I'm the most dangerous person here. I'll bet they're worried about me. They have no idea what I'm up to.

Also if you get challenged by, here's a little bonus tip. Every now and again you'll get challenged by somebody dangerous. Somebody who's looking for a fight. Maybe you're in a bad part of town and they'll get in your face and they'll start talking to you. If you want to scare him don't talk. Jus