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00:00:58.700Yep, that was everything I thought it would be.
00:04:36.360But I'll tell you, this one sort of looks real.
00:04:39.320If I had to make a bet on the 5%, you know, the ones that, like, blow your mind, but it actually turns out to be real, this might be one.
00:04:47.020Because I don't know that there's anything about Yeh that would suggest he would make up a tweet, like make up a message and pretend somebody said it.
00:04:57.520That would feel completely out of character, right?
00:06:00.220One is you can have a loving conversation with me, and I think the context would be his impact on the Jewish community with his recent comments.
00:06:10.380So you can have a loving conversation with me, or the personal traitor gives Yeh the second option.
00:06:16.520Or I have you institutionalized again, where they medicate the crap out of you, and you go back to zombie land forever.
00:06:24.960Play date with the kids just won't be the same.
00:07:52.480Like, I can't even imagine saying that.
00:07:54.380And if somebody ever said this to you, then reportedly they had a long conversation after this, would you ever have a conversation with somebody who had said this to you even once?
00:08:06.680I don't know about you, but I'm an absolutist.
00:08:10.820When I, you know, when I'm done with somebody, I'm completely done.
00:08:16.600You know, there's no comeback after that.
00:08:19.160I mean, how do you ever talk to this guy again?
00:09:12.380But my book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, has a lot of assertions in it about the best way to run your life, such as systems are better than goals.
00:09:26.080And it turns out that almost everything I said, from take small steps and, you know, learn how to be successful at something, and let that, you know, extend into the rest of your life.
00:09:38.640Everything I've told you is scientifically backed by, you know, the dopamine feedback system.
00:09:44.380But here are some of the little things he said that I thought are worth calling out.
00:09:50.100He mentioned that if you set yourself a goal, and here I'm not going to get too detailed about what's better, a system or a goal.
00:10:00.940Because even if you have a system, the system does have a generic goal.
00:10:05.800You know, the goal might be being wealthy, as opposed to being wealthy in a specific way.
00:10:11.960But still, there's some idea of a direction you're going, whether you have a system or a goal.
00:10:17.500And apparently the dopamine system and your brain's plasticity, if you have a specific direction, your brain will change.
00:10:29.540It will actually reprogram itself to give you rewards when you're doing something that moves you in the direction of your larger ambitions.
00:10:41.560That's just the way it's supposed to be.
00:10:44.100Now, you know, I've been telling you that, think of what I've been teaching you.
00:10:50.340I told you that having a system so that you could get rewarded every time you did the right thing was what you wanted to focus on.
00:10:58.920And not the specific goal, for a number of different reasons.
00:11:02.340But that you want to find a way that you can get rewarded by the thing you do every day, not waiting five years for your goal maybe to succeed or not.
00:11:11.940And it turns out that's exactly what you should be doing.
00:11:15.120You should have your idea where you're going, but when you do anything that gets you closer to it, that should be a dopamine reward.
00:11:23.260So you focus on the system and get your dopamine reward.
00:11:49.200Every time you do something that you intend to do, you get a little kick.
00:11:54.700I mean, you might not notice it, but it's there.
00:11:57.340And it's the operating system that controls everything you do.
00:12:00.400So if you're not managing your dopamine system correctly, you're not optimizing.
00:12:08.320So basically, Huberman tells you the science for optimizing your whole dopamine situation from everything from breathing to how you think about your life and where you're going.
00:12:20.620And it's all compatible with things that I've been telling you.
00:12:28.160Oh, the other thing you said is that your dopamine system will make it easy to learn, easier to learn, so you could rapidly learn, if you have a goal and the thing you're learning gets you closer to the goal.
00:13:09.880You tell me that the brain can actually reconfigure itself in real time, I mean, rapidly, to give you a reward for learning something that's relevant to your goal.
00:13:22.940And I thought, my God, that's like, I really learned something here.
00:13:27.180And then I said to myself, wait a minute.
00:13:29.760Is there anybody who doesn't know it's easier to learn something that matters?
00:13:33.140Did you have the same experience I just had?
00:13:38.560Which is, I thought I'd learn something amazing.
00:13:41.000And then I thought, oh, basically, 100% of the world already knows it's easier to learn something that matters.
00:13:48.860And something that doesn't matter to you at all is harder to learn.
00:13:59.260But it's good to know that there's a whole bunch of interesting science about how to rewire your brain for success and happiness and that it's compatible with everything I've been telling you for years.
00:14:11.220The most interesting part is that, although he's a science guy, he gave some credit, sort of, I don't know how to phrase this exactly right because I don't want to mischaracterize his opinion.
00:14:25.260But he said that if you were thinking about, let's say, that book, The Secret, where you think about what you want to happen, or affirmations, where you write down what you want to happen, or intentions.