Episode 3087 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸04⧸26
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Join us as we sip on a hot cup of coffee and talk about Bitcoin, the future, and the future of technology. Today's guest: Scott Adams, host of the podcast "Coffee with Scott Adams"
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You guys, how about we have a little sip with our beloved Scott and we'll get going.
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Let me get your comments working and then we'll fire it up.
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
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coffee with scott adams and it's the best thing that ever happened to you but if you'd like to
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take a chance on elevating your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their
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tiny shiny human brains well to do that all you need is a copper munger a glass of tanker
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chelter steiner canteen jugger flasks a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like
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coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day the
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thing that makes everything better is called that's right a simultaneous sip paul where are you
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all right that was our shout out to paul collider our so paul collider you guys used to do a check
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for scott every day on all platforms to make sure all of them were running perfectly and um
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we miss you paul but but i bet you're sleeping in now anyway so you guys i'd like to introduce myself
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i'm erica we have beautiful marcella we have the the very studious sergio now and the extra studious
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way better than tapper we have owen gregorian and our friend of the show we love you so much we have
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our special guest today joshua lisa joshua are you on mute okay so you guys yep we asked joshua to
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come on today and he was excited because he's going to do um a lesson for us today at the scott adams
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school so joshua take it away the floor is yours thank you erica it's good to see you all sergio
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we got marcella we got oh and this is going to be a wonderful fantastic time together i am joshua
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lisa also known as at joshua lisa i'm the editor publisher for scott adams and i'm also like scott
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was a certified professional hypnotist and i'd like to introduce hypnosis hypnotic language hypnotic
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applications into my books for on behalf of my clients because if you can induce a trance-like
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state even in something like let's say a uh a non-fiction book about business then you can more
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easily bring those new beliefs into someone so that they can be more productive and can more easily
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implement your methods now i wanted to teach you based on reframing your brain of course that's a
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famous book by scott obviously um i assisted him in that endeavor i was the contributing editor to
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reframe your brain and i wanted to teach you all today take some time to teach you reframing 101 how
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to actually do it how it actually uh works what reframing is is imagine a picture of the ocean okay
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now imagine that that picture has a five dollar black and white walmart frame of course walmart's
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prices are kind of weird so imagine it's four dollars and 93 cents for this for this frame it now looks and
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feels like a cheap photo does it not now imagine now imagine that it has a one thousand dollar ornate
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gold beautiful like clovers and leaves almost frame around it now it feels like a completely different
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picture and if the ocean picture in our lives is metaphorically like our lives then by changing the
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frame you change the experience of it so reframing is simply different uh different frames around events to
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go from less productive to more productive thinking less useful to more useful experiences and of course
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there are more than 160 reframes in reframe your brain that present new and more productive ways of
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thinking feeling and being in your life and i wanted to teach you how to come up with your own yourself
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in any area of your life that you need hence we don't have a whiteboard but we have using me my
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me using my kids markers reframing 101 with joshua lisik we are now going to teach
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in hypnosis and i want to teach a little bit about hypnosis as well right now
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in hypnosis the reason that it works so well to create new experiences of course the number one
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use case for hypnosis clinical hypnosis is smoking cessation so it's it's it's to it's to quit smoking
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um and then is also losing weight they're sleeping better they're stressing less there's being more
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productive i have a hypnosis audio program that is specifically covering sleep stress
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overeating which is which is one of the contributing factors of obesity and also productivity all in one
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and i cover everything all at once using a very simple metaphor um but you can come up with your own
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yourself now when you think about what it is that you want to achieve you want to have more of
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something you want to have less of something what we're really getting at is uh identity change
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basically if you are a different person you get different results scott would always talk about the
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folly of trying to uh will yourself into habit change habit transformation and just how difficult that
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that truly was and he was of course correct about that if you try to just kind of white knuckle it
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i'm gonna sit down here because i feel like the video is a little bit wobbly and i want to de de wobble
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myself here i have a little uh camera stand here phone stand all right please confirm that that looks
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acceptable for the lesson is that okay acceptable yes don't get any taller and don't turn on the fan
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okay oh that would be kind of funny let's zoom push down a little bit there we go got one of my
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kids toys behind me here that's a fun little dartboard it's great it's like little plungers highly
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recommended for kids as opposed to the pointy dots reframe okay so if you want to have a new experience
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in life what you need is a new identity around it and one of the biggest ones i hear is joshua how can
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i be more productive in writing and write better and write more i just feel like i procrastinate and
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writers rock and blah blah blah blah blah and i said well you you want to write that's the that's
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the thing you want to write you're not actually a writer because writers just right it's just what
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we do it's who we are and people will ask me about my my output on books and whatnot how many clients
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i take how do you do that the question is not how it's who they'll say how do you do it and i said i'm
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joshua isaac and they just sort of glitch for a second and say when it's when what you do is your
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identity you don't have to think about it you don't have to have it max you don't have to create
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some kind of funky routine or something or or try to you know let's try to build some uh
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let's try to build uh shall we say uh atomic habits in our life the story of atomic habits and kind of
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uh wheeling dealing and allegedly stealing some of scott's original ideas for that book it's kind of like
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the greatest hits of how to fail at almost everything and still win big with james clear's name
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on it in my opinion it was kind of kind of annoying um that's one of the reasons why scott is considered
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the most influential personal development writer of all time and space it's because so many people
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have just stolen his ideas i changed a few words and then put their name on it uh so it goes now about
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reframing when it's just who you are you don't have to think about it and this is why hypnosis works so
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well so fast so so fast for so many people for those just coming in i'm joshua lysek and joshua can
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you point your camera down a little bit so we see more of you okay thanks oh there we go yeah yeah
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we don't want to miss you yeah it would look really funky if it was um like like vertical vertical mode
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because then you would completely cut everything off all right so i'm going to show you this process here
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right now reframing 101 as i said so what the original reframing book teaches and it's called
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the structure of magic by bandler and grinder they developed and sort of applied talk hypnosis model
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called neurolinguistic programming or nlp back in the mid to late 70s and how that got started how
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reframing was figured out was richard bandler who i had the opportunity to meet and train with him
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personally that was wild experience like one of the most successful masters of human history
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just casually chatting about how to deprogram liberals that was a fun time
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of their terminal tds it couldn't can it be done yes it can
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he richard bandler in college he had these talk therapy group sessions that were on tapes
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as in it was actually tape remember those days when taping was a thing and his job as a student
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student worker was to transcribe all of these talk therapy sessions so and that was back when you would
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listen to it and you would like you know type out the transcript for right and that was his job i think
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it was one of the professors at the time and over the course of all of these hours upon hours upon hours
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of talk therapy sessions he noticed that there were patterns in the words he was typing the patterns were
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some people had more productive ways of thinking about their issue and other people had less productive
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ways and he noticed that the people who got better from the therapy used different words to describe it
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or they were led to use different words while they were in sort of like that in the zone they were
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in in train with the therapist they were in a hypnotic-like state in conversation
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and by using different words to describe experience experiences their experiences changed
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scott would talk about the user interface for reality he would talk about creating your reality
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programming your reality reprogramming reprogramming your own reality and there is a fascinating
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realization that bandler and grinder had which they wrote about in the book called the structure of
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magic which was that there are certain native american tribes and this is to this day the case for various
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locals original locals og locals uh in the developing world this one particular tribe that they studied
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they had three words for all colors so all colors there's something like 30 000 different colors that can be
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experienced by the human eye they described them only as one of three words and as a result the people
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could only see three colors do we know those three words uh uh they're in the beginning of the structure of
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magic and in in native american language it wouldn't necessarily mean us to if we're if we're not okay
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and i'm not in my office at the moment this is home office experience hi everybody um yes but but one was
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something i think one was like blue green and the other was like red all reds browns and oranges and
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the other was something else right it's like collapsing reality just to three things and that you might say
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is the word that they like to use was an impoverished reality if you're if you're using words that keep you from
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unlocking freedom and having better experiences then you are experiencing an impoverished reality and so
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that's kind of a stark example but that really is how words work if you're using words to describe
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your experience then everything changes if you use different words right it's all downstream
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and what the hypnosis session does in clinical hypnosis is when the person is induced and then
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deepened into that trance-like state where they're highly suggestible it's kind of like a waking sleep
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type of intentional zoning out we've all had it reading a great book or watching a riveting movie
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or having a conversation with with a loved one we kind of just like zone out and we have we sort of lose
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the sense of time passing that's a hypnotic state and so we go into and out of those at all times
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and kids under five actually in hypnotic and highly suggestible state i just wanted to interject i actually
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have the structure of magic in front of me and the three words are lock tit and to lock and lock
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translates to red tit translates to green blue and to lock translates to yellow orange brown that's all
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thank you owen yeah that's fine so so those are the three colors everything that you now see is one of
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those three colors only and i think later in the book they talk about uh there's a different tribe that
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they speak of i believe it's um a west african tribe where they they did not have words to describe
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for complete terms and conditions uh let's say fractions or fractional experiences so when they
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would describe where let's just pick a random uh experience where the fruit is on the tree
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it would just be the fruits at the top of the tree is it literally at the top well there are clusters of
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fruit that are halfway at the top it would be top of tree it wouldn't be halfway so so fraction like
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halfway uh almost all the way these sorts of specific descriptions of distance they did not have
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words for and they did not therefore have experiences of them i could not live in this time frame yeah but
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this is literally like the present day in certain parts of the world and i can't do it the og locals as
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i as i described and and and then when you realize we're so smart well we have only three colors
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colors for other parts of our experience and therefore we experience only those three colors
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so we're analogous we're analogizing here which which does in fact work so let's say in a hypnosis
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session you have been a smoker for 30 years and let's say you have been smoking a number of packs a
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day and you just you want to stop you haven't only found the thing you've tried you tried the patches
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you tried the gum you tried all these different things you tried cold turkey you tried this you tried
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that you just keep going back well what happens in the in the hypnosis session is you are uh let's
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say you go through the induction start to feel relaxed and kind of chill your conscious mind's
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guard goes down a little bit okay this is great kind of like a guided visualization meditation type session
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and almost like a a massage of some of some way it sort of feels like that the sort of bonding
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experience with the skilled hypnotist and then don't worry we come into this you can create your own
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reframed i have to set i have to set the stage for how this actually works and the hypnosis experience
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because you can do it to yourself the inductions are followed by deepeners and funny enough if you
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actually had a hypnosis session the practitioner will often use metaphors related to depth so they
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will for example talk about how you're going deeper and deeper into the experience you're sinking
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deeper and deeper into the chair so your body is physically telling you where it is that you're
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going and they will also use visual metaphors of like going walking down flights of stairs walking
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down your favorite path going down an elevator and watch the numbers you go deeper so the words that are
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being used are creating an experience for your body and for your mind so right there we already have
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words creating a new experience just from the words alone that the hypnotist is saying and once you're in
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that state they will often begin to tell a a metaphorical story or use a number of analogies that
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a five-year-old's mind can understand because the inner child we all have the experience of is our
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subconscious mind our subconscious mind across all of us is approximately five years old in its
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understanding of things so if you've ever talked to a five-year-old they need absolute precision
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multi-sensory descriptions of things to know how it works they don't really do well with abstract or
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theoretical or hypothetical or word salad as scott would always like to say has to be specific and
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precise and tagged something real how does it look how does it feel these sorts of things that's why the
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great best way to teach kids math is using like little magnets or numbers or physical items and the
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same thing with like fractions or even algebra you can teach if you're using to young child if you're
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using physical items to demonstrate differences and numbers and the numbering of things versus just
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this is a one and one plus this sign is one because then that would be memorizing is not the math it's the
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visual pattern we want the kids to take ownership of it and figure it out so that they can be an
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independent learner sooner and so when we return to the hypnosis session that sort of multi-sensory
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simulation will occur inside of the hypnosis session so inside the hypnosis session let's say
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this person who has been a chain smoker for all these years while they're in that five-year-old inner
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child suggestible uh state in the trance and which the subconscious mind becomes suggestible the
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hypnotist will tell a story in which the person listening has a new identity has a new identity
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just from the words alone and it's because they're thinking new things they have different feelings
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about them they suggest different actions being taken and therefore different outcome and the identity
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that is then given to the person in this trance is something like i am a non-smoker not i want to quit
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i want to stop i want to those are negations okay those are negations those are all the things you
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don't want to do like one of the worst one of the hardest ways to ever lose a single pound of unnecessary
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fat is i don't want to be fat what did i just say i just said because five-year-olds have a hard time
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with don't do that and it's like well you're just talking about what i shouldn't be doing but what
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should i be doing instead you give me this is every parents have young children's experience
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tell the kid not to do something you're just telling them to do it and then you think they're
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trying to aggravate you but they may not actually get well what ought i be doing instead specific
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precise instructions they make a mess they spill the piece and they spill the piece you know don't do
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that rather that something like let's now pick up the peas and put them in this little container where
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they go it's it's precise these peas over here for those who've come in a little bit late i'm joshua
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at bicek and we're almost about to teach reframing 101 specifically with the steps and how you can do
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it yourself but what i'm doing is explaining the hypnosis experience and why it works so well so
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quick what affirmations do is it's effectively a micro hypnosis session a micro self-hypnosis section
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session that you run it again and again we what scott would always do is say the things that you want
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to be real like 15 times that was his method taught and reframe your brain and elsewhere in his work
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but really it's the repetition that's key and so in the sets of suggestions that you'll be given by
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your hypnotist that you're working with in the clinical environment they will tell you the same
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thing in a bunch of different ways they will they will speak to you'll use visuals and metaphors for
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the mind's eye to talk about how things sound in the mind's ear how it smells to you so to speak
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metaphorically speaking for the mind's nose right the mind's eyes is not just the only thing that you have
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you have the other senses for your subconscious runs a simulation of it the subconscious can't tell
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the real from the imagined that's why when you're watching a movie and it's intense you feel it in
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your body your subconscious mind because you're in a trance doesn't know the difference you think it's
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happening to you this is why romance novels have been so attractive for so many generations of women
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the writing is so multi-sensory that they feel like it's actually happening and they're actually
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experiencing this affair in real life physiologically in that trance life state and many become addicted
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to that experience much in the same way that for men uh adult content of course and i mean adult wink
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wink uh family show uh the body thinks it's actually happening to them the subconscious mind thinks it's
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real and that's how all strange let's call them tastes may develop with prolonged consumption of
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adult entertainment because you are telling your subconscious this is what i like okay so then you
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begin to change that you begin to move you begin to evolve yourself and change you're uh impoverishing
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yourself over and over and over stop impoverishing yourself kids wink wink now because of that experience the
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subconscious mind with this hypothetical person goes oh i am uh i'm a non-smoker now it's just
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who i am they come out of the session new identity they forget that there's a lighter in the car and
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that there's a pack of half half filled pack of cigarettes in there and they just forget because
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i'm a non-smoker now what do i care that it's the identity change and reframing to create them for
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yourself this goes it goes like this we'll hold it right up here for you so you can see it okay we're
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going to be working down this list here so when you use new words to describe your experiences you
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have new thoughts about them because what are thoughts but words frankly if you have new words
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to describe your experiences for example i just want to lose weight i want to stop being fat for example
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the words you're using inside of your brain are fat fat fat i feel like a fat person and therefore i do
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things that result in me overeating as much as i want to use my willpower to stop and then my outcome
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is i gain five pounds by on this diet okay if we use different words an affirmation might be i first
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name last name and and then you use the body method next you're actually going for as your affirmation
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use different words well if you if you use affirmations like that what's going to happen
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is you're going to think over time and it can be a very short order that you're the type of person
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who is this body mass index and what does that person feel like what do those thoughts feel like
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thoughts drive feelings i love myself versus i hate myself just those words alone very different
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feelings very different so thoughts become feelings feelings become actions i just just feel like doing it
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is every experience feelings go directly to actions we buy on emotion justified with logic
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at no point is anything like logic happening here okay and that's okay because five-year-old remember
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abstract metaphors those sorts of things we have to speak with precision we have new outcomes
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the things that we want and these four stages after the words make up our identity
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i want to quit smoking i'm now thinking about smoking i feel like it's harder to resist i lose my willpower
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i smoke and then now i have cancer okay let's say that's that's the lung cancer situation right from
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a smoker i am a non-smoker i first name last name and a non-smoker now in a hypnosis session that's
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skillfully implanted in the subconscious but you can use scott's 15 point affirmation experience to do this
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and now you begin to think differently because now you're using different words to describe who you are
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and you feel differently and then you act differently and then you have different outcomes
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hypnosis sessions speed run this process into an hour and a half doing yourself it might take a little
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bit longer i said i successfully was able to stop heavily drinking i was like one of those craft beer
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millennial hipster types okay i was able to successfully stop that with this model in very short order as in
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like one night of attempting this it was december 31st and january 1st 2022 to 2023 i did this in one
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night i have some content on this um but this this can work for a number of things that you want to
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achieve yourself use different words to describe how you feel and what you want to do use different
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words everything changes so this is why it's so important to give yourself more than three colors
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any questions about this or anything else before we move fully i love this so much words are so
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important you guys and like your conscious mind doesn't understand sarcasm like it's very literal even
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like i i am always thinking in sarcasm but i have to be careful because i know that my brain doesn't always
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understand the joke so words matter and the other word i almost never use is try like well i'll try to
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lose weight or i'm going to try to go to the gym that's just giving yourself permission not to do it
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so to say like i'm going to try not to smoke well you just gave yourself permission to still smoke
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so i i yeah yeah or i want to right i i want to do something so that i don't know if i zoomed out
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like that because i don't know about so oh yeah you can see the cool little cool little kids dartboard
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back there very cool that's because owen popped on oh okay so this is this is where i'll leave i'll
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leave you all with and then i have to scoot um if you want something the words you use to describe that want
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are so significant because if you say i want this well then to succeed at it is what is to just keep
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wanting it it's not actually to have it you know if you are using identity language like become or be
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or am those to be source of verbs those describe identity it looks like about 3 000 people have joined
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since i kind of started my my spiel on reframing we're talking about reframing 101 i'm uh joshua
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lisek there roma needs to add the names on this we know we are erica is a lovely hostess here um
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yes so using different words to describe what it is that you want in the language of having an identity
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new words different thoughts different feelings different actions different outcomes and that's how
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reframing works imagine you have a fourth color in that native language of this this very california
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indian tribe they now have new thoughts every time they see that color or even hypothetically
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they now have some new feelings associated with that realization just they act differently so maybe
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it's they create dyes from it and the different outcomes where now they have
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unimproverished their culture's color experience
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yeah any questions from anyone else who's here with us or shall i uh bid bid farewell for today
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well i just want to say thank you first of all and i want to laugh because you know the reframes work
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you guys so just uh behind the curtain as scott would say all of us here on the screen had dinner
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together in san francisco area um when we went to scott's memorial service and it was just so funny
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because the waiter came over and was like oh does anybody want to drink and you know we're all kind of
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like looking around and nobody wanted a drink but after the waiter left and i was like were you all just
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thinking like alcohol is poison and like nobody wanted to be like the one to be like i'll have a drink we
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were all like nope alcohol is poison we don't want to drink but that reframe just sticks with you
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and it was just a really funny moment where we just started laughing but yeah your words matter
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and this list follows that exact process here so if you say alcohol is adult beverage
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or it's alcohol is fun then you think about fun things and fun experiences
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you feel like having fun you take the action the outcome is a hangover or let's say uh cirrhosis of
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the liver poison i'm not poisons like other poisons like those blue frogs in south america i feel like
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avoiding those blue frogs and never touching one never being in a situation where i'm near one
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i am now acting as if beer is a poisonous blue frog from south america keep it behind glass don't
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even touch it and i never that's how this works and you can do this for yourself in any area of your
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life so the one thing i'll throw in as a technologist is um i have played with this with like ai like grok
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where i've said you know give me a reframe for this and it seems to do a halfway decent job with
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it without too much guidance and with all the stuff you just gave us it seems like a set of rules that
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you can teach a gpt or a grok to do and maybe be able to just feed it here's my current frame give me
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the reframe maybe tell it what outcome you're looking for or something have you tried that or do you think
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that would work i have yes and i think what it's it will try to be sophisticated what you need to
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focus on is what is the outcome that you will not give me a usual frame versus reframe style scott
00:35:09.060
on the formula it doesn't quite figure it out if you explain uh grok here's how reframing works
00:35:15.860
the outcome that i want is this how i currently think about it is this give it the words use to think
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about and explain the process of the outcome what words give me a new identity set that result in a
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new outcome and then say follow the usual frame versus reframe formula usual frame the usual words
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you're currently using now give me the reframe with different words following this process and i believe
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that that will get you there and with that i have the scoop for today but but first i'll give one
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question like marcella has one question for us there's like several questions but maybe we'll ask you
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uh off you know um yes at me on x or uh or just dm me directly at josh lesdick if if you have any
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questions about this and make sure you take your screenshot of it right now there it is there you
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are a couple will be taking a screenshot yeah even better you guys screenshot yeah you guys even better
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um homework assignment if those who want to participate create a reframe using what joshua taught
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you today and tag joshua like make a post about it and say this was the uh current thought and this
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is how i came to a reframe and he'll look them over and and let you know like i think that's a good
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practice and don't don't have embarrassment remember this is like a non-embarrassment zone okay just give
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it a try and then maybe you're going to get pointers from an expert and that would be amazing we'd love to see
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it that's right that's right and and and lastly the key the homework again as as erica is saying is
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your usual frame versus reframe the usual frame is the thing that you're thinking and kind of stuck
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on and then the reframe are the new words that create the identity set resulting in new outcome
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and it's like usual frame i want to stop smoking reframe i'm a non-smoker for example as an
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example that wouldn't be necessarily one that you would teach other people but it would be one for
00:37:12.820
you for yourself hypnosis experience and how what what is the what does a non-smoker think about
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because of that well they don't think about smoking they think about doing other things with their
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time when they need a break right they go on a walk instead of just standing outside in the cold
00:37:25.540
smoking a joint right or whatever you spoke with um they do feelings and actions and outcomes
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associated with that hypnosis speed runs that process but affirmations are a way of
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reframing yourself yeah thank you joshua it's my pleasure thank you all and again we'll talk to
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you soon get your homework at joshua on x take care we'll post your link okay he had to run
00:37:51.140
dad duty he is a busy busy guy so we appreciate him coming on here you guys so we're gonna shift to some
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news and owen has uh picked out some great stories for us to talk about and uh don't you guys love
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sergio's new background and owen's new background we look we look extra super smart but you know
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so oh go ahead what do you have for us well speaking of embarrassment free zone i think we can
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start with the story that some people requested we talk about um doctors found a live world war
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one artillery shell in a man's rectum in france a 24 year old man sparked an evacuation in a french
00:38:31.620
hospital after they found an eight inch long world war one artillery shell in his rectum
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okay rectum damn near killed him sorry i had to say there owen how did it get there
00:38:44.660
well i i think they at least suspect that he put it there um i don't think they did speculate as to
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why but you probably all have something in your mind about why he might have done that they they
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the media speculated it might have something to do with his social life but that's as far as they
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went with that they did that's good medical staff are accustomed to treating victims injured during
00:39:06.740
sexual games so it could be something along those lines what do you think you think i just i just imagine
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the bomb defusing guy you know like they call him up it's like hey we have a a bomb we have like a
00:39:19.540
possible explosion when you need you to come over and they're on the way you know like oh i'm so
00:39:24.340
excited my first day of the job and uh they're like well good news is that you know it's not a big
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bomb but you know what it is you know that would be a big surprise for me if i had to like go in there
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and retrieve a bomb from uh from a rectum you know so yeah do you think the bomb sniffing dog could have
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found it that's a good one maybe i like the way sergio says rectum
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yes yeah it makes it sound better does this microphone work well people because i have a new
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microphone yeah good yeah all right all right um this is a story that actually seemed to have gone
00:40:08.820
viral when i posted it nearly 40 percent of stanford undergraduates claim they're disabled
00:40:13.860
the article was actually written by somebody who was one of those people uh they explained that they
00:40:18.580
actually do have uh i think it was like endometriosis or something some real condition um but the person's
00:40:26.100
explaining that it's you know it's almost half the people in stanford do that and the reason this
00:40:31.380
person claimed their disability at stanford was that they discovered from someone else
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that if you did say you were disabled you could get your own dorm room have a single room and you
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could have the nicest building on campus and you could get extra time on your tests and you could
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get exempted from some of the academic requirements and get basically the first class easy easy mode
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treatment by just saying you're disabled um and so you know that's currently 2850 students out of 7500 at
00:41:03.140
stanford um that get all these accommodations and things i'm not surprised i'm not surprised though and
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um i used to tutor um not anymore but like for ib league school uh high school um like different
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people that went to ivy league schools one of the things they told me for the sat is that they would
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have a doctor say they're disabled because that would give them more time and organization
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so all of these people who went to harbor who i helped tutor would would let me know that they had like
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so for my perspective they already had those for test purposes yeah i mean it could be and it does say
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in the article that a lot of these are mental conditions probably most of them um like adhd or
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anxiety and those are things that are really hard to diagnose or maybe too easy to diagnose um i've
00:42:13.780
certainly had some experience knowing that people can just literally walk into a regular doctor not
00:42:17.860
like a psychiatrist or any specialist and just say i have trouble focusing you know and and that's about
00:42:23.860
all it takes to get prescribed adhd drugs and it's pretty amazing how easy it is to get ritalin or you know
00:42:31.620
whatever it is you're looking for and that's you know that's probably enough for a lot of these colleges
00:42:36.820
you know there are more sophisticated tests and i know some people who have gone through that process
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to actually get diagnosed by a specialist and they it is a rigorous process i'm aware of what that
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consists of and so you can have like a you know a test that shows how you do on a test when you have
00:42:55.300
a time limit versus when you don't have a time limit um and you know there are ways to pinpoint what
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the issue is mentally but a lot of people don't even go through all that and i think these um
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just say disability agencies i guess i'll call them at these colleges i think also have an incentive
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to just hand out these accommodations like the i don't think they're very rigorous in saying you
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need proof from a doctor or you need some test or some process you have to go through that they're
00:43:29.620
you know the way they would put it is we're here to help people so we're just trying to help people but
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i think the reality is also that if you just look at it from an incentives perspective as scott often
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does the more disabled people they're quote unquote helping the more of those disability people you
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need and the bigger the department grows and the more money they get right yeah so if you go up to
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40 of the campus suddenly you're a massive agency that needs lots of resources and um everything
00:43:55.860
ends up catering to all these kids that have i thought like half of the college students were
00:44:00.980
already mentally disabled anyways you know just by well i mean we can connect this story to that
00:44:08.420
other story that says something like half of liberal people say they have a mental health issue right
00:44:14.980
a massive percentage of them say that and this could be a factor in that they might be doing that
00:44:19.780
because it gives them an advantage right that's right so pretty amazing kind of a scandal um you
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know i don't know what should be done about it other than that i would say that it's pretty terrible
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because i think it takes away resources from the people who do have legitimate disabilities um you
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know there are people that do have mental disabilities or physical disabilities that do require accommodations
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to put them on an even playing field with everyone else but if you give it to everybody then you're
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not making it an even playing field and you're also kind of neutering the educational process
00:44:55.220
to the point where what happens to these kids when they get out in the real world and they get a job
00:44:59.380
employers don't give accommodations for things like this i mean they do have to abide by the
00:45:05.460
disabilities act but i think in most cases you know they're not going to be as liberal or as easy as
00:45:11.940
giving these things out and if you can't do the job because you've never been put under time pressure
00:45:16.900
or you've never had to meet a deadline then how are you going to do that in real life right kind of a
00:45:22.740
real open question in my mind yeah i agree so between the chinese students and then the just
00:45:29.300
disabled students like you know there's always one group getting shafted you know i i have to say the sad
00:45:36.020
part is that when i was tutoring um not the very rich but just like middle class kids they actually
00:45:46.100
did have uh disabilities but their parents weren't aware of these accommodations they could get and so
00:45:55.620
they would not get them so it's sad to see that because um that's a lot of us like i didn't even know you could
00:46:02.820
get that for like the bar exam uh i would have liked to have had more time doing my bar exam or
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the sat or something else but it wasn't known to us it was like only the very like elite know the system
00:46:20.020
and they know how to work it and i don't disagree like they're smart about it you know but it doesn't
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it doesn't uh like apply to everybody that has these disabilities right
00:46:34.900
all right all right well um moving into the ai is taking over the world theme that we often come
00:46:41.940
back to uh there's an interesting article i posted called your job isn't disappearing it's shrinking
00:46:46.660
around you in real time um and it's an interesting article i'd suggest you read it it's kind of long but
00:46:52.100
i think it's worth it and the reason i say that is that it kind of walks through what's happening
00:46:56.900
i think and it also talks about how to best deal with it because i think the first thing that i
00:47:02.900
thought was valuable is it goes through the like three approaches i think they used that were that
00:47:07.140
don't work and and some of those are probably the things everyone's thinking they need to do like
00:47:12.340
well maybe i need to focus on soft skills or maybe i need to um you know like try to figure out what's
00:47:19.300
the human part of my job or you know maybe i can double down on my strengths or things like that
00:47:26.980
and those things generally don't work because the ai agents and ai is kind of rapidly taking over a lot
00:47:32.340
of those things and it's not really going to help you to just retreat into one little part of your job
00:47:38.180
and i think the advice it gives you and i don't know if this is going to work or not but it does seem
00:47:43.140
like a better idea to me is that to sort of win under this scenario what you can do is to say build
00:47:49.460
a new role where you're the orchestrator of the ai and you're using the ai to get to like impossible
00:47:56.580
scale like an example that uses running 50 campaign marketing campaigns at once and so if you can
00:48:03.940
identify something that like where he suggests to start is to say if you can identify something that if
00:48:09.300
you could do 10 times as much of it it would be really valuable to do that but up until now without
00:48:15.380
ai you can only do a certain amount of it but you're limited in terms of how much you can do
00:48:19.460
that if you can figure out how to use ai to 10x that task then you can figure out how to scale it and have
00:48:26.980
massive results right and find the patterns and then um pitch those new capabilities to your boss and
00:48:33.220
say hey i can do 10 times as much now look what i can do i can add all this value by using ai to do this
00:48:38.660
new task where i'm running the ai but i'm able to orchestrate all these agents and use them to scale
00:48:44.900
what i'm doing to something that current you know previously was impossible um and and that would be
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one way of kind of mastering the ai as opposed to just having your job disappear what do you guys think