00:10:08One source familiar with the situation told the New York Post that Mamdani's office reportedly never checked with the commissioner before announcing the security detail on Monday.
00:10:18Syria and Lebanon were given the Level 4 Do Not Travel advisory for a number of reasons,
00:10:23including armed conflict and terrorism with Hezbollah operating in the country
00:23:42Now, the real version isn't much less cartoony than that, but it's different.
00:23:47And the real version is that you just write down or repeat in your mind, you could do it out loud I suppose, 15 times a day, some specific kind of an objective that you have.
00:24:00And the idea is that somehow, and it's the somehow that we'll talk about, that's the fun and weird part, somehow simply repeating or writing down your objective 15 times a day seems to make it happen.
00:24:17Not every time, obviously. Full disclosure, I've been talking about this topic for decades, and so lots of people have tried it, and they've reported back to me.
00:24:29A number of people say they had great results. Other people said they didn't.
00:24:35I didn't do any kind of a scientific poll, so I can't tell you how often it works or doesn't.
00:24:41I feel like people would more likely tell me if it worked, so I probably have an oversized sense of how often it worked.
00:24:51But I will tell you the story from my personal perspective.
00:24:55Some of you have maybe heard it or read about it.
00:24:58And that will form the basis upon which you can judge my credibility.
00:25:03So I'll tell you how I was introduced to this idea, how I used it, what happened.
00:25:09and then I'll tell you a little bit more about the technique, it just takes about a minute
00:25:13and then we'll talk about what kind of a universe
00:30:50worked really well. I got something that I knew could have never happened in any other way. Did
00:30:58I say that? No, I didn't. No, I didn't. What I said to myself was, huh, I guess I have more game
00:31:05than I thought. Who knew? I guess I had more buying power than I thought. So, of course,
00:31:14the experiment was a complete failure because the very thing that she told me to do didn't work.
00:31:20I didn't pick something that I couldn't later convince myself I'd gotten through my own great, you know, good looks or talent or something else.
00:31:29So I was like, ah, inconclusive experiment.
00:31:35So not long after that, I got in a bet with somebody at work about whether I could retake the GMATs,
00:31:46the test you take to see if you can get into a school to get your MBA.
00:31:51And that I would retake the test because I'd taken them before
00:31:54and I'd not scored very well. I was scored in the 77th percentile
00:31:58I think, which is not good enough to get into a good school.
00:32:02If I recall, I might have been a little hungover when I took the GMATs the first time.
00:32:07That's the story I'm going to go with, so just
00:42:22So obviously it wasn't so incurable, was it?
00:42:25Long story short, I searched the world and found a guy who had an experimental, fairly newish surgery and fixed it.
00:42:33But that was the subject of my silent affirmations that I would someday speak perfectly.
00:42:41Now, of course I don't speak perfectly, so affirmations are sort of directional.
00:42:46Let's, let me show you what the process is. Then I'll tell you the fun part is, is there anything to it? Or is it just complete BS? And you can decide.
00:43:03Alright, the how of it is easy. You just write a repeat that thing that you want and use this form.
00:55:31If I had to bet, that would be the most active part.
00:55:34And I definitely think there's something about finding out what you're willing to work hard for.
00:55:39And the affirmations are like a practice way to find out if you're willing to work hard for it.
00:55:45But I also think there's something to the fact that, in some ways, it's programming your filter on reality, in some productive way.
00:55:56Now, since we don't know what base reality is, we're only dealing with this weird symbolic level where we think we're in the same reality but we're not.
00:56:05We already talked about the fact that everybody's walking around in their own bubble reality.0.96
00:56:09You've got your own religion, you think that the other political party is crazy, they think you're crazy.1.00
00:56:14you're crazy. So we're all in our own little bubbles. Could it be that there's a way to steer1.00
00:56:21your little bubble? Because keep in mind, if we're all in little bubbles, and you can see it for
00:56:26yourself, I mean, people are living full lives within a reality that you don't even recognize.
00:56:33They believe, you know, mystical things according to you. They're wrong about this. They can't tell