Derek Thompson

You currently have capabilities that you're not even aware of.

For example, for you, I think about you all the time, Derek.

The amount of writing that you're able to do, your persistence in your profession of how you can week after week come up with banger ideas that illuminate the world for me,

I mean, literally, this isn't false praise.

I don't tell this to anybody else.

That's amazing.

You're such an inspiration that you can do it.

And as amazing as you are as an individual, I bet a lot of people could do it.

But they don't.

I don't because I don't have that persistence yet.

I don't believe I could do it.

Now, I need to teach myself how to do that, and I want to, right?

But these type of experiments, when we see that the rats had this potential in them, that you have the potential in you,

means that we all, to some degree, by adjusting our beliefs can unlock our hidden potential.

So there was an amazing incidence in Portugal where there was this one night where thousands of teenage girls started showing up in emergency rooms.

All one night around the same time, all of them started flooding into emergency rooms.

And nobody knew why.

They thought maybe there was some kind of contamination at some kind of food facility or some kind of viral disease.

Nobody knew what was going on.

Turns out that these girls had watched a teen soap opera where there was a character on the show who came down with some kind of stomach illness.