Derek Thompson

It doesn't experience it as it is.

So based on what served you in the past, that's what your brain is trying to tell you to do in the future, which means that this is in your control.

that it's just a perception problem, that the problems are caused by your beliefs, that the rats always had the 60 hours within them.

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.