Dr. David Eagleman

And this translates into what you set up.

Like, I'm gonna set up a dinner at my house, I'm gonna invite my close friends, and I'm gonna have this dinner and pay 100% attention to this dinner.

I'm gonna be present at this thing, because that's the stuff of life.

By the way, I was just in Las Vegas at CES giving a talk yesterday.

And as I was leaving, I looked out the window and there was, you know, this Chinese lion statue.

And there was this homeless woman smoking a cigarette and she was rubbing this thing very vigorously.

And the guy driving the car told me, oh, that's good luck if you rub the statue.

Which is, of course, ridiculous.

But the woman was rubbing and rubbing.

We're in red light.

And I watched her for, you know, like 60 seconds doing this.

And, yeah, it was tragic to me because her brain has set up an association, which is if I do this action, there will be this result.

That's what her future simulation is telling her.

And as far as we can tell, that's not true, that she'll have good luck from doing that.

But, yeah, that was an example of tragedy.

Well, I tell you, Albert Einstein said that he really enjoyed tasks like fixing a doorknob in his house or something.

And I do that all the time.

I live in this very old house and I'm doing lots of little dinky repairs all the time.

And I love that, just crossing these scales.

But I do want to say something about addiction because I think this is an awesome example about brain plasticity and something that I wrote about in my book LiveWired about this, which is