Sam Parr
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like it wasn't even like, and he's like, I went to his office and it was like 80 employees and they all look like the same woman over and over and over again of like, you know, you ever seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Like the secretary, like with like that haircut.
It's like they, like that word AI, they literally didn't know what it was.
And it's just crazy how...
how much they spend on payroll.
He's like, they spend $8 million a year on payroll.
And I was like, what are they doing?
And he explained, I'm like, that's crazy.
That's just like that one little business that you've never even heard of in the middle of Missouri, that just unlocked $8 million a year probably in value that someone can go and do.
All right, listen, Sean, you're getting dumber.
Well, we all are.
So I'm reading this book called Stolen Focus because I'm basically like incredibly depressed by the fact that like I get 10,000 notifications a day and it's like impacting my mood.
And so I saw this book called Stolen Focus.
Have you ever seen it?
Good joke.
But it kind of got me interested, and it's coincidental.
Just last month, this one neuroscientist did this thing in front of Congress, this testimony or whatever in front of Congress, where he basically said that this is the first time in history of measuring this since the 1880s that the current generation, Gen Z, is dumber than the generation above them.
So have you heard of the Flynn effect?