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  1. “Activities people are always getting ready for. So I type in How Can I Learn? And I let it autofill. Now this is going to blow your mind. The top response was English. And that makes sense. How can I learn English, right? Number two of the top ten was Spanish, which is interesting, right? It's a global language Interestingly, of the top 10 responses, Chinese did not make the list the next language was Russian, oddly enough Figure, which was in like seventh or eighth place, Japanese right behind it. So of the top ten, how can I learn English, Spanish, Russian and Japanese were the languages that made how can I learn? Then this is what's going to blow your mind. Of the top five, number three, four, or five were interchangeable depending on the person. Number three was how can I learn to sing, which is kind of cute.”

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  2. “So, if I get you excited, or if I get you angry, you're gonna click. And so, again, technology is designed to get us to respond and the way to do that is to heighten emotions and hijack attention. And it does so with ferocious efficiency and it's unrelenting. There's no escaping it. And so there's right now a loneliness epidemic in the United States. So I'm going to tell you something that just blow your mind, Shane. So a few weeks ago, I wanted to tweet on a Sunday morning. I wanted to tweet about how people are always getting ready, right? They're always getting ready to start their training for the marathon, or they're always getting ready to ask that woman out on a date or they're always getting ready to ask for a raise or start a business or start the novel. So I go to Google. I wanted to see what”

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  3. “Not being exposed to anything. In fact, all we see is exactly what we expect to see. So the internet and technology is one big confirmation bias engine. And so the first way is to reflect back what you think. But there's another way I can get you, Shane, to click on things, and that's by presenting what you don't like.”

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  4. “Links, right? That's how the Googles and the Facebooks and arguably even Netflix is designed to make you respond in a certain way. And again, it's all engineered. And so the problem with that is think about what I would need to do to you, Shane. Make you click on things, and I will tell you there are only two ways. One is to reflect the world that you think, and so Google does that, right? If you think the world is a scary place, then Google is going to reflect that back to you. If you think that the left or the right is politically benighted, then Google and Facebook and the entire Internet is going to reflect that back to you. you, Shane, all Individuals are reflected back, their views of the world are reflected back to themselves by the Internet. So we become more hardened in our own views, right? We think”

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  5. “And it's hugely fed. It's hugely accelerated by technology. Think about The damage that technology, which is designed to hijack your attention. That's what technology is designed to do. And when I say technology, I mean Google or Facebook or your email, all of that is designed to hijack your attention. Literally hijack your attention. So when you find it difficult to put your cell phone down, that's engineered. That's not just like a random like wow, I can't seem to put my cell phone down. All of that's engineered. And it's resulted in a hijacking of attention. And if there's one thing, Human beings need to know how to do is control their attention. But technology has hijacked attention and has created a world, if you think about it, technology is monetized once your attention is hijacked That attention is monetized by making you click.”

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  6. “Well, it's a good question. Speaking of the statistics that you refer to, an economist Lomborg, forget his first name, wrote a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist about 20 years ago. And this was an environmentalist who Set out to describe the ways in which the world had eroded, and he discovered to his surprise that by most metrics the world was improving. But these are quantitative measures. And right now there is a global, certainly a US, but I would argue there's a global loneliness epidemic. It's very, very serious.”

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  7. “Possible future that other people, or especially someone, says ya, I want a piece of that with you. And that's how businesses are started. That's how movements are started. And one of my concerns about the world right now is The lack of positive visions, a lot of negative visions, a lot of ante, and anger level is rising. One of the reasons I wrote an invitation of the Great Game was in response to that, to try to change the tenor of the global conversation.”

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  8. “Yes, and you know, the revelatory aspect of that chain was that I've lived my life in the world of ideas, my success in the world in terms of career and the businesses I've started and the books I've written have come through the world of ideas and constitutionally I'm an introvert and so the revelation of 2016 into 2017 and now 2018 has been that the real magic is connecting with others. If you want to do anything in the world, and this is as true personally as well as professionally, it's all about creating a vision for others to join. And I don't care whether you're starting a business or a relationship. You yourself are offering by your presence and by your imagination and by your vision.”

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  9. “Yes, I'm deeply conscious of them, much the same way that I said to Tim, I make an effort to apply the lesson. An Odyssey of sorts of playing the great game, and I wrote that book the first draft, which you have a copy of in ten days the first draft, and then I put it aside for a few months, and I wrote the second draft in another ten days, so essentially three weeks. I spent writing the book. It's a short book, those of you listening. And so it's meant to be read in an hour or two and reflected on and actually not reflected on too much. It's meant to be implemented.”

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  10. “The second thing I've learned is the importance of creating fun and delight for the other. No matter what you're doing in any situation. And the third thing I learned was the importance of leaning into each moment and every encounter, expecting magic or miracles. And really, I made all of that up on the fly. It's something I'd never given any thought to, but as I'm saying it, I'm thinking, wow, that's really what I did learn this year. And I forget which author once said I never know what I'm going to do. Thinking until I say it. And that's pretty much me as well. I never know what I'm thinking And so I said those things, and that formed the kernel of an invitation to the great game.”

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  11. “So now I'm on the spot. And now I have like Tourette's syndrome. So the words pop out of my mouth. I learned three things this year. Really, I have no idea why I said three. And you'd think I would have said something like, you know, some platitude. Like I learned the importance of the golden rule or something, just to kind of pass the baton on to the other guests, right? Josh and Ramit. Outspills. I learned three things this year. And now I think to myself, I'm really on the spot because now I have to come up with three things. And I said, the first thing I learned is the importance of connecting with others. First and foremost. And as I'm saying this, I'm just making this up on the fly. I'm thinking, wow, that's really good. In fact, I think that's what I have learned this year. And then I said”

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  12. “I didn't know I was supposed to mark the end of the year. I'm thinking to myself. So I said something that off the top of my head that I thought sounded reasonable. I said, I think of the lessons that I've learned in the past year and I make an effort to apply them mindfully in the coming year. And he said Great, what lessons did you learn?”

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  13. “Yes. So I never know what I'm going to say until I say it, even here today. So I'm as excited as you are, Shane, and I hope the listeners are because I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. So Tim Ferris and I and Josh Waiteskin and Ramit Sethi did a live podcast from the 92nd Street Why. I don't think he'll mind my saying this. He started off the The podcast by directing the first question at me, saying What New Year's resolutions have you made? This was in December of 2016. And I said I don't make New Year's resolutions. And he said, well, then how do you mark the end of the year? And I'm thinking to myself on stage, right, a thousand people standing room only.”

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  14. “Buckminster Fuller wrote a book some 50 years ago. Called Utopia or Oblivion. And I think that's the choice that we're presented with right now. We can create a utopia, or we can lead the world to oblivion, and I don't think it takes much reading between the lines of the headlines to know that the world is in trouble right now and is flying apart. So I wrote an invitation of the Great Game to be a beacon. Offer an alternative game to the games that the win-lose games that have currently played themselves out.”

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  15. “The great game is life. And we play many games in life. The game of job or Career or starting a business or the politics game or the education game. Everything is a game. And games suggest something that's not serious, but of course games are intensely serious. If you want to find someone who is ferociously intense and focused, watch someone playing a game, especially something competitive. And so the great game of life is a win-win game. Democracy is a game, capitalism is a game. And many of these games have played themselves out. Churchill once said Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that we've tried And I think the same thing could be said of capitalism. And it's the worst form of economic arrangement except for all the others. And it is clear that the world's civilization is at an inflection point.”

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  16. “Ah, well, the great game is a book I wrote, an invitation to the Great Game. And so it's my first work of fiction. It's not out yet. So I gave you an advance galley. And I'm thrilled to be offering it to the world soon.”

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  17. “Again, technology is designed to get us to respond. And the way to do that is to heighten emotions and hijack attention. And it does so with ferocious efficiency and its unrelenting. There's no escaping it. And so there's right now a loneliness epidemic in the United States.”

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