Give birth to a son who has the same powers as you.

Please show me your skills.

How would you describe your competence yourself?

So this old model that I will grow your capacity first,

I guess you can't handle me anymore, it has gotten harder right?

You should get your parents to quiz you.

Right? It wasn't your ability it was your state.

It wasn't your ability it was your state.

I've known you a long time, Henry... and I've always respected your ability.

To redefine your limits is to first accept that there are limits.

I mean a man of your ability wasting his time photographing silly dresses on silly women.

And perhaps other aspects of your personal identity maybe your personality and your intellect maybe they're also encoded in the connections between your neurons.

We're going to place electrodes within the circuits that regulate your memory and cognitive function to see if we can turn up their activity.

What then happens is not an across the board reduction in all your mental capacities, a sort of blunting of your cognitive ability.

You won '92t be able to reach those conclusions because your attic will be pretty bare.

Build your capacity for self awareness, for I firmly believe that path will never lead you astray.

And perhaps other aspects of your personal identity maybe your personality and your intellect maybe they're also encoded in the connections between your neurons.

That means that if you sit at the left side of the distribution, and I'm looking at your neuropyschological abilities, the average person has moved to the middle or the right side of the distribution.

That means that if you sit at the left side of the distribution, and I'm looking at your neuropyschological abilities, the average person has moved to the middle or the right side of the distribution.

Competing against the clock, facing your limitations and then going back to the starting line to push yourself just a bit more harder this time, repeating it again every day like a driven, demonic machine is the right training if you want to aim for greatness.

The rest, you have to create what it is that you do best that layers onto the formal training that may be behind it.

And just to sample the kind of interventions that we find have an effect, when we teach people about the pleasant life, how to have more pleasure in your life, one of your assignments is to take the mindfulness skills, the savoring skills, and you're assigned to design a beautiful day.