Saturday can be a day of relaxation.  Instead, today is a day of work, overcoming adversity, and sitting with peace; it is a day to do the work.  Just ask Dr. Paul Rhoades from Shrinking; after a mental health checkup, we move to advertise and how many ads we see in a day.  The Georgie DMV asked people to wear a shirt, and Jeff Goldblum was inspired by reciting Shaw. 

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There is a saying, "If you wish for peace, you will get struggle until you can overcome it with peace."  Often when you think of something you would like less of in your life, you don't want the absence of it.  The strength of mind, the presence to understand you can handle it, is what you want.  In the macro, world peace is complex, and the end of global poverty is brutal and might not be possible in our lifetimes.  Can you handle living in a world with hunger, violence, and pain?  In the micro, relationships are complicated; your boss, kids, coworkers, and neighbors could all be a cause of stress.  Do you wish they would all change and figure it out?  Or is it better if you figured it out?  Decide to work on what you can work on, your reaction, your value, and your ability to make the world a better place.  If you could work on yourself for 30 days instead of praying for peace, where could you be.

The more work we do, the stronger we will be.  There is a scene in the Apple TV series Shrinking; one of the docs talks to a patient suffering from PTSD after serving in Afghanistan.  In the conversation, the vet says he knows what he did overseas, which makes him sick, and he wants the doc to tell him what he should do with that.  Dr. Paul Rhoades (Harrison Ford) says, "You do the work."  That's it; I want to be better able to handle all situations better than do the work.

Meditation and prayer follow similarly; our ability to slow the mind down and sit with the present is part of this work.  When someone says to look at your problems from a 10,000-foot view, it's a way of expanding the perspective and getting you less focused on what's right in front of you.  It's not easy, and the speed of distraction is the highest in human history. 

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Could you guess how many ads you see in a day?  The simple answer is more than you want to, but do you know how many?  Many articles have been written about the number of ads; most of those articles number in the thousands of ads per day, per person.  Well, Blake from Morning Brew took it upon himself to find out.  First, he reviewed the research and found that many articles that quantify ads per day cite an old NYT article.

According to the article, the number was not meant to represent a quantity, rather than more of an average, and it was used to promote the fact that we are seeing more ads now than we had before.  Next, Blake bought a clicker from Amazon that would help him track how many ads he saw in a day.  The video provides the details, and the number of ads in a day is less than we thought.

Georgia is one of three states in the U.S. that allow residents to take and submit a digital picture for a digital driver’s license or ID.  In a CNN report, The Georgia Department of Drivers’ Services has requested that people keep their clothes on for the picture.

Jeff Goldblum is not just a famous actor but a musician who plays the piano and works with a jazz band.  When Stephen Colbert asks Goldblum what inspires him, his answer will surprise you.

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