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For those times you don't know what to say  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [BLOG |]( [PRIMAL KITCHEN |]( [PRIMAL BLUEPRINT]( [Mark Sisson with Coffee Cup](  Hello, everyone. Happy Sunday. I hope you have something fun, exciting, and/or relaxing planned. I'm gonna do a couple different things for this one.  First, I may be out of a job. People are beginning to use text-generating neural networks to write copy, articles, and tweets. Anything, really. And it's getting pretty good.  Here's a tool I've been playing with: [thoughts.sushant-kumar.com/word](  You enter that URL and change "word" to any word you want, and the neural network will generate a tweet about that word. Hit refresh and it'll generate a new one as many times as you want. I'll give a few examples.  [( "Never settle for a steak you haven't killed." or "Eat meat. Not too much. Mostly steak."  Pretty clever (though I don't agree).  [( "If you're going to do squats, do them as deeply as you can."  I've heard this before.  [( "I'm getting back into deadlifts. I like how it turns me into so much of a man that I stop being able to communicate with people."  There are levels to this one.  [( "Leave avocados alone. They're from California."  I bet some of you will get a kick out of this one.  [( "You don't need a paleo guru. You need a GPS."  There's wisdom there.  [( "Willpower is useless. Motor function is training your subconscious to do your bidding. A single kettle bell provides the same experience as 10k hours of meditation."  I mean, that's not far off.  [( "In order to do diet, you have to hate your LDL cholesterol levels."  The neural net is onto something here.  [( "To succeed in business, you need willpower, luck, and carbs."  Not completely true in my experience.  [( "Idealism must be tempered with pragmatism. Or you'll find yourself flushed away."  Megadosers of Natural Calm will get this one.  [( "Protein is explicitly an 'optimal foraging theory' allocation of atoms in the universe."  I think there's something there.  Interesting stuff, right? Now you try.  And for the second thing, I'm going to discuss feelings.  Feelings are real. They can't be rationalized away. Maybe you can take the edge off a feeling you're having by using logic to explain to yourself that it's not worth losing yourself in, but even that's a tall order. It's almost impossible to convince someone else that an emotion they're feeling can't be justified and should be dropped. For one, they'll probably argue against you. Two, even if they "agree" they'll still be feeling the emotion.  So you have to stop invalidating people's emotions. This is one area where "cold hard facts" don't matter, where reality is relative. If you go in with logic and rationality, you'll lose. You may be "right" but so are they in their own way.  Don't do it. It's counterproductive, it doesn't work, and it's disrespectful to the other person.  This is especially true for kids, who have even less control over their emotions and thus identify even more strongly with them.  That's it for today, everyone. I'd love to hear the results you get with the neural net tool, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the emotion piece. Tell me all about it in the comment section of [Weekly Link Love.](  [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Custom]( [Custom]( [Pinterest]( #listentothesisson No longer want to receive these emails? [Unsubscribe](. Mark's Daily Apple 1641 S. Rose Ave. Oxnard, CA 93033 ‌