It is not hyperbola to say that “Seinfeld” is one of the most influential sitcoms of all time. The sitcom, created by actors Jerry Seinfeld (Natch) and Larry David, is certainly one of the funniest. The duo has developed Several episodes that are in the running for “the biggest episode of all time”. He predicted the the viral viral of “rawdogging” a flight, Created a real Holidays celebrated worldwide with Festivus, and presented Several new words in the real English language. If you’ve already called someone for a double dip, or someone Yada made it stop talking, you have “breast” to thank for that.

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And yet, according to Jason Alexander who played the neurotic and unfortunately very relatable George Costanza in the series, the series did not just entertain the public. On the contrary, it actually helped a lot of people to change their lives for the best thanks to the extremely funny episode “The opposite”.

Indeed, many of the funniest payments of the show come from George, alias David’s stand-in. George is a neurotic disorder that has trouble keeping his life together, which can unfortunately be linked to this writer. Throughout the show, George offers a variety of hare patterns to improve his life, and in “The Opposite”, the 22nd episode of season 5, George realizes that he is his worst enemy. Thus, his boyfriend Jerry offers a simple observation: “If each instinct you have is false, the opposite should be right.”

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It leads George to change his life. “I used to sit here and do nothing and regret it for the rest of the day. So now I will do the opposite, and I will do something,” he promised. What seems at the beginning as a disaster recipe has the opposite effect while George walks to a beautiful woman and says to him: “My name is George. I am unemployed and I live with my parents.” This simple action then proceeds to his whole life, by earning him an appointment and finally a job working for the New York Yankees.

It is a hilarious outing, but according to Alexander, the influence of the episode is much larger than a few laughs.

We generally do not turn to sitcoms for life advice. After all, which makes a funny joke in a television program does not often work in real life. But what’s going on if it was?

In a featurette behind the scenes for the episode, Alexander recounts hearing stories of several people who have taken this philosophy to do the opposite of their instincts tell them to do heart. And it was particularly shocked to learn that it resulted in a huge success:

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“I know people who did it. I mean, it has become a philosophy. For real people in the real life who prospered. They literally said:” My instinct is absolutely false. Everything I do is bad. So I think I’m going to do the opposite of what I think I should do and see what’s going on. “And I know a handful of guys who tried this for a considerable period of time and who really prospered it.”

So it turns out that “the show on nothing” could really change your life. Who knows: if you have the impression that your instincts are not used, stop listening to your intestine and try to do the opposite. This could work for you, although it is difficult to imagine that it works better for any of us than For Seinfeld and David, who are both billionaires Thanks to episodes like “the opposite”.

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Each episode of “Seinfeld”, including “The opposite”, is currently available for streaming on Netflix.