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"Request Scott Adams Scott Adams is a very f cartoonist he's the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several different books that are non-fiction and he and I have a very wide ranging ..."

"of his which say which which or who is Donald Trump and uh the negotiator and chief that he is campaigning to become and uh why the political press misses a lot of the genius that perhaps the business..."

"share a lot in common there we talk about his first ever Dilbert Che The Six Dimensions of humor so how can you engineer humor in say a comic strip or elsewhere we talk about the most underrated comic..."

"the banter is uh I found a really good time so I hope that comes across via audio and without further Ado please enjoy Scott Adams and say hi to him it is Scott Adams says on Twitter so give a give a ..."

"is for your tennis lesson which was the first proper tennis lesson I've ever had had so right off the bat I wanted to thank you for being very good at helping me to make progress in both of those area..."

"languages if I learn for instance uh Japanese first then I will use the Japanese and say a target language of Spanish to learn the Spanish in other words I already know what's in the book on some leve..."

"impressed with how you were able to teach me tennis uh or at least get me up and running with the basics in such a very short period of time and I feel like you you're very methodical in many differen..."

"um beginning anecdote to a long explanation anybody ever did so all right true true story just a few days ago I was having dinner with nval and I'm just making conversation you know hadn't seen him in..."

"coincidence right you know there's no magic that happened there it was just a a strange coincidence and probably wasn't even a coincidence because the fact that we both know you and you know there's s..."

"my mouth what I have said is that I've used the technique and I got a certain experience which I'll be happy to share and that I tell the story all right you can make of it what you will I have severa..."

"take as long as I want for this and you can just cut me off it's a fun Story from beginning to end I like a lot of people ask this is what uh this is what this format is for long form so please go for..."

"works like this all you do is you you pick a goal and you write it down 15 times a day in some specific sentence form like I Scott Adams will become an astronaut for example and you do that every day ..."

"waste of time there's no science behind that blah blah blah she convinced me partly because she was a member of Mena uh that she wasn't dumb uh step one that's good and then secondly it didn't cost me..."

"yeah let's say she was a nine just so get a sense of the the Monumental task I I set in front of myself secondly I didn't know her she was just somebody who worked in the company in a different depart..."

"they're they're just too many but in the end it was almost like we were faded to meet all right now I don't believe in that but it just felt like that that's the experience so I said to myself well I ..."

"you don't have any money to invest I think I was you know a poor banking uh person a banker that was and so I started doing that affirmation and after about a week I literally woke up in the middle of..."

"open my Schwab account anyway and pursue it just to see you know we're still in AB testing here to see if this is real but the paperwork got mixed up and it took weeks to sorted out I didn't get my ac..."

"all time I knew nothing about that except you know the headline news um before I thought I came up with this idea in other words there was no story I read no analyst was ahead of it it just came from ..."

"software I forget but there were a new tech company back before Tech was anything and I said hey I'm going to invest in this company I just feel it put in some money I think it went up I don't know 10..."

"two doing very well for me is that I didn't stay with them so I said well it would be dumb if this thing actually has something to it to set another goal that's relatively modest right right yeah so s..."

"prep course they were going to try to uh raise their score uh into from the 80s into something perhaps the the 90s uh in order to get into a good school again like Berkeley so I made a bet and I don't..."

"affirmation and then uh I also visualized which is part of the process they tell you to do very specifically what my score would look like on the exact document I knew I would get because I had taken ..."

"I take the test felt exactly the same as all the practice tests I didn't feel like I was having a good day or anything weeks passed the test shows up in the mail I go to the mailbox I open the mail an..."

"so the odds of becoming a uh famous cartoonist uh I think about 2,000 people submit packages to this the big syndicates the people who give you the big contract Your Big Break um uh they might pick ha..."

"I think you're your listeners want to hear this I know it's interrupt you here but no no interrupt all you want the the two other affirmations that are notable was um I said that I would become a numb..."

"were to look at just the the mechanics of these affirmations are you sitting down in the morning and writing down 15 lines kind of like Bart Simpson on the chalkboard on a piece of paper how exactly w..."

"here's why I think it seems to work and there's several possibilities for that one is something uh I learned long ago and I forget who coined it but if you ever heard the phrase reticular activation I..."

"than the guy who says there was nothing to look for I already know everything's going to go wrong I'll tell you tomorrow tomorrow is g to be me going wrong Bad Day eor right so that guy's just not loo..."

"on right now the other possibility um every rational person in the audience is screaming you know at their uh at their speaker right now you idiot this is selective memory um what what's really happen..."

"down their goal 15 times a day has in their dis at their disposal without necessarily knowing it a a subconscious that is totally on their side in other words there's something in the subconscious tha..."

"siblings were raised in identical situations we all turned out completely different like you just say that to anybody and watch them get the dough in the head you know headlights look like okay you ju..."

"compelling you know IE Ronald Reagan I.E Donald Trump Simplicity is always compelling but the larger part you know the the content of the book and this won't mean as much to the people who haven't rea..."

"clues that this is a a thought experiment it's not a a typical novel it's not a story like they're they're used to and what what were some of the techniques from hypnosis that that you implemented oh ..."

"known and understood so I'll give you one example just illustrate it my challenge when I have a book that's uh most of it is two people talking is that you will get bored right right so I need to cont..."

"somebody uses you know Angry Words and war words You' start out using them that's pacing so you're matching them so they feel comfortable with you they bond with you they link to you your your brains ..."

"for those people who are not familiar with hypnosis and have only seen the stage performers and so on um H how do you sniff out someone who's truly a master at hypnosis and maybe that's too broad mayb..."

"other things and so when I was in my 20s and I realized that a guy who works at a bank teller and has drives a car which uh one girlfriend uh affectionately she had a terrible name for it but I can't ..."

"without giving them a a hard stop so in other words if I said uh this is uh Dilbert Goldberg all right all of the you know the anti-semites would say well you know I don't really relate to that Goldbe..."

"of bases so H how do you define hypnosis so simplest um and I think everybody has ends up with their own definition of it if they if they have any experience with it because I don't think there's any ..."

"example if I said to the audience and I I do this in front of crowd so you know you a home can play along and Shout out the answer but I already know the answer I'm going to give you two words that me..."

"some of the fireworks so please tell say more uh let me draw a line for you that um I I'll say in advance this is conspiracy uh talk you know conspiracy theory talk so so you don't have to say it none..."

"from hypnosis which um matches pretty exactly with what the scientific studies and you know current psychology would expect right so there's there's a part of it that's real strong and powerful but it..."

"see the details is that you know dilbert.com and my blog but uh take the debate where um he came in as the underprepared buffoon who was going to blow himself up and Megan Kelly of Fox News decided th..."

"so but what did Trump do as soon as that question came up he semi interrupted her and he said only Rosie o Donnell that my friends is hypnosis he took an anchor that everybody could visualize and his ..."

"that's what I've predicted um because of his hypnosis skills in particular having nothing to do with his policies by the way I'll get to that you know I'm not a not a fan of the policies but I don't t..."

"and he's a hypnotist and he just gave you an anchor and his anchor is look at what I'm going to do everybody get excited let's talk about changing the Constitution let's talk about the cost and the an..."

"saying if his goal is to do this thing it's a stupid goal he's not going to kick out 11 million people nobody's going to nobody's going to go for that that's not the game it will never be the game I a..."

"the truth on my first offer you offer me to negotiate he's he's literally running for the office of negotiator and Chief and practicing his craft and he's doing it with such Brilliance that i' I've li..."

"read in the news a writer saying essentially nobody understands why he's rising in the PO and and I'm saying exactly and you won't either yeah I think it's also uh hard sometimes for for people partic..."

"your facts is what I call the The High Ground maneuver which I also write about um it's the same thing jobs did when he explained to way antenna gate just by saying all smartphones have problems um we..."

"system is that even as things are failing you're still improving your odds and your personal worth all right so if for example uh I start up a company and it doesn't work I would say oh I had a goal a..."

"but every once in a while she'd say you know this didn't happen often but once in a while she'd say I have a boyfriend and I don't like you so that was my experience with my go so my my friend even if..."

"you need a system so here's a system that I've been using that uh has me in the best shape of my life at 58 and uses no willpower whatsoever I eat whatever I want whatever I want to it's just that uh ..."

"learned which foods I can eat like crazy and uh not stimulate Cravings so if I eat the simple carbs for lunch I know I'm just going to be hungrier later I've learned that um sometimes sleep pretends t..."

"have picked off things which were problem Cravings such as Diet Coke I was drinking somewhere between 10 and 20 a day I think of di for years 30 years probably uh now if I said to myself today's the d..."

"system is finding experimenting continually and I know you're into this um experimenting and trying to isolate one thing and saying okay I do this for a week did that make any difference in anything a..."

"type even if that fails like the 4our chef was boycotted by almost every retailer on the planet because it came out of Amazon publishing and I was prepared for that uh and that then allowed me to do e..."

"years in total and was was that purely to get the income from cartooning to a point where you could you could you could survive on that or were there other reasons that you stayed at that job for for ..."

"also because the pain of working completely goes away when you don't need to do it right it's like uh it's like dealing with small children right as as long as you're not forcing them to do something ..."

"guy who would be a loner I wanted to give him a dog just so there was somebody to interact with and I wanted the name of the dog to have some correspondence with Dilbert and so dogbert's original name..."

"Dilbert's kind of the voice of reason and you know the one that you is uh I let say he's challenged by you he loves a a challenge he likes fixing things more than he likes you know talking to people a..."

"well um I've heard that one of the one of the Innovative things you did of many was including your email address in your panels is that uh do you think that had a huge impact and what other types of d..."

"emails a day a lot of them said the following uh I don't know anybody anyone else who has email so I'm writing to you it was literally the dawn of the internet I mean to give you an idea how early it ..."

"salesperson would go into a newspaper and say hey here's a new thing and they'd say ah you know we don't get it we don't care in the old days but once I had uh literally thousands of email messages sa..."

"based on you know one or two emails what uh what other types of don't ask me well I'll tell you the the biggest change that uh there were actually more emails than than a few but it's one that jumps t..."

"potential way to get their message out there so uh this is a good example of the systems versus the goal I mean I certainly didn't start out to have a cat cartoon I started out to do a bunch of things..."

"less so you know for me creativity is a process of removing barriers it's not so much a process of pulling something in that was outside me right right it's uh sort of decreasing the the noise to Sign..."

"type of unique output and so I'd love to ask you about your question or your your morning rather if if you have full control of your day what does your ideal first 60 to 90 minutes look like in your d..."

"new stuff but then you then you got to um find out where in that flood is the little uh piece that's worth working with and that's where I that's where I use the body model I kind of cycle through all..."

"and have you have you you written about the the six elements of humor before I did I I've written about it a number of times I think if anybody Googles my name Scott Adams and six dimensions of humor ..."

"the of the ones you may have heard of that also makes me laugh the most um Pearls Before Swine um and that would be no accident because he literally studied the you know the two of six Rule and um you..."

"know you want to ask me about the voice thing possib uh yeah yeah well we we could do that first I mean could you describe what happened to you and what you learned from that experience I mean and the..."

"problem syllables um it would come out like a clipped um cell phone so instead of a Diet Coke or or can I have a Diet Coke it would come out as and I got Coke like that so it sound like you're just dr..."

"surgery works now the only other thing that works for this that I've personally uh verified cuz I've talked to the individuals who've done this and I actually went through this training myself was a d..."

"when you have this problem you end up straining it every single day because you're trying really hard to talk it's just not working so imagine if you had a sprained ankle and you ran a marathon every ..."

"tell me if it worked because if I can get three people in the world that this works for Tim we just fixed the problem it could be a really big breakthrough know I love this idea and uh for those peopl..."

"are worth it right I mean you mentioned 10 to 20% with the humming and the key of f if that were a drug for a for a major condition and the people for whom it didn't work had no side effects that woul..."

"definitely I mean that's uh it's kind of not entirely a perfect parallel but a lot of people who consider themselves hard gainers meaning they they have difficulty gaining muscle mass is particularly ..."

"most as a gift I've never given a book as a gift you haven't wow okay no this is interesting so what uh do you give gifts maybe that sounds like a weird question but I mean if you do I'd be curious to..."

"read that book y yeah yeah in fact that's one of those things that when I meet somebody and they're operating at a pretty high level if you mention that book they've all read it yeah that's true it's ..."

"laptops now we have wearables uh well yeah let me let me emphasize that point cuz I realized I sounded like old man get off of my lawn um stop this stop this new technology stuff but I think most peop..."

"deck not in your favor yeah uh before you call this true story so as part of the your process um your assistant sent me a form that needed to be filled out in order to do the process of finding it in ..."

"that more often I think yeah it's like holding up a shield to deflect all of the incoming distraction you mentioned Billboards if if you could have one billboard anywhere with anything on it what woul..."

"guess what people like you they want to be with you you're useful yeah you people want to hire you you're useful everything comes together if you just do that one thing and that dovetails back to you ..."

"and the way he's doing it is he's picking the thing that governments can't do and poor people can't do he's P he's taking not only the place that has the greatest leverage cuz you know can go in with ..."

"talk about CPU power uh what advice and I'll just ask you one or two more questions what advice would you give to your 30-year-old self yeah 30-year-old self um that was a that was a time of great tra..."

"I love this well Scott we need to hang out more we need to play more tennis we should get Nal in the room to just up the intensity quotient also not not that we need it but uh always fun to uh to to c..."

"love it so everybody listening uh for for links I'll also include specific links to a couple of popular posts on Scott's blog just visit the show notes everything we mentioned will be in there 4hourwo..."