Episode 592 Scott Adams: Let’s Talk About the UK Ambassador, Tom Steyer

Date: 2019-07-09 | Duration: 56:18

Topics

UK Ambassador, Kim Darroch’s private message got leaked? President Trump tweets about the “whacky Ambassador” Poll says people LIKE President’s performance, not his behavior Tom Steyer JUST entered the Presidential race…what’s that mean? Epstein story, mysterious way he made an enormous fortune Iran’s supreme leader is key to preventing middle east peace “Micro-steps” and other productivity hacks for motivation “Meaning in your life” seeking and finding it Ben Garrison altered comics and controversy The future of education is virtual reality Bad teachers need to be removed from the process

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well well well it appears that I have accidentally triggered the Santa's periscope so I'm just gonna go with it I was actually typing in the the title and my fat finger hit the go-live button so we're live sooner than I thought three minutes earlier than usual so isn't it time for a little dopamine I think it is I think it is let's somebody says I through Twitter into a tizzy did I do that I'm not sure which topic you're talking about but anyway it's time for the best part of the day it's the part of the day that makes all the rest of the day worthwhile it gives meaning to your life yes it's time for the simultaneous step it's when we all feel together part of something bigger than ourselves something amazing and it starts by grabbing a cup of mug or a

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starts by grabbing a cup of mug or a glass it might be at a Curtis diet steiner chalice could be a thermos maybe a flask vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous tip for those of you who have not yet figured it out every now and then you might want to skip the simultaneous sip and just listen to the content but the simultaneous sip gives you a way to do that because when you see my mug go up like this you know that that's the end of the introduction and the beginning of the content and so it's very functional alright let's talk first about president Trump's tweet about the British ambassador one of my favorite tweets of all time there was lots to choose among the favorites but you might know the

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the favorites but you might know the story that there was an uncovered or I guess a leaked email message from the UK ambassador saying some negative things about the Trump administration president Trump decided to tweet to reply and here's his presidential reply to the very diplomatic ambassador who said some bad things to him first of all let me say this how is it that an ambassador's private messages get leaked what's up with that I'd love to know the story of how a private ambassador's message got leaked something there's something to be something to be explored about that anyway here's what the president said about the Ambassador who insulted him in the private email president says in his tweet the whacky ambassador that that the UK foisted upon the United States

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the UK foisted upon the United States all right already I love it right there's lots more to go but when your tweet starts with the wacky ambassador that the UK foisted upon the United States I'm sorry I like whatever is going to come next I don't even need to read the less the rest of it I'm already you know you had me unvoiced it okay is not someone we were thrilled with a very stupid guy okay could you possibly enjoy politics better than having the President of the United States say in public in writing that the ambassador from the from the from the UK is a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and prime minister may about their failed brexit negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly

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be upset with my criticism of how badly it was handled I told Teresa May had to do that deal but she went down her own foolish way wasn't it was I able to get it done a disaster I think and here's the next best part he goes I don't know the ambassador he doesn't know the Ambassador from the UK or closest ally he's like that or you know that best
what happened I have been told he's a pop is full [Laughter]
tell him the USA now has the best economy and military anywhere in the world by far and they're both only getting bigger better and stronger Thank You mr. president so he he ends his tweet by thanking himself Thank You mr. president now some of the many things I like about this and there's a lot to like about

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this and there's a lot to like about this is that he he fits in there telling the USA has the best economy and military because it's true true enough anyway and and it forces his critics to have to you know to say that because it's impossible to ignore this tweet its news alright and if the news decides to we'll get rid of all the people complaining about the audio blocked so social media is gonna make it a thing even if the regular news doesn't doesn't cover it so he gets his message embedded in this this insult now I suppose some people who were just aghast they were aghast that our president could act so unpresidential to which I say man you just don't understand this show I call it the show president Trump brings the show and the

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president Trump brings the show and the show is weaponized this show is his persuasion the show is what gets his attention and the topics he wants he knows how to bring the show if you're watching the show and you don't know that it's I show you would be very confused maybe even scared but once you understand what it is and why he does it and how useful it is it's a lot of fun there's a new poll that says that there's some substantial number of people who claim to like now they don't like president Trump's quote behavior whatever that means they don't like his behavior but they still approve of his performance so that's something that pretty much guarantees his reelection if there's a if there are a significant number of people answering polls by saying that they they don't like his behavior but

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they they don't like his behavior but they like his performance those people might be the determining people so yesterday my YouTube video did not get demonetised so that's good news right so I did a YouTube video did not get D monetized most of my video office know if it's Q words or there's a person who doesn't know what but this one did not the one from yesterday did not get demonetised it did however have zero recommended videos so typically my normal videos whether they're deep monetized or not they get somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 to 20 percent of the traffic comes from YouTube recommending the video because somebody watched something similar this last video got zero

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similar this last video got zero recommended zero I can see that the periscope is is glitching out now usually the the glitches don't occur in replay so and a lot of the audio problems are going to be on your end not in the system but anyway so YouTube didn t monetize me but they gave no recommended videos and I thought to myself what content did I have there yesterday that caused that and I realized that one of the things I talked about was YouTube's competitor so the one time I talked about YouTube's competitor I got zero recommended videos coincidence I probably not right probably not a coincidence but you can't trust anything in terms of the algorithm at this point there's a new technology

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at this point there's a new technology apparently in which they can use a laser from above from a drone for example and the laser can identify an individual by their heartbeat now obviously I guess you've you have to measure them you have to measure somebody's heartbeat once and know who it is in order to have a baseline but once you have somebody's baseline you can identify them from a laser from the sky through their clothes with something like 95% plus reliability now put it all together laser drum 95% likelihood they can identify you from space and kill you so now we have flying machines they can identify you as a human with certainty and kill you with

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human with certainty and kill you with equal certainty wow I've got a feeling that life is gonna go underground I worry that our future is that we're just gonna have to be underground because if you get the high ground you know whoever controls space this is sorta going to control the world if you can control the air above the ground you sort of control the ground as well so that's quite a fight we've got coming up so two changes and the Democrats running for
for Erick's wall well is out I'm gonna give Eric's wall well a well done now he I don't think he managed to get anything about 0% support for running for president but I'm not entirely sure that that was the the end goal of course he would have liked to be president but I

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would have liked to be president but I don't think he expected what I did see was Eric's wall while making a big impression on the country becoming a household name even more than he had been by appearing on the news channels and probably growing in stature and reputation and probably you know will get reelected easily because he's he's so much more of a national name now so I would say that strategy-wise Eric's well well nailed it I've been watching him for a while and even if you hate everything he says you don't like his politics blah blah blah blah blah he is pretty strategic so I gotta say I can't ignore that he seems to make a lot of good plays for his situation but the funny part is that anti-trump ur an impeachment pusher Tom Styer is apparently signaling that

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Tom Styer is apparently signaling that he's going to enter the race what does it tell you I heard my dog dreaming and barking Snickers will bark in her sleep she's in the other room barking in your sleep what does it tell you that Tom Steyer waited so long and decided to get into the race what do you know if you know that well I think it tells you that Tom Steyer thinks that they don't have a chance of winning his highest priority is getting Trump out of office if he thinks he has to run for president to do it it kind of means he doesn't think anybody else can do it in other words even Democrats are sort of giving up on 20/20 now I don't I think it's gonna be a long time before who says that their world but I would expect to hear lots more Democrats saying okay it's we don't have a chance you're gonna see that I saw that the

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you're gonna see that I saw that the president was framing the green New Deal they opposes as something that will crush minorities that's a really strong persuasion framing so if we can for a moment divorce ourselves from the science and the truth and the models and all that which are fun topics but today just looking at the persuasion framing it's a pretty powerful framing because it feels true to me if you were to do everything that the green New Deal wants you to do I feel as though that would be really good for the people who owned beachfront property and very bad for the people who want a better job or a job in general so it seems to me that the president's framing of that as the green new deal is you know this is my own take on it as bad for black people I'm exaggerating what the president said

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exaggerating what the president said because he said it's bad for minorities but in terms of the election I think a lot of people are gonna look at that and say what do you mean it's bad for me why is it bad for me and the answer is my slowdown your ability to get a job that's that would be the claim I'm not sure that I could that I could confirm that or not Epstein well the the Epstein story is frustrating because all of the things that are important are the things we don't know right because how that goes and what it means to the world and who else is involved and what happened that got it in the sweet deal the first time blah blah blah it all depends on what we find out in the future we just don't know enough so predictably it has sorted into two movies where half of the world is saying look what

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half of the world is saying look what Bill Clinton did and the other half is saying look what President Trump did before he was president I don't know that the Trump stuff is gonna hold up it looks like that's that's the weakest part of the story but there certainly are a lot of questions I got into a Twitter why would I call it exchange let's call it an exchange was somebody who had a theory that Epstein's of fortune is somewhat unexplained and apparently if you if you had money and you called Epstein and said I'd like you to I'd like to invest in your hedge fund he wouldn't necessarily even return your call so however he made his vast amount of money the one thing that we can be sure of is that it wasn't in a normal way and it's also somewhat mysterious so the speculation was that he was luring

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speculation was that he was luring people into having inappropriate relationships with underage females and using that to blackmail now blackmail I don't know if he would have had to explicitly blackmail because I think it would be enough if he simply had convinced important people to engage in this activity or even just get on his plane and go to his Island you don't actually have to say to somebody hey you were on my Island I have pictures I can make this bad for you you don't really have to go that far so I don't know that Epstein ever directly blackmailed anybody but it might have been just the situation itself that acts as blackmail without ever having to say the words in other words at anybody who might have been involved in this alleged activity it seems like they would naturally want to make sure that Epstein didn't make a

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to make sure that Epstein didn't make a plea bargain someday and start giving up names so I think I think you might see at least one one person lose their job over this I've got a feeling that there's a lot of badness that's yet to come out so there's not much else to say until we know more but and then I saw Mike sort of Mitch tweet saying that the that the charges were limited to what happened in New York I guess so anything that happened on the quote Lolita Express or anything that happened on his little island Epstein's Island apparently is not subject of the the latest legal activity so it could be that that the famous people who whose

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that that the famous people who whose names have been dragged into this maybe they don't have as much to fear it could be that it's limited to some New York specific activities and maybe they weren't involved in any of that so I think this is a situation I think this is one of those situations where we may never know what the deal was so everybody's going to go away with their own opinion of who did what which is pretty devastating for anybody who wasn't involved and gets dragged into it
you know they said that Epps they found Epstein had a whole bunch of incriminating photos of young like looking women and I asked myself what what the heck kind of accused sex offender keeps evidence at his house has he never heard of the Internet

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he never heard of the Internet it wouldn't be hard to have your collection of bad pictures on the Internet you know with passwords and secret places or whatever it's weird that there are literally photos sort of an old-school way to to be that kind of all right yeah somebody says it's common it probably is my periscopes are working with Atlantic broadband now were they banned it before or just not working technically alright so the there's more evidence that the Afghans might be heading toward a some kind of a peace or at least the framework of a path for peace the BBC reported it but I didn't see much about it in the mainstream media's so let me give you the most

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media's so let me give you the most optimistic thing you've ever heard correct me if I'm wrong I'm gonna make a statement I just want you to think about for a second what would be the most impossible thing you could imagine happening the most unlikely thing you could happen in terms of the presidency in politics I would say the most unlikely outcome would be some kind of a broad peace deal in the Middle East wouldn't you agree if you were gonna rank the likelihood of political events you'd probably put that one near the bottom right so something we all know to be true peace in the Middle East incredibly unlikely right we're all the same page of that right now let me tell you a fact that I want you to fact check John we could have peace in the Middle East if one person out of seven billion people in the world

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out of seven billion people in the world just one person decides to do it the the ayatollah khomeini however you pronounce the same Iran's supreme leader is really the only person left because it looks to me that the the Arab countries have decided that they don't want to have war with Israel anymore the Palestinians depend on Iran and depend on some some backing the the the various proxies of Iran depend on Iran is so correct me ephemeral peace in the Middle East seems the least likely most impossible thing that could ever happen and simultaneously there's one octogenarian who is the only person keeping up from happening you're one person away from peace in the Middle

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person away from peace in the Middle East and that person is close to death and that person is in a bad situation you know this country is is having some pretty serious problems with the economy etc so think about it think about it the most impossible thing you can imagine just one person in the whole world just one person and if he changes his mind the most unlikely thing you could ever imagine could happen the you know all the the variables are lining up I'm seeing in the comments people are telling me that Ross Perot died I can't confirm that under seeing it in the comments somebody says Cuba didn't change much when Castro died disagree with that I would say that

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it seems to me that Cuba is sort of on a path to reintegrate with the rest of the continent you know the rest of North America I think that they're on a slow but steady path in that direction and we certainly don't worry about them militarily so I think we're headed in the right direction there too yeah
can I talk more about my god comment from yesterday yes so that's one of the most let's say provocative things I've said lately a lot of people have spent days thinking about it now what I said was that well I'd have to look at my exact quote but the idea was that God is what's left after you take everything away God is what's left after you take everything away now what's what I like about it and what made people think about it a lot is that it can be

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about it a lot is that it can be interpreted any way you want it which is really sort of a meta compliment I don't I'm not a compliment a meta comment about the subject subjectivity of reality and that's all but people are going to think about that a lot I do plan to do a reading of my book gods debris and put it on YouTube and I just have to find a block of time to do that so I think you're going to enjoy that
alright to say if we have any questions it's a it's a weirdly slow news situation because President Trump is doing so well on so many things okay yeah gods debris is already on audible so you could buy the you can even buy it but I was thinking and putting it on on YouTube so you could just consume it that way and would get

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just consume it that way and would get much bigger play do I follow cap you'll never heard of that name
how do affirmations work good question probably the most frequent question I get is how do affirmations work now I talk about that in my book had a had a failed almost everything and still win big and the idea of between affirmations is you write some kind of a simple declarative sentence about what you walked you do it every day and it helps you far it helps focus on it now people say what's the exact way you do it and do you have to write it down does it matter if you type it what if you throw away the paper do you have to use a pencil none of that matters it's all about focusing every day and visualizing what you want now I have no evidence scientific evidence to say that it works what I do have is lots

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say that it works what I do have is lots of experience that tells me that when I do it I get the impression that it worked which is interesting because if reality is subjective then my impression that it works might be all I care about and number of times when I used it to to achieve or at least I used them before I achieved I won't say that they were the cause because I can't prove that but I used it before I achieved two things which were highly unlikely one of them was to become a best-selling author when I had never before written a book and that one of them was to become a famous syndicated cartoonist very unlikely and that happened one of them was to regain my ability to speak clearly when I had an incurable voice problem did that happen - and these are your samples there there are a number of things that I can't tell you about that are just that unlikely

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you about that are just that unlikely but they happened in my personal life and I can't explain all that unless I'm authoring the simulation somebody says my girlfriend is a 12 that is not true she's a 15 if anything 15 and 10 yeah I I live a life that doesn't seem any way to explain it if reality is objective and unless I'm just the luckiest person in the world which is possible do you still do your voice exercises I don't them explicitly but one of the things I do when you hear me coming on the periscope and the first thing you hear is is me saying bum bum bum bum bum that's actually a voice warm-up exercise because I still have trouble sometimes

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because I still have trouble sometimes if I haven't spoken for a long time and you're actually the first people I talk to in the morning so I could be up for a couple hours in the morning and having never talked to an actual living human and so the first time I speak after I've awakened from the day is usually in periscope so part of the benefit of the pom pom pom is that's a real good way to just loosen up your vocal cords it's sort of like humming but a little bit more will the voice exercises help people with Alzheimers I don't think so
or somebody says their dad does that to avoid morning stammer I'll bet it works yeah humming happy birthday is the classic voicex exercise as somebody is saying in the comments here do you talk to yourself out loud only if I'm having

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to yourself out loud only if I'm having ADHD problems so one of my more popular videos I did quite a while ago is teaching people how to focus when they can't focus and one of the tricks I use is to narrate my physical actions so there are so many times when I sit at my computer and I know I need to do some work and I just can't do it my brain is a thousand different places I want to click on websites I want to follow the story I want to tweet something but the last thing I want to do is work because the work often can be so boring if it's just mechanical work such as drawing another comic so boring that I actually can't even talk my own brain into it I'll sit in front of the computer and my brain just won't do it I have a workaround for that which is that I narrate and so I say to myself as they sit down at the computer pick up pick up the stylus pick up the stylus pick up the stylus and I will

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stylus pick up the stylus and I will repeat it until I pick up the stylus and then I'll say open the page whatever whatever page I want to work on and I say select the text select the text so whatever the task is I repeat it until I've done the task and then I repeat the next task and what it does is since your your verbal your verbal abilities essentially control your thoughts because if you think about you think in words when you have ideas about things they're formed in actual language with in your head so if you can hijack the language in your head which is what the repeating your next step does it hijacks the part of your brain that controls language it's kind of impossible to be doing language saying pick up the pad and pick up the stylus open the web page go to this open open this you can't have two conversations in your head at the same time you can put sort of hold to

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same time you can put sort of hold to two thoughts a little bit your head but not really you're actually just going between thoughts quickly but you can't really have two conversations in your head your your verbal part of your brain is just so dominant that if it's busy that's all you can do it's hard to talk and think at the same time so I and I was doing it yesterday yesterday I just could not finish a comic that I needed to draw and I just started saying open the file open the file Scott open the file open the file until it was opened and I wouldn't do or say anything else until I had done that next step now the other thing I teach is how to get off the couch there'll be more of this in my upcoming book but one of the tricks you can use to get motivated to do something big just to not think of it as something big so let's say you said to yourself you know I should really go to law

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you know I should really go to law school and you know and forget about this big a goal for you is just something big whatever it is I should start a company I should go to law school if you have that thought maybe I should go to law school that's such a big thought that it's hard to say okay today's the day I'm going to make that happen unless you're quite motivated if you need a little help ask yourself what's the smallest thing you can do in that direction and then do it the smallest thing you do might be to Google a list of law schools within driving distance and just do that don't do anything else just Google the list of law schools within driving distance you have to break your steps into the smallest and smallest chunks until you find something so easy you can do it and googling is easy so just do that after you've done that say what's the next thing I can do that's so easy I can't I can't not do it

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that's so easy I can't I can't not do it well the next thing might be to look at a couple of those schools and just drill down maybe you just want to find out what they cost and you're done for the day
day that's it you just found out a general cost for a school that you liked you're done for the day next day one small thing I call them micro steps so I use this technique all the time and I often start projects that I don't complete because I get to a stage where it doesn't look like it's a good idea anymore but I can get there fairly quickly through these micro steps so at any given time I've got several projects going on where I could just pick at them let's step micro step at a time some of them will take on the life of their own the things the things that end up being important are the things where the energy comes from the project other people say you have to be passionate

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people say you have to be passionate about it etcetera but the way I like to put it is that even a good example this is writing a book when I sit down to write a book do you know how big of a mental um let's say challenge that is if you've never wrote written a book just for a moment think about an author when he sits down and says now I'm gonna start to write a book Wow it's a gigantic daunting totally off-putting task because it's so big so what I do is I write a title so I open a file that you know a little nope no file out of my computer and I say huh what will I call it and then I realized that I don't have a good title name so because I don't have a good title name should I wait until the next day never you have to take a micro step

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never you have to take a micro step never ever back off from a micro step if it's too big make it smaller if that's still too big make that smaller there is something small enough that you're gonna do so if I can't think of a good title even if that's the smallest thing I can think of to do do you know what I do I write down a bad title because a big having the right title was too big step but writing down a bad title on a note is such a small step than anybody can do it so I do it and then I say to myself I can think of a second bad title and I write that down maybe the next day I look at those bad titles and I go ah those are bad titles how about another one twenty seconds of work all right I'm starting a book that's gonna take me months it's gonna basically eat up you know all of my free time for a year but

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know all of my free time for a year but I might spend twenty seconds the first day just twenty seconds the second day I might spend a full minute because I'm starting to see that the bad titles haven't have a path to becoming a good title then I might open a document and give it that working title knowing that the title will change it always does and then I'll write a first sentence and then I'll close it and I'll do my other work from the day so to start a gigantic project do the micro steps until you've done enough micro steps that the project starts to tap you on the shoulder when you're not thinking about it what you want is that you're you're doing something for leisure you're just thinking about other things your day is going on you might be taking a walk you might be at the gym and something taps you on the shoulder you know your own brain and says you know I can think of what a good chapter

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know I can think of what a good chapter would be I don't know what the writing of the chapter but I can think of a topic that would be good for that book and then I write it down and the next day I'll just write this would be a good chapter chapter title that's it now at some point after I've written a few pages because I keep micro stepping my way through there's almost always a day where I sit down and get excited and say oh this would be a good chapter I don't know if this is a book but I'm gonna write a good chapter and this good chapter won't be good on the first pass it'll be a bad chapter that's what I have time for so I write a bad chapter I have to work out it a lot before it's a good chapter so that's how you do it you you just pick your way through the micro steps and you keep shortening the micro steps until there's something you can do if you've done enough of those micro steps the project should start giving

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steps the project should start giving you energy instead of requiring it that's the step that tells you you're an author if you can't ever experience that you're probably not an author and maybe not the work you should be doing I suppose you could power yourself through a book hating every step of it but at some point you have to feel that thing that says I'm not putting energy into this project anymore the seventh this project is now giving me energy it's it's a source of energy a use of energy and so I'm looking for that that transition period where it becomes a source of energy all right
motivation by moderation somebody's calling it I like I like my words and my career steps how do you find your purpose excellent question a lot of people ask me what's you know what's the meaning in

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me what's you know what's the meaning in life what's your purpose I have thought about this a lot as many of you have and I've I've come to I think of you that is either compatible with Jordan Peterson were similar I don't want to I don't want to summarize his opinion but I think there are other people who have hit on similar approaches philosophically here's what I've discovered whenever I'm doing things which are compatible with my basic biological design I feel purpose in my life so that's the the standard that I use and it's very consistent let me give you an example I've never had a day where I had great sex and I was also concerned about the meaning of life that's not a joke I've never had a day where I had great sex and I was also concerned about the meaning of life let

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concerned about the meaning of life let me tell you why there's a reason all right it's not a joke it's a there is a reason the sexual act is even if you're not trying to reproduce your body in your brain recognize it as part of the reproductive process it's your most basic biological function it's the one you were you're born to do what are you born to do reproduce and reproduce well that's the second part so if I'm doing something that is supportive of the less a sexual and/or reproductive process no matter how indirect it gives purpose okay now I get greater purpose doing things that are good for the human the human let's say the the human species so a lot of stuff you see me do in public is specifically because I know

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in public is specifically because I know that if I do something that looks like it's a positive for human beings in some way that you know it is meaningful that that makes me feel purpose now I believe that if you feel purpose you have purpose somebody says yeah but I'm 63 and have two grown-up kids if you have two grown-up kids you probably feel purpose whenever you interact with them think about them realize that you have created two new humans so I don't think you have to have the kids to feel your connection to your biological let's say truth but you could have you could just go through the process of doing the things that makes babies without actually making the baby so I would ask you this if you feel that you don't have meaning in your life ask yourself how much are you doing that would be

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much are you doing that would be supportive of your own reproductive capabilities and for that I would say are you exercising are you eating right are you taking care of your appearance have you refreshed your wardrobe so that you look good could you get a haircut right all of those things you might tell yourself you're doing for other reasons people like to lie to themselves and say I'm making myself look good not for other people but for my own self I'm doing it because it feels good for me that's never true everything you do is some kind of a ripple effect from the fact from the fact that you are biologically designed to reproduce and to reproduce well meaning the best genetic material you can
can get your hands on reproductively because what you're designed to find so anybody

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what you're designed to find so anybody who says they don't feel meaning in their life the two things you should look at is what are you doing to make yourself look more like a good object of reproduction are you dating are you exercising are you working on your career because the resources that you can control through your income etc it's all part of that reproductive signaling so if you're not directly evolved in the in the sex dating reproduction mode and you still want meaning in your life and there are a lot of people are not really you know following that that silo if you want meaning ask yourself what you're doing for other people what are you doing to support the species what did you do for charity what did you do for somebody who couldn't help themselves what did you do to you know make the world more prosperous more happy or you know less suffering so if you're doing those things then you're

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you're doing those things then you're compatible with your biological self you don't need any God in there you don't need any God God is a bonus if you believe in God and it works for you I'm all for it for those who don't know I say this often but I'm not a believer religious wise I'm not a believer but I'm a big proponent and big supporter of religion when your religion is used productively so Christianity probably one of the best inventions ever it organizes people's thoughts and lives gives them meaning it's a very useful thing for people who are believers all right
so somebody is somebody is questioning whether gay people can feel the meaning of life the answer is yes in all the ways that everybody else does no

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ways that everybody else does no difference because I said to you even if your let's say you're straight and you're just having you know meaningless sex you're not trying to reproduce you're just doing something that's sort of a theater or a reflex essentially that connects you to that that feeling of being part of the reproductive process my assumption is that if you're anywhere in the LGBTQ community and you to do anything that's sort of a shadow of similar to remind you of reproduction even if those things don't reproduce but if they're in the same realm of experience that you know creates those good feelings of sexual satisfaction however you're getting it my guess is that you feel more connected and that you feel that you're not as you're not as desperate to seek meaning because you sort of already have it

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yeah not everyone wants kids so it is absolutely not necessary to have your own children to feel connected to the reproductive you know I'll say design of your body is helping the earth with trees helpful yeah I would think that if you thought that climate change was threatening the world and threatening the human species in particular and you went out and planted trees every day just to do your small part you know by yourself you're not going to plant enough trees to make a difference but if you thought other people were and it was part of the big process you probably would feel meaning from that yes so here's the here's the test ask yourself if you're doing enough things that are at least remind you of or connect you to the reproductive process or at least if you're not part of that in any way if

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you're not part of that in any way if you're not having sex you're not raising kids you're not a grandparent if you're not part of any of that directly at least you're doing something for the species because what are you doing something for the species you're doing things for other people's kids
yeah let's talk about cartoonist ben garrison if you're not watching that controversy he's being accused of some anti-semitic cartoons he was invited to the White House as part of this summit for finding out if the tech companies are being too too biased now in that context it shouldn't matter that he did comics that some or many people find offensive in the context of you know free speech questions you certainly want to have some offensive people as part of the conversation so I don't think the White House has anything to explain there he's controversial we know what

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there he's controversial we know what the controversy is I haven't heard him I haven't heard his side of it so I'm gonna be silent on it so here's my thing on Ben garrison apparently there there are some actual cartoons that he did that are on this website there's some folks call the anti-semitic people have different opinions of you know what it is to be anti-semitic so I would just say that there might be a difference of opinion there but on top of that I understand that there are people who are doctoring these comics to make them look worse than the original so first of all you have to say that there's a bunch of frauds and trolls creating content with his comic it happens to me all the time and you can't judge them by that stuff but there is at least one comic I've seen that I say to myself um Ben garrison I would like to hear your explanation of why you did this comic if

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explanation of why you did this comic if I just look at it on its face I have the same reaction that Jake Tapper had when he tweeted around which is whoop and do you mean this comic is is this comic supposed to be your opinion the specific coming up talking about was one I think his real one of showed a puppet master and it was you know two generals McMasters and somebody else being puppets of George Soros and then George Soros being further a puppet of the Rothschild so between the Rothschild reference and the Soros reference that's plenty enough to get it to get it categorized as anti-semitic but I have enough experience of this business to say that until you hear Ben garrison explain what he was thinking you don't really know what he was thinking

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really know what he was thinking and what he was thinking sort of matters because we're the topic is what does that guy think that's the question right I mean normally I say don't try to read minds but since his comic is out there and that's the comic has left his brain is out in his out in the real world I think he has an obligation to explain it I have not heard the explanation if it goes unexplained I think he has to live with the ADL's interpretation of it I think has to live with Jake Tapper's impression of it I think he has to live with other people's impression of it but if he explains it you know what he meant it could it could have been anything it could have been you know suppose he says I didn't mean this to be my opinion but rather this is how people see things that's possible I've done comics that are not my own opinion there they are somebody else's popular opinion maybe

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somebody else's popular opinion maybe maybe he was making fun of conspiracy theories and he showed two levels of conspiracy theories maybe so until you hear him explain what he intended by the comic you don't really know what's going on so I'm just gonna say I did it I tweeted something about it and deleted the tweet because I decided that this is a wait and see if he explains it in a way that you say oh okay yeah it looked really bad when I saw it but now they explained it you know that changes the context I don't know that you can do that but until I've seen his response to it I'm gonna say that I'm gonna say that's a wait-and-see it's up to him to explain I don't want to be in the position of trying to defend to anybody before I even know what their point was for a later periscope

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point was for a later periscope how would you revamped education well education is going to become virtual reality and I think technology is going to get there and startups will essentially take bad teachers out of the mix I think that's the main thing you have to get bad teachers out of the process sorry my cats trying to ruin my thing here she's she's getting in with a microphone get that off your tail all right all right I would like to know more about hypocrisy really hypocrisy I've often labeled as the most boring of all political opinions there's nothing more boring than if you say X did something bad and somebody says oh yeah

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something bad and somebody says oh yeah well you like this other person and they did something different that was bad or something similar those bad that's the that's the lowest level of political analysis besides analogies I guess
somebody says a grown man with cats you need a girlfriend well if it helps you the cat was was left over from yeah it wasn't my choice let's just say what's the highest the highest type of analysis would be persuasion understanding that people are not rational creatures and that hypocrisy has no meaning it just isn't it's not a it's not a active variable it doesn't affect anybody nobody ever changed their opinion to be less of a hypocrite and nobody ever got fired for

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hypocrite and nobody ever got fired for being called a hypocrite you always think it's gonna be powerful but it's a placebo well that's the way to say it I'm gonna say that now even though placebos giving it too much too much power hypocrisy is just something that people say for entertainment it doesn't have a persuasive effect all right I'm just looking at your comments and they're mostly about animals and kids now and I think I'm done so I'm gonna talk to you tomorrow