Episode 855 Scott Adams: Simultaneously Sipping the Crisis Away. Relax for a Few With Me

Date: 2020-03-17 | Duration: 1:03:00

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Hydroxychloroquine for treating coronavirus A relaxation exercise that clears the mind, calms the body Self-Hypnosis insights and suggestions

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oh don't worry I'm only a few minutes late do not have the coronavirus I'm fresh and clean fresh as the morning dew yes no coronavirus can find me I am in deep hiding you know what you know it is the most famous saying in all of military I think you do divide and conquer we're using the most historically efficient effective way to beat a a warring enemy and we are at war just me we are at war with this virus and we have taken the strategy at least in this country to divide and conquer could that work yeah yep that's why we're doing it we're doing it because it works divide and conquer people you've got a strategy but first it's a good day because you're here and you're about to

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because you're here and you're about to enjoy the simultaneous sip and it's not not many things better than that really and all you need is a cup of megara glass a tankard jealous or Stein and a canteen juggler flask of that's a little any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the peril the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including the coronavirus go mm-hmm I feel my immune response up to the challenge went for a really nice walk last night after dark so the weather around here is you know we're in that season where it could be a good day or a bad day 50 degrees swings and last night it was pretty chilly but I put on my big coat and scarf and hat and went for a long walk and it is a really interesting world out

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and it is a really interesting world out there because there are a lot of people taking long walks because not much else to do and I I cannot recommend enough honestly if there's anybody listening to this who did not take a long walk yesterday do yourself a favor because your mental state your your body your you know your you know all of your chemistry that makes you stressed does get suppressed it's not that hard you just take a nice walk but here's the interesting thing there are lots of other people taking walks and there are lots of situations where you would have to you know walk past them in the other direction on the side where sidewalk now I'm in it I'm in a suburban neighborhood so normally it's not like there are a ton of people walking around it's mostly people go to their houses and drive around but last night a lot of people were walking a lot of people were walking and you would come near them and there's be this this weird thing that you've never seen before where people

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you've never seen before where people would cross the street a block before they saw you and then I saw somebody do that to me and then I thought why not so every time I saw somebody else coming the other way I cross the street and I don't know you know I don't think any of it makes much difference I mean walking past somebody on the sidewalk versus crossing the street does it make that much difference I don't know you know ask an expert I don't think it's impossible that somebody couldn't coughin your direction just as you walk by but I think it's pretty low risk however I do like the fact that people are people are taking you seriously and every time we every time we do a wide circle every time we you know say no to a handshake every time we you know walk around somebody it reminds us it reminds them that this is not a drill this is real now most of us would be absolutely fine we find now we'll be

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absolutely fine we find now we'll be fine when it's over and we'll be great when we're past it but yeah let's let's take you seriously at the same time somebody said that Bill Mitchell has turned around and maybe taking you seriously could it be because he can't leave his house you know there's part of me that wonders if no I don't think this is the case but part of me wonders if the the the nature of the restrictions are meant to get your attention as much as they're meant to separate you now of course the important thing is to separate you that's you know that's the functional part of it but I have to think has the second benefit that I'm sure people thought of which is people did not take this seriously until the government of the United States said don't leave your house or the police are gonna tap you on the shoulder well from 6 feet away they'll have like a six foot pole and they'll say hey hey get back in your

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they'll say hey hey get back in your house not really they don't really have a pole but you know what I mean and I think this has finally turned people around I saw some tweets by Elon Musk now some of you know that Elon said some things that sounded like he was minimizing it or comparing it to a regular flu or something which which a lot of people did early on and and then talked themselves out of it as events proceeded but it looked like from the last couple of tweets I saw from Elon he was talking about a particular drug we've talked about it what's it called it's got that weird name that's hard to pronounce clora chloroquine chloroquine drugged for malaria and apparently we're seeing multiple reports not yet scientifically valid in humans but assumed to be valid because it's been

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assumed to be valid because it's been tried enough now already then people are seeing pretty clear across the board's benefits now this is for somebody who's already got it and apparently it makes a big difference but here's more good news all right so this this drug chloroquine and it's something Elan musk and tweeted round it does look promising it does look promising but there's another drug that seems to me up I know I'm not enough of a chemist to know what's going on here but it looks like a stronger version of it or something something in the same family called high hydroxy chloroquine hydroxychloroquine and I think there's a 2020 peer-reviewed paper and again peer-reviewed paper doesn't mean it's true doesn't mean it's right it just means it passed you know one filter of which you would hope it would pass lots before you really believe that but in an emergency

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really believe that but in an emergency people probably you're going to take a different risk profile than they normally would and should that makes sense an emergency and it looks like this version of the drug because maybe four times I was at four or five I forget but four or five times is stronger at least in vitro in other words in a test tube it was four to five times stronger and I believe that both of these drugs are well understood at least the the chloroquine is well understood for sure because it's something that people been taking for a long time for malaria and I think rheumatoid arthritis so we understand the the risks and I think the the thinking was that this new drug that's four times more effective is is close enough in nature to the other one that we do know a lot about though it's probably not the biggest risk in the world to to make this available

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world to to make this available especially to people who seem to be getting helped by it so we've got two things that look really promising so I said to myself well I assume we're just cranking out lots of that stuff right I mean just in case wouldn't you assume that just based on the early reports our government would be trying to stockpile that stuff as quickly as possible so I said to myself well who makes who makes this chloroquine drug so I drilled down a little bit and it's become a French company so the the drug that probably at this point is one of two drugs the other one this ribbon does of here or something a drug that used to be used for HIV but I think they got better ones now and that appears to be very very effective as well so anyway but this chloroquine is made by a French company called Salafi Adventists merger of the two companies and then my my trail went

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two companies and then my my trail went cold because I was doing this just before I came on that's why I was a few minutes late I was trying to see if I could figure out where the drug that if I had to guess I think it's gonna be the key to this thing because long before we get to a vaccine although that might be that that might be mind-bogglingly fast because I talked about this yesterday any assumption you make about how long it takes to get a drug approved under a normal situation I think you have to at least suspend your assumption that it will look like that and and think that maybe this is a big enough issue that we'll take a bigger chance than we normally would I think that's fair to say so we'll probably have a vaccine faster than anybody except president Trump predicted watch one that happens watch what happens when we do get a vaccine and it's faster than anybody

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vaccine and it's faster than anybody except Trumper predicted what's that going to do what's that going to do to the world you know the collective brain of the world if I had to bet on it it's gonna be somewhere between where foul Chi is sort of you know quite reasonably telling us that best practices would put it maybe a year or 18 months out and probably closer to a nearly 18 months and the president made happy sounds like well it could be just several months which would be you know record-breaking mind-boggling impossible nobody knows how you could do it I'm gonna bet somewhere in the middle you know maybe a year I mean if you know if if we get a vaccine in nine months which I think all the experts would say would be impossible under normal circumstances but if we get into nine months I'm not going to be surprised because the the principle in play here

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because the the principle in play here is that all of human ingenuity is focused on it it's not like normal stuff every opportunity to cut a corner will be used so you're not bad so you're not betting on Trump so much as you're betting on the collective talents of the most talented people our country has ever produced and they're on it but here's the thing who makes this drug so it's a French company that you know is the the corporate company but do you think that they manufacture this in France i I'd like to know that if somebody can find that out and I'm not clever enough to dig down to know how a particular company manufactures a particular drug in which Factory I don't know how to find that out but if there's anybody who can can you get me any answers that because I'm afraid the answer is going to be China right now here's a question for you let's say there is a drug we

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for you let's say there is a drug we know it works or were we're hopeful that it works and the risk management you know the threshold has been reached meaning that we definitely want to go hard at this drug even with a little bit of risks how would we do it well I'm looking at your comments somebody said maybe India maybe China but let's say it's China I think that's probably a good guess right now there's a company that holds the patent and then it's manufactured in China would we produce that drug could we I know we could physically I believe we could could we clone it to its generic and then mass-produces in this country without benefit of owning the patent or any you know copyright whatever they've got there whatever kind of protection it would be a patent I guess could we make

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would be a patent I guess could we make it in other words could we break their patent because it's an emergency yes yes we could all right are we going to not make that drug because it would be against the law no no that's not going to happen if there's a patent law that prevents us from making this drug we are going to ignore the patent law and we're gonna ignore it like it never even existed we will ignore it so hard and we'll never know what existed for the emergency now I hope there's nobody in the government who's saying we can't do this because we don't own the patent you know please tell me there's nobody so stupid in our government who would hesitate in an emergency because of a patent I don't think so somebody says it's not patented mm-hmm maybe possible but I don't know somebody says it's already generic and that's I was looking for that and couldn't find that just before I got on I I was

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that just before I got on I I was getting close to finding that out somebody says what patent law yeah so I guess I guess the question is we're not going to have to worry I don't think about any legalities so it really comes down to a technical question and then a like a manufacturing question how fast could we spin up a or convert an existing plant to just crank this presumably the the stronger version the hydro oxy chloroquine and just start cranking that stuff out just in case and do you think do you think we already know enough to do that in other words do we know enough about the possibilities of the drug that even if we're 60% sure you know you pick your number 80% sure that it makes a difference I'm talking about the scientists I'm not talking about me being sure but the scientists if they're somewhere in that 60 to 80 percent you know certain that this could be a useful drug

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certain that this could be a useful drug where is my where is my news reporting where this is happening because you know what would make me feel a lot better is to read in the you know Breitbart or New York Times or wherever whoever does the story that here's the factory and they're already converting and you know by the end of the week they'll be cranking this out like crazy and we don't care about this French company they're it's like they don't exist we're just gonna make this and we're gonna give it out like crazy just in case and again you might want to withhold their from the public which wouldn't be a bad strategy it wouldn't be a bad strategy to make sure that you know a normal healthy person can't get it so you want to limit it to the medical people who can prescribe it but anyway this is pretty good and then there's also this room does aveer are probably saying it wrong that seems to make a difference as

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wrong that seems to make a difference as well so in terms of treatment we've got some good stuff somebody says Australia tested is successfully done that was in vitro it has been used in real patients and the reports are that they all got better but there's such small groups that you can't take that too seriously yet all right here are some things in no particular order I just saw a tweet I think it's true you know you can't you can't believe anything you see in the tweet these days but somebody was showing pictures of a Hong Kong wrist app or not know a wrist thing that goes around your wrist and if you've been I think either traveling or you have the coronavirus you know if you're traveling there with your quarantine you and they put the thing on it's basically like wearing the what do you call it when you're you're you're at home detention and you've got the ankle bracelet that

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and you've got the ankle bracelet that is like digitally monitored well in Hong Kong it's basically an ankle bracelet bracelet that can tell where you are but it goes on your wrist and it works with an app on your phone and apparently Hong Kong is pretty serious about this stuff and first of all where's my app are you telling me Hong Kong can spin up an app faster than weekend come on we should at least be working on this and I guess it tells you you know you have you walk around the perimeter inside your house and then they can map your house and it knows exactly if you've even walked out the door and apparently that level of government monitoring has made a big difference in Hong Kong and I do think that there's this is an information problem you know we treated it as a health problem because that's what happens if you don't have information so it's an information problem first who has it and where are they that's the information who has it and where are

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information who has it and where are they and then the then if you don't do that right the information problem then it's a health problem which is what we're seeing but thinking of it as an information problem tells you where to put resources for prevention which is in the technology speaking of which I guess some some of the nation's doctors are calling out for a national database I think it's different than what Google was making Google was making database for people to check their symptoms or something I think that's what that was going to be about whereas the doctors are saying we need a database where all the credential physicians were working on this around the world can share their outcomes and what they tried that worked and you know what you might not know if you haven't seen it yet and I thought that doesn't exist that doesn't exist already and now since there's a national call for it to be built I assume a whole

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call for it to be built I assume a whole bunch of people are just gonna go off and try to build one on their own and at some point somebody official is gonna say we'll take the good one you know but I would imagine a whole bunch of people just sat down the minute they saw that and said I could make that oh because it's basically just an information sharing website probably just you could take components that are eggs you know go to your github grab some grab some code and slap it together and because it just needs to be bare-bones they just want the information they don't need it to be pretty so that's happening and remember I was telling you that there you know that we're at the the flat part of the the curve of human intelligence in other words we've got all the smart people working on it and then they're going to share information it's that it's the point where they're all sharing information that gets you to the elbow you're the part where where the human capability goes from not very good - okay we got this you know and it'll go almost straight up after that

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it'll go almost straight up after that so we're sort of approaching the you know or I think we're about halfway into the middle of the elbow and I didn't realize that we were lacking this very basic bit of intelligence gathering which is the ability for the doctors to efficiently share what they know but that will be if I had to guess we'll probably have that by the end of the week right I mean how hard could it be to build that really so by the end of the week all of these individual spots of genius and I'm just gonna call it that you know doctors are pretty smart scientists are pretty smart we're not talking about you you know it's not us I said this before but I don't think the average person and I put myself in that category what I'm talking about what these folks I don't think the average person can even conceive of how smart the people are who are working on this problem and there are millions of them maybe hundreds of thousands that are the

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maybe hundreds of thousands that are the real smart ones but at the moment apparently they can't share as effectively as they want to there is worry you if you know somebody you can share with them but that's it so imagine somebody finally said give us give us a place to connect all the geniuses think about that give us one website we'll connect all the best thinking of the geniuses in one place that's the middle of the elbow when you see that I just know that the the collective intelligence of this entity that is humanity because we have two kinds of intelligence we have individual intelligence you know what you and I individually can do but if we work together we become a sort of a meta intelligence which is the good parts of both of us the good parts of all of these scientists the geniuses around the world have not yet been combined and it's not

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have not yet been combined and it's not just additive I don't believe that this is a case of you know one plus one is two once once the geniuses are connected you're going to get a sort of a logarithmic you know exponential kind of an increase in what we know that's useful so I say this a lot and I've said it a few times and you've you've seen it to be true in some big cases we can't tell the difference between being close to you know everything going wrong and being right on the edge of everything starting to go right now the moment that this turns and it will turn there's going to be a point where the news says one day hey it looks like it stopped getting worse and that's going to be a good day that's coming it's coming guaranteed I will guarantee you that that day is coming and once we get a

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that day is coming and once we get a handle on it we are gonna beat this freaking virus into the ground with with an attitude with an attitude alright I don't think any of us should come out of this without a new skill I'll just put that out there you know I talked about with skill stacking all the time but when in your life are you gonna have another time where you're forced to stay home for weeks and you're a little bit bored is that ever gonna happen again ever it will there ever be a time when you could just say you know nothing I can do I just I'm just gonna stay home for number of weeks whatever it is and I'm gonna be a little bit bored if you don't command this with a new skill you're doing it wrong you're doing it wrong you should come out of this stronger not weaker you want to come out of this maybe with less income it's gonna happen to a lot of us

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it's gonna happen to a lot of us certainly will happen to me but I'll be okay and no matter where you are income wise if you take a hit you can come as a save for that in the long run by adding the skill sign up for a class learn something that's compatible with what you already do that makes you the the obvious person to get promoted the obvious person to get a better job somewhere else so you can you can sum or compensate it's not a one-for-one but if for many people it's more than one for one for many people they'll be able to add a skill something they always wanted to do and when things go back to normal which they will well you came back more valuable so you can work on your net worth by improving your skills so a lot of people are going to do that I certainly am sooo how about this do any of you have a non complier in your household do you have anybody in your

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household do you have anybody in your house who's too big to physically control so it's a older kid or or you know your uncle or your grandmother lives there or anything do that if you have somebody in your household who say that they're not going to shelter in place and they're just gonna go about their business what do you do about that you can't really kick about in the house right so I'm I'm wondering if that's a widespread problem or if everybody has got things under control in their homes anyway I'll just put that question out there then I'll wait for the comments come in all right so let me teach you a relaxation technique would you like that this is an actual hypnosis slash you know technique so it's not it's not exclusive to hypnosis I'm not going to hypnotize you don't worry I might do that later you know but

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worry I might do that later you know but there will be a separate periscope this is this is a way to relax yourself it works every time all right so what I'm gonna tell you literally will work every time so you don't have to worry well I don't know if that would work for me now this just works our everybody all the time it goes like this you should turn off your screens you know for multiple times during the day I like to not turn off my phone for more than an hour because I'm paying attention to you know developing developing news and you we need to know what's happening in our community did your school get closed as as the restrictions changed and all that so I don't like to be out of contact more than an hour but I'm also a person who's sort of in love in the front lines of the of the fight against the virus for the rest of you make sure you you to now regularly during the day I mean you might have to take an hour here than

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might have to take an hour here than another hour there then another hour night but here's the technique for relaxing some of you have heard of this before you find a comfortable chair you could do this in bed before you go to sleep so you could do it as a meditation just sitting in the chair and by the way meditating is mostly just sitting alone with your thoughts for a long period and not falling asleep that basically is meditation if you're trying to think of nothing that's just the dumbest thing anybody ever said about I had a practice for something you can't think of nothing so if you're the yogi has accomplished thinking of nothing no he hasn't no he hasn't yes he is not he has not accomplished that nobody can do that so if you can just sit alone and try to quiet your thoughts and if they drift to let's say an unproductive place just sort of pull it back but don't turn them off
off just just pushing back to something harmless think about laying on the beach

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harmless think about laying on the beach think about something that doesn't take any brainpower has no stress just think about something pleasant think about your pet think about something you like and just sit there for an hour you will be amazed now on day one maybe you're not gonna get any amazing outcomes from this but if you keep at it and you've got a lot of time to keep at it a lot of people will be meditating experts you know in a month if you keep at it and you know some would say it's important to you know inhale through your nose and take a deep breath and an exhale through your your mouth but if you just sit quietly with your you know in a comfortable position for an hour and try to quiet your thoughts you can have a big big game and it will intensify over time because you'll get better at it and it'll become it will become somewhat addictive there will be a feeling a physical feeling when you're done similar to let's say taking a long

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done similar to let's say taking a long walk and then being done you know yesterday after took a walk I just sat at the couch and man did it feel good just just it just felt good to be done exercising that yeah you can feel your whole body just like glowing in happiness that you're not walking anymore because you're you're ready to stop so that's meditation that's one way to relax but here's another way that's more active your body is picking up tension and you're not you're not always consciously aware of it it might be like you know some of us get it in certain places you might be aware of oh my back is all honk up because of the tension but you also hold it in the rest of your body and it isn't as noticeable and that's why this trick works and it goes like this you sit in a comfortable place so you could be laying in bed and you're trying to get to sleep pick one muscle group let's say your hand squeeze it and hold it squeeze it and hold it and you hold it until it's sort of tired its exhausted and it

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sort of tired its exhausted and it doesn't want to hold it anymore so I'm over squeezing my hand and now it's starting to be uncomfortable because I'm overusing my muscles it actually hurts a little bit now release it release it completely then do it with your other hand same thing squeeze it hold it until you don't want to do it anymore because it's getting a little painful and it hurts they release it and then you go through the rest of your body for the muscles that you you can tense so you can you know if you can tense up their muscles your feet I like to do hands and feet first there's those oh my god don't touch your hand I like to do hands first but you can do it with your calf muscles you can do with your thighs you can do it with your your glutes you can do with your chest muscles you can do it with your abs just just move across your body and one by one squeeze it and release it by the time you do this the cycle you're gonna feel great it works every time

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gonna feel great it works every time works every time so you don't have to wonder you know am i doing it right will this work for me no you do those things and you will be more relaxed and if you do it everyday it gets easier so these are real good techniques the other thing I suggest is watching comedy and lots of it go to youtube look for comedians you like I was just watching Bill burr yesterday you know if you get once you find one you like YouTube will suggest other ones I can listen to Bill burr talk all day long almost everything he says sounds funny yet Norm Macdonald great choice one of the best stand-ups of all time and somebody says you were using your hypnosis technique let me make a distinction hypnosis is generally when a person is in the room and you're working with them and you have a common you know a common vision of where you want to go oh you're working on a specific thing etc so hypnosis isn't you

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specific thing etc so hypnosis isn't you know in this specific sense is just two people working together and you have to be able to the hypnotist has to be able to see the response in real time so as you're do the induction you're watching you're watching the person's response and you're looking for micro changes so you're looking for changes in breathing changes in muscle tone changes and even you know blushing etc so you're looking for very small changes and then you're you're adapting your technique as you go because you're seeing all that work they'll do more of that now that didn't seem to work I'll do less than that so you can't do that in a math setting but that said all of the the knowledge and technique of hypnosis does become just part of your communication stack so if you say am i using my hypnosis technique when I'm talking to you the answer is always yes but not with the intention of you know putting you into a trance or anything it's only the intention of I know what

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it's only the intention of I know what is likely to be persuasive I know what is likely not to be so I do things that are persuasive that's not exactly hypnosis that's just communicating effectively do you use self enosis I do yeah you know when I took hypnosis class what was it 40 years ago now one of the things that they have noticed this instructor did was he hypnotized all of us to be able to hypnotize ourselves so that we could do self-hypnosis and put ourselves into a into a deep relaxation so 40 years later I can still do it and do it instantly and it's just like the first day now why does it last 40 years the last four years because the hypnotist created a simple Association and then I reinforced it had I not reinforced it it wouldn't it wouldn't have lasted and the simple association was this we would hear the hypnotist voice and he would

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hear the hypnotist voice and he would you know just go through a relaxation routine and we would feel relaxed so we associated to his voice which I can still hear just like it's in the room we associated his voice with our relaxation most of life is just that associated to things until the qualities of one thing trigger or FLE with the other thing if you thought of hip-hip persuasion and hypnosis as mostly that you'd be pretty close all right if you're trying to change somebody's mind or change somebody's behavior it's usually about matching one feeling to another and then chaining them together until you've created a you know sort of a faultless reflex in a person because a lot of what we do is thoughtless reflex and usually they're bad ones well by the time you seek help it's a bad one there could be good ones so somebody says I don't understand how anyone could be hypnotized the reason

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anyone could be hypnotized the reason you don't understand it is that you don't understand what it is to be hypnotized so let me explain that so in a in let's say a setting with an actual hypnotist somebody who's you know you're paying money and you went to a hypnotist in that setting hypnosis works on every person who wants it to work so the key is that you have to want it that you can't there's no getting around that right if if the subjects is sitting in the chair saying watch me resist this I can't be controlled I will defeat this hypnotist with my willpower well then they can guess what that's that's really easy you know ignoring the hypnotist is about the easiest thing you could possibly do you just just don't care don't pay attention don't play along there's no risk of being hypnotized it's easy a signal likewise you could be in a deep hypnotic they call it a trance I'm not sure you can define what a trance is but you know just somebody's sitting quietly and and

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just somebody's sitting quietly and and they're they're sort of in sync with the hypnotist so you call that a trance but it's hard to define what a trance is that person at any point can just say oh I'm late for something and just get up and walk out they can yeah there's nothing that stops you so if you're saying I don't know how I could be hypnotized because I can I would never do something that I didn't want to do that's how most people think of hypnosis there's nothing like that there's no point at which a hypnosis session would involve being involve you'd be doing something you didn't want to do nobody would do that you only do things you want to do and and if you want to do it you're going to be open to associating it with something else so back to my example of self and self hypnosis what I do self hypnosis I can count from 1 to 20 but I don't count it in my own voice sorry I count from 1 to

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in my own voice sorry I count from 1 to 20 but in the voice of the hypnotist who I assume has been dead for decades but I can still hear it and the Association triggers me into relaxation it's in these it's basically instant so if you want to use self-hypnosis think of it this way self-hypnosis is nothing but associating two different things so here here would be self-hypnosis somebody says you sick bro now I had just so he said that can you know congestion if I if I'm talking too much so I don't have a sore throat I don't have any don't have any I don't have any almost symptoms at all actually I'm feeling amazing because I'm doing all kinds of exercise and eating right getting a lot of sleep honestly I've never felt better that's not a joke in terms of my physical health and vitality I've never felt better I've been I'm in really good shape right now and I hope the rest of you were or taking this seriously as well you know

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taking this seriously as well you know my goal quite simply is you know I'm gonna try to delay being exposed to it but if it happens or when it happens I want to make sure I'm not one of the people who needs a hospital bed so you know my my willingness to stay as healthy as I can is partly for myself well a lot for myself of course but there's a there's a social element to this you know so if I can if I can stay healthy enough in a way from the virus so that I don't take up any medical resources I'm gonna feel pretty good about myself honestly I'm gonna feel like I went through the virus war and I did my part and you know it was hard but but I made it work for my little corner of the world and I hope the rest of you are doing the same all right I know the SIP nosis topic is the fund so I'm gonna talk about it some more because it just gets your mind off of stuff right so back to my point self-hypnosis if you simply think about it as setting up associations you can

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it as setting up associations you can already do it it really is that easy so for example let's say you set up a little area somewhere in your house where there was a place you can comfortably sit and maybe it's not the place you set for other things very important remember self-hypnosis is about associating two things if you pick a place in your house your house they use for other stuff such as your bad don't do it there because bad is other stuff don't do it in that chair that you always read because that's your reading chair don't do it in your chair or where you do work that's your work chair find the chair that hasn't been used for anything it's a place you just don't set get a new chair put a pillow on the floor find a place that has no prior association you want to find a place with no prior association do you know why it works so well when you go to a hypnotist office and sit in the hypnotist chair one of the reasons that works better than anything you could do

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works better than anything you could do in your own environment is that you've never been in that chair before and you're entering an environment that's fresh so whatever associations are formed once you enter the hypnotist office are formed consciously by the hypnotist and it happens from the moment you walk in and shake hands back in the old days or in today's world hi I'm over here but from the moment you walk in the hypnotist is starting the hypnosis now and the hypnotist will tell you this you know a methyl hypnotist will tell you that the conversation from hello is part of the process now the first part of the process where you're just talking and you think you're having a conversation you're just talking about what's going to happen next you think that's not the hypnosis but it's part of the process and that process is building credibility and making you relax and making you understand what's happening and building an expectation that it's going to happen so the first part is entirely about

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so the first part is entirely about building the expectation in your mind that this will work and it's going to happen in a minute if you don't believe it's going to work before you you're not in the right frame of mind so the hypnotist will often you know dress well and maybe have a suit and and we're actually taught this you know put it put a degree on the wall so you're creating an environment where the person walks in and they're already primed because they've decided they want this before they walk in the door once they walk in this is not about the wanting anymore this is about the belief so it starts with wanting to be part of the process you can't avoid that you know this is only for willing people secondly they walk into the hypnotist office and now they're being primed you're just having a conversation the hypnotist is saying you know in a moment I'll ask you to relax this is what will happen this is what you'll feel this is what to expect I do this all the time you're my millionth person yeah it'll totally work with you I'm an

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yeah it'll totally work with you I'm an expert on this and your mind by this point remember you wanted this you're so primed and the priming is a really big part of the process if you haven't primed people right it doesn't work you know or it doesn't work as well so
that's the first thing alright so back to you back to you you found a place in your house that isn't used for anything else now you've recreated in a small way what the hypnotists office does a fresh environment all right has no associations so you've got your little fresh environment to your chair your seat to your pillow with the place that you're only going to do this and then you say this is my meditation place Oh what did I do there did I just conflate meditation with hypnosis and self-hypnosis yes I did because they're not that different the goal of just meditating is being able to quickly put yourself in a relay state the goal of self-hypnosis usually

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state the goal of self-hypnosis usually is to do the same and they look almost the same so all you got to do is find your little place do your little tricks of squeezing your muscles if you have to do to the first time eventually then let me let me explain this so you can really see how this works this is just a perfect example on day one you sit in your fresh little environment with no prior associations and you you can't relax you're tense you're thinking about life do the muscle thing one most little time when the muscle M works every time you don't have to wonder if it'll work it'll work then do that every day for a week what happens on the eighth day you go to your little special place and you sit down and suddenly you don't have to do the muscle squeezing because the association of you sitting on the pillow and being super relaxed now has formed an association in your mind if you do it enough and it doesn't take long a week

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enough and it doesn't take long a week we could be fine and it gets stronger as you go so now you can disband the the muscle squeezing because as soon as you sit there you just say huh I'm in my place boom right into it and you've got an hour of serious pleasure now I hate to do this well maybe I won't I'm gonna save that I'm gonna save that I might bring on a special guest in the future to give you a little more tips on meditation somebody that I've been I've been reading and listening to people talk about meditation for forever basically and they're all really bad at explaining things and what I mean is when people say we don't have you admitted having meditate they say things like well clear your mind and use this mantra and whatever and I always say to myself I don't really get that you know can you

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don't really get that you know can you explain it better maybe it's the way you're explaining it is there something a mess saying it feels like incomplete but yes somebody already guessed in the in the comments yeah so neva rava I was just talking to the other day and he explained to me meditation in a way that's at least a little bit close to the way I explained it in a way I've never heard before yeah but he can do a better job of completing this picture so maybe someday we'll we'll ask him to do that and if he's done it independently maybe I can find it so somebody says it's the disconnecting your body from your mind yeah but you know the best way to disconnect your body from your mind if you're not good at it already is that that muscle squeezing trick it will work every time somebody said I was listening

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every time somebody said I was listening the other day to dr. Drew and I think either is your voice that is soothing well let me teach you something about voice why not uh you know I'm gonna make it my mission that at least the people who watch my periscopes are gonna leave this crisis smarter like a lot smarter maybe healthier too and why not we can might as well what was some of what I was going to talk about there uh wasn't hypnosis voice that's it so if you watch there's a movie called network is that what it's called an old movie about TV news people and one of the characters was giving a tip to somebody it was less good at being on air on the news and there's a tip I'd never heard before and when I heard it I thought well that must be just maybe that's just a movie thing

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be just maybe that's just a movie thing that's not something that a real newscaster does right I thought that can't be a thing and here's a here was that what the character I think was William Hurt said in the movie he was explaining how to read the news he said you should you should randomly emphasize words and I thought well that doesn't make sense doesn't does it make sense than if you're reading off the teleprompter that you would just on your own you would just randomly emphasize a word doesn't it make more sense that you would emphasize the important words right I mean common sense and then then you watch him do it and he's clearly just emphasizing random words and you watch it and you go then why does that sound right what is that sound right so what you're hearing in my vocal presentation is that technique it's a technique I learned from that movie but didn't believe it you know it

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movie but didn't believe it you know it took me years before I figured out that's that's a real technique that that's the thing and watch me do it right now so you're actually watching it happen in real time so you know but watch watch the pace and the the variation that you can tell I'm putting into it now that the change in tone helps a little bit so sometimes I'm down here sometimes I'm up here and I make sure that I vary it so that the varying of the tone is both intentional and it's technique but even more than that is the spacing of words watch watch these two examples I'll just read something off of my page randomly oh I'm gonna read my own tweet I forgot I was going to talk about this and it's about the fact do you remember do you remember early on I told you when there was a story about the White House Office

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was a story about the White House Office pandemic the pandemic office got closed and so President Trump was getting heat because he closed the so-called pandemic office before the pandemic and everybody said well that sounds bad if you have a pandemic office and you closed it before the pandemic and then you need it well that's pretty bad and the person who ran that office complained and said yeah he closed my department sure wish that apart that a department was here what did I tell you on day one with no knowledge except experience I would guess that all of you who have a lot of corporate experience were onto this from the start any time you consolidate department departments and get rid of the fat what happens to the fat does the fat meaning the people that you got rid of because they weren't pulling their weight do those people go off and say well good job their boss you've got rid of the fat

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job their boss you've got rid of the fat too bad I'm the fat but you know you did a good job because you got rid of me because I was the fat has anybody in the entire world ever done that no no the person who is the fat complains that it was all done wrong and it's a big mistake and they don't know how valuable you are and man are they going to pay for it when the pandemic comes that's what the fat says so I was waiting for the news to correct this and sure enough the Washington Post ran an article by the guy who made the decision remember I told you you have to find out why they did it because if he haven't heard the the context of Hawaii was closed he don't really know anything and my assumption at the time was that they didn't close it and get rid of the function but rather at base of experience in the corporate world it probably was folded into some other group for a perfectly good reason and so finally the guy who made the decision

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finally the guy who made the decision the the actual one person who said yeah that was me I did that I got rid of that office by combining it into the other and he explained why he did it and then you say oh it was duplicate it was duplicate he got rid of duplication now did get rid of duplication did get him get a duplication change anything probably made it better but it certainly didn't make it worse anyway so I'm gonna read my tweet to talk about this this vocal process yeah and I'm going to show you that that I'm randomly accentuating words but I also this is a technique I added myself I sometimes randomly add a space because if you're listening to somebody talk in there at a certain pace bah bah bah bah bah bah bah and they pause your focus goes right to

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and they pause your focus goes right to it
it so if somebody goes mom my mom my mom my mom I'm not your brain just a clemmy's do it and you're like oh there's this background buzz bum bum bum bum I'm trying to follow along I think I got most of that sentence I'm um I'm so bored I'm thinking about other things I'm half listening bum bum bum bum so the more the more the same your speeches the less people pay attention what is the number one rule of persuasion anybody anybody attention the number one rule of persuasion is attention see what I just did there do you see how I left a little gap and you already even knew what I was going to say right you knew what I was going to say because I said it twice in a row the second time I said it I put it in a pause and I made you stop and pay attention and it worked alright now you were paying attention anyway but you could probably feel it as soon as I stopped my sentence in the

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soon as I stopped my sentence in the middle and there was an unexpected pause what did you do you paid more attention that's why I do it so here I'll just read read a tweet I wrote and I said as I told you on day one based on experience alone know the White House didn't dissolve its pandemic response office I was there the the Iowas air was the guy who wrote the article not me now you see what I did now if you said to yourself yeah but I wouldn't have known you know where to put the pause doesn't matter that's the beauty of it you can kind of put it every day anywhere it's only to make people pay attention it's not to make them pay attention Sara Lee to the next word now in the best in the best form you're making them pay attention for the next word but you don't need to you can just use it to make them pay attention in general so

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make them pay attention in general so when I say so uh let's say I wanted you to understand the that is based on experience alone because that's kind of a fun part of the sentence that I made a prediction with no data whatsoever based on experience alone I did it in public and and the most unexpected thing I would think if you're watching if you're watching this wasn't it a little bit unexpected that I nailed that so hard I mean admit it who else did anybody else was there anybody else in the entire freaking country who said in public anyway some of you probably were onto it early but in public did anybody else say nope fake news probably got folded into another department because of redundancy basically I said that ah oh somebody just reminded me of something I definitely desperately wanted to talk about and I kept forgetting so thank you so somebody was saying just said the word ego somebody

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saying just said the word ego somebody contacted me privately after periscope somebody who was new to the periscope and saw me bragging about a prediction and they said you know I like your work but it's it just really turned me off when I saw you bragging about your success predicting some things like didn't like the bragging you know the ego stuff now and I explained to him that he's lacking context if you've been watching the periscopes you know that the purpose of me telling you bragging if you will and I'm doing it intentionally is to reinforce that I have a certain filter on the world that I believe can be validated by being better at predicting than other people so should I not tell you that because that would be sort of egotistical wouldn't it well one of the lessons that I've taught you and I think maybe the most important thing you'll ever teach you you to remove your ego from the situation if

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to remove your ego from the situation if you want to be effective your ego is your enemy and it's your obstacle it's not your friend it's not who you are your ego is a problem you should treat it that way now it can be a tool if you convert it from a problem to a tool but you have to work at it in this case in order for me to to let the audience understand that I'm making predictions and I'm really reinforcing them when I get them right but I'm also really reinforcing them when I get them wrong I think I think everybody would admit that right you've seen me make predictions that were wrong I say it's wrong I'll tell you a billion times I'll tell you why I thought it was wrong etc so we're trying to process we're doing it in public it requires me to make a public prediction and then reinforce how awesome it was that I got it right it has nothing to do with how I feel about myself I know that this is bothersome and annoying to some types of personalities and it's probably it's

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personalities and it's probably it's probably interfering with your own ego if if I could put a guess on it what's happening if you could remove your ego from it then you would be okay with me doing what I'm doing knowing that I'm embarrassing myself in a sense intentionally because whether my whether I'm bragging about my successes or I guess something wrong both of those are reasons to be embarrassed right both of those are reasons for it and indeed I get criticisms for both so I'm telling you in advance I'm not going to feel bad when I get one wrong I just don't feel shame that way and I'm not going to be shamed into not crowing when I get it right and I'll say crowing because at the internally I don't feel like I'm bragging I feel like this is a necessary piece of information to know one is right when and when it's wrong take this emergency situation for example those of you who have watched me be right about who is going to be the president those

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who is going to be the president those of you who watched me be right about talks with North Korea at least common things down we still think there was a long way to go there those of you watch me write that we were not going to a kinetic war with Iran back back then those of you who watched me being right in the weirdest most unexplained way I might be right about Camilla Harris although that one's probably more of a 50/50 situation but the fact that she's being you know she's in the top two conversation top three maybe conversation for being vice president to somebody who would not be so much in control we presume it's kind of a weird prediction to get that one at least as close as it is even technically wrong so if you watched me do those things in public and then tell you ahead of time I was doing them why I was doing what the thinking is what the filter is and then watching it materialize if you've gone through that cycle enough times then when I tell you that the stock market is

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when I tell you that the stock market is coming back that we will recover and that it will be fast when the recover starts and that you're gonna be fine and that you're not gonna run out of food do you believe me well it's that crowing and it's the bragging that keeps the pattern in your head that says oh yeah he got he got some pretty unlikely things right and the things that were easy you got most of them right - now that doesn't mean I'm gonna be right all the time and I would make no claim to being magic at all I have no magic powers so you can watch and you can judge for yourself and I guarantee that every time I'm right about anything I'm going to crow about it because it's part of the process it's important it's important for you I wouldn't do it if it were just for me it doesn't buy me anything to do that alright I got a recommendation for you and it's along these exact same lines if you follow me and you're not following Mike's erna I don't know why because certainly

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I don't know why because certainly there might have been a time when you said oh you know I'm not getting enough value out of that or you know his personality he doesn't doesn't fit with me so I don't like see him and he's bragging about his accomplishments and stuff like that but man is he right a lot including including the earliest warnings on this this virus he is right a lot and he has deserved you know he is earned he has earned let's say not deserves I don't like that word but he has earned people's attention so if you're not watching his take on stuff and they're really different and they're they tend to be way early and way more insightful than other people's opinions if you're not following him you really you're hurting yourself I think he's he's shown that he's the real deal all right that's about all I got

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I'll try to come back this afternoon and I've got another podcast I'll be doing later today that's recorded though and I will I'll talk to you all later thanks