Episode 951 Scott Adams: Get in Here!

Date: 2020-05-03 | Duration: 33:25

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Conspiracy Theatre Episode 1: Kim Jong-Un Asking viewers questions

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um yes you see there's that you know what that means not only is it an attractive fashion accessory but it allows me to talk to guests and so I will be inviting some guests on to ask you some deeply personal questions deeply personal oh yeah I will be the one to asking the question at this time so wait for that wait for that so what a weird day was for me I told you before how strange it is to be me and how small the world has become and today I'm just minding my own business looking on Twitter like I often do and I'm thinking what's happening on Twitter anything new and I look at a comment and there's somebody commenting back to me I forget what the comment was but I saw in the comments that he was commenting back

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the comments that he was commenting back to me and one other person and then one another person who was President Trump and I thought to myself wait a minute how does a reply how would a reply have the two of us in there did he add and then I thought I wonder if and I checked president Trump's timeline and yes he had the three retweets of me and a retweet of something that I tweeted about about something Greg said on the 5 and I thought what I'm just minding my own business and the President of the United States is is tweeting by a funny video so I may be I'm not writing the simulation I'm open to the possibility that there's some other explanation for this reality but my life does not

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this reality but my life does not conform anything normal it is so unusual and always has been that's the weird thing even as an even as a kid my my ordinary experiences seems as somewhat extraordinary even to me yeah meaning that just things that you wouldn't expect could could happen happen all the time and I don't know what that's about honestly I don't I I assume it's selective memory that's my best best guess but why would I have so many of these stories that I have selectively remembered but other people don't why wouldn't other people remember their cool stories like is it just a weird coincidence that that we're the stuff happens to be all the time alright so that was a lot of fun and I don't know if you saw which which one's the president retweeted but that alone is worth looking at so a couple things so

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worth looking at so a couple things so it seems it would seem the Kim jong-un is alive did you see that Kim jong-un Supreme Leader north Korea has appeared on video and still photography at a fertilizer plant grand-opening seem to quite spry seem quite healthy look like he didn't have a care in the world and it look real to you do you believe it well the president tweeted that he wished him well and the president already had said he knows what the situation is so he had hinted that he was confident he knew the situation and Ian said before then he wished Kim jong-un well and sure enough you know if you're wishing someone well

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you know if you're wishing someone well that would indicate you know you think that they're you know whatever it is is gonna pass and then today he he said I think that tweet was I for one you know I'm glad to see him chug on his as well or something like that so it was just purely friendly later the leader tweet so now we have the evidence that he's alive we have a video we've got still photography we've got the president's tweet seems pretty authoritative wouldn't you say and and by the way South Korea never said that he was there was any problem in the first place as far as South Korea was concerned they were like we don't say anything so it's that's a are we done that's their right well or are we let me just put this conspiracy theory into your head now I

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conspiracy theory into your head now I do this in the spirit of entertainment if anything I say it convinces you that some of this is true well that's on you because this is conspiracy theory story time you are not to take these things too literally or should you that is what you will decide look at the look if you will at the video of Kim Jong and visiting the plant and tell me that you're positive that's the same guy in all of the pictures tell me you're positive that's the same guy because in one of them it's either a different guy or he had dental surgery if something was puffed up during the middle of the visit and it only lasted a few minutes because it wasn't there and the other photographs is it my imagination or are

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photographs is it my imagination or are they are the pictures that shared the fertilizer plant were there was also coincidentally the the the pictures in which the alleged Kim Jong un was kind of far away am I am I wrong about am I am i wrong that the close-ups of Kim and his face that are clearly him am I wrong to say that those don't show much of a background could be anywhere but the ones where he's sort of far away and it looks like it could be some kind of fertilizer plant well indeed he's a he's a little smidge but he's not a fertilizer plant sure enough if you think that looks like him now further evidence I submit to you if you're just joining don't take any of this too seriously further evidence I submit to you look at the still photograph of the alleged kim jungeun cutting the red tape you will

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jungeun cutting the red tape you will notice that directly beneath Kim jong-un there's a shadow it's a shadow between his two feet look for the direction of the Sun is the Sun directly above him no it is not it is quite clearly fairly down in the horizon because the the shade from the building which we can see in other photographs is very long so if it's a long shadow it means the Sun is really low so that's who that was the only lighting it was outdoors it's the only lighting and yet the Sun is on the side but the only shadow is between Kim jong-un's legs haha wouldn't you also expect there would be a second shadow on the other side of the second leg why only one leg shows a shadow is he part vampire is one leg of

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shadow is he part vampire is one leg of empire leg it doesn't cast a shadow or or is it possible there's a little Photoshop magic now you say to yourself that that background is very distinctive looks real to me but I submit to you it looks like that is a mobile viewing stand and a mobile area where he probably cuts a lot of red tape probably fits that right on his train or whatever truck he brought I think they take it with him it looks like they don't build that on the spot it looks like that Kim jong-un's official platform for cutting stuff so is it possible that they have spliced together so real video of Kim jong-un's face from whatever he was feeling great with some great ear photo

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feeling great with some great ear photo that's harder to tell that is him but you could definitely tell that there's a fertilizer plant and maybe there's a still photograph that's suspiciously unclear why would you have an unclear photograph that's coming from an official source because the video wasn't unclear there were there were no still photos they were nice and clear and shadows only applied to one leg about two one of the bend had no shadow at all he had no shadow between his legs he had no shadow to the side but another one also had a shadow below but none to the side three people same place in relation to the Sun I'm just saying I'm just saying so clearly if you put all the clues together in conspiracy theater it

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clues together in conspiracy theater it can only mean one thing that China the United States outhe possibly whoever we're talking to a North Korea have decided that until things can be sorted out we want no kind of information getting out the president of course would be wise to play along and say absolutely glad you're feeling great which is what you say just a few days after saying I hope things turned out well because that's a pretty fast recovery isn't it from I hope things turned out well - hey you're looking pretty good getting around great pretty fast wouldn't you say and this concludes episode 1 of conspiracy theater in which if you believe any of it it's at your own risk I will deny everything it

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own risk I will deny everything it didn't happen none of this happened there so damn it somebody says I would like to take a volunteer I need a volunteer who will answer a personal question well sorry personal nothing that you would necessarily mind saying in front of other people the question would be about your internal mental thought processes so I'm going to ask you what you go through in your head in certain situations what you see that sort of thing so I'm looking for some volunteers who and I'm not taking questions all right I'm gonna be asking the questions this time so we'll see if somebody's game so let's see let's go with I think

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game so let's see let's go with I think mark mark seems like the kind of guy would you answer a question mark hello are you there I all right are you game to answer a question about your own mental process sure all right when you're doing a simple math in your head 7 +
7 + I've described the process that happens in your head and I split the five so at the three to get ten and then at the two on to the tenth get ten and what are you seeing are you seeing digits are you seeing units or items when you say you split it and you had it what are you seeing

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it's our digits so you're seeing digits so you're actually manipulating digits now let me tell you what I see and if this is by way of explaining that we're all living on her own reality so if I add 7 & 5 I see dominoes and I see you know Domino with 5 on it at Domino were 7 dots and I I just look at them and but I don't do that with every number I just do it with that that combination all right when you are planning to drive someplace and let's say that you're not going to use GPS because it's someplace that you you can get to easily enough without GPS do you do you picture the entire route and if so do you picture it from a bird's eye perspective a map like you're reading it or from the cars perspective when you visualize it go if I'm going somewhere and I know and I've

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I'm going somewhere and I know and I've done the trip before I don't I don't think before I go so you don't - you know visualize it you just drive and take the turns when would you know the terms are ready to be thinking all right I I will always visualize the entire drive and if I can't visualize it all GPSS even even if there are a hundred times I'll be like okay why can't I see the whole path so so there's a difference all right when when you make decisions today let's say big career decisions etc do you visualize yourself in the future as the older version of you in that situation say 20 years from now like you main wrinkles and that kind of stuff well you know not not just the physical part but like every part of that do you do you do you visualize yourself in the

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do you do you visualize yourself in the movie that is you in the future with those decisions you've made working out for you I think I visualized the things will work out as an older person probably visualize myself and by him now which is unrealistic but I never so so that's interesting because I saw a study I forget when it was a while ago in which they found that they could convince people to save more for their retirement if they showed so if they showed the person a digital version of themselves aged so they would be artificially aged and if they could see themselves at an older age they would save more money because they would be saving for that version of themselves but as a concept if they just thought about it you know that that future person isn't real yeah it's sort of a conceptual you in

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yeah it's sort of a conceptual you in the future so that's interesting so baby maybe you should alright thanks so much for the call thank you alright yeah alright so that was male let's do if we can get the female perspective from this rhetorical
let's hope amidst rhetorical is a real person who is coming on the line this rhetorical hi are you are you game to answer some questions about your internal thought process yes alright when you are trying to fall asleep you close your eyes now tell me what you think about anything well you that's impossible it's it's possible not to intentionally think about anything are you saying that you allow whatever thoughts do it to your mind just to do

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thoughts do it to your mind just to do it on their own
yes and no okay pick one pick one is it more yes or no no so so what happens if you have unpleasant thoughts do you just go with it no so you push him out yes so you do manage your your thoughts do you ever imagine that when you're trying to fall asleep do you imagine the current world or something that will be are you thinking about what could be or will be or or your current situation you're there in bed what will be and do you think of the positive version of it or do you do the worrying version where you're making lists and worrying about getting everything done tomorrow positive so yeah actually and how often

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positive so yeah actually and how often is your positive practical is it like yeah it'll work out where is it like really really positive no it's more like dreaming so more like dreaming like anything's possible right so you could be and okay and in your imagination are you the star of it and what are you doing no I'm not the star of it I usually dream about other people other beings
you mean me and other humans yes yes mostly humans yes okay alright so so you actually have you have movies in your head in which you're not one of the actors or you're just not the star I'm not the star so you're just not

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not the star so you're just not oh wow well let me let me tell you that's a little bit different than my daydreams so so the the the audience what I'm trying to get at here is how different our internal worlds are because the the real life that you lead is as much that secret internal one that's that's the way you process thoughts that's the one that you can't share nobody ever sees so if somebody doesn't ask these you know pretty probing specific questions you would never know how definite was I will tell you that I would never have a daydream in which I was not the personal star of it because why not I'm just making it up if you can make it up make yourself the star because that's that's what most directly feels good to me but I don't think there's a right or wrong to that it's just interesting that we have differences all right thanks for the call and let me take another one let's

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call and let me take another one let's do let's do oh man there's a lot of people on tonight all right let's do Alex Alex Alex Alexis or something Alex are you game - it's about your thought process yeah can you hear me yes again all right here's your first question let's say you're with the person of your affection whoever that might be and that and you're just sort of hanging out and that person takes out their phone and you don't really feel like looking at your phone but they're just saying they're looking at their phone what is your internal thought process go um I'd

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your internal thought process go um I'd say I wonder what they're looking at and was this more important than me
more than what we're doing right now like who are you talking to that's more important or to what we're doing right now together all right and in your mind how long can somebody look at their phone let's say in that situation where it's just the two of you before it's too long because I think in the modern world we accept that checking a message is pretty standard would you would you agree yeah that's so how long would somebody be checked out on their phone before you start thinking okay that's rude yeah given in seconds or minutes however you want to express it I would say would be under a minute but the way for me I think it would be a bigger tell as if I was to ask a question or try to come and then they didn't respond or they looked

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then they didn't respond or they looked like you know when you kind of look away to go I'm not huh instead of paying attention right that would to me like what's going on all right here's the next one when have you ever had too many drinks yeah like it like everyone in the world all right when when you've had a few extra drinks do you do you think of it as being out of control or don't you think of it in terms of control at all I feel like I'm in complete control and yet some people feel the exact opposite like they're out of control I would I would say that I artificially feel like I'm in control what I used to drink and I was wrong probably but I felt like it all right when you find out that there's

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all right when you find out that there's something you were positive was true for a long time let's say in politics something you thought was really true then you found out it wasn't what's your thought process you know what's funny since listening to you for years now I have a very different approach to it where I recognize the potential cognitive dissonance that I may experience and I now not pause and when I'm thinking internally I'm going whoa I can't be wrong I paused and I think wait could I be wrong and I kind of questioned myself a little bit more now so if I took find out that I'm a hundred percent wrong I'm I can accept that I find that I'm often delighted because anytime that this is one of those ways to frame your life so the frame I put on an error like that

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so the frame I put on an error like that if I'm just like dead wrong about something that almost every time there's something valuable you're going to take away from that and you're not going to be wrong the next time because you know this you're gonna be alert because the more patterns you see the more capable you are recognizing you know the next bad thing coming so that's the way I think all right let's see one more there's a hard challenge coming up but it's one that you know you can succeed at it's just hard are you excited or just like oh uh I would say depends on the area but usually I get a little bit excited I sort of slide when there's a challenge or when I'm under pressure personally so anything that to me especially when people say that it can't be done for example I ran a marathon no tricking he wants to go and everyone

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tricking he wants to go and everyone said it's impossible in the morning of I was thinking this is insane like yet I just got up and did it and I learned a lot of wait wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute what was the longest distance you would run let's say within the last two weeks before you ran a marathon I didn't run I didn't run only you wait a minute you're telling me that you just got off the couch and ran a marathon I wouldn't say got off the couch I out but I do kind of weightlifting I don't do anything related to endurance or running the most ever ran with maybe ten years ago I did ten kilometers I used to you know be younger but the I live planet but you train your legs not really it's a weird thing no nothing out of the ordinary just okay yeah very alright well that

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just okay yeah very alright well that might be the strangest story I've heard tonight I both know thanks to the call I appreciate it no problem thanks guys all right let's do another one I want to make sure that in case Christina's on here I want to see if she's on here nope Christina where are you all right it's time for we'll take Judith Judith Judith hello Judith again do you hear me
Judith that's not working yes okay we will try something else I don't know one more but we have to try a female to make it fair because we're talking about how people are thinking so we'll try again

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people are thinking so we'll try again so we have a Half Men half women Shem disappeared as soon as I selected her what do I that happen so often that's it because I'm scary all right we'll go for mark mark are you there may I ask you some questions about your internal thought process absolutely when when when you're when you see the weekend coming do you say dear do you say to yourself yay I've got you know the weekend or do you say to yourself I have to plan and do these things that I don't have to do during the week because it's easy to do my job go yeah I've always enjoyed a weekend ever since I was a kid I love the weekend it and do you are you an extrovert I'm an introvert you didn't

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extrovert I'm an introvert you didn't revert who loves the weekend yes I'm an extrovert introvert I'm actually I want to but let's say it's let's say it's Thursday afternoon mm-hmm and you're starting to think about the weekend mm-hmm how do you hold it in your head do you see little movies of the things you're gonna do it's like oh here's me doing this you do that or how do you hold it in your head when you think of the weekend coming well I always picture everything in movies my whole thought process is when I look at things and think about things I see things as as a movie screen do you see them an order SOCAN so do you see like Thursday you know do you see Friday little movies like they're on the stage sort of arcing around to some day no I think about certain items and events that I'm going to do over the weekend and I will think about the ones I'm looking forward to most probably in pictures and do you think everything else around it do you think of them serially or do you sort of almost look

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serially or do you sort of almost look down on your schedule and see it filled in and say oh there's that morning thing there's that afternoon thing do you do you see it like as geography or only think of them one at a time probably more geography yeah I don't know I mean so many ways you do it and when you're thinking of let's say let's say you've got three things you've got to do that day there are three different places when you're imagining the three different places or you're more likely to see yourself there or to think of it on a map and say oh it's a what over here whatever here what over there now think of it more like from the sky which way do you think of it you probably think about old ways but which is dominant I have probably the map no I kind of have an overview of different places I need to go and I'll look at it maybe strategically alright if somebody's asking you to get four

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somebody's asking you to get four directions to some place you know let's say it's not that far away would and they say how far would you answer it in terms of miles or would you answer in terms of time it would take to get there I think I would say miles first and are you from the west coast always I am NOT I'm from the I'm from the Kansas City Missouri area okay that's the same answer because I once heard that if you grew up around New York you answer it in time because yeah the traffic is so bad all the matters is the time yeah all right thank you for playing well thank you very much all right take care all right I was just experimenting with that to see if we would have any aha moment so I was doing that at home with Christina and it was fascinating I think maybe it's even better with couples

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maybe it's even better with couples because then those differences are really more meaningful but start asking questions of the type that I was asking its first of all it's a really good conversation thing to have it because it's so super personal but it's not the kind of personal people don't want to talk about you know it's like super personal and just sort of scientific so you just feel like talking about and when you find out how differently people visualize things especially the visual part it's just really remarkable anyway that's all I've got for you tonight remember if you want to get to sleep tonight remember to close your eyes squeeze one muscle at a time until it's really really tight and release it go to the next muscle until you squeezed and released all of your major muscles that you can tense while you're laying down then count from 1 to 20 maybe even imagining that you're hearing my voice when it

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that you're hearing my voice when it happens optionally and when you get to 20 after you do those two things you're just gonna melt into the bed it has the best sleep that you've had in a long time so you have that to look forward to and I will talk to you in the morning