Episode 959 Scott Adams: Join Me in My Fortress of Garagitude

Date: 2020-05-07 | Duration: 48:55

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Making the most of our lockdown opportunities The future of the coronavirus task force Testing our way out, versus reality The economy and recovery

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buddy come on in it's time for the evening edition of no cause I told you before this little lockdown started
disaster be wasted of course that's still the saying in the books but how many of you took it to heart so I had a few objectives for this lockdown one was I was going to learn some new skills now I'd been already practicing the jobless but I wanted to see if I could take it to another level and I was

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take it to another level and I was working on my biceps which somebody asked me if it was photoshopped so I just decided to focus some of that's one body part because I've never had a good buy sent so it's not like everything else is good but I thought hey I'm gonna have 60 days locked up I'm gonna have a biceps when I get out so I did that and most of you know that I put my content of the locals platform so there's a subscriber or platform I've got lots of different stuff there that's like a new line of business in a sense and I hope that all of you are doing something similar I am I mentioned it on on Twitter so somebody says we built the house very good learn to cook well that would be good if you did that so all of you should try to commander

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so all of you should try to commander this with a skill the the earpods are connected or these they should be you could all hear me right so I left the ABS go to hack because Cristina actually likes me heavier which is very convenient so she actually asked me to gain weight so give up a little on the ABS to give a little bit on the arms see what that looks like a while try it out so here's my advice to you here's the little life advice and I know most of you already do this but all I'm gonna add to what you already know to do it is how extreme to do it and one of the reasons that I took up the drums especially later in life is that I have absolutely no musical ability whatsoever so the first thing I can do by taking

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so the first thing I can do by taking drums is I could fill in a you know blank spot in my social you know understanding of things which is a little bit about how music works which I never had any interest in before secondly my fiancee Christina is a gifted musician and they gives me something to talk about and you know we can compare notes of musical things and it's like a whole new topic of things to talk about so that's fun too but actually the biggest reason that I did this is still the kind of my dexterity just you know my actual coordination and to exercise the part of my brain that I'd never exercised before so this is another lifelong practice but if there's a part of your brain that you don't use just sort of excited a little bit and so this is completely a sign of my my talents out of my experience out and that's part of what's appealing about it so it keeps me sharp makes me

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about it so it keeps me sharp makes me learn a new thing keeps me interested and the other big benefit and I talked about this with skill stacking is if you add two skills together it's more than just twice as good to add that second skill because if sometimes makes you think of new connections that you wouldn't have thought of before now one of the things I wanted to explore is the connection between music and persuasion it should be no surprise to you that music can be persuasive because it can literally change your mood and it can do it in the moment so since music is persuasive but if you don't let's say control that to manage it it's persuasive randomly could you learn something by learning music that would have some crossover with persuasion now these are exactly the kind of things you accidentally discover

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kind of things you accidentally discover when you start layering skills on which is really what does cooking you have to do with mountain climbing and then suddenly there actually is something in common I can't think what that would be right now but you get you get my point so here's the theory that I've been working on by the way when I when I learn a new thing like this unless I'm doing it for money and I'm really serious about getting to that you know confidence quickly I prefer to learn it as in efficiently as possible and I know that sounds weird but rather than get an instructor you know obviously I could pay somebody to sit next to me I would give better faster but I don't want to do that I want to just learn the rules which is this is how you read the sheet music and I want to know you know how to hold the sticks what everything sounds like and the basics but after that I want to sort of figure it out myself you know there's layers and layers and layers of drumming you see the seemingly

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layers of drumming you see the seemingly infinite layers of things that you wouldn't even know are things you know just the technique and how to play in ways that make you feel different things and cetera and so here's what here's what I'm finding I'm finding that I think there's something about pattern and then disruption of pattern that is very related to persuasion and I don't quite have a working theory of this but it's something like this that your brain is a pattern recognition machine and so music has a very special hook to your brain because music is pattern and if it were not patterned you would not recognize it as music so you've got a pattern recognizing machine and then you've got this sort of input which is the music and I think I'm just working on this

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and I think I'm just working on this sort of very early hypothesis it seems as though there's something about your brain recognizing there's a pattern and and then having it violated and then wanting a pattern again and just as you wanting it becomes back so there's something about teasing you with repetition mixing it up and then teasing you back with Grandpa Titian so it's sort of like getting you in the groove mix it up get you back in the groove mix it up indeed drumming is exactly that in fact there are two parts of drumming and there are exactly those two things there's so I got your attention so

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there's so I got your attention so attention is almost entirely a violation of pattern because you can't pay attention to everything in your world you you just get used to the pattern oh my chairs always there the ladies enter the floor is there so it's the violations the pattern I get your attention and therefore music has those two parts so the other part this luck the repetitive be so this is a better debate it's called FIS that's where you break the pattern [Music] now it turns out that the Phils could be just about anything and that was one of the things that was hardest for me to learn because I thought ok tell me the rules for the fill and my drum teacher was like well you can do this with that and I'm like okay I could do those things but what's the rule you know is it always three do you have to

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know is it always three do you have to use a certain set of troubles at the certain order it turns out there's just no rules as long as you keep the timing of the music so you have to stay with the timing otherwise any of this is real I mean this is a really a connection between persuasion and pattern recognition music I don't know but I know that it's fun to think about and there are thousands of connections that you don't expect they can hit you at any moment let's talk about things that are happening I know the best dad joke on the Internet today do you know Paul Graham founder of Y Combinator very smart successful investor type and he tweeted this he

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investor type and he tweeted this he said I got a haircut just before quarantine started but I'm starting to think I should have gotten to pump now you'd recognize that is sort of a dad joke and I don't think he was trying it trying to make it anything else I'm a big fan of dad jokes I think it's a genre and as long as you know that's why you're getting same with puns right you know puns are some say the lowest form of humor but if you know that's what you're doing you know that's your genre yeah that could be fine so here's my point the joke is funny for this rule that I keep teaching you and every time you see another example of it in the lab it'll be more real to you and it's this is the thing that makes something funny usually there could be exceptions to this but it's like the most the closest to a universal rule of humor is something that almost makes sense but dozens in

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that almost makes sense but dozens in other words your brain wants it to make sense but it knows it doesn't and it's tries to reconcile it and that little that little disconnect between it making sense almost but not is what causes your your reflex the laugh reflex so that's why the Paul Graham Java works so well because there's there's like a broken logic to it it's like well yeah if if you need twice as many here because the ones you just get them in advance oh wait that's or yeah and so when you realize that doesn't work that's laughs I wouldn't argue and I have before that politics is largely replacing humor for as an entertainment source so there used to be more humorous movies and TV shows but they've largely been replaced by reality but not every reality not everything is funny but the reason that trauma is so hilarious to some of us those of us those of us who can't it's

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those of us those of us who can't it's funny to those of us who were not afraid of them basically so if you if you get that you're in on the joke he's among the joke he knows other people know he's in on the joke and the joke is on other people if you get that it's hilarious but here's why it works when when Trump calls George Conway moonface it just shouldn't be happening right yeah your your understanding of the world is suddenly broken it's like he's the President of the United States
and he just called somebody Mugu face in public wait we're not done yet it happens to be the husband of one of his closest advisors and then your brain just goes I don't know what I'm seeing my brain can't make sense of the fact that he's trashing the husband of one of his closest longtime advisors Kellyanne and he's not being supposed to be calling

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he's not being supposed to be calling people good face and none of it makes sense and then you laugh so the reason that Trump has replaced humor is that he breaks logic all the time he just does what you're not supposed to do and I frankly find that hilarious but I do understand two other people are troubled by it I've never seen the show eep-eep it was Julie we try to us and she she played on the show time I think for HP I forget show time she played a vice president and it was a comedy but a running joke through the entire series which was quite great by the way if you get a chance to binge watch it totally worth it but a running joke this issue was a female vice president and she swore like a wounded sailor and as she would swear in like ways that you didn't even know it could be done like even things that I've never thought of you

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things that I've never thought of you know curses that I don't know if they made up in the writing room or I just haven't been on a merchant seamen ship or something and I haven't been exposed to apparently all of the all of the filthy things that you can stay when you're bad but that's what made the show work because again it didn't make sense like why is why is a person with that job talking like that so look for that when you're trying to be humorous yourself alright laughing again at the president's deft move on this coronavirus task force thing so you know the back story he said he wanted to spend it maybe at the end of the month there was a big outcry because people's know your you know you fool the task forces all we have and yeah we need that give us that task force now of course it was never as if the functions were gonna go away it wasn't as if now she was

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go away it wasn't as if now she was gonna stop answering phone calls you know I think everybody probably still gets paid about the same as whatever they were doing before but they would just you know would have presumably been distributed to other areas and then kept doing what they're doing but there was no crime so the president is all this criticism for maybe ending the task force and what does that magnificent best to do and you can hit him all you want for any number of other reasons but what he does stuff like this you just have to shake your head and say I didn't even see that coming i I did not see that play he decides when they ask him about it then he'll reinstate the task force but wait for it this is just this is just the best thing ever he decides he's gonna be in state the task force but he may change the people on it over time okay that makes sense it's still the same task force even if you exchange

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same task force even if you exchange some people here they're right fair enough and then he adds that their mission will change to more more about opening up the economy now if you haven't caught this move what exactly is a task force if not the people and the and the mission that they have and he just said I'm gonna give the task force back to you the only thing that will be different are the two things that make it a task force which is who's on it potentially anyway and you didn't say it was going to remove everybody but but that's like the main thing who's on it and what's the mission that's what makes the task force so he's basically said yeah I'll give you what you want and that he has the complete option to change it and he just told he was going to so but it gets better this is the Deaf to move he framed it as like they're so popular he just his word popular they he brought them back and I'm glad this work like an encore of

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and I'm glad this work like an encore of a popular of a popular act and I thought to myself oh my god that's so good they were so popular that he decided to bring them back for an encore that is really good isn't it when you would would you admit that that is simple framing no I didn't make a mistake you know I'm correcting it because everybody told me I was dog because that easily is what their frame would have been he's like now I was so popular man I had no idea how popular I saw growing back for an encore I think you have to appreciate that all right um here is my pattern argument for why I think we should not rely on testing to save us and it goes like this and these are rules you've heard before for me but now I'm gonna ply into the situations you see how they work one is that whenever you have a situation where there's a huge upside potential gain if somebody does

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potential gain if somebody does something let's say illegal or shady there's a huge amount to gain usually money and there's lots of people involved that could all take advantage of the same opportunity so you don't have to worry about maybe there's one honest person because there's so many people as somebody it's gonna take advantage of it cuz it's a big upside and then here's the key almost no chances of going to jail when you have that situation huge upside less people involved no chance of going to jail you always have fraud not sometimes not that one time always so that's my rule now look at the situation where the government was trying to get all these 100 or so different testing companies and manufacturers to tell them the truth what they could and could not do and the government sorta had to believe them because it wasn't that much they could check so what do you think those hundred companies have promised do you think

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companies have promised do you think that they promised what they actually thought they could do or did they exaggerate a little bit like ten times as much as they could probably do because there was no penalty and whoever said that they could do the biggest number what's gonna get the most attention so if you thought you could do 10,000 units a month you'd be dumb not to say a hundred thousand say yeah we're positive we can do ten thousand but you know I'm very confident we can get to a hundred thousand a little rabbit right out there even if you don't know how you do that the only thing that makes sense is to promise it because suppose you don't deliver well then you're still sold and that was leaving us a month you're still ahead and you could probably got more attention because for a while they thought you were gonna make the best so you go like to the top of the list to get funded because you're bigger the bigger ones would get more funding so of course if there's a hundred percent chance that there's

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hundred percent chance that there's massive fraud in what these companies told the government they could do because why wouldn't they there's no penalty all they have to do is say we tried I mean I swear I thought we could do a hundred a thousand we we just hit a roadblock huge upside no downside lots of people involved no way the government got good information from that good next the public is largely confused by what the politicians and experts have been telling them about the test the bit confused because there are different kinds of tests they used for different purposes so dull it all ends up sounding like one big thing and then when the president says stuff like all the states have sufficient testing to accomplish phase one that sounds to you you're on critical braking it sounds like okay they've been working hard to get testing and now the federal government is saying that there is enough testing for phase one why wouldn't there be enough testing

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one why wouldn't there be enough testing and pretty soon for Phase two because it sounds like they've got things rolling now right this is what your brain to say and so probably probably we have either very or maybe the tests we need to test our way out of this because we've heard that testing is the key right all the smart people say so must be true but here's what you miss and it took Bill Gates to explain it for me to say oh god is that what's happening it goes like this if you're gonna try to test you away an event as opposed to simply you know doing what you can in the hot spots it's very different trying to test your way out of something is a lot of testing and here's the key it has to be almost immediate and people have to be able to get two or three tests you know even if they don't have symptoms so if you want to test you way ahead of it you're talking twenty million tests a day or something like that and they all have to be the instant kind

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and they all have to be the instant kind we don't have anything like that what we have is the bare minimum the somebody can get tested they mail it away three days later it might come back in the meantime you walk around and you maybe just probably get oh I guess you should have been quarantine three days ago now I'm sure there are other ones to deliver faster but don't be fooled because test does not test there's all these different ones there's a serology the testing for the antibodies are completely different tests than the others so there's that and here's that here's the other way you know the testing will that get us to the other side you've got 50 governor's smart people Democrats Republicans and you got tons of leaders the president task force you know lots of experts here's something that none of them are telling him no no well they're not saying I'm not saying it's there's

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not saying I'm not saying it's there's truth they're not telling you this it's that has any governor said for example if we just wait X number of weeks whatever X is by then we'll have all the testing we need to be able to really test everything and then just test our way out of this thing and do the contact tracing with of course so has anybody said and remember there's 50 governors all these experts is president there are a lot of people who should know how close we are to having enough tests to test our way out as opposed to just test a few people who come into the office which is good enough for the phase one the reason that nobody has said you know you idiots if you just give us two more weeks we'll have all the tests we need is because nobody has any idea that that could possibly happen we are not close to let's say the Bill Gates described

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let's say the Bill Gates described standard of being able to test so much that you can actually get on top of the virus and really basically just beat it we're not even close nor will we be close is very unlikely in my opinion now none of us know what we don't know so it could be that there might be there might be some kind of company that's in a garage that's just invented something that will ramp up like crazy maybe but we don't know that so if you don't know that magic will happen somebody suddenly appears and solves your problems you can't really make it a planning the so ben shapiro had this very well-written tweet i think i mentioned this before i tweeted it in which he was describing the fact that we have no note articulated plan now i would say we do have an articulated plan in the sense that when you don't articulate anything different status quo this kind of plan

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different status quo this kind of plan yeah and and venues the the literary term deus ex machina i think it's pronounced markovin it's not mushy not write deus ex machina now somebody will correct me in the comments but it's a is a greek or latin latin or greek which is it but it's an old saying from the old days of plays when they were bad at writing plays so he says greek so let's say it's Greek and they write these Greek plays and the stories were totally written so that they get to the end of the play and the hero had a problem that just couldn't be solved and there was nothing that happened in the place so far they can sort of you know help that happen so the device that they use the writing device so it looks like it's Latin but maybe maybe use used by the Greeks either so the the mechanism

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the Greeks either so the the mechanism the writers used is this deus ex machina which was basically God from the machine is what it means and basically it would just some super character would just appear at the end who had nothing to do with a story up to that point and we just solved the problem and and so in in modern-day script writing it would be considered a an obvious writing mistake to require a deus ex machina machina at the end because that means you wrote it so poorly you couldn't solve it solve the story without introducing a new character at the end which is just lame right yes I have the magic person who appears as the act so that's what Ben was making that comparison to art a corona virus plan and I liked it it's a good one except not everybody knows one that journeys and it's good because what exactly are we counting on there will be

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exactly are we counting on there will be any different than today what would be different tomorrow from today we won't have a vaccine tomorrow we will doesn't seem to be any therapeutic that's gonna blow us away because we would know about it if there were any of the know how many therapeutics are being tested if any of them were like really good we would totally know about it and they would have already stopped the tests and it would be a big news story so you can be pretty sure that none of them are a homerun maybe some of them reduce virus or something you saw in the room den severe doesn't even change your your death rate I mean that's not much of a therapeutic so anyway I think that the plan at this point is that we will gingerly tiptoeing into the next few weeks see what happens and herd immunity is the play but I don't think anybody in government can say that out loud right they really

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say that out loud right they really can't say out loud well no we're gonna we're gonna see if everybody just said a lot of people will die so intruder alert yeah there's Snickers she's outside though
all right the APIs make my hands moving so fast somebody says just a hoax anyway right well nobody ever said that crow virus was a hoax except the people who thought it was like the virus like the regular flu I think everything is there anybody who still thinks it's only like the regular flu now that we know that the regular flu was never never 50,000 or 80,000 a year that's what was just made up that the actual real number of people who died from the flu the regular flu basically close to the zero a thousand here is it if your dog is barking back

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all right so you buddy have any questions I want to see if my ear buds work for this let's see if alex has a question Alex you are gonna be surprised by suddenly being connected to the world Alex
good how are you I didn't have a question I love all their periscopes and kinda gives me a little bit of faith in humanity when I get to see your smiling face two times a day well good thanks for saying I yeah thank Scott encourage you all to take

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thank Scott encourage you all to take this opportunity to do what you can to improve your skills water meter is still at 200% think about this what is president Trump's one area where he actually beats Democrats every time what's the one thing he beats Democrats at every time handling the economy right it's the one thing that forever people is in I we don't like this we don't like that but you know it's actually pretty good for the economy and if over the next few months the way it looks like it's gonna gather is the president will be busy himself trying to ramp up the economy he's really going to be in a sweet spot if you think about it because I don't think anybody will blame him for ruining the economy he's not going to take the hit for that but people are going to say to themselves who do I want to revive this thing you know if I've

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to revive this thing you know if I've got to do CPR in this economy who do I want to do that do I want the guy who's done it before who knows that ever breathed energy into it into a thing or do I want the guy who needs CPR himself if you know what I mean now I have any of you yeah it's the economy so if you just straight line this out which is a huge mistake right if there's anything you would ever learn that making a straight line that prediction is just just because there are too many things will change in a complicated situation and so the slaughter meter is a dumb measurement because it imagines nothing will change but of course it will nobody saw the coronavirus cutting right so it isn't useful for prediction but it's sort of a fun device say if everything went like this how would it end and I would say that given that we're not going to want to play around with the economy the voters are gonna have a strong preference for the

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gonna have a strong preference for the person they trusted the most and they might put everything else off I mean I think the voters are to say you know in a normal situation I'd be caring about you know this this and this this and this and this but at the moment I really care about the economy and if we don't get that fixed all the other stuff is going to break so it's going to turn out to be basically a one variable election yeah I'm exaggerating but you know what I mean it's gonna come down to who can handle the economy best and if if Trump does boost the stock market you know another say another 10% by November it's it's just it's a base clearing homerun because nobody is gonna want to take a chance on ruining the economy when they just have a little taste of what that feels like yeah they're there their appetite for risk is going to be very long all right planned emic yeah I've

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long all right planned emic yeah I've been trying to ignore there's some plan Demick thing people keep sending me and I know it's stupid so I don't look at it but I know I'll have to because everybody's gonna have school better Duke you prediction for a quick recovery I do not but here's what I here's what is so different about this situation I called my like local bike repair store and I wanted to get a chain put it on a bike and bike stores bike repair stores are open because they're that are essential this is transportation and I thought I could take my bike in and maybe get a new Jana and turns out that the wait the wait time at my local bike repair is two months they have so much business and that I said well do you have any you know certain kind of bike I was interested in and they're like we have like milk into the inventory they sold all the damn

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the inventory they sold all the damn bikes and they've got a two month waiting list for repairs and how many other companies are in their situation because there must be a whole bunch of startups that made money they mixed they make things for coronavirus testing or whatever everybody makes paper products a lot of the grocery business amazon.com made a killing door - probably did well so it's a weird kind of economic problem in which some number of people just did better which is I don't think that's ever happened before right you have whatever had a severe economic downturn including the depression in which is something like half of the people made money right because all the people who just got their regular paycheck but they had to work at home or whatever that's a lot of people you know fortunately it's a lot of people if they got the regular pay and they didn't spend any money for three months so

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spend any money for three months so there should be a lot of spending coming back online faster than we've ever seen it happen before so I'm very much in the fast recovery camp somebody in there comment says that to me says that he sells hot tubs and they'll all sold out they're waiting for and waiting for the factory to make more yeah so I mean Netflix doing great I mean it there's just a lot of people who made it money I wasn't one of them like yeah I'm getting I'm getting pretty well beat up in this but I'll be finding Laura so we just hired a tree service yeah all right so I think the economy will come back fast as my guest and I think about how much money Walmart made somebody said yeah how much money did Walmart make think about that all right

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Walmart make think about that all right so he says do I have any ghosts UFOs or paranormal stories yes I do would you like to hear a good paranormal story before bed I know that I know you do I know you do all right here he goes when now is studying to be a hypnotist those in early 20s and there was somebody in the class who was also studying to be a hypnotist who said that she was a psychic and then she did psychic readings and she could see the future now of course I'm pretty skeptical God so I bet you are no I don't want you come over make some predictions we'll see how you do now my excuse was that my my hypnosis professor if you could call Matt and told us that one of the types of people you can identify that tend to

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of people you can identify that tend to be good subjects for hypnosis are people who claim to be psychics they said he didn't know why it's just something you noticed of time there's something claimed to be a psychic they could be hypnotized very deeply very quickly it was just anecdotal so I said hey well you know teacher says that works you say you're a psychic once you come over I'll practice on you I'll hypnotize you and bring your tarot cards so she brings four tarot cards over to my place and do a little test so she was on the other side of rhythm smallest room when she's on the other side there's nobody else there yeah it was just my own place nobody else there for sure and her eyes are closed and she's laying on her back on the other side of the room right so she can't see anything if she did I'd know she'd have to turn toward me to see my direction and I said I'm gonna pick some cards end of your tarot deck shuffle I'll pick them and you tell me

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shuffle I'll pick them and you tell me what card I picked and so she's all right so I picked a card and you know I forget the the weird little tarot cards and it's like that you know jokers are doing this or something you doing this so anyway I picked the card and I said what card am I did I pick and she describes a big great detail the wrong car so I thought I'd do it fraud fraud fraud but I didn't tell her she was wrong I just said all right we'll do another one so I said how about another one describe this one and she describes it again with great confidence but wrong I like are overdue I depict five cards in a row she got all five of them wrong so there's no such thing as psychics right but here's the thing she got all five of them right just out

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she got all five of them right just out of order not making it up she got all five right but out of order and I would send me whatever cards in the tarot deck now I don't know what the odds of that are what did the odds of that pretty darn low all right so that I started regressing her to her previous life now I don't believe in prior lives I'm just gonna tell you the story so she described in detail one of her prior lives and she was a guard at a world war ii concentration camp and in her hematite estate she she knew who she was but she didn't know her own name or what she looked like but she knew she had some kind of ID or photo or something so in her hypnotized day she pulled out the you know the photo and the ID and described in detail

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photo and the ID and described in detail who she was in the world war two now you know it's not like I believe that I'm just saying what she said and so I I led her through a number of questions about the psychic state she explained that she got the cards out of order because in the psychic state she can't tell the difference between things that are going to happen and things that have already happened it's a less interesting I mean it's kind of complicated for for a psychic I suppose that gives her more ways to be right but her story was that time doesn't exist in the psychic realm so what has happened and what will happen that's all the indifference we recognized but she didn't okay sure whatever so I started to ask you a few more questions he's got kind of excited and asked her about Atlantis and she had an answer to that and I didn't let her finish an answer I sort of talked over her you've probably seen me do that with

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her you've probably seen me do that with my guests on here I'm sort of an interrupter and I interrupted it and then she said slow him down and I said who are you talking to and she said your spirit guide now here's the funny thing as soon as she said slow him down and I recognized that she was talking to someone else in the room I felt every goose bump and every hair in my body just went boring and I could feel an entity behind me a benevolent entity and she described my my my spirit guide she called it and she described it as someone who is present and had been with me a long time and was very fond of me and considered me the AE I think a young

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and considered me the AE I think a young soul and so as an old soul my spirit guide was you know trying to give me a little boost and here's the funny thing the moment she said that my spirit guide was in the room I had a vivid memory of a dream or was it that I had when I was maybe 10 years old I was in my bunk bed top bunk and I rolled over in bed middle of the night so that I was facing out toward the room and I feel a presence and I opened my eyes and they're right in front of my face was an old man's face you know an old man standing there just right in front of my face and of course my eyes went wall strange old man in my bedroom and as I watched him and it was not scary he was benevolent and he faded

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he was benevolent and he faded while I watched and just disappeared years later when the psychic said that my spirit guide was in the room that picture I'd know her popped into my head and I connected those two stories and I said to myself I don't believe any of this stuff but if I do have a spirit guide I think I've already met her and that was probably the freakiest thing that ever happened to me now after this because I could actually feel the presence after this she made a number of predictions she told me when my car would break down and it did how do you predict when somebody's car was gonna break down I mean cars can go pretty far without breaking down could have been a coincidence then she then I told her I was gonna play soccer and she told me I was gonna get in the injury and I was

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was gonna get in the injury and I was like oh don't say that and by the way I've been playing soccer for years and years and years and never had a knee injury so would be pretty weird if this was like the one day I and I got a knee injury now did I get a knee injury because it was in my head and I did something to cause it may be could be could be but this was one of the many experiences I had on my journey to understanding our reality in terms of filters I'd no longer believe that we humans evolved to have the kind of brains that could understand reality because we never needed to we could all live in our own reality you can believe the site was real I can believe you if she wasn't and yeah our lives are exactly the same so we can live in different realities there we know this for sure because it's happening right now and so I don't look at that and say it

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and so I don't look at that and say it was true or it wasn't true it was a filter if it had predicted what was going to happen and indeed it did on several occasions she accurately predicted things that were seemingly unlikely maybe not that unlikely maybe she was just good at doing a cold read so I can keep my filter which is that it was probably LA or maybe it's maybe i've selective memory about a minute it was coincidence I can keep that and she can keep hers that it was every bit of it was real and we can live in the same world so if you release on what is true which is really hard because you have to essentially subjugate your own ego because your ego wants to know that you figured it out your ego wants to feel like yeah I know reality these other people don't these clowns are they're

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people don't these clowns are they're all confused than me yeah I figured out reality so you have to give you ego out of the way to finally understand you don't know anything about anything but sometimes a filter is more predictive than another one and that's the best you can do so that is the thought which I don't leave you with today and and I will see you in the morning tonight you're gonna have an amazing night of sleep really one of the best maybe not the best but a really good one oh maybe not every one of them but many of you who are gonna have a great night tonight so relaxed feeling optimistic things are heading in the right direction I'm gonna leave you with that thought see you in the morning