Episode 965 Scott Adams: Teaching You the User Interface for Reality and Authoring Your Life With it

Date: 2020-05-10 | Duration: 32:39

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oh hey everybody I'm glad you could make it today will be for some of you the most incredible day of your life not everyone some of you will just get a little bit smarter others of you will find a transformational experience happening tonight yes tonight you're going to find out the user interface for reality itself so that you can author your own reality don't believe it why are you here yeah you're curious you're wondering can I do it well you're gonna find out so it turns out that there are some stories that can't be told right away there are some things that by their nature cannot be communicated and there are number reasons why some stories can't be told maybe there's a secret involved maybe

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maybe there's a secret involved maybe there's a violation of trust if you were to tell the story maybe somebody's being modest and they don't want to brag maybe there's a lack of credentials involved somebody knows something and they're right but nobody could hear it because they lack credentials there might be a question of loyalty you've promised you wouldn't tell somebody you don't want to hurt somebody you might be complicated complicated it might be complicated and so it's just too hard to explain and
this is important to know because you're gonna wonder why didn't I tell you where the user interface for reality was before it's kind of a heck of a thing to hold out isn't it and the reason is I couldn't tell you before there needed to be a certain perfect situation and that perfect situation happened today

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perfect situation happened today today after 22 years my plan came together today then I'll tell you about that and that plan was as some day I wanted to be in a position to tell you the thing that I'll tell you today that I couldn't tell you until now and you'll see why let me show you my path toward figuring out the user interface it's important that you know how I got there so that you could have some trust that there's something to it and here was my path when I was a kid I was influenced as was my mother by the the book the power of positive thinking by Norman Vincent Peale most of you already know that President Trump was also influenced by appeal in fact weirdest coincidence in the world or is it Norman Vincent Peale was actually the Trump family

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Peale was actually the Trump family pastor for the church they went to but he was more famous for being the author of a book there suggested that you could somehow change your life or maybe you were changing reality it wasn't really clear if you could simply think positively so this was my first introduction to the concept that maybe reality was not fixed and something that you were a victim of but rather you could do something there was some mechanism some technique some tools you could use to give some control over your environment and your life as opposed to having it control you and that and that was my first thought that reality could be programmable in at least some simple sense but of course I embarked on a lifetime of exploration to find out if I could find out more about had a program reality and that led me to

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had a program reality and that led me to learn meditation I became a trained hypnotist of course mushrooms let you see the world and a completely different reality and all of these things from studying all the different religions to doing affirmations which is really just visualizing why you walked him and writing it out every day and then learning persuasion these all had the same cumulative effect of teaching me that reality was indeed far more subjective then you're you're you're led to believe and when I say reality is subjective I don't mean that there isn't some base reality that's real what I mean is that we don't have access to it in other words just take religion to people with completely different religions can go into a store they can shop they can get married have children they don't really need to reconcile the fact that they live in different worlds one thinks

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live in different worlds one thinks there's an afterlife one thinks there's reincarnation one thinks there's nothing yeah we we all survive and thrive and reproduce there's nothing to suggest that our brains are the kind of brains that can understand reality instead all of the evidence suggests that we can put filters optionally and somewhat subjectively on our reality and the thing that we deal with us is the filter we're not dealing with the underlying reality but our filter on it is the thing that's real to us and you can change those filters so that's the important part and you can change them fairly easily and if you find a filter that predicts better and makes you happier well that's the better filter even if it isn't a better approximation of reality what matters as you're happy what matters is you're getting what you need out of life so once you accept that there's a subjective reality you're starting to

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subjective reality you're starting to get ready to accept the user interface for that reality so during this time I started to feel that I may have discovered the user interface for reality and the reason that I thought that is that my life was working out so well that I couldn't explain it in any ordinary way I tried to become a cartoonist with no experience in cartooning and at about this time in 1997 is a time I'm going to be talking about I had already won the top award in cartooning I'd never without any cartooning experience I was the hottest cartoonist in the country and at about the same time I had written my first book it was a number one New York Times runaway bestseller with no experience at writing books and there were a number of things that I was touching and doing you know the licensing for Dilbert etc and it

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the licensing for Dilbert etc and it seemed as if I could manipulate reality but here's the thing was I manipulating reality to get these ridiculous results or was I simply good at my job how can I tell how would I know if I were manipulating reality because that's sort of what I felt like but that didn't seem right right or was I just good at my job and I didn't realize how good I was so I performed better than I expected maybe could be it's possible but I wanted to test it and so in 1997 I I did a bold experiment and the experiment was this I very publicly and annoyingly made a prediction and I chose an area in which I had no expertise which is important because if my good success so

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important because if my good success so far had been because I was just good at my job then one way to test that of course not perfectly scientifically but at least to get an indication of what's happening in the world I thought I would try something that was just impossible I would make the most unlikely prediction and then wait as long as it took for it to become true and if indeed I could hit the most unlikely prediction then maybe other people would believe me what I explained to them the user interface for reality because this was something I couldn't communicate because why would you believe me why would you believe me that I actually knew where the user interface for reality was well I had to do something that was so weird and so out of my you know experience out that if I got that right you would be forced to say okay that could have been locked too but at least I'm gonna listen to you so

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but at least I'm gonna listen to you so I won't claim that I'm right I will claim that it makes me sound incredible enough that for the first time that little doorway just opened and I can tell you something that I couldn't tell until now and here's what it was I predicted that in my lifetime the theory of evolution would be debunked in scientific terms not in religious terms but in scientific terms you could imagine how well that went over because again I intentionally chose an area in which I don't have credentials all the people who do have credentials rushed him to destroy my career and reputation as best they could quite angrily for what they thought was giving less a comfort to the intelligent design people and they didn't want them to have any energy and although I was not promoting a God view or or intelligent design per

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a God view or or intelligent design per se they felt that if simply on this narrow point that if evolution I was predicting was going to be debunked in my lifetime well you know obviously I'm a nut and I should not be listened to and you shouldn't listen to anything else I ever say that was 22 years ago 23 years ago today two things are true that were true back then number one we're in the era of the Trump administration and in the Trump administration you've watched as my predictions about Trump not just that he would win which was interesting oh don't look at it yet not just that he would win but I predicted boldly and many times that he would change your understanding of reality and that was also necessary for

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reality and that was also necessary for you to hear what I'm gonna say next if you had not experienced yourself the fact that there's this guy Adam chef who's created an artificial world and sold it to half of the public in which the president was guilty of colluding with Russia at the same time the other half of the country knows that isn't true you see it with your own eyes there are two movies subjectively that are rubbing based on the same observations now if you hadn't seen this with your own eyes time after time after time during the Trump administration two completely different worlds being created in whole and they both can survive even the the Adam Schiff world his world his world view is surviving the fact that we have the transcripts and we know now that's true this still doesn't change it you know that the people he convinced are still just as convinced now in order for me to tell

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convinced now in order for me to tell you the crazy stuff I'm going to tell you next you had to live and experience reality breaking down that way you had to see different worlds being formed right in front of your eyes but here's the tough part you have to be willing to take it up to the next level the lower level of awareness says that you have the right answers and those people who disagree with you let's say on the other side of politics they have the wrong answers if that's where you are you're not ready and what I show you this is just gonna make you angry and you you're just not ready but if you can follow me this far you're ready and it goes like this if you understand that neither of you have a grass of reality not you and not the person who disagrees with you on politics neither if you have a grasp of reality once you understand that that you've

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once you understand that that you've simply chosen filters that may or may not work well may or may not predict well but it gets you through life you can get through your life with your filter and that's all it is once you understand that is the filters that we deal with not the reality then you're ready for the next part so something happened today there was a very big deal in my life because it opened the door for me to tell you the next thing I'm going to tell you and it was that there was a podcast by red pilled America I hurt radio with Patrick Carell she I hope I'm saying that right and his co-host Adrianna Cortez now I tweeted this so you can you can take a take a good oh you should you should just see it well you should listen to it I should say you should listen to this podcast is one of the best produced written directed performed the thing I've ever

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directed performed the thing I've ever seen I mean it is really high-quality just as a production so even if you the content didn't interest you and believe me it will it's really interesting the content is amazing part of it's about me which is part of the story but it's just really well done so do yourself a favor and listen to it it will be necessary probably for you to fully get this next part but you could do it afterwards and it'll be fine yeah here's the story he told and I won't ruin it for you because you really need to get it from him he told the story of my prediction and and by the way he might be watching this right now and if he is I Patrick it was an amazing job on the the podcast he told the story of he heard of my prediction about evolution being debunked and that he he brought the story into the question of this simulation now of course if the simulation is true than what we believe about evolution

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than what we believe about evolution probably isn't because you don't need evolution if you have the simulation we just are here and our history is created on demand whenever we go looking for it and that it's made to be compatible programmatically and Patrick told the story very well of how there are very serious people like Elon Musk who we added some clips talking about it he has some clips of me talking about it but that he had clips of actually credible people here's the fun part you know actual scientists the nick bostrom was mentioned as the the creator of it he talked about some science fiction things that are that are fun as well and essentially what Patrick did is told you something that I couldn't do myself which is I couldn't tell you that my prediction had actually came in I've been trying to but I feel like I had failed at it because I'm not credible

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failed at it because I'm not credible about judging my own my own prediction obviously I was taking it but once you see it from a credible source in other words listening to the scientist talk compatible with what I've been saying and also directly saying if the simulation is true evolution isn't so 22 years later I'm not saying that you know evolution is not true I'm saying that there is now a competing theory this serious scientist by him to you and although you can't tell which one is the true one if either one is maybe neither maybe they're just filters but when you what you can tell is the odds and the odds are maybe a billion to one for the simulation doesn't mean evolution can't be true it's just that the odds are a billion to one against it because the other theory is better now having told you that and again hearing it from me should not be compelling and that's

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should not be compelling and that's probably what you're feeling you're thinking I don't know I'm not buying that the simulation means that illusion and I'm not buying that that's why you have to give the podcast so here the podcast and then you will alright so having nailed my 22 year gamble that I could make a prediction so unlikely that the best explanation is that somehow I'm authoring the reality now just as a filter again that doesn't mean that I can actually change reality it means that if I put that filter on it I get good results and if you just think you're happy but you're not are you happy yes you are if you think you're happy you're happy if you thought you went through life as a billionaire but you were just crazy and you weren't still good still good because you're happy you thought you were a billionaire so accept your subjective subjective life somebody was

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subjective subjective life somebody was asking me for Patrick's last name it's packed Rick Carell she cou RR IE l CH E but just Google if you want to find that Google read pilled America on I Heart Radio and then my name it'll pop up all right at long last the user interface for reality some of these things you're gonna say hey I've heard about those I've heard about them in your book win big lis I've heard about them in your book I had a failed almost everything and still win big I saw a few things in your latest book loser think and that is where you should go if you want any detail on these but let me run through them first you must accept the frame at least as a filter that there could be a subjective reality and that you can you can manipulate it again you might only be manipulating your own impression of reality but that's good enough if it predicts well and gets you to a happy

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predicts well and gets you to a happy place you should accept the system's work better than goals people are telling me every day that they're after reading my book and it failed almost everything still win big they implemented systems and it changed their life this is one of the biggest buttons on the interface for life if you don't like where you are and you want to go somewhere else learn how to build systems for everything from your diet to your career to your social life to fitness everything and that's that's in this book if you want more details talent stacking also from the same book the idea that if you intelligently add new talents you become not just a little bit better but exponentially better because talents really explode your capability and your options so this is one of the biggest buttons on the interface to reality now you've seen these before a few of them but it's the totality of them that I'm trying to

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totality of them that I'm trying to present you've seen them individually affirmations the idea of writing down or visualizing your goals seems to be something that gives you the impression that it works and I say that very carefully does it work do affirmations change reality I don't know but I've I can tell you that when I've used them the results I've gotten don't seem like anything could have been natural I mean I an incurable voice problem I had ridiculous stock market luck when I used the affirmations I you know my career as I told you is just crazy and it feels like it works but I'm not going to tell you it out again you should see these as filters if it feels like it works keep doing it alright you should know that the mating instinct is the base of pretty much all of your impulses so if you haven't learned that pretty much everything from the the way you talk present yourself hold yourself dress

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present yourself hold yourself dress everything you do is some kind of expression of your mating instinct whether you like it or not everything you show off about everything you you know your that you don't want to show if you have a flaw pretty much everything you do comes back to wanting to look good and present yourself well for mating purposes once you understand that you start to understand where the sar right because you'll say oh that's why that's happening it's an extension of the mating process once you see it you can't unsee it you'll see it everywhere and it's like it's like the veil will come off it and you'll start saying everybody's action says wait a minute why is it everything is compatible with that showing off for mating purposes the situation here are the other buttons which are mostly self-explanatory but freedom is a big thing people will trade a lot for freedom you could say would you like a bad life with freedom or a good life

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bad life with freedom or a good life with not with no freedom and people will take the bad life with freedom so if you ever have a chance to create a situation where you can offer someone more freedom that's very powerful that's a button and you should get as much for yourself as you can and you can use it as a tool to help other people get what they want because they will train a lot for freedom and freedom can come in the form of getting money that gives you freedom having a flexible schedule being in the right kind of social situation etc so there's lots of ways to get fear is a motivator I don't recommend using it unless you're trying to save somebody yeah you could use fear to keep them from smoking cigarettes for example but I wouldn't use this in the evil way curiosity is one of the most important and overlooked buttons on the human interface you can see that authors that are good at it will make you curious at the end of a chapter so that you'll want to keep reading so building curiosity into things is a really really important

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into things is a really really important button you'll see that President Trump does this often because he'll tease things that are coming he'll say yes well I got an announcement on that and tomorrow you're gonna hear about that and I think you're gonna be really you know impressed when you can when you can stoke somebody's curiosity you can really shape what they do and you can shape your environment through curiosity very very powerful you notice how I use this to get you to come here novelty is very important for memory so you want to make sure that you always inject novelty it's what triggers memory because your brain will get bored of the sameness so you need to trigger memory and attention with novelty contrast is a way to get people to move from where they are to where you want them to be you just say well it's much much less expensive than this so contrast is one of the most important buttons use contrast often hey you don't want to be

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contrast often hey you don't want to be this bad you could be over here repetition and simplicity our brains are just simple machines the more you repeat the more the wiring gets solidified and if you keep things simple the brain can process it and deal with it if it's complicated your brain has a tendency just flush it out can't deal with it flush it out so simplicity is important the fake because is a form of pseudo logic sometimes you need to get people moving with a fake reason that doesn't even actually pass logical standards but people don't need logical reasons just look at politics people have incredibly different opinions and many of them are smart so if you've got smart people on opposite sides of basically every issue you can see that they don't need real reasons we're not a species that operates on real reasons we just will

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operates on real reasons we just will take a fake reason we'll take one we made up we'll take a guess we'll follow our friends once you understand that people don't need real reasons you freeze you because if you're locked in a little world at a lower level of awareness where you say well I'm not going to convince somebody unless I have a real reason sorry that's not the reality and if us live in real reasons are good I mean if you have them use them but we don't need them once you know you don't need them and the reality can be authored you're in better shape pacing leading I've talked about that's just matching somebody until they feel comfortable with you and then you can lead them people can be very influenced by a spur this is another way to refer to the high ground maneuver the high ground maneuver is is essentially you challenge somebody to be a better version of themself sort of the Jesus methods right you know it's not tell you you must do something or

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not tell you you must do something or you'll die that's fear aspiration is don't you want to be the better version of yourself don't you want to be the person who sees the big picture very very important button Association you you know that any quality of one thing rubs off on the other if you want somebody to like something parent was something else they like already so the likability of one thing will rub off on another but also the unlike ability so for example if you have a TV show let's say the news and you have commercials that are really unpleasant eventually the unpleasantness bleeds into the show and it would be better if you associated only things that are positive so learning to associate only with positive things one of the most important user interface rules of reality I accidentally put contrast twice forget that pattern recognition once you realize that the humans are not logical machines were

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humans are not logical machines were pattern recognition machines and SAP pattern recognition that isn't very good pattern recognition is what makes you a racist pattern recognition is what makes you an ageist a sexist everything bad because your patterns are all you have you're not really a logical person who reasons everything out your brain isn't big enough you wouldn't have enough time so instead you default to these little biases which are determined by patterns now the problem is many of those patterns are fake let's say you had met three elbow nians in your life and every one of them slapped you in the face with a glove the next time you met with elbonian you'd be like oh no thank you I don't want to get slapped in the face with the glove those last three elbow nians were pretty rough on me but it's only three elbow nians the odds that your pattern is predictive probably low so we we fall Vic two patterns but you could also use patterns to convince people of things if

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patterns to convince people of things if you are consistent people say oh this person is always honest so patterns are a tool but they're also our biggest defect and you have to understand that way and then of course understanding the brain as a visualization machine is very very important because visualization is the biggest most powerful part of your brain it's the the part that influences you most and so one more look at the full board there and so the idea is that these buttons are the important ones visualization if there's one there that just stands out as being the one that you should sort of focus on the most visualization that would be a good one now these are the buttons for the the user interface I can tell you that almost every day I get a message from somebody who read this book which was the beginning of this I had to hide hide what this was in a practical book

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what this was in a practical book because the world wasn't ready to believe the facts don't matter and the world wasn't ready to believe that you could author your own reality so I played it a little safe and this one because in the world wasn't ready but if you want to learn about most of these things they're in there and then and wouldn't Bigley because President Trump had ripped apart the nature of the universe it allowed me to say now you see it right facts don't matter now you see it that there are just separate worlds and bubbles and we can live in our bubble and we'll never know the difference and then of course loser think tried to just well it teach you to think better because that's always going to be useful you will be more effective and you'll have a better handle on the user interface of reality if you can think and argue better so this is my lesson I'm going to keep it on one topic I hope this was useful maybe you could

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I hope this was useful maybe you could tell me in the comments if you've got something out of this this is the sort of lesson that might not change you tonight but it's never gonna leave you once you've seen it you can't unsee it you're all changed you don't know it yet and this will become sort of that let's say a framework that you now have added to your mental map and now when you see things that fit that framework it will get stronger over time and so you'll see that this view of the world will take root and then every time you compare it to the old way you saw you're going to say to yourself Wow is that a coincidence because this new way of looking at the world just feels like it predicts better but I'll keep an eye on it so this will get stronger and stronger over time and and maybe never never stopped getting stronger well we're getting good comments so I think

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we're getting good comments so I think that maybe we did our job here and feel free to refer back to this often and I think you've got everything you need now to author your own life you're no longer a victim of reality you are no longer the subject of reality you're now an author some of you were already authors and now you're better authors and those of you who didn't know you could be an author of your reality well you just found out and I will leave you on that and you could have a terrific night tonight and the rest of your life it's looking good